Chris Wilson

Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

Absolutely brutal and hilarious takedown of Bill Maher from the one and only Larry David.

Trump and Bukele Bond Over Human Rights Abuses in Oval Office Meeting Donald Trump and Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele discussed the U.S. deporting people to El Salvador's prisons in the Oval Office on Monday.

Nayib Bukele said he won't return a man the U.S. mistakenly deported, while Trump teased sending American citizens to El Salvador's torture prisons.

Best pray they do not alter the deal further.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving | More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

absolutely disgusting

Great thread, thank you! 🏆

Always this. After 2016, thinking through the psychology causing so many to be so easily swayed by propaganda and away from logic, democratic values, and human decency… a mindset rooted in fear. A tyrant’s playbook - supply them with fears, and the notion that you’re the only one who can help.

F these people. The truth was always staring them right in the face.

Member 5 months ago when the US economy and scientific research leadership were the “envy of the world”? I member.

do something

*now* they’re wondering?? wtf.

“Start asking”? How was there ever any question? jfc is there no bottom to the well
of ignorance in this country? Folks have gotten away with careless hate, blind faith in the status quo, and magical thinking for too long.

YUP. I get the thinking that anything that breaks MAGAs from delusion is good. But if only due to personal fiscal harm - still cool with tyranny, racism, shredding the constitution, facist alliances, anti-education, propaganda over fact, would sell Anne Frank out in a second - then it's no help.

This has actually been the operating assumption for quite some time for many of us

though Mike Judge kinda had it nailed 20 years ago

- Explosion and celebration of narcissistic “me first” mindset via social media that younger generations have grown up with as normalized.

Maybe this is all unavoidable cyclic civilizational collapse… natural entropy of late-stage democracy or something.

Humans are weird.

- Abandonment of logic and critical thinking in favor of conspiracy and fantasy.
Huge resurgence of tribalism and fear-based politics spread far and wide by media controlled by tyrannical bad actors. Much of this enabled by enablement of PACs, citizens united, corrupt money in politics in general.

- Urban flight, population growth in areas that lack exposure to different cultures, backgrounds, races, etc.

- Lack of focus on education, intelligence, and kindness in popular culture, role models.

I’m not sure but def multi-faceted and I think about it a lot.

- Large generational time gap since WWII, history not taught thoroughly enough for people to understand the cost of society that doesn’t care for its citizens without experiencing it themselves.

wish it worked for me. Maybe i’ve been doing it wrong. (the melatonin. def nailing the sheer exhaustion.)

How is anyone sleeping anymore? Specifics, please.

Thanks HCR ❤️

But that 36% kills.

Would that it were so