Ciggy Smoke Bringer
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not picking on anyone in particular, but there are not many people more “faith-based” in the US than liberal legal observers and writers that treat dissenting opinions like some time capsule of dignity and truth sent forward to a future Court that heeds the Loser’s Wisdom.
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
not picking on anyone in particular, but there are not many people more “faith-based” in the US than liberal legal observers and writers that treat dissenting opinions like some time capsule of dignity and truth sent forward to a future Court that heeds the Loser’s Wisdom.
Pray to God this take isnt paired with unflappable support for policing because that is the racket of authoritarian elite system.
Following the law is for the plebes who die if they dont, or are the 'wrong kind' anyway.
And it is more complex than just that in the art of criming as a plebe.
Following the law is for the plebes who die if they dont, or are the 'wrong kind' anyway.
And it is more complex than just that in the art of criming as a plebe.
Someone should really explain to the people in charge that if they don’t enforce any sort of consequences for blatant lawless behavior by elites, then eventually normal people will take the message that there is no point in following the laws themselves
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Pray to God this take isnt paired with unflappable support for policing because that is the racket of authoritarian elite system.
Following the law is for the plebes who die if they dont, or are the 'wrong kind' anyway.
And it is more complex than just that in the art of criming as a plebe.
Following the law is for the plebes who die if they dont, or are the 'wrong kind' anyway.
And it is more complex than just that in the art of criming as a plebe.
The bitter irony of all of you wanting political accountability is youll never get it to the 'consequential ward' degree you imagine will tamp down on it, and is delegated to the system that wanted the net present state of affairs to be like this
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The bitter irony of all of you wanting political accountability is youll never get it to the 'consequential ward' degree you imagine will tamp down on it, and is delegated to the system that wanted the net present state of affairs to be like this
It's cause the sole conduit of their political praxis is a marketing organization that calls itself a political party, and who are they to have theoretical Liberalism in 2025 outside of electoral marketing as the endpoint of their politics?
It is that simple in explaining the stuckness of it all.
It is that simple in explaining the stuckness of it all.
No matter where it begins, every political conversation or analysis among libs ends up at language, word choice, "framing." Just an endless, bottomless, almost pre-conscious faith that they can persuade their opponents to cede power.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's cause the sole conduit of their political praxis is a marketing organization that calls itself a political party, and who are they to have theoretical Liberalism in 2025 outside of electoral marketing as the endpoint of their politics?
It is that simple in explaining the stuckness of it all.
It is that simple in explaining the stuckness of it all.
It is kinda funny how hyper Liberals will be like 'and that's why nobody associates with Leftists, they're lunatics' and meanwhile, they're still litigating individual moralities of people who criticize the Democratic Party for having less juice than a Sunny D and people aren't associating with them
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It is kinda funny how hyper Liberals will be like 'and that's why nobody associates with Leftists, they're lunatics' and meanwhile, they're still litigating individual moralities of people who criticize the Democratic Party for having less juice than a Sunny D and people aren't associating with them
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The disbelief with which future historians will point to this moment, the gleeful step- by-step decision tracing of this collapsing empires final days, the arrogance of this violence-first backwards dictatorship, the absurdity of tech allocating a full half-century of profits to a tranpsarent ponzi
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The disbelief with which future historians will point to this moment, the gleeful step- by-step decision tracing of this collapsing empires final days, the arrogance of this violence-first backwards dictatorship, the absurdity of tech allocating a full half-century of profits to a tranpsarent ponzi
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Future history grad student challenging the prof in class:
Wait, so you are saying one side was more committed to norms of discourse than ideas? That they couldn’t even defend their ideas?
*Prof*: Yes, the ones most ‘publically’ committed to the rule of law were the least willing to defend it.
Wait, so you are saying one side was more committed to norms of discourse than ideas? That they couldn’t even defend their ideas?
*Prof*: Yes, the ones most ‘publically’ committed to the rule of law were the least willing to defend it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Future history grad student challenging the prof in class:
Wait, so you are saying one side was more committed to norms of discourse than ideas? That they couldn’t even defend their ideas?
*Prof*: Yes, the ones most ‘publically’ committed to the rule of law were the least willing to defend it.
Wait, so you are saying one side was more committed to norms of discourse than ideas? That they couldn’t even defend their ideas?
