Are you getting a PhD in asking irrelevant ideologically-blinkered questions?
The dreaded Judeo-Bolshevist structural pharmacologist with too much free time in lab. Please at least glance at the literature before opining on biology. Opinions unfortunately my own. He/him
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Are you getting a PhD in asking irrelevant ideologically-blinkered questions?
I do, which is why I was think it's clear that the path forward exists for it in our lifetime!
Unless you were born after 1998, state-funded housing built without the profit motive has absolutely happened in your lifetime.
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
*Sagan watching Who's on First* this celebration of ignorance will be our civilization's downfall
There may be something to this, but it's intensely funny that his evidence for this is the popularity of Dumb and Dumber in 1995.
Strangely they exclude 'Not Sure' (25% of overall), which isn't 1:1 your suggestion but is sort of close? 🤷♂️
It's Her Turn never truly died, just went into hibernation for a bit
On the one hand, organized electoral abstention is yet another thing that is neither unique to 2024, nor one you have evidence of being causative of her loss. On the other hand, it made you sad :(
None of this is relevant to what I said.
Explain exactly how the situation in which that group of people is responsible for her losing and the situation in which they are not responsible for her losing changes their wanting to take credit for her losing.
His politics are so indistinguishable from that of the average Republican that 94% of them voted for him. "Even former Republicans" is not a meaningful argument for current Republicans, who do not like Cheney, and independents, who also do not like Cheney.
This is not evidence for your thesis, and if you're arguing in good faith, you know that as well.
There's no reason to believe that a hard left contingent staying home was what caused Kamala to lose. It is posthoc cope stemming from seeing people on the left correctly note her terrible campaign choices as they were happening.
It was, indeed, an obvious misstep to backpedal on calling the candidate that 94% of Republicans voted for in 2020 a fascist by saying you will work with unpopular Republicans and bring them into your government. You being upset that it didn't work has nothing to do with TikTok.
I'm not sure what reason you have to believe this is what happened, other than your clearly faulty priors.
You're so angry at observable reality that you're now lashing out at strawmen.
The "post-COVID anti-incumbent surge" is not a function of the other things you listed. It's not even a function of COVID, if you're being honest with yourself, seeing as it did not manifest in elections in 2021, 2022, or 2023. The other things you listed were not unique to 2024 in any way.
As much as I'd like to believe people on social media noting Harris was actively tying herself to unpopular conservatives and the unpopular incumbent was a bad idea was somehow effective at derailing a billion dollar presidential campaign, I've not yet sustained that much brain damage.
You're describing things that occurred in some form in 2012, 2016, and 2020, but seem to lack the self awareness to understand how that undermines your artument.
At some point you're going to have to grapple with the fact that this 'good message' failed to either depress Dem turnout, and failed to change the share of independents and Republicans voting Dem.
Trump won 88% and 94% of Republicans in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Did this messaging work in 2024 to convince voters across the aisle to vote for Harris, and if so, by how much?
You claim trying to appeal to Republicans ('across the aisle') by campaigning with Cheney was a good message. I was offering some context for how well previous candidates have done without campaigning with Liz Cheney, and asking how well you think her message did across the aisle. Do you know?
Obama lost Republicans 93/6 in 2012; Clinton lost Republicans 88/8 in 2016; Biden lost Republicans 94/6 in 2020. How well do you think Kamala did with Republicans in 2024?
I want to believe Mike smells blood in the water and has suddenly remembered he is third in line for the presidency behind America’s most obvious criminal and a tradcath charisma vacuum nobody likes Ken Watanabe let them fight dot gif
The Qanonization of Saint Donald (2025)
You are not a normal person by any metric - you know this.
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
*SV-funded Bay Area pols push through bill in 2013 to make HSR impossible to implement in a reasonable timeframe* why is the environmental review taking so long??????
That's cool, are you going to keep pretending SV isn't a primary obstacle to high speed rail in California?
Man, the Pinkerites get real sore when you show them a single graph.
You are claiming fully half of the extant Russian Federation is "truly ideologically committed" to Soviet socialism, btw
If by getting better you mean erasing all progress in reducing mortality rates in the last 50 years, then I guess so?
What evidence do you have that they want to build stuff? Decade-old article unrelated, trying to remove it etc
Housing is not remotely a monopoly. If every landlord knows their tenants have an extra 500 bucks a month, they can and will increase rents across the board.
What's the point of pulling in a billion dollars to run a presidential campaign if you're just going to set it on fire and hope that scolding people works as a campaign strategy instead?
Why are you defending the authoritarianism of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie?
You are clearly equating democracy in general with bourgeois democracy, you just refuse to admit it.
"Let us never enforce laws on inciting violence, because if we do they might change them so people are free to incite violence." Then you effectively already have people free to incite violence, this argument is self-defeating
DeepSeek pretending they've mastered agentic AI to tank the stock of OpenAI is an incredibly funny move, though
Even if you were going to pick an example of overreach in the UK, the fact that the country labels supporters of Palestine Action as terrorists is probably a bigger free speech threat right now than defending the right of a man to make violent threats against a marginalized group.
I, too, do not remember the latter half of the Obama administration.
You are watching in real time as conservatives show you that this is farcical reasoning that won't stop them from doing the former regardless of how well behaved and ineffectual liberals are, and still you think doing good things is beyond the pale lmao
There is power in a union ✊️
You're not honestly evaluating the words, though, and you're again making it clear that you think a public figure publicly inciting violence against a marginalized group is acceptable.
