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We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said that’s too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto
I don’t know if the bombings and blackouts just made me numb or if I’ve achieved enlightenment but I finally feel free to say everything I think about westerners and not be afraid of how they take it
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said that’s too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto
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"the revolution will be televised but in a way that creates a parasocial connection with revolution so that a lot of people get really invested in the idea of being revolutionaries without doing much to contribute to it"
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"the revolution will be televised but in a way that creates a parasocial connection with revolution so that a lot of people get really invested in the idea of being revolutionaries without doing much to contribute to it"
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Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.
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“It’s shocking you’d rather tell the truth than lie for my good cause” - whatever segment of the left this is, leave me out of it
Separate from everything else it’s wild to admit you care more about data than housing
I absolutely am a YIMBY, but I believe in being honest about data even more than I believe in YIMBYism. There hasn’t been an acute increase in housing costs as a share of income! There just hasn’t. I don’t know what to tell you. I won’t lie about it just because everyone enjoys the false narrative.
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“It’s shocking you’d rather tell the truth than lie for my good cause” - whatever segment of the left this is, leave me out of it
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My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
Nostalgia is a fundamentally fascist impulse. The left should never traffick in these tropes because when the we cannot bring the 50s back through science or magic, the far right will be offering a much more twisted version of the same vision.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
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Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo
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It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.
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Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.
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Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.
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How I feel about political candidates
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
How I feel about political candidates
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Hey John any updates on this dunk
Isn't your entire theory of politics like pure online excitement with no material stakes?
The credulousness of this site towards Graham Platner is pretty hard to take.
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey John any updates on this dunk
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If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals
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It's funny to me how many people on here take it for granted that they can intuit the aesthetic, rhetorical, and policy preferences of the median American voter; my working assumption is that the voters who decide most American elections would rejoice to see me and everybody I know and love dead.
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's funny to me how many people on here take it for granted that they can intuit the aesthetic, rhetorical, and policy preferences of the median American voter; my working assumption is that the voters who decide most American elections would rejoice to see me and everybody I know and love dead.
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Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.
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Relatedly, I see a lot of doomers on here who don't have that dog in them and could use a Dan Lanning speech.
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR CLICKS, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR WINS. IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, AND EVERY CUT MATTERS. WE PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SITUATION. WE BELIEVE IN OUR TECHNIQUE.
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR CLICKS, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR WINS. IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, AND EVERY CUT MATTERS. WE PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SITUATION. WE BELIEVE IN OUR TECHNIQUE.
lol, here's some incredible college football content. In the hype video Oregon posted after Penn State, Dan Lanning lectures his team on broken windows theory, but it's pro-breaking windows.
"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...
"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Relatedly, I see a lot of doomers on here who don't have that dog in them and could use a Dan Lanning speech.
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR CLICKS, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR WINS. IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, AND EVERY CUT MATTERS. WE PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SITUATION. WE BELIEVE IN OUR TECHNIQUE.
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR CLICKS, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR WINS. IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, AND EVERY CUT MATTERS. WE PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SITUATION. WE BELIEVE IN OUR TECHNIQUE.
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The sequels are an anti-trilogy, TFA is about course correcting from the prequels, TLJ is about course correcting from TFA, and TROS is about course correcting from TLJ! Genuinely a baffling series of decisions
Since we’re doing Star Wars discourse, here’s my take: the sequels suck because they don’t actually try to tell a story.
The original series, both individually, and as an arc, tell a basic heroes journey story. It’s not anything particularly new, but it’s certainly a serviceable storyline to tell.
The original series, both individually, and as an arc, tell a basic heroes journey story. It’s not anything particularly new, but it’s certainly a serviceable storyline to tell.
September 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The sequels are an anti-trilogy, TFA is about course correcting from the prequels, TLJ is about course correcting from TFA, and TROS is about course correcting from TLJ! Genuinely a baffling series of decisions