James T Carter
@JamesTCarterII
I think most people have a bespoke Horseshoe Theory in their mind, that their *exact* politics is the “rational center” of, and it’s how you can get people saying socialists want to block all new housing construction, or saying Chapo Trap House is cheering on Russian imperialism
Hating poor people/worshipping wealth
What's the most commonly "approved" sin in today's churches?
a conspiracy theory that I sincerely believe is that there is a concerted effort by some shadowy group of powerful people to kill Wikipedia. I've thought this ever since I noticed how it was being deprioritized in Google search results, back when Google search still had results
UK VPN demand surges 1,400% as age verification law takes effect; Wikipedia faces ban, X users report blocked content
genuinely what do we do if this passes/censorship and monitoring online increase? just buy a vpn and continue posting as usual? or are we fucked
The Kids Online Safety Act is the US equivalent of the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act. If passed, it will lead to digital identity, total deanonymization of the internet, and massive censorship. It was reintroduced to Congress May 2025.
I don't have a lot of anger towards regular people who are speaking out about Gaza now, because we're all susceptible to propaganda and a lot of Americans are ignorant frankly, but any politicians, media figures, and Democratic party influencers now saying it can fuck right off.
Is there any reason why just building a fuck ton of state owned housing wouldn't fix the housing crisis?
It would take a regular person 237,000 lifetimes to make this much. Elon is not working 237,000 times harder than you
Elon Musk is now officially worth $405.6 billion, projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
Odo & Kira's first kiss with the reactions of everyone around is one of the corniest but sweetest things ive ever seen in a show
it is really hard to talk about genocide in the context of building a tent for other stuff, the urgency and the timescale are not comparable, it’s mass murder, I’m not gonna talk about it like I talk about rent control or something, surely this isn’t so hard to grasp?
Tweeting "I told you so" at people who change their mind about what's happening in Gaza does nothing to help the kids who are being starved to death. Welcome people into the tent. Build a bigger coalition and use it to force political change.
The whole "disability is only bad because society doesn't accomodate us" take always makes me laugh bc like. Yeah that is a reason it is bad but also when I was in nonstop pain and shitting blood like 15 times a day was also bad. Society couldn't have made that better.
im deeply sympathetic to people who have conditions that do not cause them pain and do not want treatment but yeah, if i could choose not to have the gene responsible for my debilitating pain, or could have chosen not to pass it on to my kid, i would have made that choice easily
The whole "disability is only bad because society doesn't accomodate us" take always makes me laugh bc like. Yeah that is a reason it is bad but also when I was in nonstop pain and shitting blood like 15 times a day was also bad. Society couldn't have made that better.
People want to act like history is easy while the world is failing several open-book history exams in real time.
You will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"
This is possibly the one position that I think leftists are genuinely brain broken with We went so woke that it turned back around to essentially saying people deserve to live a life of suffering bc someone actually prefers it that way
We’re so cooked bro…it’s so wild how much yall just love eugenics….
Blindness doesn’t suck because society makes it suck, blindness sucks because you’re blind!
Yeah man blindness is just a walk in the park being literally unable to see is not debilitating at all
crazy how he could solve hunger and homelessness and still be richer than any human could ever need to be but just doesn’t wanna
Elon Musk is now officially worth $405.6 billion, projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
Being Gen Z with any sexual orientation is like being Jewish, you have to clarify if you’re actually practicing it or just culturally affiliated
there's gotta be a middle ground between outright eugenics and therapeutic treatments and this is a case where i would really prefer both extremes to chill out a little bit
i realize there are very good reasons for people's objections to gene editing, but for me and my ehlers-danlos syndrome ruined body it does feel a little like people are saying "the moral choice is for you to suffer regular physical agony"