He’s saying no: accepting the framing of tyrants, which is that it’s necessary to sidestep our separation of powers in order to dismantle the administrative state which oligarchs loathe. Which is of course bullshit
He’s saying no: accepting the framing of tyrants, which is that it’s necessary to sidestep our separation of powers in order to dismantle the administrative state which oligarchs loathe. Which is of course bullshit
Yeah this is a good way to cause some knee damage
And death and severe morbidity rates plummeted after the vaccines were introduced
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Same goes for Pete Thiel, who spent his early childhood around a Namibian uranium mine where his dad was an engineer
Racism? BEFORE Obama!!??!
And shooting them. I got to know Donnell Herrington, featured in Spike Lee's film about Katrina, but whose full story was put together by A.C. Thompson's peerless investigative journalism. A.C. found both Donnell and his shooter and brought some justice..... www.propublica.org/article/shoo...
Opportunity for guys like Andrew Callaghan to step in … if they’re so inclined
It’s only crime when the NRx tyrants say it is
Are they tracking 4th amendment violations etc? I’m betting those crimes went up
Give it to him. He’s earned it!
Hey, i have an idea Let’s get an AI chatbot wearing Buford’s skin to “defend” “himself” on @jimacosta.bsky.social ‘s show
Another approach is pure dismissal: “are you sure you meant to say something like that out loud?” or “why would you ask a dumb question like that?”
But it’s really nothing to do with IQ or factual knowledge, education in that sense. Some of the highest IQ are the most emotionally fragile or derelict.
It’s lack of emotional growth. Education probably plays into it in the sense that school admins have routinely caved in to Karens’ demands over the last couple decades (“my kids do no wrong!”). Talking to friends who are teachers, it’s 😬 how their hands are tied re: holding students accountable
Fraud and fantasy as a cheap veneer for theft and mayhem are the foundation of fascism. All their talk of strength and purity is pure illusion. So, gonna have to disagree with your detective work here.
People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
CHICAGO…
Maher is a hack
As Musk said not long ago, he sees humanity as a bootloader for AI
What are the odds of lockstep partisanship from the Dems?
As much as I would prefer Pritzker as governor, his rhetoric here depends on a lot of assumptions for him to be able to follow through, and all of them are questionable
What I do appreciate about Newsom is he gets that this moment is one where the enemy is trying like hell to make sure it lasts forever - and acting with a lot of confidence they’ll be successful. They know what will follow if they can’t consolidate power. GOP is all-in on “queme los barcos”
If he’s alive, then why hasn’t anyone been able to prove it to my satisfaction? checkmate.
Now THAT is how to Reframe
No argument here!
What happens when the contractors have to replace their staff with unskilled labor all of a sudden for some strange reason?
The asymmetry is at the root of what makes fraud, fraud. If you don’t have to invest in your business, product, or service to make money, all you have to do is convince people of something untrue. Major advantage to frauds vs ppl who built a real business, in the absence of effective regulation
Basically, Gates invests his $ in actually doing useful things. The death cult has no need for that - they don’t care about any actual pro social investments and spend their money on influence to con people. He has to balance spending on programs and influence etc. Nihilists just spend on influence
Agree. But by packaging i mean quality more than quantity. Ex: Dems throw lots of $ at social media advertising to mid effect, whereas FSB et al. deliver highly effective messaging on same platforms for (ostensibly) pennies on the dollar. Platforms being hijacked followed early swarms, & is worse
💯 The big 🧠 political consultants are a proven albatross for the Dems
Point is, it’s inevitable: those who have consolidated vast fortunes (i.e. via exploit’ve biz models … low overhead) such that they can invest enormous sums into influence campaigns will prevailingly seek malign ends with their influence. If good people shall rival that, it’ll take a different model
Yes, meant to (humorously?) imply that
It’s no coincidence that people have built vast fortunes through theft and fraud (incl MLM, televangelism, inflated tech valuations, exploiting underpaid labor, etc) are conspiring to build a society without rules or even stigma against theft and fraud. Where have the egalitarian oligarchs gone?
I agree that content is not primary. Bandwidth is more significant. However I vouch that the packaging/delivery mechanism of the media is even more important. How does a virus get past a host’s defenses? It’s the packaging. Apply this concept to memes.
If you respond to refute their claim -even if successful- you’ve taken the bait and accepted the frame of their mimetic rivalry. You’ve amplified their claim by giving it attention. I suggest, sidestep their frame and respond with your own. If they refuse to engage, mock ‘em. Gil’s ideas may differ
Where is Vance’s gratitude? All he’s doing is cashing in, fleecing the country instead of building a prosperous future
Thank you. Really wish he put a 0 in front of that .13 though.
Considering taking a few steps back, into the road, and laying down in traffic?
