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the eternal american political debate is between people who think fascism is when the govt does something and people who think fascism is when the govt does something they don't like
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Canada is already post-liberal and has been since 1982. Canada rejects liberal ideals such as popular sovereignty, freedom of speech, and equality before the law. Unlike the US, this is actually law rather than invented from whole cloth by judges, activists, and regulators.
Fortissax@FortySacks
One thing I am extremely proud of as a Canadian, is that our nation was born in the fight against the American and French revolutionary liberalism. Nobody else in the Anglosphere is as equipped as we are to lead a post-liberal future.
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@RevanWashington @woke8yearold I imagine there were many rumors, as it'd have been in his interest to cultivate explanations for his success (common with such frauds). Front-running was the explanation I'm most familiar with, but that was from a retrospective description of the case.
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@WrappedInThFlag @woke8yearold At the time the rumor was investors thought the geometric growth was possible because he was money laundering
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@RevanWashington @woke8yearold the wink was 'this guy is front-running his brokerage clients' (which is actually really hard to do these days)
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@woke8yearold Wasn't Madoff just a straight Ponzi but with an added flavor of "of course these returns aren't possible from legitimate enterprise but a guy as connected as me can do it wink wink"
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@St_Rev I kinda assumed the new thing had just bought defunct letterhead, or showed up in numbers to a meeting where everyone else present was senile.
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The acronyms get tiresome but CPUSA is an actual party going back a hundred years and ACP is a social media op from 2024, probably China/Iran backed.
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Anti-Zionists will also be put in jail. Zionist-neutral? You bet you're going to jail.
American Communist Party@ACPMain
Under Communism, Zionists will be put in jail.
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@Plainsspeak @St_Rev say what you want about Italian Fascism, and there's a lot to say, but they actually made a crossover brand and not just a namespace collision.
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@St_Rev Wait. Isn't that exactly what happened in Italy a hundred years ago?
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We do not live in a rationalist, scientific civilization that disdains anything that cannot be measured or quantified (this was arguably true in 1960, not today), we live in a superstitious and mystical one with a few surviving islands of reason.
Jerry Coyne@Evolutionistrue
British Columbia has adopted indigenous "ways of knowing" as coequal to real science in secondary-school classes. This dilutes science education and misrepresents superstition as knowledge. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/03/27/ind…
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@Steve_Sailer @herandrews Literally it’s just this. There’s more fun things available for us to spend money on, mostly in pursuit of looking cute. What even is there for men to spend their money on??
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Settle a debate for me. Are women slower to pay off their student loans because they’re
- out of the workforce having kids
- working in fields eligible for student loan forgiveness (e.g. nonprofits, helping professions)
What explains the huge gap? Obviously both are a factor.
The Missing Data Depot@data_depot
From a 2023 NYT article entitled, "America’s Student Loans Were Never Going to be Repaid." "Male, white & Asian borrowers made progress on their loans between 2009 and 2022. Female, Black & Latino borrowers had increasing balances until the repayment pause came into effect."
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@herandrews women generally have more consumer spending, no?
I'd like to see cross-tabs on married vs single women here, within each demographic, and women split by race.
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Atheism Plus was dead on arrival, as it was mercilessly mocked from the start. The first Atheism Plus account on then Twitter was a ruthless parody of it, so someone has to start a "real" Atheism Plus account instead. That one, unfortunately, also turned out to be a parody just playing a longer game.
I know this, because I was the one who ran the second account.
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People should give Conor their own experiences. For me:
-Public gatherings were widely banned, but then abruptly encouraged in many quarters because “racism” was a public health crisis.
-Masks were good, then pointless, then good again. In the very earliest days, I saw it earnestly argued that officials should lie about masks’ effectiveness to prevent a shortage so that hospitals could have them.
-Officials coining new names for the different variants, thereby reducing legibility to the public, because they thought it was racist for ten to be named after places.
-As wascovered extensively by @aaronsibarium, Covid treatments, including vaccines and monoclonal antibodies, were allocated on the basis of race rather than risk factors in several states.
-There was aggressive censorship of all kinds of COVID topics, carried out by private actors but encouraged by public ones. Initially, it was claims the virus came from a lab, but it later included arguments about the vaccine’s effectiveness, potential alternative treatments, etc.
-Pfizer very obviously shut down its vaccine trial to delay any result past Election Day 2020, a politically motivated action that faced zero pushback from public health officials at the time or since.
-Ridiculous health theater like forcing masking as you entered a restaurant, then un-masking as you sat down, made the entire affair feel like health theater for the neurotic instead of a serious effort to protect the public.
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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@turrible_tao she's dumb on purpose to make you click
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TV loves loudly blacking-up hobbits & elves & Hermione & Snape so wokes can claim to not notice—“Hogwarts has always been diverse, & ofc blacks can be nerds”—& bait outrage they get free coverage sputtering at. But Simpsons were obviously “high yellow” blacks & nobody goes there.
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@0x49fa98 the opposite explanation for this observation is of course 'brain damage makes women like this stuff'
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@0x49fa98 If a woman has sex with a man, and he chokes her, and then she has sex with him 3 more times, she consented to the latter three times, to the degree that the word has any meaning.
Could be different guys, but if she's sleeping with 4 guys in a month that do that she has a type.
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don't worry, female consciousness is a spandrel
ella devi@ellad3vi
women are becoming brain damaged from men choking them during sex
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@LoCtrl there isn't a breathalyzer on the tallest rooftop I can get to
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@QuasLacrimas she did write a good parable about how california fantasy/sci-fi writers, as a community, were held together by pedophiles, though.
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This would explain why her books are some of the thinnest, vaguest nonsense ever to bore me in my teenage years
umar 🌾🍂🦬@uskglasses
the most influential piece of writing wisdom for me is ursula k. le guin, who wrote a dozen books about guys sailing, saying: “Yeah idk, i've never been in a boat. I was just sort of guessing”
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Where will Muslims work if DHS and private airline contractors take over airport security?
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Acting TSA Administrator Ms. Ha Nguyen McNeill testifies before Congress that TSA is currently suffering the longest wait times in agency history, with callout rates hitting 40-50% at some airports and more than 480 employees quitting since the shutdown began. McNeil testifies that TSA has been shut down for half of fiscal year 2026, and $1 billion in TSA paychecks will be missed if the shutdown isn't ended by Friday. She testified that to make ends meet, TSA officers have been selling blood and plasma and sleeping in their cars. Some have received eviction notices, missed bill payments and accrued late fees, damaged their credit, and have defaulted on loans, but are “still expected to perform at the highest level”.
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