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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16h

Alex Pareene, 2017: "This is the state of the GOP leadership pipeline. In a decade, state legislatures will start filling up with Gamergaters, MRAs, /pol/ posters, Anime Nazis, and Proud Boys."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

Nobody under 30 has seen a presidential election ballot without Trump. We're halfway into a generation that doesn't know any other kind of GOP, this is the version of Republican politics they eagerly signed up for and made a career out of.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

Part of stuffing the press pool with cranks is they get to ask "will you do [crazy thing]?" and he'll give some version of "maybe yes" even if he's never thought of it before. Sometimes it then becomes real policy. They're not reporters there to influence the public, they're there to influence him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 8h

listen, if you wanna joke about reactionaries getting their comeuppance then theres a rich history to pull from of anarchists summarily executing fascists, blacks slaughtering white enslavers, or liberals beheading kings, you dont need to appropriate the blood-soaked shibboleths of stalinist tyranny

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

One cool thing about advocating for diversity in health sciences is that you can actually live longer and have better quality of life (and suffer less) simply by telling racists they suck and their opinions are not valid

HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 11h

"[DEI] policies are not just about providing fair opportunities to all students. They are a matter of life and death."

Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten Americans’ lives www.bmj.com/content/391/... by @gavinyamey.bsky.social @michaeldgreen.com via @bmj.com

www.bmj.com

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 9h

The degree to which the internet and social media radicalizes the young is indeed something new.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

Also not to relitigate the fascism debate yet again, but seemingly every Republican staffer under 40 expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler should be pretty conclusive evidence of the fascistic dimensions of the modern American right.

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 1d

Once one spends a little time digging into scientific racism it’s almost immediately obvious that none of them are geneticists or biologists. That’s somehow never a red flag for the credulous commentators or journalists

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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 1d

It can’t be stressed enough that, false genetic between-group difference claims aside, The Bell Curve presented no scientifically valid evidence in support of genetic influences on within-group IQ score differences.

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Neil Traft @ntraft.bsky.social · 1d

"Consider another human difference: financial solvency, which can be measured and quantified, just like IQ. It is heritable in twin studies and (less so) in SNPs. But would you bet that sooner or later we are going to know 'what’s going on' with your bank account at the level of genes?" Same for IQ.

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 22h

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 11h

we had two decades to try out, play with, acclimate to, and map the terrain of cyberspace and adopt piecemeal its applications into our daily lives and extended cognition before the nazis broke containment, big tech centralized and monetized platforms, and its boundaries with meatspace dissolved

ceej @ceej.online · 12h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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ceej @ceej.online · 12h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

Controversial take: I don’t think we have or will ever reach a point of having a post-trust/post-truth society. We just have shifting assemblages of which people and types of associations are trustworthy, and networks of inertia that will temporarily confuse people until we help them adjust.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 12h

we need to put a stop to men with this head shape until we can better study gourd phrenology & we need to invent a new size of caliper for this

that german AfD dude in the ICE shirt. he’s white & has reddish hair. hard to tell how much he has in relation to his forehead & his head shape is unique, like yakub himself added the rubber bands at the midpoint as if it was a watermelon being stress tested.

the twitter racist poster “captive dreamer”

he’s white & has reddish hair. hard to tell how much he has in relation to his forehead & his head shape is unique, like yakub himself added the rubber bands at the midpoint as if it was a watermelon being stress tested.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12h

People were doing this about Steve Bannon right after the 2016 election and it was stupid then and I STILL see people running with copy from him about his Master Plan For World Domination as if it tells you anything except that he likes to hear himself talk.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

You know, I was talking with a friend of mine about our current political moment and the issues we were having in our society, and they said that they had just re-read the books American psycho && bonfire of the vanities, and their argument was basically that we’re being governed by Patrick Bateman

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

and I think this is a big part of the story bsky.app/profile/ryan...

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 13h

you cant fight brown fascism with red fascism, and i dont think you should be making jokes about a transcontinental forced labor camp system where thousands of communists, socialists, anarchists, and workers were sent to die by a personalist regime that betrayed multiple revolutions

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