Emil Steiner 🗳🟦🇺🇦🇵🇸
@emilsteiner0916.bsky.social
🇰🇷 but mostly (re)skeet EN, 26 (1999-09-16), left of center but all over the place, almost only reskeets/likes, pseudonym
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there is this very American notion that if you are suffering, you either deserve it or you do not
I do not think military actions in terms of responsibility of the population, but in terms of enforcing the norm of non-aggression.
I think the collective responsibility of the people should not directly be used as a justification of even relatively minor collective punishments ...
I think the collective responsibility of the people should not directly be used as a justification of even relatively minor collective punishments ...
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Trump thinks that a "trade deficit" is a literal hole on a balance sheet that needs to be filled, which is why he's so obsessed with the term. he also firmly believes that he's the very first POTUS to ever figure this out and that this makes him smarter than all the others. it is all VEEEERY stupid.
The problem is that Donald Trump sincerely believes that net export outflows are literal wealth leaving the United States which is why he says things in the WSJ like we just need to give it time, it's not some insincere, cynical position covering for some other thing
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Trump thinks that a "trade deficit" is a literal hole on a balance sheet that needs to be filled, which is why he's so obsessed with the term. he also firmly believes that he's the very first POTUS to ever figure this out and that this makes him smarter than all the others. it is all VEEEERY stupid.
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Mixing politics with the visual novel format seems to be like the video game counterpart of mixing potassium nitrate with sugar
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Mixing politics with the visual novel format seems to be like the video game counterpart of mixing potassium nitrate with sugar
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Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square
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I don't like ever handing shit to Jerusalem post but they absolutely cooked here.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I don't like ever handing shit to Jerusalem post but they absolutely cooked here.
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It’s incredible that the government and industry response was “they’ll never figure out how to assemble a reliable car”
Everyone knew the Chinese competition was coming for the last 20 years.
And the US resorted to malign bigger and bigger cars.
They might not have known it would take the form of light Chinese EVs or Korean SUVs. But it was known and US carmakers resorted to the wrong answer. They had 14 years
And the US resorted to malign bigger and bigger cars.
They might not have known it would take the form of light Chinese EVs or Korean SUVs. But it was known and US carmakers resorted to the wrong answer. They had 14 years
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It’s incredible that the government and industry response was “they’ll never figure out how to assemble a reliable car”
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Bari Weiss is firebombing one of the oldest media brands in the nation, one with a value in the tens of billions of dollars, in service of her desire to be a TikTok star. And the owners of said multi-billion dollar property are the ones who made it happen. Capitalism is so funny sometimes
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bari Weiss is firebombing one of the oldest media brands in the nation, one with a value in the tens of billions of dollars, in service of her desire to be a TikTok star. And the owners of said multi-billion dollar property are the ones who made it happen. Capitalism is so funny sometimes
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Today is the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. There are no words to express the grief and anger that our young people continue to be slaughtered in school.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today is the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. There are no words to express the grief and anger that our young people continue to be slaughtered in school.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
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NYT does an entire podcast on the state of journalism...and the panel has more entertainers than journalists.
What the industry values and prioritizes is pretty clear by the balance of this panel.
What the industry values and prioritizes is pretty clear by the balance of this panel.
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NYT does an entire podcast on the state of journalism...and the panel has more entertainers than journalists.
What the industry values and prioritizes is pretty clear by the balance of this panel.
What the industry values and prioritizes is pretty clear by the balance of this panel.
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Say his name as many times as you can
oh, one more thing, news com au reports the hero is Ahmed El-Ahmed, owner of a fruit stall.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Say his name as many times as you can
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More sanewashing. This isn't journalism. CNN is doing PR for a fascist president.
CNN is editing out Trump’s claim that the shooter is in custody
December 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
More sanewashing. This isn't journalism. CNN is doing PR for a fascist president.
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MAKE APPLIANCES DUMB AGAIN
Here,s everything you need to know about data privacy in sex toys and the apps that connect to them. www.wired.com/story/is-you...
Is Your Vibrator Spying on You?
Here,s everything you need to know about data privacy in sex toys and the apps that connect to them.
www.wired.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
MAKE APPLIANCES DUMB AGAIN
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Mindblowing courage. He might have turned around, he might had a belt, he might have actually known how to shake someone off rather than falling over like the tragic idiot he is. But there's no knowing that in advance.
