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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 13d

Literally not even liberals believe in liberalism anymore why are weirdos on here so adamant about it.

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 15d

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

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Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

this persons entire crashout over defending bari weiss, the far right billionaires chosen bulwark of dismantling trusted media organizations, has been pretty funny

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

you: waiting for bloodborne on PC

me: waiting for gravity rush 1 and 2 on PC

both of us: skeletons in a wasteland

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 17m

>Takes philosophy seriously
>Liberal

aight bro lol

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

Id love for you to do describe what Marxism is and how it is used as a framework to analyze certain things.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

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Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 8h

@nerdjpg.com is a case study in bad faith Marxist trolling.

This is a tone-shift and power-shift move. She’s moved from irony 2 a kind of rhetorical framing test:
trying to re-center the discussion on *her* preferred ground: “define Marxism.”
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

Id love for you to do describe what Marxism is and how it is used as a framework to analyze certain things.

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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 20m

Modern russia is so Anti-communist that it's a pretty good indicator if someone is arguing in bad faith if they pretend otherwise.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 5h

It’s wild to think about how black intellectuals sometimes fled to the USSR, while modern Russia attracts racist white reactionaries

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Lep @lepwho.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yeah then explain this

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 8h

THE MALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC IS NOT REAL

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 54m

real talk I’m considering Mexico or Singapore as a better option for long term migration plans, Vancouver is one of the best cities I’ve ever lived in and I love how possible it feels to be able to make a difference there but overall I’m getting very worried about Canada’s 5 year political outlook

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1h

Grok's Twitter account has once again been suspended after it began claiming that kicking puppies is morally wrong, which many users reported as "liberal bias."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 26m

tie together everything they know about into a nonsensical meta narrative because they can't imagine they like something just because they like it.

everything has to be meaningful and important because they wouldn't like it if it wasn't.

reminds me of silicon valley "zen coder" nonsense.

Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 26m

This is the most former gifted kid thing I have ever read.

Like it is such a "guy who has no friends because he's weird and off-putting" thing to not only think they personally have deep insights into the human condition that no one has ever thought of before, but they inexplicably always

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ceej @ceej.online · 6h

he died for our sins

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ceej @ceej.online · 6h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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ceej @ceej.online · 3h

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 6h

It should be noted that while INS existed prior to these horrors, ICE's increased fascist powers come from the Patriot Act of 2001. They completely ignored all law and sense to grab this man.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 34m

Considering how american "partnerships" in the global south operate, Canada is about to get a lot more military bases.

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Vlad @vmois.dev · 3h

I am curious if China restrictions long-term will make US seek more partnership or straight up threats of invasion of Canada to get materials from somewhere else.

Canada has a lot of rare minerals but lacks in production/processing. Still it is a valuable source.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 5h

there is no mechanism by which gestapo agents can be

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held accountable for their crimes against humanity

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

this was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror

Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 4h

The ceo of I think it was Bumble was suggesting that two AIs would meet up first and if they worked things out they would introduce their humans to each other.

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