Lbolçe
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the lesson from Abu Ghraib wasn't "don't torture people," if anything it was "brag about the torture instead of hiding it," and honestly that's fair! the CIA torture report came out and nothing changed!
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
the lesson from Abu Ghraib wasn't "don't torture people," if anything it was "brag about the torture instead of hiding it," and honestly that's fair! the CIA torture report came out and nothing changed!
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rfk jr is an emissary of the plaguelord grandfather nurgle
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
rfk jr is an emissary of the plaguelord grandfather nurgle
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It’s insane that the far-right is trying to rehabilitate the Crusades because they were objectively the most pathetic campaigns in the history of warfare. The first was a cannibalistic rampage, the second was a miserable failure, the third was a war crime, and the fourth didn’t even get there.
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It’s insane that the far-right is trying to rehabilitate the Crusades because they were objectively the most pathetic campaigns in the history of warfare. The first was a cannibalistic rampage, the second was a miserable failure, the third was a war crime, and the fourth didn’t even get there.
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Again, nobody really denies that Israel is an apartheid state anymore, the only question is whether or not you think that's good.
Try wrapping your mind around this map released earlier this year by the United Nations Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, describing and delineating restrictions of roads and land access for Palestinians in the oPT, sans Gaza.
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Again, nobody really denies that Israel is an apartheid state anymore, the only question is whether or not you think that's good.
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Du coup, l’Etat pourrait s’inspirer de cette bonne idée et, par exemple, mettre en place un système qui prélèverait de l’argent à ceux qui sont le plus en capacité de le supporter, par exemple les riches et les ultra riches qui « donneraient » plus que les autres.
Je sens que je tiens un truc.
Je sens que je tiens un truc.
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Du coup, l’Etat pourrait s’inspirer de cette bonne idée et, par exemple, mettre en place un système qui prélèverait de l’argent à ceux qui sont le plus en capacité de le supporter, par exemple les riches et les ultra riches qui « donneraient » plus que les autres.
Je sens que je tiens un truc.
Je sens que je tiens un truc.
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Crypto killed the GPU market, AI kills the RAM market, now we just need something to kill the CPU and Power Supply markets and we can all be free from the tyranny of the computer
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Crypto killed the GPU market, AI kills the RAM market, now we just need something to kill the CPU and Power Supply markets and we can all be free from the tyranny of the computer
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One thing I really enjoy about the warhammer high elves is how all of their strategic weaknesses stem from their pride and inability to change in a changing world. Even the dwarfs have an engineering department that, very slowly, rolls out new weapons and machines. The elves can not innovate.
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
One thing I really enjoy about the warhammer high elves is how all of their strategic weaknesses stem from their pride and inability to change in a changing world. Even the dwarfs have an engineering department that, very slowly, rolls out new weapons and machines. The elves can not innovate.
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I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
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Aucune image ne pourra mieux résumer l’invisibilisation du travail sous le capitalisme : on remplace des ouvriers qui prenaient des risques physiques par des gens qui n’ont strictement aucune probabilité de perdre quoi que ce soit et dont on ne sait pas au juste ce qu’ils produisent
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Aucune image ne pourra mieux résumer l’invisibilisation du travail sous le capitalisme : on remplace des ouvriers qui prenaient des risques physiques par des gens qui n’ont strictement aucune probabilité de perdre quoi que ce soit et dont on ne sait pas au juste ce qu’ils produisent
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Hard cheeses create hard rat men,
Hard rat men create soft cheeses,
Soft cheeses create soft rat men,
Soft rat men create hard cheeses
And yet BOTH rat men love explosives
Hard rat men create soft cheeses,
Soft cheeses create soft rat men,
Soft rat men create hard cheeses
And yet BOTH rat men love explosives
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hard cheeses create hard rat men,
Hard rat men create soft cheeses,
Soft cheeses create soft rat men,
Soft rat men create hard cheeses
And yet BOTH rat men love explosives
Hard rat men create soft cheeses,
Soft cheeses create soft rat men,
Soft rat men create hard cheeses
And yet BOTH rat men love explosives
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People seem to be totally incapable of delineating the difference between descriptive and prescriptive. Coates (and many others) are saying something rather simple: the occupation is in fact violent, violence breeds violent reactions, and we can't really act surprised by this if we're being serious.
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
People seem to be totally incapable of delineating the difference between descriptive and prescriptive. Coates (and many others) are saying something rather simple: the occupation is in fact violent, violence breeds violent reactions, and we can't really act surprised by this if we're being serious.
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Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
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Happy Birthday to the late Eli Wallach, born 110 years ago today
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Eli Wallach, born 110 years ago today
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Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!
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American's raison d'être vis a vis MENA is essentially cyclical and therefore nonsensical, we must arm Israel to the hilt and back it no matter what, which in turn causes blowback, and therefore the blowback necessitates backing Israel to the hilt no matter what, which causes blowback, therefore
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
American's raison d'être vis a vis MENA is essentially cyclical and therefore nonsensical, we must arm Israel to the hilt and back it no matter what, which in turn causes blowback, and therefore the blowback necessitates backing Israel to the hilt no matter what, which causes blowback, therefore
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
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This drive towards means testing and surveilling people to make sure they're Truly Deserving comes from a place I empathise with. A feeling of injustice, of people taking what Isn't Theirs To Take. But the result is always, always that it just fucks over disabled people. You gotta let it go.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This drive towards means testing and surveilling people to make sure they're Truly Deserving comes from a place I empathise with. A feeling of injustice, of people taking what Isn't Theirs To Take. But the result is always, always that it just fucks over disabled people. You gotta let it go.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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This would be funnier if bluesky had a lighter character limit and I could add more ways Karl Franz is better than Big E in every way
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This would be funnier if bluesky had a lighter character limit and I could add more ways Karl Franz is better than Big E in every way
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you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily