Woke Moralist, Democratic Socialist, and some sort of weird nerd
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I was next to (one of) the AI slop booths at DragonCon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. So, as you may or may not know, there was a booth selling AI slop images printed on acrylic panels at DragonCon. They were in booth a-10. I was in a-11. Hereās what happened from my perspective.
The irony is not lost on me that the very things that the biggest 2A defenders have claimed as justification for being well armed are happening but they don't care because it's their guy being the tyrant and he's picking on people they don't like.
America will be as you say or it will be nothing at all.
That bit about how the soldiers in the revolutionary war weren't fighting for a proposition seems like a direct rebuke to Lincoln.
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
These guys are all Nazis
Guys like Eric Shit are the least American people in the world. Take this kind of shit back to the old world, go fuck your cousins you dim-eyed twerp.
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine! Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
I feel like in the 1980ās/90ās this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
America is not everything and everyone. Specifically, it's not and ethnostate and Eric Schmitt doesn't belong here. He is a traitor.
It took us generations, but we finally figured out how to give men crippling body dysmorphia too
*pointing upward and nodding sagely on Tiktok*
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
Mark your calendars, next big No Kings protest is October 18
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
The last sentence is more famous but people remember it wrong. The line preceding it is more important. Fascists mostly donāt care who being stomped on, theyāre just trying to give people the thrill of being the boot.
This is what fascism comes from. Not economic conditions, not policy objections, but giving people a permission structure to indulge in performances of violence against an imagined subhuman enemy.
this is going to sound stupid but it's entirely because we live in the era of postmodern fascism and because they wanted to post a video about them killing people for the base
Proud to say I contributed to this effort to simply tell the truth to the American public.
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Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesnāt carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Been saying this for months. Messaging is not a buffet. Every time Dem leadership gets gulled into trotting out happy-clappy bipartisan talk because consultants said it polled well, people very reasonably conclude all that talk about Trump threatening democracy must just be disingenuous rhetoric.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
He would have wanted it that way maybe
I hope Donald Trump dies as he lived: on television
It looks a lot like a summary execution.
I love them so much!
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
I understand way too many of those words.
And hard cider.
Terminally juiceless. Bone dry.
Yeah, might be the time for shots.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Politics is not getting any less weird from here on out. It might get better, it might get worse, but it will definitely get weirder.
This is why Matty pisses me off so much. He obviously gets off on bad faith bullshit. It's a big part of why he gives off such a fashy vibe.
No no, it's not him. It's a completely hypothetical median voter who just happens to share all of his opinions and preferences and ego he clearly identifies with and who is him.
Good: Pritzker calling BS, unambiguously and forcefully, on Trumpās planned invasion of Chicago, correctly identifying it as blatant rights violations based on a pretext. Bad: How much it stands out to see a leading politician do that, rather than go along with the BS, treating the pretext as real.
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, whereās that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, itās underwater. The oceanās depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Itās because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Maybe we should have an "I'm Mad" button that doesn't blow up the world and kill millions of people
Heās going to give Alabama more free shit because he wants to punish Colorado for not supporting his attempted power grab in 2020 more. The media wonāt cover this because it would require remembering things that happened over a week ago. www.cpr.org/2023/03/24/p...
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
this was a @stephenkb.bsky.social take on the Labour government's approach to trans people, but it's hard not to basically think it also explains so much about why this government is a utter failure when it comes to migration:
lol itās 100% him being trotted out to prove that heās alive huh. we did it team.
Ive been playing disco elysium again and all i can think of is that when you stay on twitter you basically create one of the mind guys in disco elysium called insane racism that just provides you takes that an insane racist would say
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
there is an entire strategist industrial complex whose main goal is to catapult the strategists themselves to national prominence and not to actually help Dems win elections and more elected Dems should realize that and ignore these people
"I hear and see this all the time and just don't let it influence my views" is simply not how human brains work.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
All due respect, but: this is the moment George Santos was born for
These are the people Labour are actively courting.
how are we already at transphobia in a new British party that doesn't even really have a name yet.
