Lackluster Blockbuster
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Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.
He's not even sworn in and fucking Politico is counting him out. With journalists like Politico's and the New York Times', who needs enemies?
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.
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they should invent a year that's better than the one before it
December 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
they should invent a year that's better than the one before it
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this rules everyone already hates it and they're making it extremely worse
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
this rules everyone already hates it and they're making it extremely worse
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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If you are the CEO of McDonalds you cannot say "we are taking on billions of dollars in debt in order to develop a new meal, splunch. The future is splunch. We have no plans for profitability but splunch will figure it out." But you can absolutely do this at a tech company
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you are the CEO of McDonalds you cannot say "we are taking on billions of dollars in debt in order to develop a new meal, splunch. The future is splunch. We have no plans for profitability but splunch will figure it out." But you can absolutely do this at a tech company
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It’s very funny how thoroughly Pluribus was specifically designed to give Rhea Seehorn an award. Even on a metatextual level, it is a universe designed for one person
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s very funny how thoroughly Pluribus was specifically designed to give Rhea Seehorn an award. Even on a metatextual level, it is a universe designed for one person
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I really do not know where anyone got the idea that you can just strip away any moral component of policymaking and create a pure electoral strategy that way
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I really do not know where anyone got the idea that you can just strip away any moral component of policymaking and create a pure electoral strategy that way
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It's super weird how "what wins elections" is always exactly what the denizens of opinion pages already believe.
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's super weird how "what wins elections" is always exactly what the denizens of opinion pages already believe.
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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A reminder for people who listen to centrist think tanks:
- In 2012, VP Biden took a political risk and spoke out in support of gay marriage.
- That went okay, so Obama followed suit.
- Voters who'd previously opposed marriage equality were inspired to change their minds.
Leaders need to LEAD.
- In 2012, VP Biden took a political risk and spoke out in support of gay marriage.
- That went okay, so Obama followed suit.
- Voters who'd previously opposed marriage equality were inspired to change their minds.
Leaders need to LEAD.
shit like the ban on gender affirming care (and it is a ban and we should call it that) is why democrats cant be mealy-mouthed bigot lite on this issue. its why theres a problem with people like gavin newsom giving ground on this issue.
this has to be a line in the sand.
this has to be a line in the sand.
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A reminder for people who listen to centrist think tanks:
- In 2012, VP Biden took a political risk and spoke out in support of gay marriage.
- That went okay, so Obama followed suit.
- Voters who'd previously opposed marriage equality were inspired to change their minds.
Leaders need to LEAD.
- In 2012, VP Biden took a political risk and spoke out in support of gay marriage.
- That went okay, so Obama followed suit.
- Voters who'd previously opposed marriage equality were inspired to change their minds.
Leaders need to LEAD.
Planning a Christmas party and I've received 2 "yes", 3 "no", and 14 "if only in my dreams." How does one plan for this!?
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Planning a Christmas party and I've received 2 "yes", 3 "no", and 14 "if only in my dreams." How does one plan for this!?
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lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now
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i love that a significant portion of the population of the world believes in demons and the devil and satan. they just think this stuff is real and it genuinely scares them
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
i love that a significant portion of the population of the world believes in demons and the devil and satan. they just think this stuff is real and it genuinely scares them
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Monthly subscription rates will climb and the quality of service will decline, that's the implicit plan! But it sucks *right now* which is kind of fucking everything up for them
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Monthly subscription rates will climb and the quality of service will decline, that's the implicit plan! But it sucks *right now* which is kind of fucking everything up for them
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There should be a newspaper that is good.
June 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
There should be a newspaper that is good.
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'the apparatus of power is mourning him, therefore he must be someone worth mourning.' this is made funnier by that the right was able to keep this up for all of a week before forgetting about Kirk.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
'the apparatus of power is mourning him, therefore he must be someone worth mourning.' this is made funnier by that the right was able to keep this up for all of a week before forgetting about Kirk.
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If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
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DO: Run as a progressive with an actionable agenda.
DON’T: Pull a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot
DON’T: Pull a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot
Katie Wilson wins Seattle mayoral race, incumbent Bruce Harrell appears to be preparing to concede
The exciting race for Mayor of Seattle can now be called. With almost no ballots left to count, challenger Katie Wilson has an advantage that incumbent Bruce Harrell cannot overcome.
The exciting race for Mayor of Seattle can now be called. With almost no ballots left to count, challenger Katie Wilson has an advantage that incumbent Bruce Harrell cannot overcome.
Katie Wilson wins Seattle mayoral race, incumbent Bruce Harrell appears to be preparing to concede
The exciting race for Mayor of Seattle can now be called. With almost no ballots left to count, challenger Katie Wilson has an advantage that incumbent Bruce Harrell cannot overcome.
www.nwprogressive.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 AM
DO: Run as a progressive with an actionable agenda.
DON’T: Pull a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot
DON’T: Pull a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot
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Better Call Saul is even better on a rewatch. Realizing that Chuck is often *specifically* resentful of, and seeking to undermine, Jimmy’s ability to connect with elderly people. Because of their mom
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Better Call Saul is even better on a rewatch. Realizing that Chuck is often *specifically* resentful of, and seeking to undermine, Jimmy’s ability to connect with elderly people. Because of their mom
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November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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probably something an innocent man would do
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
probably something an innocent man would do
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"This a purity test" is something disinterested people say to block any tangible improvement in the world. It is always bad faith & people who use it should be discounted as serious political actors.
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"This a purity test" is something disinterested people say to block any tangible improvement in the world. It is always bad faith & people who use it should be discounted as serious political actors.