The thing is... many of us have limits, boundaries, places we won't go, and that allows us to imagine that others have limits, boundaries, places they won't go. But they don't--not this administration. So normalizing *anything* just means having to normalize a bleeding edge farther out at some point
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The thing is... many of us have limits, boundaries, places we won't go, and that allows us to imagine that others have limits, boundaries, places they won't go. But they don't--not this administration. So normalizing *anything* just means having to normalize a bleeding edge farther out at some point
RAJ: "I'm not convinced that half of the things that Alberta is loosely committed to will actually get done. In fact, they had already committed to pathways, and now it is a pipeline, and then you get pathways. The two now come together. That is a rollback—that is not an add-on."
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you follow people like @atrupar.com for US news clips, Scott here does the same for Canadian news.
If your AI tool is soooo good I cannot even live without it, how come you gotta try to trick me into clicking on it or make it so I can't opt out of it? If it's such an incredible necessary product, how come I don't WANT to use it but am being BULLIED into using it? 🧐
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If your AI tool is soooo good I cannot even live without it, how come you gotta try to trick me into clicking on it or make it so I can't opt out of it? If it's such an incredible necessary product, how come I don't WANT to use it but am being BULLIED into using it? 🧐
I am losing my gd mind seeing the number of people on here who are so doompilled that they cannot imagine that telling millions of people, including tons of MAGAs, that they’re out of food money and they also can’t have health insurance anymore might have any effect whatsoever on anything
Authoritarianism depends on whiny little bitches getting together with other whiny little bitches to convince themselves they are big and strong in the hopes that their whiny little bitching grows loud enough that they won’t have to do the hard work of looking for the inner courage to be men.
September 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Authoritarianism depends on whiny little bitches getting together with other whiny little bitches to convince themselves they are big and strong in the hopes that their whiny little bitching grows loud enough that they won’t have to do the hard work of looking for the inner courage to be men.
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
7. So I think it’s time for me to say, w/o reservation, that the president is barely a human being. He’s a hot garbage bag, unequivocal gutter sludge, beyond redemption. If a billion people pissed on his grave, the deluge wouldn’t be nearly enough to teach his criminal bones the meaning of shame.
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The most thoughtful and poignant thread I've read so far today!
People are sleeping on the danger of this one because it's so goddamn stupid, but if there's one lesson we should have learned as a country by now, it's not to underestimate the power of the dumbest shit you've heard in your entire life
July 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
People are sleeping on the danger of this one because it's so goddamn stupid, but if there's one lesson we should have learned as a country by now, it's not to underestimate the power of the dumbest shit you've heard in your entire life