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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

What happens when fascists are in charge? America offers a glimpse.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

Wins the internet.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

OK, the base is in Idaho, but I’m still confused.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

OK, explain it to me like I’m five:
The Qataris fund Hamas. The US funds Israel. The Qataris give Trump an airplane. Temporary foreign workers who went to Qatar to build the World Cup facilities are now showing up fighting for Russia in Ukraine. The US builds a Qatari Air Force Base in Colorado.
WTF

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

Fact free writing.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 16h

Me too. The lazy, ideological stenography just became too much.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 16h

Are there no editors?

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 16h

It’s at the bottom of the hill, and it will be an uphill battle to get out. This take isn’t helping.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 20h

Why can’t these billionaires just devote themselves to helping people make a living, care for their families, build their communities, otherwise stay out of their way, and let them live their lives?

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 20h

He needs to get his head out of his fucking ass and go volunteer in a hospital, or a community center, or a local farmers market, or any other place where people actually work for a living, help their neighbors, and don’t spend all their time wanking off about abstruse philosophical dialectics.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 20h

This is what woke, DEI, and inclusive history was supposed to address. That’s why they’re trying to erase it. They are silencing all the voices that don’t belong to their chosen group. History provides an unending supply of brutal examples that show what happens when those voices are silenced.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 20h

It’s thinking that you are one of the chosen people, the chosen race, the chosen gender… and that these things allow you to treat everyone else as though they are lesser. Less “intelligent“, “less cultured”, “less civilized”, “less human”.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 20h

The problem is quite simple. Ideologies that tell you that you are better than other people. Better because you’re white. Better because some god favors you, better because your gender supposedly rules over other genders because some god said so. It is all narcissism and imaginary thinking.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

But you don’t have to.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

She seems to fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of judges. And constitutions. And rights.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

They seek him here, they seek him there - Antifa he is everywhere!

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

Not a lawyer, but I think prohibiting a timeshare is different from merely renting out the property. They seem to be alleging that it’s the same thing. Have I got it right?

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

The best use of really terrific AI would be to put Trump‘s speeches into Obama‘s avatar.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so fucking tired of their inability to say “democratic“. We should just start calling them “republics”.

They seem to have such a terrible problem with both pronouns and adjectives.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

This is a stunningly good read. I was a lifelong Atlantic reader until I stopped cold turkey this year. No clicks since.

And I’ve had a lifelong version to Chait, who has been harder to avoid as he pops around from platform to platform.

Rashid, on the other hand, has a sharp eye and a sharp pen.

Shelley English @shelleyenglish.bsky.social · 4d

@qasimrashid.com

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

I love the clarity with which you challenge - and reverse - the terms ‘moderate’ and ‘extremist’. Beautifully written article. Receipts indeed.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 3d

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt 😘

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 5d

Do not want.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 5d

A biopic of Russell Brand starring Jared Leto would probably rock

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 5d

“ All the news that’s fucked to print”