Scary Mr. Olmec Man

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Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。

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I feel like we get stuck on this narrow question of Biden's mental capacity, when for me the bigger problem with his age is how it just represents that we'll never do something new, we'll never change, we'll just be stuck with these old men and their world

Despite being uh, not at all a Harris fan, I find the idea of her becoming the candidate encouraging because at the very least she represents *a* future

As always I have profound contempt for Democratic leadership, but I have almost as much contempt for the rank-and-file party die-hards whose main priority is finding the path of least resistance to maintain their fairy tales about what America is like

I mean, all Biden has to say is no, so who knows what will happen, but it's very hard for me to imagine him running after 20 Senators have publicly called on him to drop out.

It's so grim to watch tutorials on how to make great documentaries made by people whose documentaries are like, "Cats: The Story of Our Fluffy Friends."

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Tom Scocca

Sort of think an investigation of what is wrong with US media culture should begin with their continued obsession with "scoops" even in a world where Twitter exists

As is the case with a lot of bad shit in America, the media was never forced to face the consequences of the Iraq War or to do any serious introspection into their role in making it, so nothing was learned and nothing has changed

The reception of AI in China and among Chinese intellectuals is pretty interesting to me, and tbh it seems to me to mostly reflect their traditional enthusiasm for voluntarism and frothy trendy bullshit

Such an insult, and considering that the author didn't use ChatGPT to write the novel, he is just specifically denigrating translation

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Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition) *Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales *Amend Supplement Labeling Act *Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm *Aggressively enforcing FARA *Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech *Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable

I can't imagine this low rent spectacle of an RNC winning over anyone...I mean, seriously, Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan?

One thing that make me a bit more sanguine about Harris than I ordinarily would be is that she is apparently unpalatable to Mark Halperin and the centrist morons he speaks for

The Dems will never have success until they do what I have been telling them to do for years and make the version of "What Can I Do For You?" performed live on The Cher Show their anthem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyBT...

Cher - What Can I Do For You? (with La Belle) (The Cher Show, 04/06/1975)www.youtube.com Cher singing 'What Can I Do For You?' with La Belle on 'The Cher Show' broadcast on April 06, 1975. Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi6KseJJbchxzekrUk53ss7JU5obrssvb Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3g0NXBm Follow Cher: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cher Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cher Instagram: http://instagram.com/cher https://www.cher.com/ #Cher #CherShow

Lou Dobbs telling people to thank President Trump for the weekend is the most dystopian thing I've ever seen in real life, which these days is truly an accomplishment. Rest in piss.

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Hunter Walker

I think senior Dems make a lot of dumb panicky decisions based solely on media bullshit. I *don't* think they decide to *shiv their own presidential candidate* based solely on media bullshit.

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Ryan Boyd

Really putting the HH in HH

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Atrios

To be fair, Sarah Isgur knows a little something about breaking up families

I like the people who are like "they'll unleash so many sexist and racist attacks on Harris." Yeah, man, that'll play well for Trump in the suburbs.

It's funny that probably nobody cares/is watching, but this RNC seems like maybe a disaster and the worst possible pitch to swing voters

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jasper pilled

Trade unionism: Not even once

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David_j_roth

Dave, I've admired your work for years but I must admit that I don't feel great that "mainlining hours of WFAN in the 90s/00s" is the best possible preparation for our era

Love to see the RNC go hard on anti-Ukraine sentiment. Just one wildly unpopular position after another.

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David_j_roth

It's the funniest and therefore, given the universe we live in, I've decided it's the most likely outcome

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I think a reason I'm pretty comfortable with holding the two ideas in my head together that 1) it would be really good if joe biden wins the election against donald trump and 2) its probably not a great idea for joe biden to be the nominee to do this is that I already did it once before in 2020.

The idea of buying a house that would attract a potential future wife seems totally insane to me, but it is the premise of multiple House Hunter episodes?!?

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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel

How many years has the organization been effectively operating in contempt of court?

One of the silliest ideas I am seeing on here is that Biden is "outmaneuvering" everyone right now. No, everything depends on him saying he'll step down and he doesn't want to. That's easy. If he had actual political acumen rn none of these people would be daring to speak publicly.

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bumpin that (x8)

The thing is, I can't imagine that anything short of Pelosi/Obama/Schumer themselves coming out publicly would make Biden drop out

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Nicholas is Al Pacino-ing his way through the election

Pavlou or not, for sure that shit is out there

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Nicholas is Al Pacino-ing his way through the election

Drew Pavlou is...not a reliable source to say the least, but more importantly, I wonder if this is going to run into the issue that mainstream media has had covering the far right so far, which is that their reporters are just unprepared to cover all this weirdness