
Jeb
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Jeb
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sophist, pharisee, dumb moron, polka fan


The screams of the longhouse while man overcomes nature

The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity. Today's Morning Note newsletter covers Masoud Pezeshkian's condemnation of Trump's “desecration of Jesus,” the Iran War's gutting effects on America's housing market, Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami, and more. Read below. watchtcn.co/4stA1RL



“All the Founders agreed with ME, actually” revisionism is cancerous to the idea of the United States

The extent to which the US founders were Enlightenment rationalists is overstated but there’s a revisionist overcorrection happening on the right which is totally ahistorical

1775 to 1789 is also a black hole, except for military events—always described as if they were unconnected to American and especially British politics. So Americans lump the leftist revolution of 1776 and the rightist counterrevolution of 1789 together as “the Founders.” Sure ok

love this episode as a criticism of ai because it outwardly rejects the common “it looks bad” critique and shows how that isnt the point because ai is constantly getting better, the issue as the show correctly highlights is devaluing and discouraging human creativity




Kissing is so fascinating to me. How did we all collectively decide that smushing our mouths together is a cornerstone of intimacy? Or are all our brains just hard-wired for that somehow? I’m not sure which one of those is stranger



