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If the boat was running large amounts of drugs then the people who manufactured or bought the drugs in bulk and arranged the trip were not on board the boat, and if you wanted to work your way toward stopping those you would want to capture the people who were on the boat
If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Avis gave me one and I was like, ahh, shit, and then I went to clamber up into it and found myself sitting down into it instead. Same curb weight as an Accord!
Meet the Honda HR-V
Tell us more about the instinctive vigor and genius of certain racial types, Herr Schmitt
Look at this dirty fuckin' Kraut tearing down my country
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
Honest question, who is the far right intellectual you would want to show the world? Personally I think the repellent, uncharismatic guy beloved by capital would be best bsky.app/profile/pete...
It's called "Blue Sky" because you can just sit on Twitter and imagine it to be anything you want it to be, apparently
"Not me, I am a special snowflake who is immune to well known human cognitive biases and propaganda" okay maybe not you, you brilliant, strong-willed person. But Matt Yglesias? Someone like that? You don't think they are biased by "which of my posts do well" and "what replies do I see first?" Hmm,
"If anything the idea that the slide from Buckley to Trump has been a reactionary degeneration of the movement isn’t quite fair to Trump, who has never openly backed de jure segregation and has been more supportive of gay rights than Buckley ever was."
“A leopard can’t change its spots, right?” Mr. Cuomo said. “New Yorkers are not stupid.”
The U.S. version makes sense when you remember that the centrist establishment that wants to purge trans people and make the racial and ethnic minorities in the coalition shut up, supposedly on behalf of working class sensibilities, are the ones who actually fucked the working class over in the '90s
My headcanon mondegreen had "Ray Kroc" in there
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
One way to think about Bill Maher is to ask what he would have done if the Bush administration threat had scared him into rolling over and how that would be different from what he has done
Gonna need a BAC on this one
Guess they feel like they can’t put the other thing about Benny Johnson in the newspaper
I didn't think the post was original and insightful enough so here's a reaction gif
thank's
I think about this @tomscocca.bsky.social post like once a week.
Actual lol at the latest installment in this series
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Apologies to Cracker Barrel controversialists but the choice to render a black-capped chickadee photo-negatively so it has a bright white cap and bib is by far the dumbest graphic design decision of the year
The four-day work week would also be better for everyone, but also there's no reason two people can't be answering the phones on overlapping shifts
Making this universal would measurably boost the GDP and lower the homicide rate
Oh, look, it's the troops defector.com/well-he-sent...
Seems weird that a guy whose entire shtick is "nobody is better than me at figuring out what the algorithm rewards and delivering exactly that content" is mad about not being considered "influential" enough, your thing is literally built around BEING influenced
I wrote about this kind of shit back in June but the morning MLB email doing "Why Raleigh should be AL MVP over Judge" is gross, ownership's newsletter has no business offering opinions about which of their employees deserve the performance prizes www.indignity.net/low-and-insi...
MY CRACKER-ASS TRUTH ON THE BARREL
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Civility discourse is a war on thinking and writing clearly. None of this is in defense of nuance. What civility pundits want is to be absolved of responsibility for the content of what they say, provided it's expressed in a particular way. Their fight is against judgement itself.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.
Lifetime of abusing medications, fake medicine, and street drugs has your head looking like a water balloon made out of Jack Link's but keep talking about other people
its fun to kind of try and clock who is as stupid as he is and who is just playing along. i suspect that a lot of them think they are playing along but in actuality are in fact just as stupid as he is (see eg vance, jd)
"an American Girl Doll–themed pro-DNC meme account"
I like how it's an open-ended tutorial in dark patterns
Coulda convinced me there was a coat rack over there, barber pole, old-fashioned plow, never felt the need to know
Had no idea there was a human figure involved
I never even knew what the noise beside the name was besides that there was some kind of barrel in there
Keep those letters coming to The Sophist!
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so for those who don't know what DHS is referencing, it's an academic study the New Right has grabbed onto about how liberal moral universalism flows outwards while conservative moralism flows inwards in terms of priority
Please educate me about this Gamer Gate you speak of
I have no idea what standard of proof you're looking for. He's been running the site for three-plus years and it only ever changes in one direction. Posts get no engagement. Links are suppressed. People rampage around with racial slurs in their usernames. Reversing this through effort is a fantasy.
It has not been proven it is possible to move the needle with an ideologue who has full personal control over the platform constantly and aggressively yanking the needle in the opposite direction! Quite the opposite! Again, all of this is about how Musk has successfully naturalized Nazis winning.
Your point is that the right wing had so successfully taken control of Twitter through its bootstrapping hard work and focus that the country's leading right-wing politician was banned from the platform?
The post you were originally trying to dunk on was explicitly and specifically about how doomed it is to try to win the game *on the platform owned and aggressively manipulated by a far-right billionaire*
Was Donald Trump on Twitter when Elon Musk bought it, Y/N?
remember that although musk and taibbi were too stupid and conspiracy brained to know what they were looking at, they found a list of right wing influencer accounts with a "do not take moderation action or deprioritize these accounts" tag
Why are you conflating their losing tactics (brigade the refs, etc.) with their winning tactic (buy the site and promote Nazis)? In March 2022 Donald Trump was still banned for trying to overthrow the government; when anyone showed up slinging racial slurs then, they would be nuked immediately.
Would the left like to try harder and win at Facebook? OK, just get a left-wing political operative installed as one of the company's top executives, so he can personally override the rules against platform manipulation and derogatory content when left-wing influencers systematically break them.