I appreciate you making it clear how much you are working backwards to find a motivated rationale in which it is acceptable that someone sincerely incited harassment and violence against trans women.
It does, you just don't see a call to harassment of trans people in public life from a public figure (roundly cited in UK media as the 'genius' behind Father Ted) as serious.
Inciting harassment and violence against marginalized groups should absolutely be criminalized, and thank god it is in the UK.
He calls for the harassment of trans women in public restrooms (which you think is acceptable), followed by inciting violence against those trans women if they don't leave those public spaces. I don't care what you think of the comment - it's clearly intended to incite violence.
It sounds like you did not read the relevant post by Linehan, which was an unambiguous instance of incitement to sexual violence against trans women.
Yes, incitement usually does require some sort of communication.
I want to be able to be a normal amount critical of China but how rabid other Americans are just makes me hesitant
Are you seeing it yet
The party's centrist establishment are all stuck in November 8th, 1972, but 9 years is too long for you?
You have a trans kid, which is why you're going out of your way to defend a politician beginning the laziest choreographed pivot against trans rights we've seen from anyone not on the right?
When pressed, he confabulates a hidden context that makes these distinctly not threats. In this way, his brain is already halfway to bring replaced by GPT.
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"protesting genocide (anti semitic)"
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
I wish Rockstar would make another LA Noire game. The original was good but another decade of graphical improvement would help with all those weird faces where everyone looked constipated and you were supposed to infer guilt from it.
The thing is when people say "biologically male/female" in contexts like this, they don't really mean in the sense of observable, empirical biological features (b/c that would inevitably produce some results they don't want), they mean what you "should" be, what you're divinely "designed" to be.
You're engaging in a level of historical revisionism that could only come from an ignorant child or a severely brain damaged adult.
Writing a wholeass paragraph about how this lady was in danger
it sounds stupid and Newsom *is* extremely stupid, but it's no accident the way liberals call right-wingers "socialists" and right-wingers call their liberal near-neighbors "communists" when neither are remotely either. Liberals and fascists share common ground in hating anything "left"
Wow Organizer Memes, interesting point, I agree it is normal to get paid to tell people who oppose genocide to enjoy the camps. Sorry about the second pic not sure how it got attached must be a bug
is he dead? of course not, we aren't that lucky. is it fun to imagine something beautiful? yes, obviously. but more than that, he's notoriously thin skinned and hopefully this will push him to prove his health & vitality in a way that is very damaging to his 80 year old heart.
Just thinking about the non-militarized police under Obama
Pouring one out for Stan Chera
![A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3vj3sznbplg35cnfx4dtvss/bafkreig2ukd3sswlxg2g3py5t23jjs6dzdizqk67wuw7ddrdv6wgrgbjpi@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.
AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.
Haha like come on man
Where should I send your fell for it again plaque?
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
She may have snuck into your consciousness without you being aware if you've ever jokingly referenced the "some of our faves may be implicated" Epstein tweet
“We’re better at sweeping up the homeless and respecting the police,” is a bad message both morally, politically, and strategically.
It's not a terribly long jump from "Palestinians are either Hamas, complicit, or acceptable collateral" to "Anyone who lives in a 60-40 red county can and must be sacrificed to teach republicans a lesson they won't actually learn"
You're asking to be spared by throwing trans people under the bus, and then having a tantrum when trans people tell you they won't sign on to that.
Exactly!
I have given up explaining this to people. I used to give out books by Jewish Socialist Franz Neumann who wrote 1 book solely on how this went down (presumably so that future generations won't repeat it) but the "lesser evil" Westerners WILL NOT LISTEN. Maybe it's because they benefit from this con
That revision of the quote is being too nice to Churchill tbh, the original ends with "no brain", not "no money"
Yeah, my actual argument is that you cannot read.
Goddamn dude, you're straight up illiterate
I stand with Joachim Frank. I would hope that others would have had a better understanding of history. 2/2
Gotta start presenting an unlabelled trace of Cuban, Russian, or Viet life expectancy and asking when they'd prefer to live
It's me btw. I'm the trained seal.
Allowing Palestinians their right of return would demographically prevent Israel from being the Jewish ethnonationalist project that it is at its core. Liberal zionist 2staters overwhelmingly do not believe in a right of return for exactly this reason.
Better get on the Beshear train then, or you're in for another 4 years of the kind of fascism that makes you personally uncomfortable.
Why would someone not tuned in to congressional news connect the IRA's corporate tax incentives, which they'd have no reason to know about unless their employer mentioned it directly, with the president trying to "deliver material gains to red areas"?
Judging by the spelling on the "translate tweet" button in those screencaps, you'd need to piss off whichever Ukrainian made that collage originally
It occurs to me that one of the reasons liberals like the trolley problem so much lately is that it places you in a situation where you have exactly two options and no say or influence over the outcome in any other way, and that is just how they want everything in the world to work.
this is correct and you can see it in the runup to basically every severe crisis, even as it becomes increasingly obvious one is coming 2008 was a great example - "the entire financial system is going to start falling apart like dominoes" was a bridge too far for conventional wisdom until it wasn't
They also ruin their bodies and source of income so much earlier in life than any office worker! Why wouldn't they be compensated more heavily up front?
What candidate did you vote for in the 2024 primary? lmao