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Gen-X folks can and do enjoy breeding dudes and they’re still Gen-X because breeding dudes is inherently cromulent

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We already have that and have since forever because fossil fuel priducers are subsidized and fuel taxes don’t even cover the cost of highways, much less the negative externalities of cars and trucks. So the actual policy question at hand is merely about the amount and form of the subsidy

it’s poetic that Douthat is going to work for a woman who literally ruined a workplace

I believe they call that being in alignment

Well, it replaced a “Roman Empire” that was being run out of Istanbul, so it being in Germany was actually geographic progress

Good thing they haven’t spent the last decade purging the party of everybody who could credibly say No, Sir, We’re Not Going To Let You Do That!

like at this point being prez is his whole life. what else is he gonna do in ‘28?

a fate that possibly awaits us all at that age is to become a roomba hitting the same walls over and over. the only thing that finally stops it is the battery gives out

it’s clearly a watermelon wearing fishnet

where do we want him? fucking in heaven

aaand the wsj journalist has turned off replies and quotes.

an “intelligence” that deserves respect and even rights; a separate being from the company that made it, even as it serves corporate interests. All of the power with none of the responsibility. a very familiar kind of bamboozlement really

the rhetoric is kind of fascinating. what their software did was “unintended” but somehow the degree of iteration between the “training” and the operation of the software means this is not buggy, faulty or malicious code (which they could be held liable for); instead it’s

In general nothing should aim to be "for the whole world". That always comes either with a colonial mindset or with blind spots as big as the milky way. Focus on serving a defined group of people. An actual community with shared values. And /maybe/ connect to other communities. If you want.

I think many people on the Dem side don’t recognize that the kind of “party” they‘re looking for already exists but it has to maintain a certain distance from the actual party organization.

So here in NYC we have numerous “Democratic clubs” that act as filters & endorsers; the DSA actually works similiarly to those. The Republican right has many of these types of groups; they are very zealous and have been key to establishing and maintaining ideological discipline.

The tricky thing is, this needs to be done outside the party apparatus because parties themselves are deeply limited by US and state law in how much control they are allowed to have over their activities & organization

yeah this is where they go when they’ve got nothing else: red meat to get the base to turn out. he sounds exactly like my wingnut brother at thanksgiving.

You think it's sociopathic to publish economic data? This is a case of getting mad at the wrong people.