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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 13h

we must destroy screen

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 13h

jonathan chait: i'm listening

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 13h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 13h

P(H|E) = P(E|H)*P(H)/P(E) -> 1

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

people have such goldfish brains

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't try it, personally

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

yeah well everyone should be ready for liberals to preemptively surrender on this just like they have for the last 50 years

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

it's insane how apparently the dominant liberal theory of history is that things just happen, without causes or agents or anything else

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

drivel. stupid.

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

of course the end state of conservative politics is fascism, it's built on the exact same principles. just because they didn't get there 20 years ago doesn't mean it's not where they were headed

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

two of the current supreme court justices literally helped bush steal the 2000 election, what the fuck are we even talking about here

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

when you move incrementally in one direction eventually you will arrive at a different place. many do not understand this

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 1d

not only is it the next stop, but the conductors and engineers on the train are literally some of the same people!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

No, what I have is enough historic context to know that fascism isn’t just the next stop down the road from conservativism. It is its own beast, fundamentally distinct from other forms of conservativism that have heretofore dominated US politics. Bush and Reagan weren’t fascists. Trump is

Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no historical context and nothing that came before affects the now, I'm a very smart politics knower"

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 3d

i am bigoted against dumb morons like you, yes

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 7d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 8d

the conditions of production really do drive politics, Marx vindicated yet again

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8d

This isn’t to say they aren’t going to try to do fascism or do very dangerous or sadistic things for the sake of making content, we’re seeing that with the boats in Venezuela, but that you have to think about them as content creators first because everything makes more sense if you do.

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 12d

baw gawd that's Noah Feldman's music

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

also everybody who wrote a 'Don't panic, liberals. I have known [X appointee] for twenty years and they are a principled upholder of the law' should be laughed out of the room every time they voice an opinion in future.

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 12d

thirst thesis entirely vindicated

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 12d

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 12d

that's efficient allocation of capital baby

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 13d

the stove must not be simply touched, it must be embraced

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 13d

Really need the power users of this website to decide if they want the U.S. to touch the stove or if they are the most compassionate boys who don’t want any harm done

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 14d

check out this shit that isn't my problem

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14d

literal "me sowing // me reaping" shit: www.agriculture.com/partners-u-s...

U.S. Soybean Harvest Starts with No Sign of Chinese Buying as Brazil Sets Export Record

The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China. American producers are harvesting a crop the USDA estimates at 4.3 billion bushels, and there is n...

www.agriculture.com

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 15d

it's bad times to be sure

grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 16d

impeachment is the moderate response

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 16d

artillery

Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 16d

I think the Republican party is going to throw a conniption fit about rising authoritarianism the second Democrats come to power and maybe now would be a good time to think of a convincing response to that

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 16d

none of the defenders of western civilization etc etc

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 20d

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

The following eighteen majors were put on “pause”:
African American Studies
Applied Mathematics B.A.
Chemistry B.A.
Classical Civilization
Classics (Greek and Latin)
Digital Humanities
Fine Arts
French and Francophone Studies
German Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
History of Architecture
Italian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
Latino-Latin American Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Modern Jewish Studies
Music History and Cultures
Religion
Russian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A.
Statistics B.A.

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 16d

maybe at some point institutional democrats will take some kind of responsibility for the mess they've helped bring about but i'm not holding my breath

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16d

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 17d

miss me with this grace and forgiveness dogshit

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17d

Saving America from Trump and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Trump change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Trump show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…

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