You know, this bit of the Cass Report is really just ... so fucking devastatingly, sickeningly telling

Tanner IV is after the voice crack, after the growth spurt, all the things we've gone through but would never wish on others. But that doesn't matter. As long as we're holes

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Occasional reminder that the people who downzoned your city in the 70s knew exactly what they were doing.

[trying to explain things to someone who only knows early 20th century history] no no no UKRAINE isn't poland ukraine is SPAIN, TAIWAN is WEST BERLIN, XI is BREZHNEV

This parenthetical from Justice Barrett lol

Amazing how nearly every ICC code change proposal has the exact same “Cost Impact” statement. Thousands of pages of code changes and everybody’s just clarifying things, nobody’s raising any costs iccsafe.org/wp-content/upl…

Congress must let Ukraine Win.
cnn.com/2024/04/10/opi…

Biden has been unpopular with young people since late 2021, and your explanations mostly date to late 2023. This is, if anything, evidence for my explanation: that young people started by deciding to hate Biden, and then went looking for reasons to do so.

great thread about wealth inequality--and how much it all continues to center around our deliberate, artificial scarcity of housing

took some very advanced prompt engineering but I have discovered the Gab AI system prompt

I thought this was funny then I looked at the comments and the absolute seething from dorks mad that she’s Asian made it 10xs funnier.

the thing is, the NCR can't succeed for the exact same reason the New Republic can't succeed. large franchises inevitably get caught in time loops. fateful epochal events are always at stake and also nothing. ever. changes.

that's just how it is.

nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2023/11/04/sto…

The 'homevoter' theory was always a way to put a market rational libertarian gloss on a fundamentally irrational reactionary impulse

Too many critiques fall into a pattern of just assuming the rational assumption actually holds rather than recognizing it for what it is

This is a great piece in response to If We Burn, but the glaring hole in it is that it doesn't look at the way that the BLM movement DID do Inside-Outside politics! Reform DA's have been getting elected across the country since Michael Brown! George Floyd was not the start.