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  • A common misconception

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  • Ok, I can see that. Makes a lot of sense.

    I always hear people shitting on it online, but the first person I ever heard express that opinion (and the only person I've ever known irl) who had a very intense hatered of brutalist architecture just thought it was really ugly, but he was definitely not opposed to corporate interests.

    Tbf to him, he was honestly passionate about architectural beauty, but kind of oblivious at best to profit driven causes of human suffering.

    I went to undergrad at a university that had a lot of brutalist architecture buildings, so I guess kind of have fond memories of it for those reasons, but if it was all I was surrounded by I could see that being super depressing. (Edit: actually just searched for the main building I was thinking of and my first thought looking back at it was "ughh" so almost definitely just nostalgia clouding my memory of the actual architecture).

    I honestly don't know much about the history of architecture, but I also really like mid century homes. For some reason I always kind of broadly associate the two.

  • A common misconception

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  • I really have never understood the intense hate brutalist* architecture gets.

    But also honestly kinda love this. Almost reminds me of neo-Andean architecture

  • Calvin Duncan cleared to take office after federal judge grants temporary restraining order

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  • There's also a 3rd unrelated (as far as I know) Mandy Landry who's a Democrat in New Orleans. She has been pretty outspoken about Duncan being targeted by Jeff Landry. It's all very confusing.

  • Haha 😐

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  • Dirt Nap had me laughing so hard I cried

  • Political Humor @lemmy.world
    Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works

    Blocked in less than 24 hrs bc apparently some people (don't want to name any names...) can't appreciate parody

  • Anon wants to open the tomb of Gilgamesh

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  • From the Epic of Gilgamesh wiki:

    In the early 2000s, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was imported illegally into the United States. According to the United States Department of Justice, the tablet was encrusted with dirt and unreadable when it was purchased by a US antiquities dealer in 2003. The tablet was sold by an unnamed antiques dealer in 2007 with a letter falsely stating that it had been inside a box of ancient bronze fragments purchased in a 1981 auction.[17] In 2014, Hobby Lobby privately purchased the tablet for display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. In 2019, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was seized by US officials and was returned to Iraq in September 2021.

    Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal

    Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal started in 2009 when representatives of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores received a large number of clay bullae and tablets originating in the ancient Near East. The artifacts were intended for the Museum of the Bible, funded by the Evangelical Christian Green family, which owns the Hobby Lobby chain. Internal staff had warned superiors that the items had dubious provenance and were potentially looted from Iraq.

    Several shipments of the artifacts were seized by US customs agents in 2011, triggering a struggle between Hobby Lobby and the federal government that culminated in a 2017 civil forfeiture case United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae.

    July 2024: Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

    ... American oligarchs are so fucking weird and evil.

  • Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.”

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  • It should be very concerning to hear Tom Cotton making threats like this. Especially considering he and JD Vance have both publicly supported Greater Good Constitutionalism, the legal theory created by Harvard law professor and their fellow elite "anti-elitist," Adrien Vermeule.

    Vermeule argues all law, is meant to be interpreted by the highest authority. That's why executive authority "Trumps" judicial.

    Most importantly, his theory explicitly states 🚨🚨 the constitution is not meant to uphold liberty, but to be interpreted by a modern authority in order to promote the greater good. 🚨🚨

    In other words, a violation of your constitutional rights isn't necessarily a violation of the constitution, as long as an authority claims doing so is necessary for the greater good. Liberty is a necessary sacrifice for the "safety" of all Americans. Whatever an authority does, he's doing it for your own good whether you like it or not. If you refuse to see it that way, then you become a threat to America's safety.

    So, where is the line drawn? Wherever the authority, who is guided by his own moral compass, determines it should be drawn.

    If you're thinking, hey, that sounds an awful lot like the slippery slope that helped create Nazi Germany, it's because it's the same slippery slope rebranded for modern day America.

    Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, often referred to as the "legal architect" of Nazi Germany, is one of Vermeule's greatest inspirations.

