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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Bono was briefly into these.

    That's right, U2 grew a shrew loo.

  • Ah yeah fair enough, tbh i was worried i got the SW characters wrong, i saw phantom menance and decided i didnt really need to see the other two prequels.

  • I didn't know that the three musketeers were really Quigon Gin, the Sheriff of Nottingham from prince of thieves, Anakin Skywalker and Matt Berry.

  • I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.

    But "camel through the eye of a needle" was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of "when pigs fly".

    The intent of this passage is crystal clear: "the rich will never ever get into heaven".

  • Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!

  • You can't argue a person out of an irrational view.

    Explaining brain chemistry and how dopamine works won't do it.

    A belief like that is a way of signalling membership in an identity that the individual thinks benefits them. It's unlikely to change until that identity stops looking beneficial.

  • Pfft, just hold on and squeeze your way through the scratches until you're bloody and beloved.

  • I feel like a lot of people are misinterpretting your comment because of the way republicans frequently use "clintonzes are evilzes!" as a distraction from their own much greater problems.

    I'd think the order wouldn't come from clinton himself - gotta keep plausible deniability.

    But i definitely agree with you - it's unsurprising that the FBI under clinton declined to investigate child pornography allegations against a child sex trafficker who has strong links to clinton.

  • 30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

    And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

  • It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn't make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

    Information already is knowledge, and that's not what gpt does.

  • I don't think it's correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.

  • What the american people want has almost no bearing on what the elites who control the american empire decide to do.

    No major policy has matched public opinion since the end of the civil rights era. In gender, ethnicity and wealth, our representatives are not representative of us either.

    It's naive to think we live in a democracy.

  • I was gonna recommend Othan by Heilung, it sounds like casting a spell.

  • I don't know that it's wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an "all news is good news" approach to hype generation.

    Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I'm skeptical.

  • elected him

    Someone doesn't understand how our oligarchy's electoral system works.

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  • This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.

  • I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")

  • It's the washington post in 2025, what do you expect?

  • This kind of useless performative busy-ness is one of the stupidest forms virtue signalling.