Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
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Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
This is a country living in terror of a non-existent crime wave, getting rid of vaccines which saved millions of lives, and indulging in economic policies which we saw fail 100 years ago. It's a deeply disordered place.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
All of Giuliani’s life events that I know about hit like season ending cliffhangers where you’re like ‘How’s he gonna get outta this one?’ People forget that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle was All Him, which is understandable because he also committed actual sexual harassment in a Borat movie.
A country where lying is key to success and brutality is celebrated is not one that can sustain liberal democratic life. www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
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One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
What is social media for, if not stating where people were disappeared from? “Upstate new york” is a big fucking place. The big Y in Albany or what?
My hot take is we should go kinetic against Russian clandestine operations in Europe
“people that I find personally annoying are the reason the other side wins elections” is the laziest possible form of political analysis
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COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Where was this?
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Vladimir is pleased with his investment in the confederacy of dunces referred to as the Republican Party. Note each Republican governor involved in the theater of the absurd is a crooked, dishonest fool.
Hooo look at the times writing a headline!
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Those of us paying attention are in the real bubble
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Dude pulled his fly down for a chick on camera how is he still around?
Just for the record, Giuliani was always a POS. Horrible mayor, horrible, mobbed-up scumbug. Also, he disrespects the Oxford comma.
Ever since we gave him the vaccine my dog has been non-verbal
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Guys the future is here A swarm of Ukrainian FPV drones struck a Russian military facility. After the first FPV breached the entrance, two more FPVs entered the facility, hunting down Russian military equipment and personnel.
They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine but for all of Europe! RIP - Oleksandr Dovhoshei (41), Viachesla Kolotusha (21), Oleksandr Kolesnyk (30), Lebanese fighter Hussein Mehdi Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
Ya bro she’s a traitor. Same w the pres. Whole team really.
Tulsi Gabbard's "slip-up' of publicly outing of an undercover CIA officer is more than a mistake—it's an act of betrayal. This leak doesn't just end one person's career; it puts lives at risk, compromises intelligence networks, and weakens America's security abroad. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
We keep seeing this exact gaslighting over and over — @RepJohnRose & Sexton also said this to NC5 $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts only impacting people who *shouldn’t be on it* + “waste/fraud/abuse” is nonsense Also: if all this fraud exists, why 0 arrests?
I am pretty sure there is a special place in hell for Western media headline writers. The deliberate and painstaking effort to whitewash genocide requires a special talent that only total moral emptiness can produce.
We’re getting to the point where support for packing the Supreme Court might be a viable election position. This would be an absurdity in normal times.
I would not clap this long for someone who pulled me from a burning car.
Sure always throw everything against the wall. Who is public in the internet era is a class everyone should take but I have not.
Seems pretty traitory to me
Where I live, you pay a higher rate for electricity as your usage hits various thresholds. Such a system could force data centers to pay more for their insane usage while sparing citizens from financing their projects. it might work to keep data centers from your neighborhood, too.
I am a lawyer and I am not convinced that becoming temporarily famous because you were illegally arrested and deported makes you a public figure. It’s been a while but usually being a public figure is a choice, say because of a career like politician or actor.
a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage balanced lying, especially by authorities
@governor.ca.gov Why can’t you remove Peter Thiel from USA remove & his naturalized citizenship…can be done for TREASON..
I think it goes to the way fascist movements welcome and elevate criminals, liars, and cranks, because those people find it easy to participate in the basic fascist bargain of surrendering their morals and principles in exchange for unthinking fealty to the leader
The use of decapitation strikes has become a signature move of the Israeli government. In wartime, such a move may be lawful under the laws of war, but its wisdom is always doubtful. It privileges a similar decapitation strike against the leadership of the Israeli government by way of riposte.
“Manifestation isn’t real” well it’s worked pretty well for the right wing. They’ve created an entire alternate reality for themselves and our reality has bent to their will because of it. There’s something to be learned from that
As evidence of Israel's acts of genocide in Gaza mount, Israel relies for impunity now on only one nation: the United States. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
T-R-A-I-T-O-R www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
It’s 100% who they have always been
I don’t. Why?
