Trump favors certain cartels. Looks like he’s doing their dirty work.
I'm just trying to condense that into one tripler, maybe two couplers and a flipper, just to condense it.
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Trump favors certain cartels. Looks like he’s doing their dirty work.
I wish we had more Kyle Clarks
liberalism didn’t start the civil war or ww2, but it sure as heck ended them
It’s acting like a manipulative, obsequious shithead? Obviously wants something. Better ghost it.
"I don't care what anyone thinks" "Then why are you saying that?" "Because I’m lying"
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
This is exactly what’s happening, and it’s why the US invaded Iraq.
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Pritzker is the one foretold by Ditka, who will unite the Grabowskis and the Smiths, and usher in an age of peace and relative sanity.
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“America will cease to exist”? Eric, buddy, America has ceased to exist, and your blasphemous ass is still wasting air.
Look, the actual causes of the Revolutionary War are oft misunderstood, but to be clear: this is bullshit It was a dispute about the nature of the British empire, & specifically whether the American colonies had the same standing relative to the king as Great Britain did, or, rather...
It's because they deluded themselves into thinking neutrality is the ultimate virtue. They're bravely refusing to take a stand, and the worse Republicans get, the braver it makes them to do nothing
He wants his supporters to believe he murders people.
Cherub Rock. Huh.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Three years ago this week: "The media treatment of Biden’s foreign policy is significant and ultimately dangerous. If there is no constituency for the most anti-war president since 2001 (and likely since Jimmy Carter), it is unlikely that future presidents will choose to walk this path."
Gotta block abusers.
I think it’s just dumb. As in “Curtis Yarvin is dumb.” Dumbness is over-diagnosed to the point that it’s a useless label, but this could be a genuine instance, spotted in the wild.
Yes. Please don’t post and drive.
Wouldn’t he go to Australia?
Quiet, you!
I can’t believe Ren and Stimpy was sold as a kid’s cartoon.
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
That opening guitar lick on Selling the Drama is unequaled.
I truly cannot believe how fucking deranged people are on COVID. Biden was far from perfect but holy shit comparing him disfavorably to Trump WHO OBSTRUCTED FIRST YEAR CONTAINMENT EFFORTS is an insta-block.
This is very disturbing!
My money’s on “knowing that Bluesky exists.”
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
it turns out they do in fact make an atproto longform content platform that takes markdown. probably preferred for me for random stuff in the future tbh whtwnd.com/segyges.bsky...
in case you missed it or whatever, scott alexander email explainer.
She was unforgettable, like the jingle in a commercial for a drug that can kill you in several ghastly ways.
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I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
A rare Borowitz W!
Science is real
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I have three longtime friends friends who independently fell into Scott fandom. Just infuriating.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
My gut tells me that a finite form of Russel’s paradox afflicts evolutionary-x and parts of economics: counterfactual reasoning requires you to quantify over a sufficiently large space of possibilities that you can prove anything you want.
Singapore is crack to authoritarians. If we could make a Potemkin seastead and convince them all it’s a floating Singapore…
But also it’s a really strong data point that his IQ gang should look at and say: not a genius. (I’m not in the IQ gang.). That’s what I don’t get.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
A must for reposting.
Do you believe his story about being completely unable to understand Calc 2? It’s really incongruous with all the fawning admiration of his genius.
Is there a big list of these heroic achievements?
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
Textbooks are boring, so that explains the reaction, I guess.
“Creationists are like that” but the money and power behind the movement is not. Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture, etc spend most of their effort knowingly lying to students about what the theory of evolution says and what the evidence for it is.
I think the question of whether 1970s - 2000s hippies were crypto-fascist deserves serious consideration.
I think it’s unclear whether the antivaxx nuts of the early 2000s were predisposed toward fascism, already secretly fascists, or neither.
What a powerful eddie of irrationality might look like
Ah yes, the mid-90s pc gaming experience.
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
Having taxpayers understand that they (taxpayers) will be held criminally liable for the actions of their government, including the actions of law enforcement, would go a long way.
Law Enforcement being a culturally chud profession is actually a huge problem in the near (surviving this admin & reasserting rule of law after) & long term (the actual governance problem of enforcing liberal laws) & solutions that aren’t “we should simply not have cops” are in pretty short supply
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
SAN DIMAS ALUMNI COMMUNITY THEATER RULES!
General Strike. Right now the corporations are loving Trump but put pressure on them to fight his "policies."
But the Dems won’t even say that about their opponents!
Always
The TV needs to say, at the very least, that Gorka is lying because Trump’s supporters want him to lie.
It’s actually a trap for teachers old enough to have seen 1776 the musical.
I really want a deep dive on people lying about being “apolitical”, “moderate”, “actually pretty left wing, except for…”
Thanks now I’m hungry for all three.
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
Getting kicked out of the supermarket for calling the organic groceries Big Naturals
I don’t think I ever heard anyone complain about airport food quality or options in my lifetime. Just price.
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
Next step: make the president think the president is dead.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
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The Elephant Learning founder/CEO was MAGA from day one.
He’s backed by Thiel. People don’t seem to understand what that means.
It's useful to think of Trump's political style as a form of "fan service," which is distinct from the "constituent service" we used to associate with the role of elected officials. I took this picture in March of *2022* at a Republican event in Salem, Oregon. That flag seemed bonkers at the time.
I don't understand why we decided steelmanning someone's argument should involve acting like a mark.
They’re lying about liking Bernie.
And anything the Democrats can do to pull woo into the spotlight is going to be good for so many things downstream
Hall of Takes material.
When we criticize the times of what they publish, defenders say we are cherry picking What's the defense for what they choose not to cover? No so easy to handwave
i have a previously stated opinion but more seriously, i consider the very public reaction to the plausible rumor to be a pretty effective form of protest that serves the same purpose of, for example, demonstrating progress towards majority
The More We Know
Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
I've had people tell me to my face that AI helps avoid biases and I haven't laughed harder in a long time. Data doesn't grow on trees. We decide who matters and what to quantify about them. The very process bakes in bias.
“Trump’s maybe-death is a distraction from Biden being old” - WaPo Editorial Board
What if, right before the meteor, this tasty dino tripped into a little depression filled with eleven herbs and spices?