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Through #posting we can change the world

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Couldn't we have just tried to win hearts and minds rather than taking scalps and we would have found ourselves in the same position? That broader question haunts me.

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Seeing a nominally 'communist' Vietnam participate in the in the global market economy puts the tragic futility of the Vietnam war into perspective. If this is what losing the war looks like 50 years later, what the fuck was the point in even fighting it?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

One year on from "Liberation Day," Trump’s tariffs have altered supply chains — just not in the way he envisioned. A Bloomberg analysis of shipment-level customs data shows a shift in manufacturing toward Vietnam, with the country last year surpassing China as the leading supplier to the US of laptops and game consoles for the first time:

[Very serious @bencgauld]

*10 years ago, so take with a grain of salt, but it's insane how much forgiveness and affinity the Vietnamese had towards the United States after the ignominy of the Vietnam war.

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Re-creating Quibi working backwards from first principles.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

TikTok is starting to develop their own TV shows.

They are looking to develop short-form drama shows for the platform.

(Source: https://t.co/MQIa7pLb2K)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

TikTok is starting to develop their own TV shows.

They are looking to develop short-form drama shows for the platform.

(Source: https://t.co/MQIa7pLb2K)

[Very serious @bencgauld]

https://t.co/7TGYiAFPN2

[Very serious @bencgauld]

This guy needs his teenage son to keep him accountable for his pornography habit.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mike Johnson says Iranians have "misguided religion"

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Derivative trading off people's belief in the rapture neatly sums up where we're at as a country

[tedfrank @tedfrank]

So the reason this Polymarket “prediction market” is performing so insanely high is because there’s a second market asking if this market will go above 5%. People in the derivative market are manipulating this market. Which defeats the public policy case for prediction markets…

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Conflating drug trafficking with terrorism expands the Authorization of Use of Military Force to cover it's policing. It's more sophisticated than simply baiting fear and loathing.

[Scott Greenfield @ScottGreenfield]

There is no such thing as "narco-terrorism." It's a made up word used to strike fear and loathing in the hearts of people who don't know better.

[Very serious @bencgauld]

All of Nevada should look like this, are you kidding me? We have the technology to get infinite electricity from the SKY yet we're still burning BLACK SLUDGE FROM HELL like a caveman would

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

In Puding County, SW China’s Guizhou, solar panels blanket the mountains. Welcome to China’s “Silicon Valley”!
@UpGuizhou

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Mulling over Halloween costume ideas and this image flashed into my head like a lightning bolt from hell. He won the Heisman and this was his reward? No wonder dude smokes so much weed...

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Soylent Green sales coincidentally up double digits

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NEWS YOU WON’T SEE ON FOX NEWS

[Very serious @bencgauld]

"Chat GPT, validate my anti alcohol priors. Do not include sources"

[Very serious @bencgauld]

(Mostly from beer) is telling because in 1910's America beer was widely used as antiseptic hydration because there was no reliable source of clean drinking water. As water got cleaner throughout the 20th century, people needed to drink beer less.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

One of the dumbest takes is that prohibition didn’t work: prior to prohibition Americans drank 2 gallons of pure alcohol a year and many were drunks who beat their wives. Prohibition killed alcohol use by 30-40%

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Cuomo busting out the extendo LGBT acronym is nasty work

[Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo]

Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.

You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich.

Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it.

We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.

Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.

[Very serious @bencgauld]

This Facebook Aunt meme brought to you by the shit head who advised George W. Bush on how to lie about global warming.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Never be afraid to do the right thing.

And tell the truth – always.

It may be difficult in certain situations, but your life will be infinitely better if people who matter trust you to tell them the truth.

#LuntzLifeLessons

[Very serious @bencgauld]

More like the Hall of Allegations, sheesh

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

Introducing the Hall of Honor Class of 2025!

📝: https://t.co/Xb9Dt377tP

[Very serious @bencgauld]

I was walking in Lower Manhattan and I saw Alec Baldwin with this exact hairstyle in an overcoat holding a stack of newspapers 3 feet tall

[eve 🫖 @fionaappelflap]

we (yes WE) are ALL rocking the millard fillmore hairstyle this summer

[Very serious @bencgauld]

Edwin Black has written a lot about this, specifically in his horrifying account of IBM and the holocaust but Naxi Nexus is a mercifully quicker read.

https://t.co/yJZwUCHq4Z

[Very serious @bencgauld]

It has been incredibly jarring to learn about how many flagship American companies, Ford, Chevrolet, IBM, Standard Oil etc. actively profited off of the holocaust.

I guess things haven't changed that much.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Microsoft confirms involvement in the Gaza war, including “special access” to AI and cloud tools for Israeli forces
https://t.co/fPCsUs6RoX