They're claiming the authority to accuse any person of a crime and murder them without a trial.
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They're claiming the authority to accuse any person of a crime and murder them without a trial.
I think ideology is overrated as a determining factor, and that other aspects of candidate quality matter more. All else being equal moderates will slightly outperform progressives, but I think a lot of voters would take a charismatic, authentic progressive over an insincere sounding moderate.
I think cynically chasing public opinion comes off to a lot of voters as inauthentic and soulless. People these days prefer a candidate who is charismatic and seems to say what they mean, so long as their opinions aren't *too* far outside the mainstream.
It still sometimes baffles me that on every level of society people who benefited from liberalism and multiculturalism have decided he burn it all to the ground.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Immigration is great, but its also not a permanent solution because eventually every nation will fall below replacement birthrates. The timespan on this is pretty long though, plenty of time to use immigration as a stopgap while we figure out aging.
The reason why falling birthrates are even a problem is because of the strain of supporting an aging population. Which points to a solution. If we can find ways to slow aging birthrates become moot, and it even becomes desirable to have lower birthrates.
I think 200 years from now people will look back at us very similarly to how we looked at Malthus.
He could not have foreseen the Haber process and green revolution that massively increased agricultural output. He did not know that birth control pills were possible. He could not know about the germ theory of disease, and how mass sanitation, vaccines, and antibiotics would change public health.
We're looking at the inverse of the situation that confronted the world Thomas Malthus lived in (~1800). Instead of trying to find ways of socially boosting birthrates, he was seeking ways of socially suppressing them to avoid overpopulation and the mass starvation and disease that came with it.
Birthrates themselves aren't the true problem, it's taking care of an aging population that puts strains on societies. I don't think there's a social solution to this (immigration is a stopgap until all countries are below replacement fertility), but perhaps there's a technological one.
This is also why people who think LLMs are gonna discover immortality or whatever are fooling themselves. Science requires constant interaction with the outside world, you cannot do it with thought alone.
This is also why people who think LLMs are gonna discover immortality or whatever are fooling themselves. Science requires constant interaction with the outside world, you cannot do it with thought alone.
I don't get it? Why not just use the school bus?
Its crazy how voters were SO WORRIED about Biden's age and immediately voted for another walking corpse. Brilliant move folks.
I think also of all the companies that have leeched off of scientific credibility to market their (often dubious) products. From Theranos to homeopathy to health foods. And the media, who milked every preliminary development for attention, and blamed scientists when their own hype wasn't realized.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
The way I see it: If a food was developed by people in your country, regardless of the national/ethnic origin of those people, then your country can 'claim' that food.
They also fielded calls from all over and could realize if there was a pattern. That’s CDC, and they can’t come to the phone right now. Good luck
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
I think also of all the companies that have leeched off of scientific credibility to market their (often dubious) products. From Theranos to homeopathy to health foods. And the media, who milked every preliminary development for attention, and blamed scientists when their own hype wasn't realized.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
'Enrich the soldiers, scorn all others.' Except scorning the soldiers too. Sounds like a good plan for an aspiring dictator.
My 'NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE' shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
Part of why "professional law enforcement bodies" are a pretty recent invention is that, historically, most people were locked into various forms of private supervision or control via family institutions, feudal nobility, slavery, or patron-client relationships that filled most of that role.
It's bad form to quote somebody quoting me, but I do think this captures (one of!) the key dynamics that you see in pre-modern societies, with another one being the use of wergild and blood-feuds between kinship groups to regulate violence. It's just MAD dynamics on an interpersonal level.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
But have you considered that all my video games were free when my mom bought them for me?
Closest historic parallel is Stalin endorsing Lysenkoism. This can happen when you're ruled by an unaccountable tyrant that is not beholden to reality.
Closest historic parallel is Stalin endorsing Lysenkoism. This can happen when you're ruled by an unaccountable tyrant that is not beholden to reality.
It is deeply hilarious in a morose sort of way that the American public elected a man who is extremely open about the fact his *only* heartfelt ideological commitment is to make burger more expensive, and it did so to make burger cheaper.
I'm 50/50 on SCOTUS. On one hand maybe they'll just side with Trump. On the other hand maybe they try to protect the money.
It must be neutral as in it holds all sides to the same standards. It cannot be neutral as in supporting the beliefs of all sides equally.
