Posts by Thad@brontosin.space
(DIR) Post #Aynrg7sDrmdwtyexMW by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-10-02T15:51:05Z
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@Nonilex Sure there is. Education, healthcare, climate science, consumer protection, any and all regulatory agencies...
(DIR) Post #Az3O2yvlOSXTjMenCK by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-10-10T03:34:17Z
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@Nonilex If I were on the Nobel committee I swear I'd try to find a way to award it to every single human being on Earth, 2006 Person of the Year style, *except* Trump.
(DIR) Post #AzJYsqnYywTjdcYHEe by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-10-17T22:51:11Z
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@Nonilex He just fuckin' loves political corruption.
(DIR) Post #AzuH9Cts3yLncfp6au by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-04T15:56:51Z
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@Nonilex When Republicans tried to eliminate the filibuster in 2005, I said "The Democrats should let them." I wish they had.Maybe we'd be in worse shape now. Or maybe they'd have passed comprehensive voter protections and Trump wouldn't be in office.
(DIR) Post #AzusNzb9UwdD10ytQO by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-04T22:54:06Z
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@ricci I'm furious that Conde Nast is cutting political reporting across its line, but I'm not convinced that canceling my subscription to one of the publications that's still doing excellent political journalism (Wired) is the most effective form of protest.
(DIR) Post #AzutDnMKFRHm7AkPFg by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-04T23:03:28Z
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@ricci Neither will Wired if its subscriber numbers tank.
(DIR) Post #B09QVqH6WKTKoxXDBw by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-11T23:22:26Z
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@phoronix Are we sure it's actually Kaspersky Antivirus and they won't be swapping it out for UltraAV without user consent?https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/25/kaspersky-leaves-u-s-deletes-itself-swaps-everybodys-antivirus-for-software-nobody-asked-for/
(DIR) Post #B0BAEO6kmVLBabGhNo by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-12T19:29:26Z
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@Nonilex And that bit about IQ is perhaps the most Larry Summers thing I have ever read.
(DIR) Post #B0F4gLjNAwt0v1Q7Ps by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-14T16:46:06Z
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@Nonilex Calling more attention to Epstein will surely work out well for him.
(DIR) Post #B0MGvxEwvlilhtnLQO by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-18T04:05:40Z
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@aral Have you met us?
(DIR) Post #B0RdQi3SsS8z2fTU7k by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-20T18:11:59Z
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@Nonilex I thought for a second Schiff was one of the people Biden preemptively pardoned so Trump couldn't do this, but come to think of it he specifically asked Biden NOT to pardon him, didn't he?
(DIR) Post #B0a0fZDZ9l9WHOoIMK by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-24T19:10:05Z
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@Nonilex Chait's got a point that things have changed, but it's not that these bigotries were previously forbidden, it's that mainstream conservatives used to couch them in dogwhistles instead of stating them bluntly. The GOP's transformation into the party of bigotry and anti-intellectualism was well underway when the Heritage Foundation was founded in Nixon's second term; Chait acknowledges Ailes's role but doesn't make connections to Ailes's work for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41.
(DIR) Post #B0bplL4Hy0gqx9wMYC by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-25T16:17:16Z
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@Nonilex "Republicans are pro-military" is one of those persistent myths, like "Republicans are good for the economy," that are so self-evidently false that I can only marvel at how much better they are at messaging than Democrats. (Granted, having the entire media constantly and uncritically repeat those lines does a lot of the lifting for them.)
(DIR) Post #B0wVyztJa6ImZ3CXXE by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-12-05T15:44:34Z
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@Nonilex Equating antifascism to anti-Americanism is...at least honest.
(DIR) Post #B131TWOvXOuLbgmYue by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-12-08T19:05:42Z
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@Nonilex Yeah, "resigned" is not the right verb, CNN, but the important thing is she's leaving.
(DIR) Post #B199sn0KuPaGvGbDP6 by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-12-11T18:08:12Z
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@Nonilex I think it's defensible, as long as we're assuming it's the classic POTY criterion of being the people with the most impact on the world, good or bad (Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, Putin, Trump, etc.).
(DIR) Post #B1LJo2ZUvxj5C4wICW by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-12-17T14:55:55Z
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@Nonilex I'm in favor of more people watching unedited video of Trump speaking.I have no intention of watching it myself. But I hope a lot of people do.
(DIR) Post #B2HdRlCJ3weYi8UXWi by Thad@brontosin.space
2026-01-14T18:09:16Z
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@Nonilex Bahaha even the Trump White House won't use a picture of the Trump White House.
(DIR) Post #B2Rn6XmEQfhxrgy0VU by Thad@brontosin.space
2026-01-19T15:44:35Z
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@Nonilex He doesn't understand what his own government does; of course I wouldn't expect him to understand foreign ones.
(DIR) Post #B2W0PiaeWfj0wLrclU by Thad@brontosin.space
2026-01-21T16:32:31Z
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@Nonilex I've long said that they'll let Trump get away with anything he wants as long as he doesn't fuck with the money. Guess we'll see if I'm right.