    •Our Schmittian Administrative Law

    •Demystifying Schmitt

    •Führerprinzip (leader principal) gave Hitler totalitarian power over the ideology and policies of his political party; this form of personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism. The state itself received "political authority" from Hitler, and the Führerprinzip stipulated that only what the Führer "commands, allows, or does not allow is our conscience," with party leaders pledging "eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler."... Beginning in 1934, the German armed forces swore a "Führer Oath" to Hitler personally, not the German constitution.

    •Trump says ‘own morality’ is only limit on his power: ‘I don’t need international law’

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.”

    theintercept.com /2026/04/30/wyden-cotton-nsa-surveillance-fisa-702/

  • Adolf, what are you talking about?

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  • Scientifically convinced?

    "I can feel the prehistoric thetans, pulsating in mein veins! Science, bitch!"

  • Almost feels like some kind of a cosmic joke

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  • Thank you ❤️

  • What is your favorite smell?

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  • I went on a road trip through the mountains in central Colorado during the summer ~7ish years ago. I still don't know what the smell actually was but every once in a while we would drive through certain parts of the mountains that had slightly sweet and clean/crisp smelling air. Never forgotten it.

    The closest I can think to describe it would be something floral like freesia+ a woodsy Sequoia/evergreen combination.

  • Who is the running board now, dog?

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  • ⬅️Head like a hole

  • Republican Gov Will Cancel Votes in Insane Racial Power Grab

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  • This guy has strategically changed the law in Louisiana, starting over a decade ago when he was AG. Republicans in the Louisiana House and Senate introduce and pass laws at his behest that have allowed him pretty much unchecked power.

    One of the first things he did when he took office was fire a tenured law professor bc he made fun of him in one of his law classes.

    Once he was accused of an ethics violation, so he just completely changed the laws about who sat on the state ethics board and term limits, and then restaffed the board so it was composed of his own friends. Surprisingly the board looked into it and determined there was no ethics violation.

  • Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling

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  • What’s amazing to me is how fast they blocked the elections because the maps were found “illegal”.

    Almost like it was timed pretty perfectly.

    Landry has strategically set himself up to have way too much power, and basically destroyed any checks and balances within the state of Louisiana.

    On the one hand, it is a blatantly antidemocratic move to do something like this so close to the election, especially with early voting starting . On the other, nobody (with the exception of the federal government, and let's face it, we know what side they're on with Trump in the White House) can stop the kingfish from doing what he wants to do in his own pond.

    Doing this so close to the election means that the burden of the ticking clock is actually placed on anybody figuring out how to challenge him. And even if they somehow do successfully figure out how to stop him from cancelling the elections the day of (May 16th), undoubtedly he will have already done some significant damage either by interfering with early voting or just spreading misinformation.

    This is just the most egregious thing he's done so far to blatantly interfere with elections and democracy. Louisiana just removed an existing elected position within New Orleans at Landry's behest, after the candidate was sworn in to office. Before doing that it was a statewide voter purge from the ballots, and willingly agreeing to hand over voter registration data to the DOJ.

  • Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling

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  • Landry has a real knack for making the most unbelievable anti-democratic bullshit happen overnight. People always talk about how incredibly dumb he is in person, but look at the very scary bullshit he has accomplished. I don't mean that as a compliment. I mean that he either wants to be underestimated (like Stalin), or he has somebody with a lot of strategic capability so far up his ass, you can't even see them basically wearing him like an Edgar suit.

    The strategy that has gone into all of this should be very unnerving. Over and over again, we see Landry test something out in Louisiana only to then watch the Trump administration unleash the exact same strategy at a federal level. A lot of this has been shit Landry started to set up almost a decade ago when he was still AG, and it's fallen into place like a row of dominos.

    I have very little hope of actually stopping Landry from cancelling Louisiana elections. I hope I'm wrong, but regardless, America should be watching this very closely to preempt the strategy Trump will be using to completely cancel the midterms.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Republican Gov Will Cancel Votes in Insane Racial Power Grab

    www.thedailybeast.com /louisianas-republican-governor-jeff-landry-will-cancel-votes-in-insane-racial-power-grab/

  • DO NOT talk about the goblins

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  • Omg is Charlie AI or did AI become Charlie?

  • Almost feels like some kind of a cosmic joke

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  • Hope so. If humanity makes it I guess.