I think people assume that knowledge is just something that exists eternally, once achieved, as opposed to something that has to be cultivated and can be lost.
Most Democrats are heterosexual. A majority of straight women voted for Harris.
If the scientific evidence shows that climate change is caused by human activities, vaccines are safe and effective, and evolution happened and is happening, then forcing the inclusion of people with opposing viewpoints is a hostile act to science.
It's anti-science. Science needs to be neutral the same way referees are. If one team keeps breaking the rules, they should be fair by continuing to penalize the team breaking the rules, not be 'fair' by letting that team get away with it for the sake of keeping the penalties evenly distributed.
If the scientific evidence shows that climate change is caused by human activities, vaccines are safe and effective, and evolution happened and is happening, then forcing the inclusion of people with opposing viewpoints is a hostile act to science.
It's anti-science. Science needs to be neutral the same way referees are. If one team keeps breaking the rules, they should be fair by continuing to penalize the team breaking the rules, not be 'fair' by letting that team get away with it for the sake of keeping the penalties evenly distributed.
I loved this series as a teenager. Wonder if it would hold up on a reread.
2024 election denialism is actually a thing in parts of reddit. Never seen it on Bluesky (though I'm sure some people on here think that).
To take the question seriously: -Candidates should be genuine, regardless of whether they're left or center. No focus group talking points, just what they actually think. -Candidates should be rabidly anti-fascist.
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
See what Labor is doing right now. They are destroying their own party and not denting Reform even a little.
I'm not celebrating. But I only have so much bandwidth, and I'm choosing to use it for things that a ton of politicians and media people won't fall over themselves for.
People really took him at his word when he said he'd make everything cheaper on day 1.
also that 46-48 is a blinking red signal that DEMOCRATS SHOULD ATTACK TRUMP ON CRIME/POLICING
holy shit at prices/inflation at 34-61
Yes, you attack where your opponent is weak. But you should also try to make new weaknesses. Undermine your opponent where they are strong.
They want a softer labor market so they can harass their employees and treat them like serfs again. They'll get what they want. The median voter was duped with a lot of help from corporate media, which knew what it was doing.
Burning the flag is more in keeping with our history and traditional national values than arresting someone for burning it is.
Been messing around with inserting this prompt into LLM conversations and it massively improves the “tends to over validate the user” issue. I kind of feel like consumer models should all have this by default
I've walked to work nearly every day for four years in DC and have never been afraid of being mugged. I've run at the National Mall and Rock Creek Park every week, seen them packed with people with kids, dogs, and on bikes. This is a blatant lie.
Yes. All else equal a moderate will outperform a progressive. But choosing an uncharismatic moderate over a charismatic progressive is folly. A lot goes into candidate quality and ideology is only one factor.
Bluesky is basically an oversized political message board. I enjoy that, but it's probably never gonna be more than that.
Microplastics make them break out in hives.
I am in favor of 'negotiating' with Russia on exactly the same terms as we did with the Nazis and Japanese.
I noticed that. It's the sort of highly processed number that could easily be used to obscure the underlying data.
Can't imagine why someone who uses the product more would have more crashes. Mystery for the ages.
Stalin was evil and also if you expect me to say that every time I condemn the political faction that currently controls the Presidency, Senate, House, and Supreme Court because you saw someone on Twitter who said he wasn’t you have a very misaligned sense of priorities or values.
You liked a comment saying we should be as scared of open socialists and communists as open fascists. There is no meaningful communist movement in the US and elected socialists like AOC and Tlaib defend liberal ideals more than moderates like Schumer or Jeffries. What do you expect us to make of it?
once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight
This also reinforces the whole "There were no gay folks/trans folks/autistic folks/[insert other-ed group here] folks back in MY day!" narrative. Of course there were! Half of them were just hiding from you, and you edited the rest from the record. :-/
Denying the specifics of her life and personality, and trying to round her down to a lesson to be learned rather than a child who once lived is dehumanizing her, which is, you know, exactly in line with the whole Nazi project
Inevitable consequences ensued, and there was no way for people hurt by those consequences to respond, no way for them to influence their government other than violence.
Exe. Where I think the Russian Revolution crossed the point of no return is when the Bolsheviks disbanded the constituent assembly. They detached themselves from public accountability.
