At some point we need to look into how “activism” became a professional outlet for people with poor impulse control who wanted to lash out at people.

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Mikel Jollett we live in a bad s🍀ciety It is *everywhere* when you start looking for it. Here is a loose thread: x.com/jube02/status/…

As an Arab I can confirm.
The Muslim conquest of (634–640) brought Arabic speakers from the Arabian Peninsula who settled in the Levant.
Arabs colonized, enslaved and settled just like many western empires did. The only difference is that Arabs cannot acknowledge their mistakes.

Back to back bracket candidates

...who's going to tell him?

'Nova were partying next to a concentration camp'
the concentration camp in question:

I think what’s actually happening here is that social media and the Internet has made blind hatred of Biden the only socially tolerated position in a lot of youth circles. And then those youths reason backwards to a rationale, often arriving at the worst idea you’ve ever heard

People are extremely resistant to this idea because it seems crankish, lots of predictions about the dire effects of technology have fallen flat. But this one is more specific and observable than most. We know the mechanism and you can see it on the micro level every single day.

I don’t think you should underrate the sincerity with which some billionaires just believe it would be better to end electoral democracy as the best way to keep corporate and capital gains taxes low.

Middle class Americans live in the richest country on earth at a time of unprecedented global prosperity and have let online ragebait convince themselves that they are living through awful historical circumstances.

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The Lakers gave Rui Hachimura a 3 yr deal worth $51 million last summer. He didn't become a full-time starter until January 21st. The Lakers have gone 23-13 since, which is a 64% win percentage. Had they won at that rate the entire season they would be the 4 seed right now.

You think?

Monetized rage farming

Rather than banning TikTok, we should nationalize it and make every third video a basic engaging explainer about how insurance, marginal tax rates, etc, work

No, Donald—it’s about women’s rights.

keep talking until November, guys. please. I beg you.

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