  • The National Science Board fired by Trump was finalizing a report on China’s growing scientific edge over the United States

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  • Or the corporations running the government are intentionally hoping to cause the collapse of the United States and completely privatize every aspect of whatever they replace it with.

  • The National Science Board fired by Trump was finalizing a report on China’s growing scientific edge over the United States

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  • Broligarchs determining U.S. domestic policy: There's no question China has an advantage in AI development. That's why we had to cut funding to every other area (including science), strip away privacy laws, destroy civil liberties, gut regulations for corporations, and put all of our eggs into one AI basket.

    Trump: Done.

    NSB: China has a growing advantage over the U.S. in science. Perhaps we should rethink dumping money into the AI hole in the ground you have been banking on turning into the next .com boom? Maybe we could consider moving it back into science.

    Trump: Yuh fiyad...

  • Almost feels like some kind of a cosmic joke

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  • Controversial Take 😡

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  • not the_rapist

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  • This is so sad but very true.

    Seeing the comparison just now made me think about the fact that Heritage Foundation was created in large part because there were many Republicans (even within Nixon's own administration) who didn't believe he was conservative enough.

    There's even conspiracy theories that members of the intelligence community started intentionally bungling orders/jobs that they were carrying out for Nixon (including Watergate) to create public scandals and give him enough rope to hang himself.

    So while it was a very big moment for America to see Nixon get impeached, the next Republican POTUS (Reagan) was carefully groomed before opening the door to allow the Heritage Foundation into the White House. This marked the beginning of the modern day far right movement and the creation of a post truth consensus reality by a president and his administration to control the American people on a massive scale.

    TLDR: I shudder to think about what comes after Trump if Americans never pull their heads out of the sand relationship between wealthy conservatives who own corporations and the U.S. intelligence agencies they fund.

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Sun Ra- When There Is No Sun

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan

    newrepublic.com /article/209432/justice-department-klan-splc-suit
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law

    theintercept.com /2026/04/27/four-democrats-fisa-domestic-spying-trump/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    After 2 failed votes, Mike Johnson unveils new plan to extend key U.S. spy powers

    www.npr.org /2026/04/24/nx-s1-5797964/after-2-failed-votes-mike-johnson-unveils-new-plan-to-extend-key-u-s-spy-powers
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Hegseth, Xi, Stalin

    prospect.org /2026/04/23/hegseth-xi-stalin-paranoid-purges-military/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters

    www.forbes.com /sites/johndrake/2026/04/25/trump-fired-the-entire-national-science-board-heres-why-that-matters/
  • Mental Health @lemmy.world
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    Almost feels like some kind of a cosmic joke

  • News @lemmy.world
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    CIA Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Prisoners of War in U.S. Custody, Declassified Docs Confirm

    theintercept.com /2026/04/26/mk-ultra-korean-war-prisoner-experiments/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge sanctions law firm that has pursued Leon Black over Epstein ties

    www.politico.com /news/2026/04/24/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black-lawyer-sanctions-00890710
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works

    A Black man exonerated for murder in Louisiana won an election. Then the state GOP kept him from taking office

    thegrio.com /2026/04/24/calvin-duncan-office-elimiated-louisiana-gop/
  • Heritage Foundation Crazy Board @sh.itjust.works
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    VICTOR FEDIAY, RESEARCHER, LOBBYIST, DIES (WaPo, 1993)

    www.washingtonpost.com /archive/local/1993/07/22/victor-fediay-researcher-lobbyist-dies/48b35c1e-5172-468b-8268-3104d69ca301/
  • Heritage Foundation Crazy Board @sh.itjust.works
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    The most important legacy of Joe Coors by Paul M. Weyrich (2003)

    www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0303/0303coors.txt
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the greatest break up song in your opinion?

  • simpsonsshitposting @sh.itjust.works
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    Choosing the sycophantic mirror over human relationships

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works

    Louisiana GOP races to keep an exonerated Black man from taking office in New Orleans

    www.nola.com /gambit/news/politics_elections/louisiana-house-panel-passes-new-orleans-clerk-of-court-bill/article_638bacdd-b7c7-45b4-a530-75896f2435a5.html