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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 53m

i like how whiteness includes sudan but not people from barcelona

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

hispanics who can trace 100% of their lineage to iberia are still southern europeans, who arent white.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

it would formally expand the powers of the presidency which could be used by the next guy.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

while “arabs” and non-jews fall into tiered citizenship or non-citizenship.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

israel is an apartheid state based around an ethno-religious group which is itself pretty varied, there are jews who are indigenous to palestine, there are mizrahi jews who were expelled from arab countries, there are african jews, and european jews, all which are de jure full citizens

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

like in general skin complexion is not the defining characteristic of the religious and political divisions in the middle east but there are absolutely people who would code as white to americans there. though, american racial concepts are not mutually intelligible bc they are not real

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

americans just cannot comprehend how “racially” diverse mena countries are and how irelevant that is to the broader ethnic political make up

Johnny Staccato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 7h

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 7h

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4h

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

Some thoughts on SB 79 and how YIMBYs finally did it: publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour...

Happy Hour Power

Why YIMBYs just won big in California

publiccomment.blog

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

if they issued a full opinion, people would treat that as definitive but they can toss out the shadow docket positions when a democrat gets into office

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that Goldman is saying they seems to indicate the caucus is pretty in on this

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

she pretty much admits that they’re using the shadow docket to side step precedent here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 7h

“I’m Kirsten Gillibrand and I think applesauce is wonderful, I recently spoke with a board member at TikTok, Barron Trump, he agrees that crypto is the future. Let’s put aside our differences and work on a bipartisan solution for American crypto bagholders: they all get a trillion Melania coins”

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 7h

“reading/hearing a lot of things” might help with moral targeting/ethical accuracy(?) give some other prompting/constraints but its really not possible to say thats a hard and fast rule.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 7h

i think human’s ingest knowledge in a similar way to an llm, in that our heuristics for learning and outputting information are based on how we interact with language and pretty much reality-agnostic.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · May 4

a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h

I realize her team is just making content off what she said but this is the message.

AOCs Facebook page makes a graphic that says they are weaker than they look with trump on an orange background

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

oh yeah, i agree. but eventually its gotten start to hurt the bottom line to play regime media for nothing in return

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

like, i am saying i am surprised more of these guys arent adversarial with trump et al, given that you will get nothing for being pliant.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

i think trump’s term 1 media management strategy worked because he doled out a healthy combination of treats and threats, in term 2, its unclear how a mainstream anchor could even be pliant for the regime w/o becoming newsmaxx or putting bari weiss in charge.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

they used to be smarter, edpol jusy wiped out the market for academic conservatism

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 10h

would also throw in renewables and the battery revolution. responding to climate change was basically a pipe dream twenty years ago, now its just a matter of political willpower

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 10h

yeah, the technological innovations if the past twenty years in QoL household products are genuinely miraculous. it just happened gradually and there isnt any one specific invention that we can point to

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 10h

Consumer electronics are remarkably better. Everything from household lighting, kitchen electronics (affordable grinders, espresso machines), keyboards, e-ink tablets, usb cords, desktop mics and cameras, etc. All of this shit was worse and much more expensive 20 years ago.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

what exactly has gotten better for the average person in the past 20 years with all the innovation such as AI, exactly? what's the social use case here

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