The only thing you can do about the fact that Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into a gigantic loudspeaker for the nasty dumb things Elon Musk believes is get off Twitter, you're not gonna drown out the loudspeaker
No, they didn't, one of them fucking bought the platform, Jesus fucking Christ—THIS is what I mean about how the day-to-day existence of Musk's Nazi propaganda machine cooks people's brains
The ol' double-tap mishap
Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up
the net effect of this worldwide will be that any right-wing party about to lose political power will attempt a coup, because worst comes to worst they know they'll have Trump on their side
“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy
Wandering into a Livingston, MT bookstore and imagine my happy surprise in finding Walter Kirn postcards. In two different poses! Montana truly is the Treasure State. Then I had to explain the Kirn Dog to my kid.
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
Does Gavin Newsom count www.thebulwark.com/p/no-gavin-t...
It's almost as if something had given them an inaccurate idea of how xenophobic Americans are and how popular Trump is
A whole lot of journalists and Democratic politicians believed it was bad to object to sending people to CECOT, because that would strengthen Trump by reminding Americans how much they want an immigration crackdown, and they kept saying so even after the polls showed it was wrong. Why?
One reason the Nazis have a genuinely dangerous degree of influence right now is that Elon Musk has convinced a lot of politicians and journalists that Nazi attitudes are more widespread and popular than they really are
Consuming a daily stream of Nazi propaganda does not have to turn you into a Nazi to distort your perceptions of the world
I'm not influenced by Nazi propaganda, the Nazi propaganda just makes me worry about how strong and influential the Nazis are
You're not aware of how deep and widespread the problem is! You're aware of how deep and widespread Elon Musk wants you to believe the problem is!
Michaela and Mariah (who are 30 years old) seem to have been in Europe much of the summer and Cara’s in private equity, so she can take a black car home, since her dad took her Manhattan apartment earlier this year so he could be qualified to run for mayor, but I’ll keep an eye out for them.
Guess what? Everyone on X dot com is influenced by Nazi propaganda!
It's how you end up with far right extremists being cited as sources in the NYT for that admissions story, because the elite journalists got chummy with freaks on twitter. And eventually they're no longer abominable gutter trash, but just that guy with some kooky views you debate in your mentions.
Good to see you over here! Here’s my argument against Twitter being an important platform of influence bsky.app/profile/adam...
Her post makes a very strong case that she is not
No, the entire point here is that Musk has manipulated them into mistaking his prescriptive vision of normal for a natural descriptive one. Twitter is not real life!
It's not normal to see someone flinging around the N-word; four years ago anyone who acted like that was swiftly banned from any major platform. The fact that she now believes putting up with it is part of the normal give-and-take of public discourse shows how thoroughly she let Musk reprogram her.
Every would-be mainstream journalist who is still on Twitter has a wildly distorted idea of how popular far-right attitudes and outright bigotry are because Elon Musk is deliberately feeding them a constant barrage of extremism, successfully convincing them that Trumpism is the people's will.
Elon Musk has successfully convinced Jerusalem Demsas that it's normal to encounter "a few N-words" in the mainstream American public square, a proposition that would have been ridiculously false three years ago
These people are so unaware of being personally influenced by constantly immersing themselves in a firehose blast of Nazi propaganda that she doesn't even list that as one of the considerations www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
Nevertheless, even though it would have advanced A.G. Sulzberger's ultimate rooting interests, I think the mayor's cash-envelope bribes should have been on page one when they happened
The Times likes to think people who criticize it are just driven by their own agendas but each cartoonish corruption story about Eric Adams increases the chances of the worst possible outcome, in which Andrew Cuomo overcomes his unpopularity and stench of failure to consolidate the Stop Mamdani vote
I just feel like the time to tell the public you saw the incumbent mayor’s people handing out cash bribes in July of an election year would be in July of that election year
Compare and contrast this leisurely approach with them tripping over their dicks to rush out the urgent story of Mamdani's college application or cranking out story after story after story about every rumor or perceived development Rufo fed them on how Claudine Gay cited sources in her dissertation
Given the presentation and the bylines, it does look like they were planning to tell the public about the bribes eventually, as a colorful detail in a 10,000 word investigative thumbsucker about Chinese influence in New York politics, but that just demonstrates how broken their news judgment is
Democratic funders who want to protect democracy: Fund a newspaper and hire @tomscocca.bsky.social to run it flaminghydra.com/issue-386/
I guess the mistake was having staff reporters and photographers witness it in public rather than having a Nazi steal the information for them
"A red envelope containing cash is handed out at a campaign rally for Mayor Eric Adams of New York City in Flushing, Queens. Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times"
Can't wait to see how Patrick Healy explains this shit
The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
If I just hit my spots and dug down for some extra velocity and were born in a different decade and lived my life in a completely different way I would have a decent chance of striking out Aaron Judge
How the fuck is anyone typing "if done correctly" about anything the Trump administration is doing in August 2025
a hearty “rot in hell” to this freak defector.com/james-dobson...
This is true; the reporter failed to do some real basic follow-ups about how real their project is; the actual focus was limited to asking “Can these people pass as normal even for a second?” and answering “Nope.” Which, fine, the freakshow is part of the circus! But. bsky.app/profile/thef...
I thought the story used its access to appropriately portray the Nazis as dangerous shitheads, but the Times' follow-up argument claiming that sitting down with the Nazis was necessary to illuminate the implications for housing law is pompous nonsense, the Nazis are worthless as sources on that!
The story seemed fine on the page but Patrick Healy is such a disingenuous blockhead he's retconning it into being a bad piece
And Wallace lost! Trump and Vance went straight from telling heinous racist lies about the Haitians in Springfield to wielding the actual power to successfully drive them out.