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@CountDankulaTV @niubi i think a real win for freedom of speech would have been this idiotic case not making it to trial. dismissal with costs and attorney fees to be paid by plaintiffs

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

@militech_en @arpitrage that’s a flaw in the geneva convention, not in the strategy of attackibg enemy leaders

@arpitrage Killing civilian leaders who do not give direct military orders violates the Geneva convention.

In modern warfare, the initial strike is a decapitation attempt at enemy leadership. Advances in ballistics and intelligence allow this, as opposed to first working through the foot soldiers at the front.

@arpitrage Thank God. Now we just need to rewrite international law to incentivize more killing of enemy leaders and less killing of everyone else.

@powerbottomdad1 @Noahpinion i don’t think this is true. what smart ppl actually think is that our foreign policy establishment’s skills consist mostly of social climbing and very little of foreign policy, which they prove true over and over. military is excellent at implementing the bureaucrats’ mistakes

it's amazing how many "smart" people think the US military is genuinely stupid. and now they're all getting steamrolled. i wonder if they'll update their priors

@mattyglesias @deanwball @nicholas_bagley if only i could talk to the tsar

The President articulated a perfectly reasonable response: cut the Anthropic contract and explain why the government is doing so in no uncertain terms. This is precisely what I had been advocating for, along with all other sane people. Then Hegseth just… blew it up. A travesty.

@PrinceVogel @powerbottomdad1 ur right but this time’s special bc rationalists love trump cuz he made them munny on crypto, so ur wrong

@powerbottomdad1 Anthropics safety regs are in their contract Anthropic wants to not be destroyed by the arbitrary use of a law which has never been applied to an American company FOR FOLLOWING THEIR CONTRACT Tell me how I'm wrong

anthropic wants to sell guns but control when the government shoots

@SeanParnellASW so why are you demanding they do these things you allegedly have no interest in?

The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement. This narrative is fake and being peddled by leftists in the media. Here's what we're asking: Allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic's model for all lawful purposes. This is a simple, common-sense request that will prevent Anthropic from jeopardizing critical military operations and potentially putting our warfighters at risk. We will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions. They have until 5:01 PM ET on Friday to decide. Otherwise, we will terminate our partnership with Anthropic and deem them a supply chain risk for DOW.

@yhdistyminen nah this one’s a fair criticism. we elected biden in 2020 and he appointed an ag who intentionally slow walked the prosecution so trump could get off

If you wanted the Democrats to do things, perhaps you should have voted for them

@ramez this isn’t in the constitution. just need a supreme court that isn’t nuts

1. Limit or End Presidential Immunity. Constitutional Amendment needed. The President cannot be above the law. Very very limited immunity may be required, but the broad immunity for all "official acts" is overly broad and must go.

Trump has made clear that the US Constitution and overall system have significant security flaws and traits that benefit extremism. We need structural changes, including multiple Constitutional Amendments, to improve resilience to future authoritraians. A starter list. 🧵

@basilYam if she’s not willing to say this in the first few dates i assume she doesn’t want them seriously enough to pursue a relationship with

IMO women (I) don’t need to be scared of saying they want marriage and kids, even pretty early. As long as my energy isn’t weird and grabby I’ve never actually scared anyone away. I still have to actively reject the guys who aren’t right for me

@goblinodds @xwanyex ime it’s more that it’s just not a priority at all. i just watched a 30-something friend who nominally wants marriage and kids jump into a relationship that’s clearly not going to lead there because she got emotionally attached before having the talk about long term goals

@xwanyex afaict it's more like: women mostly do want marriage but have been taught that this is kind of shameful and they should be waiting til their careers are on lock and that if they admit it out loud every man will leave them and they just have to wait for him to come around

This is outdated in that it presumes that the way young man get girls to stick around for five years is through false promises of marriage. But that’s just simply not how the world works, anymore. You don’t have to promise marriage. Nobody thinks marriage is a default.

@NickyFrank30 better than the party activists who’d do it otherwise

Primary voters don't pick good candidates. Primaries suck.

@patdennis and no one deserves the L more

I love to mock joke-non-getters as much as anyone, but the serious truth here is: Winning on substance while retreating on branding is, to many political hobbyists, losing

@agraybee depends how the districts are drawn innit?

I don't know what people imagine an "opposition party" is but I assure you there are no democracies where the side that gets fewer votes has equal or greater power than the side that gets more.

@UncleScottiepoo ok but he specifically said he would never pressure *women* to have sex with him. if they were men or nonbinary, he’s technically telling the truth

Feels like a good time to publicly say that I personally know two different people who were pressured into having sex with William. He threatened to blacklist them in the DSA if they didn’t have sex with them and when they refused he tried to have them excised from the organization.

@sympatheticopp i have never had a long-term relationship that began with a dinner date. unless you count a friend who just hung out at my house for 3 days straight and i’m sure we had dinner each day

fellas say this stuff but they took their gf to dinner on the first date... this is the male equivalent of "you'd look sooooo cute with a short haircut"

@yurihustle no ofc not

would you delete your steam account?

@_Jyggalag_ no, of course not

Ok but would you do the dishes

@itaisher probably some grad student who dropped out

Who would you say is the most correctly rated philosopher of all time?

@dissproportion upper class is 1%, not 10

For fun, if you think of yourself as “upper middle class”, Google the top tenth percentile and top 20th percentile household income in your area and tell me if you are above or below it. 2/

The reason that objectively rich people get away with calling themselves “upper middle class” is you have to spend far more than most sensible people in the top 10% would be willing to do to avoid being surrounded by actual middle class people with insane amounts of debt. 1/