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By the way, liberal democracies end up being more efficient anyway. Because you start utilizing all your human assets, instead of ya know, keeping most of your population from positions of power and decision making authority based on race and gender and class and such

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Those are all a lot bigger problems. Efficiency is further down. If you study the history of government for more than two seconds you’d be more efficient at identifying the actual problem set. Moron.

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Democacy isn’t billed as efficient and The Founders weren’t building for efficiency plural democracies are good at protecting individual rights, keeping us from killing each other, not killing other plural democracies, creating a level playing field, and surviving regime change without bloodshed

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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 05/10/2026

Ask not for whom Columbus, Ohio swallows. He swallows for thee

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Missouri will not use optional federal exemptions designed to help low-income people keep Medicaid coverage when they are hospitalized, travel for medical care or live in areas affected by disasters or high unemployment. #moleg #mogov

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Missouri rejects optional hardship exceptions to Medicaid work requirements • Missouri Independent

The Department of Social Services says people who have acute medical events or travel for care can maintain coverage using other exemptions

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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 05/10/2026

Roses are red, I can't connect to the zoom

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 04/10/2026

historical trends indicate the number of germanies may be asymptotic

a map of the holy roman empire, it's a fucking mess

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It’s got to be hurting poor Sec Pete’s head. That’s so many layers. Is that a quarter zip under the inspector jacket coat?

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Tail as old as time Donk as old as rhyme Booty and the Beast

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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

J dot Hall “Joins Eddie Johnson (2004-05) and Alexander Rae (1937) as the only men to score 3 goals in their first three US appearances. At 18 years of age” - @meninblazers.bsky.social

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Bibberty

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Before and After, for 800: twice-decorated Marine major general revolts against thinking machines.

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There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The Chinese asked for a private room in the West Wing so Xi Jinping could take rest breaks, which led to a roughly five-hour gap in the summit agenda.” Not an intel guy, but seems sketchy. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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Exclusive | Unusual Rest Breaks for Xi Jinping Sucked Hours Out of Summit With Trump

Beijing pared back the schedule and insisted on private downtime for China’s 73-year-old leader.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who's giving the squirrels adderall

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Leaving this gold in a comment is the sign of a real poster. He’s just here for the love of the game. This is a diamond

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Please look at my texts and write about how heroic I was months ago when no one was looking and that had no actual impact, and print how I hypothetically would have had a spine, Politico. Pretty please

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Hardly seems like there’s time to appreciate the time that’s passed.

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We can be certain that the founders, were keen to avoid religious wars If the international order of today is a response to factors that led to the outbreak of general conflict in Europe (WWI and WWII) the order the founders lived in was a response to horrors of the 30 Years War

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“America doesn't fight religious wars.” “Is that right” “Yeah, that's why I like living there.”

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My man said “debate me” and the professor took that personally. To quote Taylor Mali, “I have this policy about honesty and ass kickings, which is: if you ask for it, then I have to give it to you.”

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