Being good at hiding your vice is not a virtue

Tell me you know nothing about the kennedys without saying you know nothing about the kennedys

• https://www.theverge.com/politics/777313/charlie-kirks-alleged-killer-scratched-bullets-with-a-helldivers-combo-and-a-furry-sex-meme
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson-gun-casings-inscriptions/86111606007/
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/suspect-charlie-kirk-shooting

None of this is retracted, and these aren’t the manufacturer’s markings. I’ll go ahead and be dumb enough to believe the reporting from all these ‘“news” orgs’. I am now propagandized into believing that a clearly unwell person made a potentially unusual decision.

It’s got lots of uses:

• driving up fossil fuel revenues
• providing a solid excuse for laying off a bunch of employees
• disciplining labor
• offloading blame for unpopular decisions
• increasing surveillance and nonconsensual data collection

AFAIK, the casings messages are real, just different than originally reported. And while it’s true major news orgs have an anti left bias, it doesn’t manifest in this specific way. They tend to accurately report these kinds of facts in a timely manner.

Then again, the WSJ did break with this behavior, so maybe things are changing and I need to recalibrate.

https://xcancel.com/DavidShuster/status/1966576856515203480

I still think it’s too early to call this, I’m not seeing reporting by major orgs on it. It does seem plausible based on the messages on the casings, but I also thought it plausible he was a leftist

Wishing everybody can find someone who loves them as much as Crowder loves spreading misinformation about shootings

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This is the one post I’ve seen here that actually tackles the main problems. Climate change can’t be stopped without degrowth, which means putting a stop to capitalism.

I’d like to add: while there would be a lot we’d have to give up, life under a degrowth economy would be good. Way better than what we have now. We’d all have more leisure time to focus on stuff that matters. Sure, we’d have fewer gadgets and toys, but we’d be able to spend more time with loved ones and engaging in creative and fulfilling hobbies.

This is extremely important: we are not at the point of no return.

Climate change can be stopped, even now. It will take lots of work, but it’s possible.

ClimateAdam, who has a PhD in climate science from Oxford, made a video about this. It’s 5 years old, but he’s still making videos with similar points today. It’s my understanding this is still the predominant view amongst climate scientists. The main reason I think this is that there aren’t many calling for geoengineering, which if we were at the point of no return would be something we’d have to explore.

The reason this is so important is because as climate change denial becomes more and more infeasible, it will get replaced primarily with climate change defeatism. The sooner we start pushing back on this, the better.

Sure, I’ll do all this, and I’ll continue to push back against reactionaries like Newsom. I never said people shouldn’t do anything, I never said I’d do nothing, this is just dodging the question at hand.

Because it’s the wrong size

Just saying you’re above voting for blue is the same callous bullshit that got us here in the first place.

Vote blue no matter who is absolutely the dominant strain of thought in the liberal left. If anything is to blame for “getting us here in the first place”, it’s decades of callously putting down people calling for something better.

If we want real progress, we need to defeat the GOP and then completely dismantle and reform/replace the DNC.

Why is this ordering necessary?

This is so ridiculous. I won’t vote for Newsom under any circumstances. I’m so done with the blue no matter who mentality, a mentality which only applies when the candidate is basically a republican. When a progressive/moderate socialist wins the primary, the whole democrat party changes its tune to “well maybe a third party candidate is OK after all”.

If you want to talk about fixing our broken political system, we need to consider uncapping the total number of House Reps

The US came very close to having a first amendment that had a low cap for the number of people one house rep could represent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

Lots of trash driving around Mercedes here in the US. Just happens to be trash with a lot of money

100% agree with this sentiment

Here is Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, saying “It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated.” Democrats and their billionaire owners are just as implicated by this as Republicans.

https://xcancel.com/sfpelosi/status/1147657745253855233?lang=en

This is reading, not writing. USB sends a dummy zero every few consecutive 1s for framing purposes. If you want the details Ben Eater has a great video on it.

Prescient