What the fuck is going on, is there a gas leak at 10 Downing Street or something?
Also the dead people. They will stay dead.
Whatever the reality is it's going to be dumb as hell.
[release the snyder cut voice] release the butthole cut www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
He's pregnant.
That would be quite a spectacle, wouldn't it?
We will beat these pricks if we fight because they are the whiniest, most thin-skinned little bitches in the entire world. Soft-hwnred crybullies
Should I pair nylon with a red or a white?
Nobody is scared of JD Vance.
I will never stop hating Joe Lieberman
Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse š¤ āIt could happen at any timeā
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
Sometimes being a leader means doing what's right even when it won't be popular.
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."
We need leaders who will call this out explicitly.
This is a through line for a bunch of their obsessions like hatred of "woke", historical censorship and obvious lost cause affinity, rhetoric about crime, and purged of the military and civil service.
My criticism of Jeffries systement is that it is too circumspect. The Trump regime wants something like a national Jim Crow. They resent being expected to treat black folks as equals and see this an their opportunity to put them back in their place.
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I keep saying that Judaism is the nerd religion. Thats why it kicks ass.
one of the most infuriating things about this site is centrists insisting that no one listen to Politico, where centrists go to complain about the left and explain why they are planning yet another unconditional surrender to fascism
Interesting thread here where Adam presents evidence that Trump has been having mini-strokes x.com/adamscochran...
Brits correctly rallying to the defense of British culinary innovation chicken tikka masala is heartwarming, as always.
Eugene HĆ¼tz absolutely 100% believes in his schtick so hard he makes you believe too and I think thatās beautiful
Fuck any anti-American motherfucker who can read āGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!ā and not feel proud.
Happy Labor Day, the Trump administration hates unions more than basically anything www.gravityisgone.com/a-lot-of-fol...
Great Britain is a hijabi stay-at-home mom becoming a national superstar because she bakes traditional British desserts extremely well. Not some fucker who looks like the Mr. Potatohead corporation made a Potato Horse nattering on about England.
Everyone cowers in the face of the St. George flag lunatics when goddamn it, Britain isn't Little England in perpetual and senile decline, it's a great country where people from all over the world have come and become truly British.
This connects to the British food argument going on on here (that appears to have started in my mentions). Many foods are authentically British because there is a multicultural, cosmopolitan Britain. Yet that Britain has almost no vociferous defenders now, certainly not in the Labour government.
WE KNOW THAT CONFLICT WILL ALWAYS PERISH IN THE BROTHERHOOD OF FLAGS
Like, who the hell is this even for?
Pure distillation of Trump's view that positive-sum trade is literally impossibleābuying = losing & selling = winning, automatically But also a good view into the inconsistencies of his trade "demands". He's mad at India for its tariffs, but even zeroing them wouldn't be enough?
Van Hollen is taking huge professional and personal risks trying to break the institutional omertĆ in the American political establishment with on bearing witness to Gaza and relaying its reality to the American people, and actions like this should be praised.
The shrill insistence that we, the Americans whose tax dollars pay these freaks' salaries, are not only not allowed to know who is carrying guns on our supposed behalf, but that we are a danger to society for asking -- this is one of MAGA's most disgusting claims. Unmask every ICE gunman.
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ā¤ļø
make the right defend the indefensible, described as uncharitably as possible
it is actually so damaging for them that "when it happens" is such a meme all over the internet now though I just feel like "grassroots conviction that you're about to fucking die any day now" isn't really conducive to projecting an aura of fascist inevitability
That's why we need to keep at it. We saw exactly this type of shit taken down Biden like a year ago!
This is legit Baghdad Bob or North Korean levels of deranged. The pro-regime spokespeople are completely delulu. I canāt under how any human being would debase themselves in this way, or find such delusions persuasive.
A massive higher-dimensional crystal of pure knowledge that we mostly use to cheat on schoolwork and make porn.
I stand by every post I have ever made, especially the stupid and poorly thought out ones.
I donāt think Kamala Harris would have pushed for the U.S. to literally annex Gaza and build a resort town on the rubble
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" An American government official actually said this.