maligatr
@maligatr.bsky.social
comforting dialectical doomerism for the modern era
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maligatr
@maligatr.bsky.social
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if you like using the federal govt to force others to do things your way, don't get all shocked when others use the federal govt to force you into doing things their way.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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there is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest llm and the dumbest social media user
January 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
there is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest llm and the dumbest social media user
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Ubuntu asks the question, what if you combined the things everyone hates about Windows and MacOS (company forces random bullshit down your throat and refuses to let you do your own thing) with Linux’s incompatibility and weird bugs?
ubuntu is satanic and we are not doing ubuntu
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ubuntu asks the question, what if you combined the things everyone hates about Windows and MacOS (company forces random bullshit down your throat and refuses to let you do your own thing) with Linux’s incompatibility and weird bugs?
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“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting
Just some thoughts on doing politics with real people, whose views are idiosyncratic but no less real. I know a guy whose worldview is “gay married couples should be allowed to open carry while smoking weed in public” and another who is skeptical of vaccines but supports universal healthcare.
September 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting
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in hindsight, the Tea Party was surprisingly beneficial to the Republican Party in the long run, despite its tendency to throw Senate seats with absolute lunatics, because it cleaned out a lot of Rs who Sound Like Politicians and replaced them with crazy motherfuckers who clearly believe *something*
August 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
in hindsight, the Tea Party was surprisingly beneficial to the Republican Party in the long run, despite its tendency to throw Senate seats with absolute lunatics, because it cleaned out a lot of Rs who Sound Like Politicians and replaced them with crazy motherfuckers who clearly believe *something*
he's showing us that all sins are forgiven the moment you pretend to cross back over the us-vs-them line
Gov Newsom is showing us all something worthwhile right now.
Poking fun at the tyrant is actually one good way to resist. I'm not saying its everything but it is something.
Poking fun at the tyrant is actually one good way to resist. I'm not saying its everything but it is something.
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
he's showing us that all sins are forgiven the moment you pretend to cross back over the us-vs-them line
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Every high performing engineering team is convinced their stuff secretly sucks. Not just relentless obsession with improvement, but actual shame and resentment about what holds their system together.
July 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Every high performing engineering team is convinced their stuff secretly sucks. Not just relentless obsession with improvement, but actual shame and resentment about what holds their system together.
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The U.K. is a police state
July 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The U.K. is a police state
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social I note with interest that your timeline here doesn’t include the remarks you make on the Sunday shows tearing down an immensely popular Democratic candidate who just won a primary
June 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social I note with interest that your timeline here doesn’t include the remarks you make on the Sunday shows tearing down an immensely popular Democratic candidate who just won a primary
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She had an entire section of her platform which was unprecedented because instead of committing to negotiating with Iran it was basically saying we need to go to war. A first among Democrats. And then she said we need to be better at killing people as a military
June 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
She had an entire section of her platform which was unprecedented because instead of committing to negotiating with Iran it was basically saying we need to go to war. A first among Democrats. And then she said we need to be better at killing people as a military
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Unpopular opinion:
The reason there is so much money in our politics is because
American voters are the most intellectually lazy, easily duped, easily persuaded & malleable voters on the earth.
Money matters to a campaign because it buys ads, staff, literature, the capacity to travel and put on
The reason there is so much money in our politics is because
American voters are the most intellectually lazy, easily duped, easily persuaded & malleable voters on the earth.
Money matters to a campaign because it buys ads, staff, literature, the capacity to travel and put on
June 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Unpopular opinion:
The reason there is so much money in our politics is because
American voters are the most intellectually lazy, easily duped, easily persuaded & malleable voters on the earth.
Money matters to a campaign because it buys ads, staff, literature, the capacity to travel and put on
The reason there is so much money in our politics is because
American voters are the most intellectually lazy, easily duped, easily persuaded & malleable voters on the earth.
Money matters to a campaign because it buys ads, staff, literature, the capacity to travel and put on
like in plot of Mountainhead? that's neat.
META: LAUNCHING A GENERATIVE AI VIDEO EDITING FEATURE IN THE META AI APP, THE WEBSITE AND THE EDITS APP
June 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
like in plot of Mountainhead? that's neat.
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It's weird to me just HOW blatant US authoritarianism had to get before most people started recognizing it as authoritarianism. It's like they were actually inside a house when it caught fire, and just stood there coughing and blinking from the smoke, moving into other rooms to escape the heat...
June 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It's weird to me just HOW blatant US authoritarianism had to get before most people started recognizing it as authoritarianism. It's like they were actually inside a house when it caught fire, and just stood there coughing and blinking from the smoke, moving into other rooms to escape the heat...
it was actually one of the first things biden did
“Why are these police dressed like they’re going into combat”
Cause we gave them the clothes and the gear. There was a very public discussion about it.
Cause we gave them the clothes and the gear. There was a very public discussion about it.
June 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
it was actually one of the first things biden did
turns out we live in a society.
Often occurs to me while driving that we're all complete strangers pointing guns at each other and trusting each other not to shoot.
May 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
turns out we live in a society.
idk, politicians desperately scrambling to do what people want sounds like a utopic representative democracy to me.
maybe the people aren't interested in democracy anymore; maybe they all just want a strong man who can beat the other team's strong man.
maybe the people aren't interested in democracy anymore; maybe they all just want a strong man who can beat the other team's strong man.
if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
May 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
idk, politicians desperately scrambling to do what people want sounds like a utopic representative democracy to me.
maybe the people aren't interested in democracy anymore; maybe they all just want a strong man who can beat the other team's strong man.
maybe the people aren't interested in democracy anymore; maybe they all just want a strong man who can beat the other team's strong man.
more like 5 months
"Throughout the history of this country, there has never been a sustainable commitment to eradicating systemic racism." New from Carron J. Phillips.
It took America only five years to forget about George Floyd
Witnessing the death of an innocent Black man caused this country to reflect. However, the subsequent "racial awakening"
contrarian.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
more like 5 months
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
if you like using the federal govt to force others to do things your way, don't get all shocked when others use the federal govt to force you into doing things their way.
May 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
if you like using the federal govt to force others to do things your way, don't get all shocked when others use the federal govt to force you into doing things their way.
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we built a turnkey totalitarian state over the last ~30yrs and trump is trying to actually turn it on.
March 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
we built a turnkey totalitarian state over the last ~30yrs and trump is trying to actually turn it on.
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We have startlingly little media devoted to how fucking sick it probably was to ride a war elephant into battle
March 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We have startlingly little media devoted to how fucking sick it probably was to ride a war elephant into battle