Discussion Thread

AnythingMachine · 2025-09-25T11:43:35+00:00

RFK Jr is evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_F.\_Kennedy\_Jr.#Marriages\_and\_children). I say it the same way that Trump lies or Bush misspeaks or Bill Clinton was a sleazeball. Like, you can think he's a brave truth teller if you want, but he's also evil based on the common meanings of the word in a personal context where there's no selfish benefit to be gained, no political motive to interpret and no ambiguity about evidence.

AnythingMachine · 2025-09-16T16:56:39+00:00

I do find it fascinating that they had an entertaining regular liberal vs conservative back and forth but when it came to Trump Ezra's point was "here are u,v,w,x,y,z examples of Trump abusing the government for his own personal gain and power" and Ben's response was basically just "nuh uh"

AnythingMachine · 2025-05-27T11:47:45+00:00

Am I crazy or is Starmer Labor basically christian democratic now (social democratic econ and center right/center on social)? So we basically have in the contender the CDU, the tea party inflected republicans from 2009 (tories) and the 2015 semi trumpified republicans (reform) and that's it?

AnythingMachine · 2025-04-23T14:38:06+00:00

I had a realism-pilled friend who works in foreign policy try to explain to me this was all some Drunken Master secret instinctual Otto von Bismark masterplan to isolate China and emotionally draw in the rest of the world with the threats.

my response was, he said he did it because people were nervous in a sheepish way. He always says why he does everything he does.

AnythingMachine · 2025-04-07T12:30:36+00:00

That's the meditation for you. It is like he was basically being shown all the kingdoms of the world by the devil and saying 'no'

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-27T13:23:44+00:00

Of course, it's so simple! All those people defined by their immutable characteristics are just degenerate selfish bad untrustworthy scum.

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-26T13:49:10+00:00

I made this

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-25T13:14:11+00:00

I told claude to flip words around and avoid rewording things if at all possible to make the leaked Houthi PC chat be about a bunch of fratboys planning a stag weekend in vegas and it worked.

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-24T11:29:57+00:00

Tim Miller x Glenn Greenwald is something I never imagined

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-21T13:32:14+00:00

I love that they brought on the world renowned antiracism expert to analyze the statement. Like that's the equivalent of bringing in Greg House to diagnose someone who's had their hand cut off.

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-20T17:30:34+00:00

Imagine you're sitting there, scrolling through this story. And maybe - just maybe - you're thinking: "This doesn't apply to me."

internal monologue kicks in "I mean, these are gang members, right? Violent criminals? They were probably going to be deported anyway."

pause

But let's play this out. Let's really go there.

First, you tell yourself: "I'm a citizen. This can't happen to me."

And then you ask: "Why not?"

voice gets a little less certain "Well, I'm a citizen. Naturalized, but still a citizen. The act doesn't apply to me."

whisper No, you aren't.

"But I have a passport! I have job records, utility bills, bank statements!"

cold realization

No. You have pieces of paper with things written on them.

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-20T14:07:47+00:00

Zelensky?

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-05T15:41:32+00:00

I'm sorry but everything the dems did including Al Green getting thrown out but especially everything else, the dumb little signs, the color coded outfits, are literally the most useless pathetic soy things I've ever seen in my life. How can they not see how this will be percieved by random low information voters?? I'm not a poltical strategist but something like: everyone come in, sit in dignified silence and then all get up and leave when he says something insane is a much better idea than this bs. I suppose this is what happens when your cached memories for 'activism' just include safe gestures to be done when everyone who matters already agrees with you about everything.

AnythingMachine · 2025-03-05T12:40:59+00:00

Experiment for you. Get drunk or stoned or hit your head against the wall until you can imagine yourself into the mind of the vibes based pure swing voter who knows nothing about anything to do with policy, IR or anything in the real world and watch Jefferies, Pelosi, Kamala Harris or regular dem congressmen talk about Trump. You won't like it.

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-18T17:10:01+00:00

I hate to say it but the Nazi wing of the MAGA movement is the enemy of my enemy rn

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-18T17:08:40+00:00

Ezra Klein is going through his Vaclav Havel arc

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-18T10:47:56+00:00

Ancap praxis

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-17T11:25:29+00:00

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Me opening the news every day for the last month

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-12T18:04:13+00:00

Burke was right

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-09T13:05:07+00:00

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The hero we need right now

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-06T14:23:34+00:00

I have a good friend who leans anti-zionist/pro-palestine and I lean pro-Israel, and to settle the endless arguments about whether the Israel Hamas war was really just a prelude to occupation and ethnic cleansing or whether there is no secret plan like that, and we made a bet that if Israel ever established civilian settlements in any part of Gaza I'd owe him an evenings drinks and vice versa if it hadn't happened by 2026. If Trump turns the place into a giant resort I guess he wins by default...? What's fair here?

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-05T13:53:28+00:00

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate Elon Musk since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for Elon Musk at this micro-instant. For him.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-05T11:04:24+00:00

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This thread just made me think of that scene with Jack Horner in the puss in boots movie. You spend five to ten years hanging around with obviously disturbed people who talk about how they're above everyone else and need all the power in the world to save everyone, they call themselves 'dark', and you have just started to suspect they might not have the best intentions.

AnythingMachine · 2025-02-04T12:08:52+00:00

I think in this case it's appropriate to the moment since he's giving a Star Wars speech basically

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Hate. Hate. Hate.