*Prof*: Yes, the ones most ‘publically’ committed to the rule of law were the least willing to defend it.
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Future historians will analyze the Federalist Society and search for the ideological opponent that was defending the Constitution and democracy, and find….not a lot. And they’ll wonder why, and the answer will truly be “a lot of law people don’t like *that* kind of conflict”.
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Future historians will analyze the Federalist Society and search for the ideological opponent that was defending the Constitution and democracy, and find….not a lot. And they’ll wonder why, and the answer will truly be “a lot of law people don’t like *that* kind of conflict”.
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I do think it's kind of funny to get blocked by an Eastern European who doesn't like me telling them that the way to get a good US Intervention in Ukraine is to simply write US Senators more.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I do think it's kind of funny to get blocked by an Eastern European who doesn't like me telling them that the way to get a good US Intervention in Ukraine is to simply write US Senators more.
You won't believe that the writer for Liberal Currents has delegated the entirety of anti war sentiment to one Chuck Schumer and that's the end of the conversation.
going to war with venezuela would be stupid and evil and also i think allying with russian stooges and weird cults is not a good way to make that point
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You won't believe that the writer for Liberal Currents has delegated the entirety of anti war sentiment to one Chuck Schumer and that's the end of the conversation.
The act of synthesizing is everything, the allocation of your consciousness to replicating and making decisions on the important stuff to retain in the process is the fucking entire game sometimes.
I wonder how big the gap between "record a lecture, have the AI transcribe and summarize it and then read the summary" (something that current LLMs are, in my experience, actually really good at) is compared to taking notes on a piece of paper is
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The act of synthesizing is everything, the allocation of your consciousness to replicating and making decisions on the important stuff to retain in the process is the fucking entire game sometimes.
Why is always 'a hill to die on' and never 'a hill to snipe enemies from and then abandon when it gets too hot, then take up again to whittle them down and fuck up morale that they can't stop the small slow bleed'
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Why is always 'a hill to die on' and never 'a hill to snipe enemies from and then abandon when it gets too hot, then take up again to whittle them down and fuck up morale that they can't stop the small slow bleed'
I wish the OP didn't lock this down (especially cause they're poking this from some Liberal standpoint) because this is exactly the fucking conundrum with Leftist Organizing and trying to link up with any entity that is 'for real' (and I don't mean authentic or pure, but somewhat cogent to effect)
I will say that as a resident of DC through September of this year, I was desperately looking for more respectable groups to organize protests.
But time and again, the only people taking initiative in the capital were groups like the Revolutionary Communists. But, time and again, people showed up!
But time and again, the only people taking initiative in the capital were groups like the Revolutionary Communists. But, time and again, people showed up!
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I wish the OP didn't lock this down (especially cause they're poking this from some Liberal standpoint) because this is exactly the fucking conundrum with Leftist Organizing and trying to link up with any entity that is 'for real' (and I don't mean authentic or pure, but somewhat cogent to effect)
25+ years of this being the pulse and all the consumer philosophers can come up with for all the internal agreement is 'this is an inarguably bad situation'.
The broader picture is consumer philosopher's insights die on the vine because lo, the consumer gets value from complaint while consuming.
The broader picture is consumer philosopher's insights die on the vine because lo, the consumer gets value from complaint while consuming.
It's not about if Horses is good or if you like it, it's about the world we're in where a few companies have control over who gets to make money and which artists get to continue working.
Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.
Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
25+ years of this being the pulse and all the consumer philosophers can come up with for all the internal agreement is 'this is an inarguably bad situation'.
The broader picture is consumer philosopher's insights die on the vine because lo, the consumer gets value from complaint while consuming.
The broader picture is consumer philosopher's insights die on the vine because lo, the consumer gets value from complaint while consuming.
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Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
You just can't escape how much the bag of fascism revolves around aesthetic placements of psyche, and it being nonsensical with any thought given to it, exampled here where nobody wants to return to these aesthetics or the timeplace where these were a thing unless they're bent and wrong.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You just can't escape how much the bag of fascism revolves around aesthetic placements of psyche, and it being nonsensical with any thought given to it, exampled here where nobody wants to return to these aesthetics or the timeplace where these were a thing unless they're bent and wrong.
