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The best time for It To Happen was 10 years ago, the second best time is right now.
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He's a raging eugenicist, so don't use ableism in describing him, that helps him hurt disabled people.
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If you think Killmonger was the good guy while he is practically twirling his moustache and talking about world conquest, just because he uses a few phrases that sound radical, you are actually not media literate enough to discuss this movie made for people 13 and over.
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I cannot stress this enough: Vegas gave Musk millions to build us a supposed public transportation system. Instead he built basically an Uber tunnel for Teslas that only goes FROM ONE END OF A CONVENTION CENTER TO THE OTHER. Literally just gets you to the other side of a building.
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"Project Liberal" is run by Jason Pye, whose CV includes 7 years at Freedomworks, and Tyler Harris, who worked for the Libertarian National Committee for a half-decade. if you fall for this shit you're the biggest sucker ever born
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The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.
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NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE
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Gifs and insults aside, science in general - including space science - is *incredibly* international. This is something we can do because we do it together.
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SO FUCKING WHAT.
Make those bastards MISERABLE. Do it again and again. Be a giant pain in their ass every second. Give the people someone to rally behind to make the GOP sweat and worry nonstop.
Oh, sorry, forgot you have a four-day weekend coming up, never mind, carry on losing then.
Make those bastards MISERABLE. Do it again and again. Be a giant pain in their ass every second. Give the people someone to rally behind to make the GOP sweat and worry nonstop.
Oh, sorry, forgot you have a four-day weekend coming up, never mind, carry on losing then.
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I assume people on bluesky have mostly heard this story or at least know star trek has always been about this but since I couldn't find it properly captioned and alt texted here's one of the succinct examples of it
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"Things were so much better 30 years ago when we had a shared mass culture of movies, music and television instead of this fragmented social media landscape dominated by garbage short form video"
ACTUAL 1996: The dominant cultural reference point is "The Budweiser Frogs ad"
ACTUAL 1996: The dominant cultural reference point is "The Budweiser Frogs ad"
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Genuinely feeling like Mamdani has finally figured out the thing the left has historically been The Worst at.
The left needs to:
(a) use government to do Good and Popular Things
Normal: [✓]
Mamdani: [✓]
(b) TELL PEOPLE VERY LOUDLY AND MEMORABLY EVERY TIME IT DOES
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Mamdani: [✓]
The left needs to:
(a) use government to do Good and Popular Things
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Mamdani: [✓]
(b) TELL PEOPLE VERY LOUDLY AND MEMORABLY EVERY TIME IT DOES
Normal: [ x ]
Mamdani: [✓]
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this is so crazy. like this is their little outside webcam, their shitty little low-res webcam image.
it really is just LIKE that... it's just how it looks, normally.
I kindof get it now. the "look at that you bastard" feeling. oh my god. I am a bit emotional lmao #artemis
it really is just LIKE that... it's just how it looks, normally.
I kindof get it now. the "look at that you bastard" feeling. oh my god. I am a bit emotional lmao #artemis
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Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
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A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.
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I'm torn between "lol disney extraction shooter is such a ridiculous concept" and "the primary job of the biggest companies in our industry is increasingly to take characters from other mediums increasingly out of any context and meaning, like pre-chewed media food"
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this is it right here. perception creates reality and if they're not talking about it, it's likely because they don't want to speak it into being
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lmao this is one of those fun little domino commodities that doesn't seem like a crucial lynchpin of the global economy but definitely is
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YES, A FAILED IMPEACHMENT MEANS REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S CONDUCT. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON TO DO IT
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Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
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"There are a lot of parts of life in our city that we have just come to accept as if it's the cost of being a New Yorker, when in fact, these are political decisions and political choices" is the most succinct summary of the governance crisis plaguing Democrats in large cities I've ever heard
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the 25th amendment is a ludicrous nonstarter and they're right to say so.
the refusal to pursue impeachment because it distracts from "costs and corruption" is such consultant brained loser bullshit. jfc.
the refusal to pursue impeachment because it distracts from "costs and corruption" is such consultant brained loser bullshit. jfc.
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You can fume at people on bluesky for being disillusioned with these guys but at some point you have to admit it's their behavior that causes poll results like this. The public correctly recognizes them as weenies
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An avowed bad-faith republican can co-host a news show for a major network as an alleged journalist because the intent of corporate media is to support the republican party
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We're rightfully critical of taxes being spent on war and genocides instead of the safety net.
But since 9/11, defense spending is largely funded through debt, not increased taxes. Here's more about the costs of war.
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/economic/us-federal-budget
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/ghost-budget-how-us-war-spending-went-rogue-wasted-billions-and-how-fix-it
But since 9/11, defense spending is largely funded through debt, not increased taxes. Here's more about the costs of war.
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/economic/us-federal-budget
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/ghost-budget-how-us-war-spending-went-rogue-wasted-billions-and-how-fix-it
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Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.
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"A failed impeachment push risks being framed as tacit approval"
Whereas shutting the fuck up and doing nothing implies what, exactly?
Whereas shutting the fuck up and doing nothing implies what, exactly?
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The unbudgeted cost of the Iran bombing was $11.6 billion.
For the first week.
For the first week.
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