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Air / naval war anyway, they're not sending 3,000 Marines into Caracas by themselves They're dumb but not in that direction exactly
tbf radio has a lot of cheap scammy ads
Paid by the click, whether it's malware or just scamming the ad networks
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
Bush Sr enforced those norms; Bush Jr was an aggressor
IDK, sounds like he's recommending child abuse Strict father not nurturing parent Beaten children --> authoritarian personality type Fundamentalists like Doug Wilson are more straightforward about it
Usually heads of state don't try to assassinate each other because of potential retaliation Seems like the corollary is, assassinate back
At the dog park, sudden downpour
Pragmatism is when some Yankee won't Read Theory
I think since he paywalled his blog he gets talked about less
Do they brag about being Aryan?
Bargaining with God or gods can be authentic - people do it now, Devereaux's series talks about it. I guess the D&D version lacks mystical uncertainty?
As far as similarities to a certain play, there's also the geography: Iraden relies on control of the straits out of the B̶a̶l̶t̶i̶c̶ - I mean Shoulder Sea
JFK & LBJ sent the National Guard when a majority of the public was behind that The segregationists, & before them the slaveholders relied on minority vetos like the filibuster, SCOTUS, congressional seniority, 2 Senators per state.....to prevent "tyranny of the majority"
And now that the crunchy anti-vaxxers are right wing, we must now respect their Authentic Real American concerns
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
The updated booster is at CVS etc, and I'm going to get it while it's still available.
"“We’ve had 11 deaths, and they’ve been largely old people who are — who were susceptible to what’s happening. Now, that would be the case, I assume, with a regular flu too.”
This is why agriculture and cities started in frigid Mesopotamia
The funniest thing would be if the clots were a Covid aftereffect Clots can cause both strokes and the leg vein thing
almost nothing is, apparently
too feeble to smear the orange makeup on
Russia's dropping a lot of glide bombs every day (without having to fly over Ukrainian forces)
Russia's only accomplishing anything at all through a steady meat grinder They're isn't going to be a big sudden breakthrough, even if they committed larger forces suddenly
The denialists were against *every* anti-Covid measure, even masks
Escalation risk is highest from the first attack
Scavino was good at imitating the Trump semi-literacy. Guess now that he's Deputy Chief of Staff, he's too busy to Post anymore
There's no French word for chauvinism
Declaring an area off limits is different than level of priority. If a military unit doesn't even have to worry about being hit, they can operate differently
Basically. If China knows in advance we're going to limit ourselves, they're more likely to start a war. The US military, esp surface navy, is not used to fighting without air superiority. Biggest counterargument is that we're too divided to do anything anyway, but even then we could still bluff
And if the assumption is that the US won't strike back, it's harder to deter China from starting the war
This is in the context of China having already hit Guam, which is US territory
The value of Fox News isn't its audience breadth, but that it acts as a "clearinghouse" to pick out the biggest pieces of right-wing chum on the internet and decide what it elevates to GOP electeds. It's essentially the glue that gets Charlie Kirk, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Trump on message.
It's not AI, just an old video passed off as new
this is not a place of honor
Adenochrome IV
Barry and Nicky
The most famous private thief-taker was organizing crimes so he could take credit for catching the thieves Yeah, police were an upgrade en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
Jesús Barebone for short
There was a bunch of mainstream media refuting the "hoax" But those articles tended to reference Twitter as the source of rumors
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
The NYPD was copied from London not vice versa
And collective punishment to keep the groups and leaders in line. Not built on individual rights and responsibilities.
That doesn't fix the problem of the people who do have guns and badges being fascists. Camden style reorg and union busting would help some
Other factors equal, veterans get slightly more votes than non-veterans There are poli sci papers
There was this Plenty of Republican state govts hate their biggest cities, so I'm not sure why the TN gov isn't biting tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/27/t...
What significant stories has Maggie Haberman broken in this Trump term? There's been a lot less access journalism than during Trump I
Xavier isn't a pacifist like MLK, he's an advocate of armed defense like Malcolm X
Too busy saying "Magneto can't be a fascist, he's a holocaust survivor, never mind the mutant master race stuff" and comparing him to Malcolm X for some reason
I didn't say they'll succeed, but that is what they're trying to do
The Heritage boys, etc, are *trying* to model on Orban A bunch of right-wing "intellectuals" have written about him
the blacked out word in that 4chan screenshot is "kikes"
Lots of insects have multiple nerve ganglia in their bodies plus the one in their heads, rather than relying on one brain
Other than MS-NOW, all mostly pro-Trump now IMO Nexon's thread goes into this in more detail
That's the competitive part
Yes, that's the competitive part.