See, the thing is, the indulgence of being catered to, even in intangible ways of psyche, are too captivating to turn down unless you've been ruined at least once in your life by chasing something that feels good and isn't good for you, and break yourself to escape it.
maybe having the entire apparatus bend over the past thirty years to cater to each person's interests with increasing granularity was not great for people's mental health and ai is just the natural end point of that, i dunno
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
See, the thing is, the indulgence of being catered to, even in intangible ways of psyche, are too captivating to turn down unless you've been ruined at least once in your life by chasing something that feels good and isn't good for you, and break yourself to escape it.
They are kinda joking but there is something about Song as many things, and for my ability to play the keys, the Song is not the production of it per se, but the idea of it performed. So yeah, fidelity of audio is production engagement not composition and performance engagement.
Worrying about the fidelity of audio is just a symptom of insecurity. If you are so concerned that a music format might be misrepresenting itself, maybe you’re simply not mature enough to listen to it.
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
They are kinda joking but there is something about Song as many things, and for my ability to play the keys, the Song is not the production of it per se, but the idea of it performed. So yeah, fidelity of audio is production engagement not composition and performance engagement.
Anyone want to illustrate to me, the actual political benefit Democrats enjoyed by declaring Covid over? Did they enjoy one? Can someone show it to me? Can someone quantify the benefit and then illustrate how that compares to the benefit of Trump demolishing the East Wing?
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Anyone want to illustrate to me, the actual political benefit Democrats enjoyed by declaring Covid over? Did they enjoy one? Can someone show it to me? Can someone quantify the benefit and then illustrate how that compares to the benefit of Trump demolishing the East Wing?
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Let's face it, he's never going to acknowledge that people's anxieties can ever be indicative of anything real unless the Numbers Factory agrees with that. Data collection is a Science, see?
He's like those pudding-ass aliens from ST:VOY that constantly wait for the computer to tell them what to do
He's like those pudding-ass aliens from ST:VOY that constantly wait for the computer to tell them what to do
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let's face it, he's never going to acknowledge that people's anxieties can ever be indicative of anything real unless the Numbers Factory agrees with that. Data collection is a Science, see?
He's like those pudding-ass aliens from ST:VOY that constantly wait for the computer to tell them what to do
He's like those pudding-ass aliens from ST:VOY that constantly wait for the computer to tell them what to do
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Today in “do you actually care about women’s sports”, did you all know that the women in the new professional women’s hockey league are only making an average of a little over $37,000/season???? There is a salary cap in the PWHL of $1.3 million PER TEAM. In the NHL it’s $95.5 million.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today in “do you actually care about women’s sports”, did you all know that the women in the new professional women’s hockey league are only making an average of a little over $37,000/season???? There is a salary cap in the PWHL of $1.3 million PER TEAM. In the NHL it’s $95.5 million.
Point me for not passing it forward, where it is seasonal depression a d acute holiday blues the more fussy the ordeal to do it was, plus I got fucked up enterprise ransomware in 2018 and 19 on christmas so no fucking duh the magic is lost, I had a job to cover such events.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Point me for not passing it forward, where it is seasonal depression a d acute holiday blues the more fussy the ordeal to do it was, plus I got fucked up enterprise ransomware in 2018 and 19 on christmas so no fucking duh the magic is lost, I had a job to cover such events.
I am losing my mind that it feels like Liberals were betting their houses on this one, and simultaneously forgot how their prized and cherished Liberal Democracy is jank as fuck and they must asking the most vapid questions like 'why is turnout less during a special election?'
This was a good sign
This was a good sign
A female Democrat lost but ran a competitive Congressional race in Tennessee and got 45% of the vote with 6 candidates that Trump won by 22 points
And got 38% of the vote in a county that's only 19% non-white
and got over 32% in another county that's LESS than 12% non-white
And got 38% of the vote in a county that's only 19% non-white
and got over 32% in another county that's LESS than 12% non-white
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I am losing my mind that it feels like Liberals were betting their houses on this one, and simultaneously forgot how their prized and cherished Liberal Democracy is jank as fuck and they must asking the most vapid questions like 'why is turnout less during a special election?'
This was a good sign
This was a good sign
I will credit Boomers with collective provision of character relief in who not to be.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I will credit Boomers with collective provision of character relief in who not to be.