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What the hell is a nit? And what compels one to pick it?

Patriarchy is dominance. Imperial and holy war its institutional expression. Biggest stick on top. Oppenheimer renders war obsolete. Chink in the armor. Barbie the first feminist?  Hot babe with a career. Slow deflation of the imperial erection. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and on. Culture wars the sad weakened substitute for hot holy war. Yelping like a stuck pig melting into a pool of disinformation.

They love love love to see your teeth gnashing and quivering outrage in response to their bigotry. That’s the point.

Is there a difference between Google using AI to report the news and Fox “news” hiring actual humans to do the same?

Seems that in either case the burden lies with the news consumer to determine the veracity. No?

If I understand this correctly, our two-tiered justice system has been created by the woke mind virus to cancel free speech and sexualize children by teaching them to read about critical race theory.

Did I miss any of the critical facts?

Just as America didn’t properly bury the confederacy after the Civil War, America also failed to properly bury the third Reich after WWII. This happened, I think, because America sort of has its roots in the fascism of slavery and genocide. Today’s fascism has a long pedigree. So it goes.

Why is it that when a  journalist asks a Democrat to comment about routine Republican bigotry, they reflexively pearl clutch and express “disappointment” and “surprise”?

Seriously? You’re disappointed and surprised a Republican is a bigot? Puhleeze! How about responding to these questions by saying: “Yeah, I’m not surprised at the bigotry. This is how the party has been operating for decades. Bigotry appeals to a minority of Americans and, sadly, it wins elections... if it ain’t broke...”

A good read. Key bit:

"Obviously, the social networking space is undergoing a major shakeup. Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service. With #Threads and #Mastodon both embracing ActivityPub, it might not be one platform that wins out—but an open standard. "

popsci.com/technology/activity

Grievance, rage and religion be a helluva drug. For decades the drug’s been peddled to conservative America with fantastic electoral effect. In fact, you can draw a through line of the dealers from George Wallace to Jerry Falwell and Rush Limbaugh to the Fox “news”. Like any drug, overuse creates tolerance until the user does enough to kill themselves.

Right now, we are at the stage where we are watching the conservaddict pissing himself and screaming at the fire hydrant. Sad.

Some of the women in “today’s GOP” declaring war on the “Barbie” movie. I do believe irony is dead.

Yes the constant meta (and Meta) discussion here is tedious, and often much worse, but one thing you have to realize is that this is not just a social network, it’s a left/progressive political project. And I don’t know how many left/progressive political orgs you’ve been involved in, but let me tell you, they are kind of known for endless, agonizing talk about process, factions, outside threats, strategy, grievances, etc. If you have a solution for that, you just might save the world.

Participants in American democracy sold their internet town square out to Twitter. Now they’re complaining about it falling apart and the detrimental effect on democracy?

In the immortal words of Colin Powell...”you broke it, you own it”.

Trump, as with the entire right, complain nonstop about “CNN, MSNBC, and the liberal media bias”.

That liberals are RADIO SILENT about Fox and the $1B Dominion settlement, which is an ACTUAL, REAL LIVE EXAMPLE OF MEDIA BIAS is as frustrating as my inability to touch my toes due to my big beer belly.

Volunteering to adopt new users who are lost or confused. Meaning I’ll recommend people to follow, and answer questions. I’ll delete this when I’ve reached my capacity, but feel free to boost or copy paste to your own accounts.

Justice Roberts said:

“Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise...”

So make EVERY application to a public university REQUIRE prospective students to write an essay on the way race has affected their life. EVERY student. All essays should be weighed equally to aid in determining their admission. Problem solved.

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