The God of Jupiter is the Lord of Magicians, MARDUK KURIOS of the Double-headed Axe. MARDUK was born of our Father, ENKI, to do battle against the forces of the Ancient Ones.
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anti-vax stuff is toxically unpopular. everywhere, every time it is polled, every time it becomes a major election issue. to the extent MAHA and RFK Jr. don't have polling numbers as low as this it's because they've (with the media's help) lied about the extremism of their anti-vax position.
Could be worse. Could be the 2014 AFC Finalist banner in the background.
Online "leftists" having "principles" about imperialist wars like "imperialist wars are super good when they are perpetrated by Russia".
Have any news outlets that ran "pardoning Hunter is an unforgiveable scandal" pieces (basically all of them) apologized in light of Trump coming in and destroying DOJ independence and launching a bunch of politicized prosecutions? Biden's decision to issue the pardons has been completely vindicated
Biden had the poor grace to keep on appearing in public being mentally sharp and incisive so they had no choice, really. Can't have their readers start wondering if maybe it was bullshit all along.
Biden was right about Afghanistan, and right about recovery spending and employment, and all the special boys and girls were utterly wrong. They all agreed with each other and the "elite" consensus on both issues and Biden aw shucks-ing his way into showing they had no clue drove them nuts.
Of course they were merely improvements rather than solutions to all problems, so the same as nothing, really... Hardly worth mentioning, or doing.
Actually full labor policies do significantly reduce corporate power, as did the ACA's expansive regulatory regime which among other things explicitly included a hard cap on insurance industry profits.
Every single time these assholes describe the people they murdered as drug dealers or drug traffickers there needs to be somebody in their face saying "you're lying". There's no evidence that they were anything of the sort. They killed innocent people to make a snuff film.
Because social media incentives for the online "left" all reward maximal crapping on the Democratic party and their accomplishments there are plenty of people on the left with bad media diets that literally do not know either of the two facts I presented and react to them with incredulity.
Less than 11 months ago…
coverage of these huge protests are not allowed inside the anti-reality simulacrum that trump supporters have built for themselves, which now includes most of the mainstream media
(also I am saying this into a microphone on national television)
"Many people support my choice to determine property boundaries via astrology but unfortunately the media only gives a microphone to people associated with the National Society of Professional Surveyors. Unfair!"
"I'm not alone, it's just that all the people on the other side of the issue have qualifications and expertise and the recognition from their professional organizations and the respect of their peers."
So trolling, got it. Enjoy the block.
I am the person you initially responded to, and that's not even vaguely close to what I said, which was that the ACA was a massive wealth transfer and too many people on the left just pretend that it didn't happen and/or had no effect. Are you just trolling here?
Also it's so much easier to introduce calculus to students for the first time via physics rather than as a standalone math course. Instead of esoteric mathematical operations what you're learning is intuitively related to reality.
The ACA as written is directly comparable to The Netherlands' world-leading universal healthcare system, but our version has been ratfucked to hell and back by the hacks on the Supreme Court and Republicans at the federal and state level and theirs hasn't.
Ah yes, improving things is bad, actually, because it prevents revolutionary perfection. Perfectly normal thinking there. Also Obama did not bail on the Public Option and in fact continued to advocate for it even after the ACA was passed. (The PO was a shibboleth anyway, with minimal effect per CBO)
Yeah I've seen that a lot but also just straight up no-show overtime fraud.
Always wonder when people say stuff like this if they were an adult before the ACA was passed. And if they live in a Medicaid expansion state or not.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that the cops claiming overtime are actually working the overtime.
The ACA was the largest transfer of money from the wealthy to the rest of us since LJB's great society. Then Biden oversaw the largest reversal of income inequality via low income wage gains since the new deal. For whatever reason the left just pretends neither happened.
ARE YOU SERIOUS, CEDDANNE?!
I think the massive endowment allows them a lot of leeway, so long as they don't think Trumpism is a permanent condition. Weathering a few years of legal battles against lawless ratfucking while self-funding is entirely doable it they consider this an existential challenge to their values.
I do wonder if seeing the NYT and the Trump admin join up to tag team various Ivies has informed Harvard's response here.
