Alessandro
@aledornell.bsky.social
Same @ on Twitter. Mostly talk about politics, every once in a while about pop music and other random stuff. 🇧🇷 22y
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this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
Surely 60+ people don’t actually think the American Revolution was bad
Age is the strongest predictor of attitudes toward political violence, with young adults aged 18 to 29 more likely than other age groups to say that it is sometimes OK to use violence to achieve a political goal.
(Gallup / @kettering.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251203
(Gallup / @kettering.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251203
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Surely 60+ people don’t actually think the American Revolution was bad
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every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
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the problems with AI are, in order:
(a) what people do with it;
(b) what it does;
(c) the power it uses;
(d) everything else
(a) what people do with it;
(b) what it does;
(c) the power it uses;
(d) everything else
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
the problems with AI are, in order:
(a) what people do with it;
(b) what it does;
(c) the power it uses;
(d) everything else
(a) what people do with it;
(b) what it does;
(c) the power it uses;
(d) everything else
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms ongoing negotiations to provide Taylor Swift with emergency stabilization funding, says "all options on the table" to support strategic US ally during times of low market confidence
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms ongoing negotiations to provide Taylor Swift with emergency stabilization funding, says "all options on the table" to support strategic US ally during times of low market confidence
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fundamentally do think the filibuster has broken the minds of congress, media, and voters because voters elect governments do to do [x] and then [x] does not happen, so the voters now believe that political programmes are fake (except for the things they like)
Ironically, Democrats can only fight against the Republican spending bills and hold the line because of... the filibuster. I wrote in 2024 that Democrats would realize that Manchin and Sinema were more correct than people realized.
independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Will Democrats apologize to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema now?
The two most controversial Democrats in Congress saw what was coming a mile off, writes Eric Garcia
independent.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
fundamentally do think the filibuster has broken the minds of congress, media, and voters because voters elect governments do to do [x] and then [x] does not happen, so the voters now believe that political programmes are fake (except for the things they like)
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Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
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Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
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I love that the NYT made themselves into an example for all of us to see what happens when the Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring the Media to Heel
New York Times: "Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
AP: “Trump’s moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
AP: “Trump’s moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I love that the NYT made themselves into an example for all of us to see what happens when the Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring the Media to Heel
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This Week's Onion Magazine:
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This Week's Onion Magazine:
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issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”
February 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”
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I support expanding Meals on Wheels and funding it with a 100% pigouvian tax on anyone who complains about the price of food delivery apps
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I support expanding Meals on Wheels and funding it with a 100% pigouvian tax on anyone who complains about the price of food delivery apps
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It's genuinely difficult to match how much contempt our legacy media outlets have for their readers
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's genuinely difficult to match how much contempt our legacy media outlets have for their readers
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anyway I hate them for reducing me, for reducing us, to this. I have no illusions about the necessity of it right now, or how things were in the past, but it's still a degradation from how things were even in the comparatively recent past. I hate the politics of eternity and the death of the future.
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
anyway I hate them for reducing me, for reducing us, to this. I have no illusions about the necessity of it right now, or how things were in the past, but it's still a degradation from how things were even in the comparatively recent past. I hate the politics of eternity and the death of the future.