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Mindblowing courage. He might have turned around, he might had a belt, he might have actually known how to shake someone off rather than falling over like the tragic idiot he is. But there's no knowing that in advance.
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Section 230 was written by a much more functional congress by people actually interested in legislating in order to solve a problem. Why would you repeal it? Incompetence like this is why I don't donate to the democrats and support primarying people like Whitehouse.
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Section 230 was written by a much more functional congress by people actually interested in legislating in order to solve a problem. Why would you repeal it? Incompetence like this is why I don't donate to the democrats and support primarying people like Whitehouse.
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If there is a Democratic equivalent of the Tea Party, I know it’s not Heather Cox Richardsonism, because I am currently googling “who is Heather Cox Richardson”
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If there is a Democratic equivalent of the Tea Party, I know it’s not Heather Cox Richardsonism, because I am currently googling “who is Heather Cox Richardson”
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they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances
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Tbh this argument is funny because it’s not like this person said something off color in a breakroom or posted a slur on Facebook. They literally racially harassed a customer, something that really is a firable offense under any employment regulation scheme
I wrote about why we should not celebrate someone losing their job, especially in today’s America, even when they’ve done terrible racist things.
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Tbh this argument is funny because it’s not like this person said something off color in a breakroom or posted a slur on Facebook. They literally racially harassed a customer, something that really is a firable offense under any employment regulation scheme
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the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
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>Recites pro Hitler speech entirely from memory
>does a random martial art move
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Just the kinda guy we want running the panopticon
>does a random martial art move
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Just the kinda guy we want running the panopticon
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
>Recites pro Hitler speech entirely from memory
>does a random martial art move
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Just the kinda guy we want running the panopticon
>does a random martial art move
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Just the kinda guy we want running the panopticon
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things we are allowed to deadname:
1) Twitter
2) MSNBC
1) Twitter
2) MSNBC
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
things we are allowed to deadname:
1) Twitter
2) MSNBC
1) Twitter
2) MSNBC
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There was a lack of imagination in terms of how bad things could get. (As someone who suffers from anxiety, I am jealous.)
The leftist polticial ZIRP of the 2010s-2024 was assuming that an unequal liberal democracy was the worst possible future.
The right wing political ZIRP of 2025 onward is going to be thinking that they were already in maximally schmittian friend enemy politics.
The right wing political ZIRP of 2025 onward is going to be thinking that they were already in maximally schmittian friend enemy politics.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There was a lack of imagination in terms of how bad things could get. (As someone who suffers from anxiety, I am jealous.)
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Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
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what is extra frustrating about the continued efforts to kill it is that none of them understand this
everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse
everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse
Bluntly, Section 230 is almost literally the law that the entire internet rests upon, it makes it possible for user generated content to exist on the internet, it’s incredibly important, and genuinely we must defend it at all costs. This place literally would not exist without it.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
what is extra frustrating about the continued efforts to kill it is that none of them understand this
everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse
everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse
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Democratic foreign policy selects for professionally dumb guys because polite, compliant incompetence is the easiest way to avoid confronting the basic tensions of trying to do good foreign policy in an era where bribery is legal & voters are more nuts than ever
briefcase carrier meets peter principle
the thing about her is she has no actual principles and also she's very dumb
There's a few exceptions (Burns, Haines, Kahl, even Sullivan to a point) but by and large this is the summary of all the Obama retreads in Biden FP
the thing about her is she has no actual principles and also she's very dumb
There's a few exceptions (Burns, Haines, Kahl, even Sullivan to a point) but by and large this is the summary of all the Obama retreads in Biden FP
“I worked hand-in-glove with the UAE on the situation in Gaza. They were as constructive a partner as you could have…The idea that that same country is backing the Janjaweed [in Sudan] to be conducting mass rape & murder...& not being held accountable, including by the way by the Biden admin,"
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Democratic foreign policy selects for professionally dumb guys because polite, compliant incompetence is the easiest way to avoid confronting the basic tensions of trying to do good foreign policy in an era where bribery is legal & voters are more nuts than ever