Why should we listen to alarmist doomers who believe in near-term human exctinction? Climate change could take down industrial civilization and billions of lives within the course of a few decades or even years, but the idea that in about 1000 days the earth will look like venus and all humans will die strikes me as unhinged. this guy lowballs it, but I think there’s good reasons to be skeptical about the clathrate gun hypothesis

I can’t wait until australia and new zealand are kicked out of the imperial core through economic warfare. Demographically, it’s already well on its way to becoming an asian country. The west can play in the north atlantic.

What other place could have:

• Police on every corner
• Ubiquitous surveillance
• Systemic repression

what's that? it's new york city? whoops.

Holy shit, NYT deleted that top comment to control the narrative. I honestly didn't think they'd be so bold. It's gone. The new top comment is:

Good that we have funding for Ukraine. The funding for Israel should go to relief supplies for the people of Gaza and not the Israeli military.

Some good news - this is so on the nose that even the good liberal subscribers are not biting. Most upvoted comment atm:

“It’s a good day for world peace,” - how utterly grotesque. I sometimes wonder if Joe Biden genuinely has no idea he’s going to lose in November.

wow check out this fun genocide travel vlog in Xinjiang ✌️🤪! watch to see ebil ccp oppress the poor yogurt people ☹️. did you know westerners can just go there and see for themselves without any special permit? This guy is German and went visa-free. Cw: mosques, halal food, bazaars

I wonder how history will explain these moves. It’s comforting to assume actors being rational, but this is a case of just the opposite guiding a country. Argentina is basically a vast expanse on the edge of the earth. What purpose could a military possibly serve for them? Their relationship with Brazil, their literal only credible threat, was good until recently…it’s just incredible that anyone is able to conjure a lens through which this looks like a good idea

This is especially crazy because chinese international students have literal social media posts outlining the best strategies to avoid arbitrary detention. Most of them are doing everything in their power to avoid shenanigans like this.

If this is a modern version of a sedentary society going soft, then who are the modern steppe nomads that will sweep them?