Longer answer: while a strong government is necessary, you need liberal forms of representation (elections, legislatures) to act as a check against government tyranny.
The short answer is that any authoritarian ideology is inherently bad and will lead to bad outcomes.
I'll argue with any tankie that shows up in my feed, but they are a fringe. Fascists are in control of the country. Saying that you should be 'equally scared of both' is delusional. Like I should be equally scared of sharks and bears, even though I'm nowhere near the sea and a bear is running at me.
If a socialist believes in the rule of law and free and fair elections (as most US socialists do), then there is no comparison to Nazis. Communists are bad... but scary? There are 0 communists members of congress, 0 communists own major social media sites, and a communist isn't president.
I'll argue with any tankie that shows up in my feed, but they are a fringe. Fascists are in control of the country. Saying that you should be 'equally scared of both' is delusional. Like I should be equally scared of sharks and bears, even though I'm nowhere near the sea and a bear is running at me.
If a socialist believes in the rule of law and free and fair elections (as most US socialists do), then there is no comparison to Nazis. Communists are bad... but scary? There are 0 communists members of congress, 0 communists own major social media sites, and a communist isn't president.
I'm honestly not sure what to do about the media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents
I like what he's doing right now and want more Democrats to do stuff like this. But yeah, never supporting him for president.
Child sex traffickers love him! Great honor!
If the master conveniently has a chainsaw in his garage why not use it to tear the place to the fucking ground?
Either they've been intimidated into silence or are deep in denial about what this means.
If you can’t say that/why it’s wrong that they’re doing this to John Bolton, it becomes a lot harder to say in a coherent way that/why it’s wrong if they do it to AOC.
The implication that everyone affiliated with the left of center has to carefully avoid using a list of words is actually catastrophic for free speech! Imagine the brouhaha if someone said we had to prevent random podcasts from using slurs! Suddenly there's an "existential threat" to free speech.
This is precisely the sickness right here: "The Democratic Party should make fan fiction podcasts say 'woman' again." How? Why? Do right-wing podcasts ever say anything untoward that Republicans should address? Everything goes back to the myth that Dems are responsible for petty aesthetic gripes
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
yeah also a lot of people who drank their own farm milk BOILED IT FIRST it's just that nobody remembers that part bc that's a boring chore that Mom does, and who notices what she does in the kitchen?
IDK how many ways she can keep saying the same thing. She's hoisting the red flag about as far as it's possible to hoist. A SCOTUS member is out there telling you the court is no longer a court of law.
So they're saying that it'd be bad if Congress passed a bill that increased the deficit by 4 trillion. Asking for no particular reason...
The 7 swing states (which the campaigns were actively contesting) swung less on average than the nation as a whole. That is not a sign of a bad campaign that fumbled the ball, but a good campaign that was fighting against insurmountable obstacles.
Or Obama (who should be in prison).
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-make...
Not the nonsense Meloni proposes. If Ukraine can not join NATO, then Germany, Poland, France, Britain, or all of them, should stand up and formulate a military alliance outside of NATO.
MAGA elites view their voters as subjects/serfs. If a king grants clemency to a subject who petitions him, that's proof of his generosity, but he isn't obligated to. Supporting Trump is a one way street. You have obligations that bind you but no real protection. Trump has no obligation to you.
Its different, of course, for rich Trump supporters. They play the role of the aristocracy.
MAGA elites view their voters as subjects/serfs. If a king grants clemency to a subject who petitions him, that's proof of his generosity, but he isn't obligated to. Supporting Trump is a one way street. You have obligations that bind you but no real protection. Trump has no obligation to you.
Its funny how the market is fine with all this. The problem with liberation day was that it was all at once. If Trump had announced the liberation day tariffs one country at a time over months everyone would have gotten used to the idea.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
AI was like the only part of tech that was hiring. Uh oh!
Remember when they botched Trump's own security and let him get shot at because of how thinly stretched they are? What the hell are they doing?
It would also save prematurely born babies. Yes, the technology (like any technology) could be used towards abusive ends. But we don't need artificial wombs to breed up indoctrinated children- many societies do that today.
An artificial womb would be an enormous advance for humanity in general and for women in specific, freeing them from the medical risks of pregnancy as well as some inconveniences. Stop letting your disgust reflex drive.