greenm0nster
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
You're not going to get decent home espresso unless you want to pick up a new hobby. If your job provides all the upfront capital for a good machine and a couple hours of training, anyone can make a good latte.
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
You're not going to get decent home espresso unless you want to pick up a new hobby. If your job provides all the upfront capital for a good machine and a couple hours of training, anyone can make a good latte.
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I think that, in some non-trivial way, my gender is “autism.”
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I think that, in some non-trivial way, my gender is “autism.”
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Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.
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also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity
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Guys wait is Trump really going to personally show up in the tariff oral arguments to stare down the judges like in that scene from the godfather
Oral arguments on tariffs are set for Nov 5 and he plans to show up in person. I think there’s a good chance he doesn’t lose outright because Roberts et al like empowering him, but if he thought he was on stronger footing he probably wouldn’t be the first president ever to go to oral arguments
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Guys wait is Trump really going to personally show up in the tariff oral arguments to stare down the judges like in that scene from the godfather
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Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
October 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
I think she actually does make a good argument, but it's ultimately an argument for not doing so much work on the emergency docket! The lower courts are doing fine.
The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I think she actually does make a good argument, but it's ultimately an argument for not doing so much work on the emergency docket! The lower courts are doing fine.
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I’d argue there are unusual (not unique) things about America: despite it all the country is unusually tolerant of immigrants, unusually intolerant of authoritarianism, unusually committed to democracy. that’s not because we’re magic but because these ideas have been instilled in us so deeply
October 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’d argue there are unusual (not unique) things about America: despite it all the country is unusually tolerant of immigrants, unusually intolerant of authoritarianism, unusually committed to democracy. that’s not because we’re magic but because these ideas have been instilled in us so deeply
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“The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus.”
The conversion therapy case is another in a long line of cases of legal issues before the court that would be super frickin interesting if the outcome weren't so consequential
October 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The conversion therapy case is another in a long line of cases of legal issues before the court that would be super frickin interesting if the outcome weren't so consequential
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Like you can say what you like about me, i have extreme views, I get negatively polarized, I post way too fucking much and I hold grudges, but I don’t say things I don’t sincerely believe and I don’t ask you to pretend I believe things I obviously don’t
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Like you can say what you like about me, i have extreme views, I get negatively polarized, I post way too fucking much and I hold grudges, but I don’t say things I don’t sincerely believe and I don’t ask you to pretend I believe things I obviously don’t
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One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend
October 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend
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some people will never vote for Democrats, or any party derived from them. they need an option that is willing to lose elections with the hope of winning the next one.
October 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
some people will never vote for Democrats, or any party derived from them. they need an option that is willing to lose elections with the hope of winning the next one.
She's right. It's a damn shame it doesn't exist, and we're left with a shell of a party organized around a cult of personality
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
She's right. It's a damn shame it doesn't exist, and we're left with a shell of a party organized around a cult of personality
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Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.
October 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.
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Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.
October 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.
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I think the cycling community really needs a reminder of who personally engaged in a clandestine operation to evacuate the Afghans women's team right now. Is this the reward we want to give to a team that regularly goes above and beyond to exemplify the morals of sport?
www.jpost.com/jerusalem-re...
www.jpost.com/jerusalem-re...
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I think the cycling community really needs a reminder of who personally engaged in a clandestine operation to evacuate the Afghans women's team right now. Is this the reward we want to give to a team that regularly goes above and beyond to exemplify the morals of sport?
www.jpost.com/jerusalem-re...
www.jpost.com/jerusalem-re...
I know it's Not Great, but I'm confident this is at least half the reason I am sympathetic to legal formalism
i feel like when we talk about stereotypically autistic professions we overlook the law, a profession which calls for an encyclopedic memory, a level of stubbornness which would be quite rude if you weren't paid for it, and a Special Interest in Jurisprudence
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I know it's Not Great, but I'm confident this is at least half the reason I am sympathetic to legal formalism
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I've learned that whether or not I am "stubborn and argumentative" depends on whether they agree with my point.
September 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I've learned that whether or not I am "stubborn and argumentative" depends on whether they agree with my point.
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And btw, for everyone on the right screaming about people on the left inciting political violence, here’s a big MAGA influencer publicly calling for us to bomb the United Nations.
September 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And btw, for everyone on the right screaming about people on the left inciting political violence, here’s a big MAGA influencer publicly calling for us to bomb the United Nations.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Oh no. New slur incoming?
A lot of Tylenol consumed at the U.N. today
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Oh no. New slur incoming?
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America getting in over our head in Iraq absolutely broke the moral compass of a generation
Who is doing the taking care of the worlds problems thing then?
September 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
America getting in over our head in Iraq absolutely broke the moral compass of a generation
Hell yeah. This is what judicial supremacy is for
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hell yeah. This is what judicial supremacy is for