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A leader who is easily swayed by fatuous flattery assumes that other leaders are just as easily swayed by fatuous flattery.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A leader who is easily swayed by fatuous flattery assumes that other leaders are just as easily swayed by fatuous flattery.
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The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.
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I think the speed at which the dam breaks on fossil fuels is going to make people’s heads spin, the cost and deployment speed of solar is going to be really overwhelming really fast
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think the speed at which the dam breaks on fossil fuels is going to make people’s heads spin, the cost and deployment speed of solar is going to be really overwhelming really fast
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those of us near the metropoles, despite our fondness for visiting diners near airports, often struggle to internalize just how cooked a large % of the brains of this nation are
December 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
those of us near the metropoles, despite our fondness for visiting diners near airports, often struggle to internalize just how cooked a large % of the brains of this nation are
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shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
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You’d have no idea reading the national media that there’s a massive network of right-wing colleges and universities, just like you’d have no idea that the vast majority of TV news is run by right wing corporations
December 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You’d have no idea reading the national media that there’s a massive network of right-wing colleges and universities, just like you’d have no idea that the vast majority of TV news is run by right wing corporations
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
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It should be a warning to any of the schools considering settling with Trump. Brown gave him everything he asked for and then Trump, like the Mafia boss he is, saw weakness and came back for more.
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It should be a warning to any of the schools considering settling with Trump. Brown gave him everything he asked for and then Trump, like the Mafia boss he is, saw weakness and came back for more.
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“You and your circle of friends and acquaintances are not a good representative sample for a vast country” is true for everyone, including broke Communist posters.
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“You and your circle of friends and acquaintances are not a good representative sample for a vast country” is true for everyone, including broke Communist posters.
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New data shows that in big cities, the construction of luxury apartments is starting to drive down rents for more middle-market homes.
Luxury Apartments Are Bringing Rent Down in Some Big Cities
Rents got cheaper in several major cities this past year, thanks to an influx of luxury apartment buildings opening their doors and luring tenants to vacate their old homes.
www.bloomberg.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New data shows that in big cities, the construction of luxury apartments is starting to drive down rents for more middle-market homes.
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Guy who has never set foot in an American DMV: they haven’t even been updated since the 1970s
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Guy who has never set foot in an American DMV: they haven’t even been updated since the 1970s
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Literally bragging about putting people out of work
December 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Literally bragging about putting people out of work
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Genuinely remarkable how much of the federal government they're just tearing down to tear down
December 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Genuinely remarkable how much of the federal government they're just tearing down to tear down
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But then again a lot of suburban America gaslights itself into thinking they're in a rural small town when they're just in a suburb
December 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
But then again a lot of suburban America gaslights itself into thinking they're in a rural small town when they're just in a suburb
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This kind of stuff also imo overstates how much of America is actually "small towns"
I don’t always agree with of the broader political takes from some “abundance”-coded pundits but man the abundance critics are just pure nonsense merchants
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This kind of stuff also imo overstates how much of America is actually "small towns"
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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You ever think about how we live in a consumerist hell of our own creation that the most pessimistic schlock of the 70s-90s barely even counts as parody of?
"One of the options staff has discussed is giving sponsored information preferential treatment in responses to users’ ChatGPT queries, according to the person familiar with the discussions. For instance, AI models could prioritize sponsored content to ensure it shows up in ChatGPT responses"
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You ever think about how we live in a consumerist hell of our own creation that the most pessimistic schlock of the 70s-90s barely even counts as parody of?
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the Falklands war was an act of imperialism by a European country (Argentina, 97% white) against the indigenous people (the English) of the Falklands and their suzerain, a country with substantial populations from the Global South (the UK, 86% white)
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the Falklands war was an act of imperialism by a European country (Argentina, 97% white) against the indigenous people (the English) of the Falklands and their suzerain, a country with substantial populations from the Global South (the UK, 86% white)
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It was entirely predictable but if Kamala D. Harris randomly conjured up a battleship on a wholly unrealistic timeline with weapons not actually in production with the same cost as a carrier, these guys would be hurling slurs not seen since reconstruction, instead it’s just:
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It was entirely predictable but if Kamala D. Harris randomly conjured up a battleship on a wholly unrealistic timeline with weapons not actually in production with the same cost as a carrier, these guys would be hurling slurs not seen since reconstruction, instead it’s just:
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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It’s one big grift and you’re not in it
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s one big grift and you’re not in it