really is one of the dumbest political blunders of all time that Dems sent the TikTok ban to Biden's desk and then chickened out on actual enforcement, thus letting Trump negotiate a "deal" to hand it over to the chuddiest media mogul alive

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when authoritarian dictators tell us that they see western ideas--not western militaries, not western economies, but western *ideas*--as the most existential threat to their regimes, we should see this not as paranoid rantings but cold, accurate analysis. because it's true!

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crucially this applies to western dictators too

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if your great love for your fellow human almost always takes the form of finding ways to direct cruelty and anger towards someone, I’m at least a little bit suspicious that you’re finding exactly what you’re looking for. good people are good to people

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just found out people are saying that humans are conscious but they're literally made out of meat??? the same stuff that is in Vienna sausages???

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