Chris
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Yes, but voters are still morally culpable for their decision
September 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yes, but voters are still morally culpable for their decision
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We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
idk if this is just me, but I can't seem to get to any game on smol quest. Like www.smol.quest/games/hollow... just says "game not found"
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September 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
idk if this is just me, but I can't seem to get to any game on smol quest. Like www.smol.quest/games/hollow... just says "game not found"
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So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
September 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
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counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
I went on Easter to my parent's non-denominational church and I didn't remember the music being so bad when I was a kid. Was it always like that?
May 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I went on Easter to my parent's non-denominational church and I didn't remember the music being so bad when I was a kid. Was it always like that?
basically, the sign is saying gender is personal, not immutable and not binary!
May 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
basically, the sign is saying gender is personal, not immutable and not binary!
on top: private means the variable (Gender) can only be written to by other code with access, and string is the variable type that means it stores text
on bottom: public can be written to by any code, const (constant) means it's immutable once assigned, and bool is short for boolean (true or false)
on bottom: public can be written to by any code, const (constant) means it's immutable once assigned, and bool is short for boolean (true or false)
May 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
on top: private means the variable (Gender) can only be written to by other code with access, and string is the variable type that means it stores text
on bottom: public can be written to by any code, const (constant) means it's immutable once assigned, and bool is short for boolean (true or false)
on bottom: public can be written to by any code, const (constant) means it's immutable once assigned, and bool is short for boolean (true or false)
That’s my point. If tech companies want to create hardware that needs their services to function, they need to commit to supporting it for a specified period of time on the box instead of pulling the rug when they feel like it. There’s no research you could do to find out when Google would sunset it
April 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
That’s my point. If tech companies want to create hardware that needs their services to function, they need to commit to supporting it for a specified period of time on the box instead of pulling the rug when they feel like it. There’s no research you could do to find out when Google would sunset it
They told users at the time of purchase when they would be doing this?
April 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
They told users at the time of purchase when they would be doing this?
If there has to be a sunset, then they should explicitly define it
April 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If there has to be a sunset, then they should explicitly define it
unless they communicated the finite life span upfront, then they should support it as long as they are in business.
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
unless they communicated the finite life span upfront, then they should support it as long as they are in business.
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"Abolish" is not a strong enough word for ICE.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Abolish" is not a strong enough word for ICE.
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The level of fucking delusion you have to have to support trump on the terms that most of his voters support him makes it hard for me to understand how they can function in day to day life
April 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The level of fucking delusion you have to have to support trump on the terms that most of his voters support him makes it hard for me to understand how they can function in day to day life
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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
It’s so funny that Firefox caters to privacy concerned users, but that also means their users are so skittish that a minor ToS change means everyone wants to leave them.
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s so funny that Firefox caters to privacy concerned users, but that also means their users are so skittish that a minor ToS change means everyone wants to leave them.
If I ordered something from a Canadian retailer before the tariffs, do I get a bill from US customs when it ships? How does that work?
February 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If I ordered something from a Canadian retailer before the tariffs, do I get a bill from US customs when it ships? How does that work?
Of course, who knows if Apple will follow Google. Tim Cook seems to be trying to play both sides
January 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Of course, who knows if Apple will follow Google. Tim Cook seems to be trying to play both sides
If you have iOS Apple Maps is just as good if not better. It’s improved significantly from back when it first launched
January 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If you have iOS Apple Maps is just as good if not better. It’s improved significantly from back when it first launched
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☑️ From New York.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
☑️ From New York.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
Defending community meetings feels like defending caucuses for nominating presidential candidates. I thought everyone saw how undemocratic they are. I don't understand the argument for them compared to regular voting.
January 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Defending community meetings feels like defending caucuses for nominating presidential candidates. I thought everyone saw how undemocratic they are. I don't understand the argument for them compared to regular voting.
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It's insane how evil Republicans are. Like, I knew they were before. But somehow it still manages to surprise me.
January 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's insane how evil Republicans are. Like, I knew they were before. But somehow it still manages to surprise me.