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  1. How did he not see the hate coming? Elon turned Twitter into a hate machine to be deployed at anyone who says something he doesn’t like.
  2. What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren. We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments. The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. Our Allies and partners will not trust us again. We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.
  3. As I mentioned on the DOGE thread, the concentration and death camps were operated by the SS, which was an arm of the Nazi Party itself and not part of the government or military. Mao’s Red Guards were students mobilized by the Party (and the actual police and army was ordered to stand down and not stop their massacres). The NKVD can be fairly said to have been an official state organization. Dictators like to assault apolitical institutions and set up their own parallel structures that report only to them and not the government.
  4. Not even really accurate. The death camps and concentration camps were run by the SS, which was the paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party itself and not the German government or military command. Many of Mao’s massacres were done by the Red Guards, which was also a party and not state organization. Stalin’s NKVD was the official interior ministry, however. So 1/3. A hostility to and mistrust of an apolitical bureaucracy and a need to implement strict political control and parallel political party structures is a hallmark of authoritarians.
  5. Cringe posting in the middle of the night.
  6. Extremely symbolic for the Voice of America to go silent.
  7. Another act of arson against America’s global power and influence— yesterday an EO took the axe to U.S. Agency for Global Media (which operates Voice of America and funds Radio Free Europe/Liberty and Radio Free Asia). I understand furloughs start for RFA on Monday, and this comes after Kari Lake eliminated the agencies’ access to AP, AFP, Reuters, etc. In every meeting with tyrants and dictators across Eurasia and East Asia, they demand the closure of RFE/RL and RA. Chinese state media will take its place. DJT is also shuttering the Wilson Center, which operates with only 1/3 of its function from the feds. It is notable an “undesirable organization” per the Kremlin.
  8. An astonishing letter, really. I can’t think of a precedent for this much interference into the structure and policies of a private university as a condition to receive federal funds. Conservatives have long warned that letting federal money into ed would lead to federal overreach and censorship but they left off the part where it’s them doing it.
  9. Manitoba always seems like one I made up. I know it’s real but whenever I have cause to think of it (so not often), I have some self-doubt that perhaps I imagined it.
  10. There really isn’t a Dem base, which is part of the problem. Educated urban white collar professionals, black voters, eroding union/working class families, suburban wine moms, LGBT people. This isn’t a unified base. The GOP has one— pissed off ignorant white people. And to win a national election, the Dems are going to HAVE to steal a few pissed off ignorant white votes. No way around it.
  11. This tale contains multitudes. First, I love that she paid extra for the “Cyberbeast.” But more I want to know how SHE ended up buying this thing. Not to be too stereotypical but these things are extremely stupid in a VERY male-brain coded way. A very specific male brain. I bet the orders skew 80-20 male.
  12. The a-list chud online personalities get swatted while the d-listers get this treatment. Huge LULZ at the FBI tracking pizza orders.
  13. The Office of Net Assessment is (was) among the only defense and policy entities in the U.S. government doing serious long-term planning. Giant own goal here, it was instrumental to mapping a path to the end of the Cold War and got ahead of the China issue early.
  14. I care very deeply about the well being of the defense industrial base and also think that the idea of “spending too much on defense” is something we can decide for ourselves is extremely naive in the multipolar world that DJT’s team is trying to explicitly create.
  15. I’m a bit less sanguine about this, I think it’s really a shit sandwich versus giant douche. I’d feel better if there was a track record of Dems filling the void of crises with good messaging. I’m also worried there’s no off-ramp. I lean more towards going ahead and having a fight and getting the GOP on the defensive for once. I’m just not as confident that there’s a path to a win.
  16. Fuck I hope the EU will unplug Twitter.
  17. It’s so perfect.
  18. He’s mentioned it several times and experience holds that what he says out loud he tries to do. I expect some serious move to this. If I were betting today, JD will name him his running mate and promise that he’ll be the real leader.
  19. NC has some real fucked up gerrymandering because Asheville is not a place I’d pick to go red.
  20. “It’s called locavorism, shitlib. It’s when you do your grocery shopping at farmers markets or maybe you join a coop and have a community kitchen garden. You go to little wineries and vineyards on weekends to do tasting and appreciate the local terroir. You wouldn’t get it, you’re out of touch with regular Americans who work for a living. Why don’t you try keeping urban chickens.”
  21. I see we’ve reached “having fewer choices and they’re more expensive is good, actually” levels of cope.
  22. Steak N Shake is really failing and I see they are trying to save themselves with the chud demographic. I really hate our country right now.
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