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I call on society to end professional guild cartels like doctors and pharmacists, I should be able to put anything into my mouth I want
It works for toddlers
It works for toddlers
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I call on society to end professional guild cartels like doctors and pharmacists, I should be able to put anything into my mouth I want
It works for toddlers
It works for toddlers
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for the record, this is increasingly my hypothesis for many a region's economy. This sort of consolidated economic power would explain regional stagnation in wages across more than one industry. KC had this with tech for ~3 decades because of Cerner. I'm not shocked similar happens with services.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
for the record, this is increasingly my hypothesis for many a region's economy. This sort of consolidated economic power would explain regional stagnation in wages across more than one industry. KC had this with tech for ~3 decades because of Cerner. I'm not shocked similar happens with services.
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so fucking racist that you let shit spiral and get slammed with literal fucking RICO predicates, BRO
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
so fucking racist that you let shit spiral and get slammed with literal fucking RICO predicates, BRO
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We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
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“Chat are we cooked, they’re firing missiles at fam fr”
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Chat are we cooked, they’re firing missiles at fam fr”
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Here's my Spotify Wrapped:
It's Bandcamp Friday, search for a music genre you like and support artists directly
Go to your local music and record store and get dope recommendations from staff
Buy CDs / tapes / vinyls direct from artists, they get money, you own your shit
Fuck Spotify
It's Bandcamp Friday, search for a music genre you like and support artists directly
Go to your local music and record store and get dope recommendations from staff
Buy CDs / tapes / vinyls direct from artists, they get money, you own your shit
Fuck Spotify
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's my Spotify Wrapped:
It's Bandcamp Friday, search for a music genre you like and support artists directly
Go to your local music and record store and get dope recommendations from staff
Buy CDs / tapes / vinyls direct from artists, they get money, you own your shit
Fuck Spotify
It's Bandcamp Friday, search for a music genre you like and support artists directly
Go to your local music and record store and get dope recommendations from staff
Buy CDs / tapes / vinyls direct from artists, they get money, you own your shit
Fuck Spotify
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Lenin: When your defense of the city fails, save the paperwork, evacuate all party leadership, blow up the power stations, and scuttle the baltic fleet.
Trotsky: Sir, When I Win, Permission To Pursue Them To Estonia… ?
Trotsky: Sir, When I Win, Permission To Pursue Them To Estonia… ?
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Lenin: When your defense of the city fails, save the paperwork, evacuate all party leadership, blow up the power stations, and scuttle the baltic fleet.
Trotsky: Sir, When I Win, Permission To Pursue Them To Estonia… ?
Trotsky: Sir, When I Win, Permission To Pursue Them To Estonia… ?
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No wonder he came to believe that he didn’t need to be a duplicitous scheming party vizier like Stalin. He literally was That Guy. His own haters in Petrograd literally reported as much. He showed up and everyone immediately gets their shit together, even as British tanks are visible from the city.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
No wonder he came to believe that he didn’t need to be a duplicitous scheming party vizier like Stalin. He literally was That Guy. His own haters in Petrograd literally reported as much. He showed up and everyone immediately gets their shit together, even as British tanks are visible from the city.
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You have been told to be calm, to maintain the faith, and to be loyal to the party for close to 20 years and now they can’t even properly condemn serial murder in the ocean nor the wildcat internment camps here at home. You don’t even know if they’ll let you vaccinate your own kids a year from now.
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
You have been told to be calm, to maintain the faith, and to be loyal to the party for close to 20 years and now they can’t even properly condemn serial murder in the ocean nor the wildcat internment camps here at home. You don’t even know if they’ll let you vaccinate your own kids a year from now.
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We'll have to seek the death penalty against everyone in the chain of command here. There's no excuse at this point for the E-4 to say he didn't know.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We'll have to seek the death penalty against everyone in the chain of command here. There's no excuse at this point for the E-4 to say he didn't know.
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hard to express the feelings of practicing a scenario here where the church is being sieged by immigration to kidnap someone
“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
hard to express the feelings of practicing a scenario here where the church is being sieged by immigration to kidnap someone
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“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”
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At the beginning of the drone war in the early 2000s, people fretted that the fact it was on the screen, you weren’t looking at a human being through a rifle sight, would end up making troops completely desensitized to the fact that they were killing people.
Anyways, they watched them for 41 min.
Anyways, they watched them for 41 min.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
At the beginning of the drone war in the early 2000s, people fretted that the fact it was on the screen, you weren’t looking at a human being through a rifle sight, would end up making troops completely desensitized to the fact that they were killing people.
Anyways, they watched them for 41 min.
Anyways, they watched them for 41 min.
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One of the things that came out of Nuremberg in particular is the doctrine of command responsibility, that is, if your subordinates commit war crimes, and you don’t immediately arrest them, you too are culpable.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
One of the things that came out of Nuremberg in particular is the doctrine of command responsibility, that is, if your subordinates commit war crimes, and you don’t immediately arrest them, you too are culpable.
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i am struck, again, by that essential distinction between physical and moral courage. whatever physical courage admiral bradley may have, he appears to possess none of the latter.
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
i am struck, again, by that essential distinction between physical and moral courage. whatever physical courage admiral bradley may have, he appears to possess none of the latter.
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We should execute him at the first opportunity. Not even kidding. Peleus precedent
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
We should execute him at the first opportunity. Not even kidding. Peleus precedent
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expanding the court is the moderate position
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
expanding the court is the moderate position
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What if an entire society’s epistemology was based on gambling, participatory make-believe, dictatorial counter-knowledge, and extruded word slurry.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
What if an entire society’s epistemology was based on gambling, participatory make-believe, dictatorial counter-knowledge, and extruded word slurry.
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It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.
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My unpopular opinion is gambling is bad and the state shouldn't encourage it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
My unpopular opinion is gambling is bad and the state shouldn't encourage it.
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It was auto industry execs.
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It was auto industry execs.
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
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ANTHROPIC’S CEO WARNS THAT SOME AI GIANTS ARE TAKING RECKLESS, HUNDREDS-OF-BILLIONS SPENDING RISKS ON DATA CENTERS AND CHIPS, SAYING THE INDUSTRY IS GAMBLING ON UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC PAYOFFS.
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
ANTHROPIC’S CEO WARNS THAT SOME AI GIANTS ARE TAKING RECKLESS, HUNDREDS-OF-BILLIONS SPENDING RISKS ON DATA CENTERS AND CHIPS, SAYING THE INDUSTRY IS GAMBLING ON UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC PAYOFFS.
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The CIA recruited a child and trained him to be an assassin
Its yesterdays new by now, but someone in my Discord realized something about the Afghan shooter recently
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The CIA recruited a child and trained him to be an assassin
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this thread is great.
also praising government efficiency in the trump era as dunkelman does without mentioning that DOGE murdered 600k people and counting is...it's not good.
it's kind of like pointing to the final solution as a model of can do government. 1
also praising government efficiency in the trump era as dunkelman does without mentioning that DOGE murdered 600k people and counting is...it's not good.
it's kind of like pointing to the final solution as a model of can do government. 1
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this thread is great.
also praising government efficiency in the trump era as dunkelman does without mentioning that DOGE murdered 600k people and counting is...it's not good.
it's kind of like pointing to the final solution as a model of can do government. 1
also praising government efficiency in the trump era as dunkelman does without mentioning that DOGE murdered 600k people and counting is...it's not good.
it's kind of like pointing to the final solution as a model of can do government. 1
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”