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@AnarchoNinaWrites @pwassonchat @ramsey @paninid Quoting philosopher Ernst Cassirer:

Ugh.

"He had just completely lost his cougarness, he was just a ghost walking."

https://www.chronline.com/stories/bird-flu-kills-olympic-peninsula-cougars-in-washington-state,370657

@bmacDonald94 :-) love it. Happy holidays to you as well!

@bmacDonald94 So very true. I have seen many people try to articulate this, and I think it’s the essence of Buddhism in some ways … we put pressure on ourselves not to feel and be whatever we are at a given moment. In the west especially, we think ecstasy is the goal rather than things like contentment and acceptance.

"The point of Squid Game is not to explain to us that “capitalism is bad,” but rather this: we already know, all too well, that capitalism is bad, but we keep returning to a dire, money-obsessed system, morphing into characters that consciously choose, game after game, to participate in our (and one another’s) demise."

https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-are-we-stuck-here-squid-game-trauma-and-repetition/

“We’re sorry, the United States is currently closed as we host a cosplay party for billionaires. Please try your call again in a few decades.”

There’s a motion circulating to rename the GOP to “The New Musketeers.” Its motto will just be “All for one.”

#PresidentMusk

Glad to see he’s prioritizing the important economic issues facing all those strapped American families.

"adding that his administration will "bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it.""

https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-vows-rename-denali-north-192053563.html

I would now like to sum up my experience of nearly 50 non-expert years of using computers and the internet:

Plaintext, wherever possible, FTW.

This kind of stuff amazes me. All kinds of things are legal in one state but not another. Isn’t that the whole point of “giving it back to the states”? Oh, yeah … it’s never what they say it is.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-lawsuit-shield-laws-texas-telemedicine-74c9b7d5c3c152e4c8f199b29132daec

@revndm @pluralistic I’ve been listening to the Master Plan podcast, which goes through a lot of the history as to why there aren’t caps on it.

I gave thinking we’d see some splashy and creative uses of the money. Perhaps to get some actual news out as @pluralistic suggested. I didn’t see any of that happen, I have to say. It ends up looking like raising money just to raise money.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-much-of-the-harris-campaign-was-a-scam

@pluralistic We definitely need this counterprogramming. Is Meidas anything like what you’re thinking of here?

@pluralistic Thank you for this thread, Cory. By far the best take I’ve seen. I hope it’s read far and wide.

@pluralistic

Well, I am glad to see Trump is a three-time loser of the popular vote after all. Because I know that’s what rankles him the most. He wants so badly to be popular. But he never is.

The truly rich are very happy for us to think of the healthcare CEOs as the problem.

"Since Feinberg is at least the ninth billionaire overall that Trump has chosen for this term so far, that means that more than 1% of all American billionaires are directly plugged into Trump's government."

https://www.whattrumpdid.today/2024/12/what-did-donald-trump-do-today-he_3.html

A glimpse at the new style.

"“Our National Assembly has become a haven for criminals, a den of legislative dictatorship that seeks to paralyse the judicial and administrative systems"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/03/south-korea-declares-emergency-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-north-korea-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-674f2d648f08e41b41d66125#block-674f2d648f08e41b41d66125

Trump pardoned a slew of people who fought to destroy American democracy.