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Spelling Bee is inherently authoritarian because it pretends to depend on “words” but decides for itself in secret what counts as a word.

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

*sighs heavily and affixes a bumper sticker reading "I bought this while elon was vacationing on pedophile island" to my 2014 tesla model s*

We really need the media, and people in general, to stop associating wealth with intelligence or ability.

This fucker (Thiel) is dangerously ignorant, but he's given a huge microphone anyway b/c he has a lot of money. Shameful.

Point of information (from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_con...)

QFT. With all due respect to young people, y'all have pudding brains, I'm not going to lose any sleep about the Bumfuck Community College Communism Club, but conservatives most definitely do.

College kids are an easy target, that's why Republicans center colleges in their conversations.

crazy how "anti-DEI" rhetoric was just a smokescreen for a white supremacist campaign to purge minorities and women from government. literally nobody saw that coming.

"Why can't we just agree to disagree that who you authentically are is disgusting and should be banned from the public sphere if not existing altogether, by force if necessary? Pass the sweet potatoes."

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,

With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.

He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

May as well go the distance and bring back duels of honor

When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.

"People who haven’t been to the Market since the car cutoff should give it a try. Shoppers no longer have to constantly hop around to avoid cars...Walking on the cobbles feels like a neighborhood experience, not an I-might-get-clipped-by-a-bumper gamble. It just feels friendlier."

Do you agree?

Rural residents have, by law, more power over our political structure than anyone else. They own more responsibility than anyone else for what our government does. My entire life I've been told we can't do good things because rural voters hate city voters and politicians have to cater to them.

Cis people:

This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand.

And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

Okay this is awesome

I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism

and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism

A great (extremely tedious) example of @ianbetteridge.com' Rule.

In a democratic society, leaders of govt. agencies don't bestow favors and prizes on the elected leader and thank them so profusely. They ultimately work for the public, not the president. By contrast, these embarrassing public displays of loyalty are a recurring feature of authoritarian politics.