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When I was young my country had a separation of powers and peaceful elections

I'm convinced Donald Trump is a top 10 character in the history of civilization. People will be studying the mass psychosis that allowed this obviously pathetic person to control so many people for generations to come. They'll never really be able to come up with 1 clean answer.

@sterlingcrispin This is going to immediately improve my life thank you

Pro tip if you are making pour over coffees, make sure the filters you are using don't taste disgusting. To check, pour hot water over the filter without coffee, and then take a sip of that water. If it's gross, all of those flavors are contaminating your brew. Find neutral ones

libbing out for Trans Visibility Day and the return of woke <3

@TheRealThelmaJ1 Many such cases!!

Joe Rogan should look right at the camera, tell us he was wrong, and give all of America a deep, heartfelt apology for helping put Donald Trump in office. He never will.

Early in Trump's first term, I suggested that his supporters make a list of things he could do that would cause them to withdraw their support. Otherwise, it's very difficult to overcome the dissonance that comes with a politician you adore betraying you & the goals you wanted.

As I keep saying, Trump either is a Manchurian candidate or his stupidity and incompetence leads him to make the same decisions a Manchurian candidate would. Functionally there's no difference.

The responses from MAGA here are interesting, and of course, contradictory * These numbers are fake news and gay and made up * These numbers are real but if it's bad, Biden did it first (not true) * These numbers are real and you deserve it, you dumb liberal

The only time members of the Russian State Duma should be on US soil right now, is we have them in handcuffs for war crimes. Disgusting to have them here, and it shows how deeply Russian dark money is in buying members of Congress.

@trouble_man90 @Fat_DTEA Lots of the upset MAGA "anti-war" people are going to dutifully vote GOP in the midterms and 2028 because they believe "the left" is so much worse.

@MikeLevin It is not insane. A logical response to a madman in the White House and an American public too coddled to care

@ChristopherHale The deeper significance is not just “pope calls for peace.” It is that a non-coercive authority is trying to reassert moral jurisdiction over a domain the modern state treats as its own.

It is. Trading on insider information is illegal under the CFTC guidelines. Which applies to *all* sites with *any* US nexus, even if they are not American. The crime we see both in the stock market and offshore prediction markets is not from a lack of laws. It’s a lack of enforcement. Just yesterday reports highlighted how members of the SEC enforcement division had resigned in protest over not being able to pursue an investigation related to Trump’s family. Congress needs to empower the enforcement division of regulatory bodies to circumvent the political appointees and go straight to the committees when they are blocked on objective enforcement. Regulators enjoy subjective authority for interpretation. Clear fraud and abuse is not subject to that, and must have an avenue to be enforced.

@adamfuhrer woah!

Putinization. Oligarchs, family, and friends of the Dear Leader have the real power, and everyone knows it. Unaccountable, personal over public interests. Even if Rubio came to these meetings, everyone would look over his shoulder at whichever Trump crony was there.

Here's the question that haunts me as someone who helped create this category: if you built a prediction market on deaths of despair conditional on Kalshi and Polymarket scaling sports betting without guardrails — what would it say? That's the kind of question these tools were actually designed to answer.

Dems have put forward **7** different funding bills for TSA. Including a clean funding bill that would fully fund TSA with no strings attached, carved out from other funding debates. Republicans voted it down. They are more concerned with clip farming than national security. It is all about political points for them. They don’t care about you, or your safety, or this country. They care about churning out propaganda that keeps them elected and you complacent.

when i saw sy hersh (who broke the abu ghraib story) speak last year, he was very bleak about this. he said that if the abu ghraib whistleblower had come to him in recent years, he would not expect the story to make a difference today the way it did in 2004.

0.00196% of NCAA athletes are transgender. 0.0000001% of votes come from undocumented immigrants. This is what MAGA obsesses over.

I still think the key question of this decade is: what do you want more than dopamine? because there are infinite ways to waste life scrolling, sitting in group chats, having endless conversations with LLMs etc. So what do you actually want? Are you doing the thing?

my investment thesis is simple: support the things that will bring about better structures to make the world a better place. if supporting systems of oppression and control are more profitable, I am ok leaving money on the table and ignoring them