That’s a nice ass chicken coop
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The Trump tariffs are the most ingenious machine for spreading Chinese global trade dominance ever seen
The first horseman is Pestilence, the second horseman is War, and the third horseman is Famine, symbolized by extortionate food prices.
And this is why social media is dumb. Makes no sense.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
And this connects up to something I've been thinking about Jeffries' comments last weekend. If there's anywhere on the planet where you're NOT going to find a persuadable swing voter, it's watching the Sunday morning politics talk shows. That's a place where you talk to your people and the media.
"the marketplace of ideas" includes ideas like "you should assume this guy is lying or wrong because he is usually lying or wrong"
Love to see iit
“The Democrats have to do better on messaging” *Democrats are united in calling for RFK to resign* “No, not like that”
I watched Katrina: Come Hell and High Water on Netflix. Fuck everyone for trying to rehabilitate anyone from the George W. Bush administration.
Hyperbole? I don't think so. DOGE was always about mining US data for the benefit of Elon Musk and the techbros, who believe they paid for this data by electing Trump. And US media essentially failed to report what was happening right under their noses.
As I pointed out earlier today, NC would probably be considered a "competitively authoritarian" state as its own country and has been for the past, like, 16 years minimum. We still elect Blue governors and Roy Cooper is very likely to get Tillis's seat.
“Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight”
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The next president had better dump Ashli Babbitt in the ocean and put a lien on her parents' house for the cost.
Court ruling that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional but he can keep doing them for a while anyway illustrates why the judiciary hasn't upheld rule of law, even though some parts really are been trying to. "Let him keep doing it, even if unconstitutional" is basically the message from SCOTUS.
I think State AGs should seek action on this
It’s not an exaggeration. The DOGE initiative is the largest data breach in world history.
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
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Repugs are traitors. That’s what taking money from russia to talk sht is. Being a straight traitor.
Trump is weakening America. If the National Guard is picking up trash they are not ready for a natural disaster. If the military is planning parades they cannot do their jobs defending the country.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
From cato the clown show I’m surprised they released this
Pretty much the opposite of everything JD Vance says about immigrants is true.
I just now searched NY Times for info on Trump's illness or bruised hand or health concerns - nothing came up. They spent weeks covering Biden's age after the debate. Their bias is quite stunning.
they like trump and want to help him and critical reporting about his health - to say nothing of the type of incessant drumbeat coverage they gave biden - wouldn't help him so they don't do it.
Wow, it’s so weird how no one talks about this anymore. It’s almost as if inflation wasn’t THE issue, it was just useful…aw but that couldn’t be, in this nation of liberal media and bias!
As Carl Schmitt explained in his fascist handbook, a crisis must be created where none exists in order to collapse democratic institutions and hasten the transition towards totalitarian dictatorship
he absolutely didn’t write this one
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you're aware that false information was absolutely everywhere during the french revolution, right? that conspiracism and popular paranoia were huge drivers of the revolution? the oddity here is basically the 20th century, where centralized mass media kept popular opinion relatively sane and factual
is this a good time to remind people that JD Vance appears to be owned by the world's weirdest billionaire and that guy funded his book and oh yeah he goes around the country making jokes about how he might be the Antichrist
So, things are a little SLOW in the Texas tourism world. They have a rather desperate-sounding new ad campaign. Remember #BoycottTexas It sucks. gov.texas.gov/travel-texas...
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i don't know that the U.S. ever produced a finer general than U.S. Grant
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
Wait what
Now Taylor Lorenz is shifting the goalposts after admitting Chorus didn't pay influencers to post specific content!?
Fake and
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
The sitting President of the United States raped children and he’s in no danger of being held accountable for it.
Liberals don't understand the role of influencers, which is MOSTLY NOT to incept ideas into the public consciousness. It's to make the liberal/Democratic viewpoint on existing subjects and topics look like the smart one.
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