The media situation is different. Most TV channels are simply pro Trump now
Baby goats are wild... 😍🤣 #bluesky #animals #babygoats
US primaries are a difference from other countries that we try to learn from Along with the nature of US so-called political parties (really...coalitional ballot lines?)
It's from his account, but posted by staff. Too many big words
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ▼▼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
People are OK with revenge in every other context. It's conventional wisdom that if another country nuked US, of course we'd nuke them back, vaporizing millions and irradiating the world But jailing a Republican, that's going over to the Dark Side
This absolutely is not Trump, too many big words.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"If they get a bad back, they die"
Joni Ernst wishes she had come up with "everyone is rotting before our eyes"
By this methodology, Elon Musk powering his data center with smog belching mobile turbines is the most water-friendly AI company in the business, whereas if he bought 0 carbon power from a nearby TVA dam it would be considered 40x worse than burning coal. www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wron...
Everyone else at the meeting disagreed with Mr. Anti-Tax (but let him speak anyway, which is why he's the Free Speech poster child) Now the Boomers would vote it down
Loomer
And the media reaction shows everyone what side they're on Calling speculation a "hoax"
Mostly dead is partly alive
Did you even repost whatever they're talking about?
Miller
If they had more property tax they could do something
Vance probably did get beaten as a child, and that tends to cause authoritarian personality type
Right, it's more likely people will get kicked out of the DSA for moderation, because the extremists are a majority in national leadership
The National Political Committee (main national leadership committee) is majority revolutionaries at this point, and dis-endorsed AOC The actual democratic socialist members say things like "some chapters are good" and "they aren't strong enough to kick us out"
...if you kick people out of an organization, then you can kick people out of the organization? Yes. Any organization can kick people out for not following its rules. If you don't, then you don't have any rules, you have a free for all.
"the people the vaccine actually helps" so he's an anti-vaxxer too, he thinks most people shouldn't get vaxxed
The Camden NJ police reboot seems to have gotten results, partly through police unionbusting, but didn't save money (though that was part of the original idea, to reduce overtime abuse)
Still blaming NATO for the war and not Russia. "People who want to feed Ukrainians into a blender" is Putin and Juniper, but she's projecting that onto the countries helping Ukraine
Under competitive authoritarianism, it's possible to lose an unfair election. The coercion of media, for one example, makes the playing field unfree and unfair. And we should object to that loss of freedom
Trump hasn't been seen in public for a few days cue wild speculation
Recovering from a totally normal proctology procedure
And there's no Jewish Reformation There was a "Jewish Enlightenment", Haskalah, in the 1800s mostly
Ibn Wahhab was a Reformation kind of guy, unfortunately People have some funny ideas about what Luther and Calvin were like
A bunch of people have, for example www.duckofminerva.com/2022/07/text...
The Clinton assault weapons ban did help until it expired. Anything that limits guns helps. Limiting & taxing ammo sales also, would be even better
The marauding armies ate your grub
Clinton's assault weapons ban had a positive effect for as long as it lasted
Increasing dementia is not pleasant, to put it mildly Tithonus problem
Also the Houthis etc are Russian allies
Probably not directly, but in the famous group chat he was unenthused about bombing the Houthis
Trump has always had people tweeting for him. But the % actually dictated by him seems to be dropping
Melania's in NY. What's Loomer's tell?
The fight that I would pick if I was the democrats on guns is allowing the ATF to have digital records. It’s doesn’t impact normie gun owners, it’s an insane bit of GOP legally mandated dysfunction that the median voter doesn’t even know exists, and it likely helps murder clearance rates.
Nah, there's alternate history & lots of other kinds of SF & there's fiction set in the future that isn't SF (eg Margaret Atwood) A genre is a bunch of stories in conversation with each other. As long as people want to riff off or respond to earlier SF, it continues as a genre
The dementia getting too much for golf?