Chris Braunsdorf

Eventually, it'll come out that AI psychosis played a bigger role in shaping the 2020s than many thought at the time, with some very influential people operating under the belief chatbots are sentient and they're special for seeing it, distorting their worldviews, politics, and business decisions.

I can't recall a political movement getting everything they wanted and yet still being so generally unhappy about everything.

Trump's Hollow 'Security Guarantee' Plus: Ben Wittes on Putin's hold on Trump

Remember: In 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for similar guarantees. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, purported to give Ukraine security assurances from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.

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a “dyson sphere around the whole solar system” is the dumbest goddam thing ive ever heard holy shit

Budapest proved promises mean nothing. Ukraine traded nukes for ‘assurances’ and got invasion instead. Future deals must carry bite — troops, weapons, sanctions on autopilot or they’re just bedtime stories for fools.

We live in an attention economy. Look at who the fucking president of this country is. Wake up. The old way is dead.

It’s a modest proposal.

A nation that metabolizes as "normal" the fact that red-pilled, conspiracy-obsessed ideologues with zero qualifications and zero concern for empirical reality are running the country, is a nation that doesn't have much of a future ahead of it as either a democracy or a remotely prosperous place.

Trump is super unpopular, this absurdity is not a public mandate.

The narcissism, of course, contributes to his ignorance. He cannot deal with being corrected, so he simply says he knows everything he needs to know. Stable genius.

The only way it's possible to follow both Donald Trump and Jesus is if you've never read either of their books.

We should hope to win back control through politics, protest, resistance and free elections — not widespread armed conflict.

However, Dems need to understand failure of the former makes the latter inevitable, as institutionalized state repression — which is now being threatened — is not tolerable.

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.”

It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

We need the 2026 primaries to put the fear of God into the establishment.

One of the reasons AI sucks at writing - it’s all first drafts with no rewrites.

The Hollow Men We are the hollow men

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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.

- T.S. Eliot

obviously it goes without saying that if a Democratic president told blue states to send national guard troops into red states all hell would break loose. that’s because of the irreconcilable asymmetry between right and left. the right has a huge megaphone and the MSM on their side. Dems are silent.

Republicans: it should be illegal for local, state, or federal governments to take any steps to mitigate massive deadly pandemics that even slightly inconvenience anyone

Also Republicans: (Republican) feds should be able to occupy any city with Black mayor and take over everything for no reason

"I met Vladimir Putin today and he told me I'm a big boy, yes I am."

He obviously got the memo to buck up Trump’s spirits extra hard after that “summit”.

not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice

Trump is insatiably insecure. He desperately wants a Nobel Prize and thinks he deserves one because, in his mind, Obama got one purely for being Black. So that he doesn’t have one for being orange gnaws at him every day. And he thought that, since he’s given Putin so much, Putin would help him out.

Laverne and Shirley, otoh.

I’m in her district and she lost my vote as soon as she said that Biden and Trump were equally bad piles of shit.

For the people of Washington, D.C., military rule.

For my Kremlin friends, luxury rides.

I don’t understand how this is the same guy who just a few months ago was giving softball interviews to Steve Bannon.

"We recommend ordering a half size down for a more secure fit or true to size for a loser fit"

Buying sneakers half a size down so everyone sees I'm secure and nobody thinks I'm dressed like a loser.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.