Premium Steve
Just a guy raising some pets. Former professor of American history who loves to talk politics and Magic the Gathering. He/him.
- “You loser, you’re never gonna be remembered as the most famous pedophile who ever lived” I feel like Tate’s upset he’s not gonna make the famous rapist big leagues
- There’s a simpler explanation: social mobility doesn’t exist anymore and largely hasn’t for a half century now. Gambling is just a symptom of people feeling trapped because they’re never gonna own a house or have a family or retirement, so why should anything matter
- Rather than accept that they’re all fucking awful people they’re going to say “oh come on, just because someone peddles children for sex doesn’t mean I don’t want to talk with them anymore!”
- Federalism is dead
- New: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer” www.propublica.org/article/why-...
- Reposted by Premium SteveIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Aside from the fact that people won’t pay when they get headlines for free, what we need is some kind of cable for news subscriptions, where you pay a flat rate and get access to all the top newspapers instead of having to manage a dozen different subs We also need to subsidize news, à la the BBC
- One suspects it was their success that made Bezos choose to buy and destroy it
- Reposted by Premium SteveFuck Jeff Bezos. Subscribe to The Onion. membership.theonion.com
- Reposted by Premium Steve"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
- Reposted by Premium SteveThis cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
- Eleanor Shellstrop-coded
- And when they don’t do any of this stuff you’ll still say they can be redeemed Because you’re actively on their side
- Of course Matty is a “technically it’s ephebophilia” guy Least surprising thing imaginable that he came up for an excuse for molesting children
- Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.
- Quick q: after you chose not to endorse for the presidency why should anyone ever give a shit what your editors think
- From the Editorial Board: Kat Abughazaleh made a show of declining (sending a spokesman, for goodness sake) to be part of the editorial board’s endorsement interviews after first informing us she would attend. trib.al/LXhfqMv
- Shapiro’s an Israel-bought Dem as much as Schumer is and if we give him more political power he’ll ultimately use it just as poorly
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- AI at the Super Bowl can’t beat the uncanny valley
- So that’s where we’re at, “just because we were associated with a convicted child sex criminal doesn’t reflect on our values”
- This is excellent legal writing and it’s so important that regular people be able to digest the facts presented
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- The wealthy get real healthcare, you poors can have a computer doctor that’s wrong most of the time and talks people into killing themselves
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- Reposted by Premium SteveAbolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
- Reposted by Premium SteveMinnesota has had an awful time recently. I'm sorry we can't have Prince back. But MST3K is coming right back here to our beloved state! @rifftrax.com
- Reposted by Premium Stevelike this is absurd, get over yourselves
- As far as I can tell there isn’t really any difference between the modern Illinois Republican Party and the one depicted in the Blues Brothers in 1980
- Reposted by Premium SteveThinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
