Brittany

“If anyone can refute me, I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” -Marcus Aurelius

Fuck everyone who voted for this

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Zohran and his one dimple

Oh my god are we really getting dragged into another stupid pointless fucking war

In the coming days and weeks, expect more calls from Musk and other technofascist oligarchs for Trump’s impeachment. This is part of a broader strategy, as they own JD Vance and are positioning him for the presidency to complete their takeover of the United States of America

💯💯💯 Right on the money

The man who is directing the ongoing simulation

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Pope Leo gives Opus Dei SIX MONTHS to pass comprehensive reforms

Leader of group is told: if you don't clean up by December, “necessary measures will be taken”

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People who cannot read cannot lead.

HANNAH ARENDT: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

I love that the phrase “AI slop” has taken hold 👩🏼‍🍳💋

Man, @wired.com and @theatlantic.com are KILLING IT with their journalism. So impressed.

“We care about ourselves more than other people, but care about other people’s opinions more than our own.” Marcus Aurelius

I just need to crash out for like 5 solid minutes and I think I’ll feel better

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Today’s daily stoicism:

Our credo must be: “Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

“A lot of times discipline is pushing yourself to do something you don’t want to do, but the other part of it—what we might call the temperance part—is not doing the stuff you do want to do.”

Today’s daily stoicism:

Take revenge by not being like your enemy. Be good and decent and kind. By living your life well, enjoying the beauty of the world and demonstrating beauty in your own choices.

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

I cannot recommend the Diabolical Lies podcast enough. It scratches the politics / pop culture / philosophy itch in my brain that I’ve been craving for YEARS.

“If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted or destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that people are deprived of their independent judgment, and—

more or less unconsciously—give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves. The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent. One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. Here lies the danger of a diabolical exploitation that can do irreparable damage to human beings.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-Nazi theologian and activist. Shortly before his execution by Hitler's regime, he wrote these words:

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

"I desire you would Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could”

-Abigail Adams, March 1776, in a letter to her husband.

Hearing my baby boy say “mama” as he reaches for me to hold him brings me so much joy