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The scandal of J.D. Vance and René Girard
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we can't help building it, but there's also an "if you can keep it"…
humans are the soul module of the global computer.
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people are mad at bluesky about something but i don't know what it is.
kind of ironic that they used to throw around “soy boy” as an epithet.
which is worse, to hate or to be hated?
what if there were a Halloween Everyday 🎃 app where you could post the location anytime you see anyone in a cool mask!
it’s a paradox, they reflect to themselves. the only people who seem truly tolerant (tolerant of them at least) are the nazis.
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1) you can just tell these people to fuck off. 2) work strategically to arrange things so you will continue to be able to just tell these people to fuck off despite the costs they will try to impose on you for doing so. 3) in any case, just tell them to fuck off.
the modern republican coalition is made up of people who are sure that any supposed connection between fuck around and find out is a fabrication of libs and pointy headed elites and the deep state.
for a certain kind of elf at least it seems they canceled christmas.
Text: The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the "rules" of the system that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that "it can happen here." Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.
one thing about wind and solar is they may be less susceptible to accident or sabotage than fossil fuel infrastructure. (but what about large-scale batteries?)
now which article of the Constitution was it that mentioned the Power to declare War? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
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hancox-li is great. and kind.
if the president lacks the power to do a thing but he gets away with doing it anyway, what does it even mean to say he lacks the power to do the thing?
my AI company will be called Monkey’s Paw.
i sure agree! but dems demand has not been restrain ICE, follow the law, save democracy. it’s extend the expanded ACA subsidy.
do a lot of brinkmanship and controversializing and speechifying during a high-stakes government shutdown crisis.
gender equality is something this administration on the surface disclaims, but isn’t Mike Johnson, like, a Stepford Husband?