She is doing some excellent framing
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Would be interested to see stats of mass shootings done by males vs females. Also cis vs trans, since this admin is using trans as scapegoats in the latest tragedy
There’s no greater disrespect that’s ever been shown to the office than by reelecting Donald Trump: rapist, felon, child trafficker, serial fraudster, and overall pointless bloviating moron
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
This administration, and by virtue of acquiescence the entire GOP, are indeed fifth columnists
Sure. Yet we see across nature and human history that a small number of predators often manipulate and corral larger groups of prey, so it’s not like superior numbers alone suffice. Gotta be ready for the extreme violence they bring. They’re ready. They dream of killing us to make room for golf etc
Arguably worse: a monarchist Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude… at least they purported to aspire towards a cartoonish pastoral idyllic fantasy. Yarvin and the tech bros’ vision is literally just absolute arbitrary rule for the sake of commoditizing people in a dystopia
Here’s why this is bad news for Chuck Schumer… @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
As Yarvin himself quipped re: “ethical alternatives to genocide” - they can find uses for people such as making them into biodiesel
This is an interesting thread of thought. P25 undermines the C but still works within some legal framework. But NRx completely abandons such pretenses in its Sargon-esque pursuit of raw brutality and power.
Some context for what’s happening with CVS & Walgreens not providing Covid shots in some states. Laws authorizing pharmacists to do vaccinations (& provide some other kinds of meds, like birth control, without a prescription from a physician for a named patient) vary from state to state
It’s disappointing seeing so many just roll over and get out of the way, making things easier for the gangsters. They could be creating so much friction.
The embarrassment began Nov. 5
Conservative politics can really be summed up as “misery loves company”
Anything other than those wouldn’t be good for their profit margins
Does Miller’s wife knows he leaves the house looking like that?
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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JD Vance has a particular skill, and that skill is telling a bald-faced lie —the kind that nobody in their right mind could possibly believe— without breaking his poker face
🚨 Medicare Cuts👇🏽 This is what it looks like. No matter what lies @MarshaBlackburn and the GOP tell about Trump’s big ugly bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Gangster government
What’s going on is eugenics but it’s mostly a story that tells people lies about what it takes to have a longer life, or to stay alive at all.
Such a ghoulish person. What maniac would vote for her?
2/ In 2020, someone reported a $160,000 Bentley stolen out of the driveway of one of Trump's homes. It doesn't look like the car belonged to Trump. A tenant had borrowed it from a friend, then left the keys in the car and the doors unlocked.
That’s literally what Karoline said, strange indeed. Weird, even
With this in mind, no pun intended, what would direct access look like?
💯 correct. Anyone who claims to be above the law isn’t for “law and order”
A refreshing moment of sincerity from her, then. Now if she could just ditch the projection…
got some bad news for public health… if PEDIATRIC BRAIN CANCER can’t get funding… nobody getting it
Stupendously based
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
Our incentives are out of whack
So, Karoline doesn’t consider herself a person, eh
Her boss is a rapist
Referring to Donny’s cabinet of criminals, of course
Righteous community shaming FTW
No later than early 2024 it became crystal clear that Israel was deliberately targeting civilians and aid workers -including murder, drone strikes, kidnapping, and torture- in the absence of credible ties to Hamas. The claim that civ deaths are collateral has been unbelievable at least since then
I suspect he’s right on the facts and deliberately wrong in how he provides guidance and claims to interpret them
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
Idk man maybe the reason for all the antidepressants is that we’re forced to live in a hellscape where know-nothing nepo babies get to set policy against all evidence & nothing is ever done to address the real things killing our children at schools, movie theaters, and malls? Just a theory.
It’s like the final line in Zeppelin’s “immigrant song” about violent conquest “Now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins For peace and trust can win the day in spite of all your losing” A tale as old as time
Framing a protracted, unrestrained and unapologetic mass murder of civilians as the “Israel-Hamas War” says everything you need to know about the lack of good faith reasoning going on here.
“Give me comfort or give me death”
What they hold as personal beliefs is pretty much irrelevant. What are they doing to counter it? Any concerted action within the party? I’m not seeing any.
The first rule of arbitrary rule club is it’s arbitrary. The second rule is “see #1”
Thank you @murray.senate.gov for joining the chorus demanding RFK be fired. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... Now we need action! @sanders.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social
Let’s also remember that Carolyn Bryant, whose accusation led to his brutal kidnapping and murder, admitted she lied about it. youtu.be/MtRViIuhrQc
Yes, but it doesn’t matter. Even if we get a competent and trustworthy government again for some period, everyone should know that it can’t last unless structural and constitutional reforms are made. The fascists are among us and unless they are structurally disempowered, they’ll be back.
MAGA is indeed a death cult. I appreciate rolling stone for calling it like it is. Sadly exceptional among mainstream publications
Yes. There is nothing Trump is doing that the entire GOP isn’t also doing. The GOP agenda is his agenda. He doesn’t care about Project 2025, but they do and they rally around him because he’s ramming it through for gold trinkets and adulation. But damn it do not let any of them off the hook.
