SopwithCamus
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What can one do against such reckless hate?
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I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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The president accepting the FIFA Peace Prize is just pathetic. If you’re in the business of taking bribes then letting the briber create a chintzy ass cheap prize straight from a Cracker Jacks box just devalues your bribery brand.
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The president accepting the FIFA Peace Prize is just pathetic. If you’re in the business of taking bribes then letting the briber create a chintzy ass cheap prize straight from a Cracker Jacks box just devalues your bribery brand.
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Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
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looking great, mister president, sir, no president in history has looked better at 175 years old while putting a fake medal on themselves
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
looking great, mister president, sir, no president in history has looked better at 175 years old while putting a fake medal on themselves
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We have learned nothing from the Trump era if not “most of these fascists have no follow-up besides whining and quickly get distracted by the next thing if you tell them ‘no’ and mean it even one time” so there’s no excuse for what universities are currently doing
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We have learned nothing from the Trump era if not “most of these fascists have no follow-up besides whining and quickly get distracted by the next thing if you tell them ‘no’ and mean it even one time” so there’s no excuse for what universities are currently doing
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
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They liked being able to sexually coerce the naive neighbor girl and have her deal with literally all of the consequences, and for those consequences to be as punitive as possible so she stays reliant on men.
also we really slashed teen pregnancy and now the right is mad that we did.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
They liked being able to sexually coerce the naive neighbor girl and have her deal with literally all of the consequences, and for those consequences to be as punitive as possible so she stays reliant on men.
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So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
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sex is, in fact, metaphysically incidental and irrelevant, and the archetypes handed down in Scripture *are* conventional and changeable, not based on nature or permanent. none of this entails denying that bodily realities are made by the good God as manifestations of divine wisdom
hope this helps
hope this helps
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
sex is, in fact, metaphysically incidental and irrelevant, and the archetypes handed down in Scripture *are* conventional and changeable, not based on nature or permanent. none of this entails denying that bodily realities are made by the good God as manifestations of divine wisdom
hope this helps
hope this helps
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The AI part is such a great element of this. What are LLMs if not horoscopes for everything?
Forget "economics is astrology for men."
Now we have "Astrology is economics for fascists."
Now we have "Astrology is economics for fascists."
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The AI part is such a great element of this. What are LLMs if not horoscopes for everything?
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most likely? they argue that they were sabotaged by the left
So what happens when they fail to deport millions of brown people, are kicked out of power and have nothing to show for the past ten years other than a destroyed economy & the hatred of every decent person on earth?
This is the crux of the bargain white ppl made voting for trump & the gop. "Rid us of brown ppl & make white ppl the majority again & we will sacrifice our jobs, savings, homes, and even children." They 💯 factored in those losses & decided it was worth it. That's why nothing else he does matters
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
most likely? they argue that they were sabotaged by the left
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One thing that's bothered me during the MAGA reign is that I KNOW how complicated the world's issues are, and how badly an oversimplistic approach is going to backfire.
The people running things are emotionally stunted pseudo-children, treating any concept of complexity or nuance as an impediment.
The people running things are emotionally stunted pseudo-children, treating any concept of complexity or nuance as an impediment.
This is what the so-called "Secretary of War" is tweeting amid reports that his department ordered a second strike to make sure they killed survivors of a boat they attacked that they allege with no proof carries drugs (which doesn't justify bombing them even it were true)
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
One thing that's bothered me during the MAGA reign is that I KNOW how complicated the world's issues are, and how badly an oversimplistic approach is going to backfire.
The people running things are emotionally stunted pseudo-children, treating any concept of complexity or nuance as an impediment.
The people running things are emotionally stunted pseudo-children, treating any concept of complexity or nuance as an impediment.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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I don't think we can fully explain America's constitution crises without deep diving into the learned helplessness of liberal elites in the Democratic Party. Reagan's death is now old enough to buy a beer
I called both of my Sens about this bc they both voted to end the shutdown rather than fight for a restoration of medicaid $. Hassan's office said they'd get back to me about what the Senator is doing for health access in Franconia. Shaheen's told me there was nothing they could do. #NHPol #NHPoli
The GOP cuts to Medicaid have cut rural Granite Staters off from basic health services. Nasty, nasty business. #NHPoli #NHPol
www.wmur.com/article/rura...
www.wmur.com/article/rura...
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don't think we can fully explain America's constitution crises without deep diving into the learned helplessness of liberal elites in the Democratic Party. Reagan's death is now old enough to buy a beer
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The Biden administration and the ADL are legitimately the gravediggers of American democracy.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Biden administration and the ADL are legitimately the gravediggers of American democracy.
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We joke about the cars but it's actually not good for people's mental or physical wellbeing to have to decide between spending hours to get places on inadequate public transport or dodge Brad Trumpvoter from Chudd County trying to mow you down in his F150 every time you want to buy milk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We joke about the cars but it's actually not good for people's mental or physical wellbeing to have to decide between spending hours to get places on inadequate public transport or dodge Brad Trumpvoter from Chudd County trying to mow you down in his F150 every time you want to buy milk.
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I think this is true; one aspect of it is that America has an *extraordinary* amount of scamming.
I'd add that American life is also quite a lot more intangibly annoying. It takes longer and costs more to get places. You're subject to a lot more debt (which you mostly can service, because you're better paid) but it's a cognitive load that makes you feel less agency than elsewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I think this is true; one aspect of it is that America has an *extraordinary* amount of scamming.
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They turned it off because every grifting ragebait account was discovered to be LARPing.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
They turned it off because every grifting ragebait account was discovered to be LARPing.
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This has been where I'm at lately also. It's getting harder to tell what is and isn't AI (sometimes) and it sucks having to meet every new with mistrust rather than the joy of discovery.
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This has been where I'm at lately also. It's getting harder to tell what is and isn't AI (sometimes) and it sucks having to meet every new with mistrust rather than the joy of discovery.
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A lot parents brought their very young kids to the Five Iron Frenzy show tonight and those kids were NOT having a good time.. you cant be subjecting people younger than 35 to ska punk man it's like blowing vape smoke in a dogs face they don't like that what are you doing
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A lot parents brought their very young kids to the Five Iron Frenzy show tonight and those kids were NOT having a good time.. you cant be subjecting people younger than 35 to ska punk man it's like blowing vape smoke in a dogs face they don't like that what are you doing
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Startups, famously known for their financial longevity and moral scruples, should be put in charge of the restructuring of every ecosystem on the planet, forever
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Startups, famously known for their financial longevity and moral scruples, should be put in charge of the restructuring of every ecosystem on the planet, forever
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I can’t remember which, but there are at least a few sci fi dystopia stories about this exact shitty idea.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I can’t remember which, but there are at least a few sci fi dystopia stories about this exact shitty idea.