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This is excellent, from Justin Smith-Ruiu.

In a sense the one big thing missing from the framing of “the culture warriors of 4chan have overthrown those of Tumblr, and while the latter were bad the former are so much worse” is the blending into crypto.

www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of...
My Kind of Conservatism
“L’orgueil de la victoire m’est insupportable.” —Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1848-50)
www.the-hinternet.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
theonion.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Czech President Petr Pavel: “We stand with Ukraine more than ever. Time for Europe to step up its efforts.”
February 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Pitch idea: Elon Musk has posted a mockup of Tesla’s logo on X that includes a Swastika. But it’s unclear whether he is drawing inspiration from the Third Reich, or is simply interested in ancient Hindu Vedic history.
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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It’s not the job of women to serve in combat. Their job is to have children, and to later scold those children for abusing their wives, mistresses, and conference co-attendees.

by Pete Hegseth
January 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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“We’ve eliminated fact-checkers and spell checkers.” - The GOP
January 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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If Pete Hegseth got drunk and raped a woman, does that make him a drunken rapist? It’s complicated.
January 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Peace will only come when Russia is given guarantees that Ukraine will not defend itself when we attack it again.
December 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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The release of the ethics report on Matt Gaetz could have a chilling effect on future Congressman’s ability to drug and rape child sex slaves.
December 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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i love holding real news in my hands
December 18, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Russian soldiers training to evade FPV drones.
December 18, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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The prospect of gain is what causes opponents to fight, while the prospect of being blown up on a capitalist electronic scooter is what discourages them. Putin Tzu
December 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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i do find it interesting in a bleak way that silicon valley is basically recapitulating 1920s-style american reactionary politics.
The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy
December 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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We rank our five favorite Manhattan hostels for would-be assassins on a budget
December 9, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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The Hunt | She wanted an opulent Moscow palace that could remind her of home back in Damascus. He wanted a pied-à-terre on a low floor with no windows and a built-in Geiger counter. Which did they choose?
December 9, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary

2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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Just uploaded the audio version of my new piece.

I hope the added voiceover helps make the newsletter a little more accessible and digestible, even if the essays are fairly long.
 
Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” All Around Us:
Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” All Around Us
What are the reasons behind the pervasive tendency among ostensibly anti-MAGA elites to accommodate authoritarian power and preemptively signal compliance with Trumpism?
thomaszimmer.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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lmfao
November 18, 2024 at 1:35 AM