Must be fun to be able to hold multiple entirely contradictory baseless conspiracy theories in your head at the same time.
Fell For It Again Award
I would guess that somebody or several somebodies took significant personal risks to get that North Korea clusterfuck story published
Sort of like "the Taco Bell beef isn't even really beef!" OK, fine, maybe you're right. I would like more of whatever that filler stuff is then, please.
All for an operation that had, best case scenario, essentially zero upside.
bringing a gigantic first-strike weapon into shallow North Korean waters at night, risking the lives of literally everyone on the planet because you sent 8 roided morons on an eavesdropping mission that couldn't fail without risking the end of human civilization
Every politician who visibly stands up against Trump is going to end up polling well regardless of whether they're a decent candidate to vote in the future for or a complete ass.
There’s a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems’ Current Plan Is Bullshit talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
Calling that bluff. Let's see it, liar.
I think there's something to this. The audience outside of the top few pop acts at any given time is extremely attenuated.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
I'm so old I remember when people were embarrassed at their ignorance, rather than this preening celebration of lack of basic knowledge about the very topics they choose to discuss.
Other people I imagine in my head can justify my feelings when reality doesn't.
Jesus
"What effect did the loudest faction of the online left campaigning against a signature Biden progressive accomplishment?" asks the person who surely is not expecting to be taken seriously.
In the specific case of student loan forgiveness Biden took a public opinion hit on the left in response to accomplishing a left policy demand. To say this creates absolutely terrible incentives for progressive policy and Democratic politicians is an obvious understatement.
Pretty much the same effect all the maximalist weirdo lefty posturing does, poisons the social media environment against anything and everything the Democrats do while discrediting progressives & leftists who have actual policy goals but go unheard and/or get shouted down by the poseurs.
Um read the dates buddy.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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
Obvious example, the too-online left adopted the shibboleth of "no means testing" to excoriate Biden's massive student loan forgiveness program because it was carefully designed to avoid spending a big % of the cost buying MDs new yachts.
The too-online performative “leftists” on bluesky and Twitter who do the exact thing Stancil is talking about. This is practically unrelated to any actual ideological principle of left thought. In fact the hive mind often gets unwittingly dragged into right wing frames in the quest for maximalism.
The central claim of the article is directly contradicted. Also as this is the second little bit of worthless ad hominem bullshit you’ve offered up, enjoy your block.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This asshat gets to vote in the same primaries the rest of us do. Whining that he’ll work to elect the fash rather than support his own coalition if everybody doesn’t vote as he demands tells you everything you need to know about his politics.
Sorry, “reporting”.
The org’s comments directly refute the reporting. Try reading rather than sneering.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
Turns out it was a bunch of lies. Whocodanode? (everybody)
The NYT invented a Parkinson’s diagnosis for Biden in the middle of the campaign based on absolutely nothing.
The Dems can’t shut down anything, they don’t have the votes. So the question is just what are they being offered to cooperate with the fash.
This post is excellently constructed to bring up the lack of explanation but not the obvious reason why, constructing a post that is fully truthful, but deliberately designed to imply a malicious or obvious omission when there is a clear, obvious, legal reason why that would be the case.
People hated the very policies that produced low unemployment with large wage gains and rapid economic growth, because all they paid attention to was a brief period of inflation, quickly controlled. That was the promise of deliverism, disproven.
It's not pandering to govern with policies that produce low unemployment rates and wage gains for workers, especially lower wage workers. But you're right that it's apparently not a vote-getter either.
100% this, you see it all the time in online discussions.
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
DOJ prosecutor: To sum up, you need to make an example of Sandwich-Throwing Guy. Grand Jurors: Oh, absolutely. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
How do people who aren't authoritarians know what to think? An impenetrable mystery.
Each new anti-windmill argument they trot out, stupider than the one before.
It can be very hard to tell the difference between music that sucks and music that is cool as shit but you don't get it. Maybe not always, sure, but definitely more often than almost any music critic would think.
He's always been this guy.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
These people are just so fucking weird.
DC statehood now.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
People don't believe that the core rights of liberalism will go away even as they are watching them being taken away. Democratic elections, free speech, free assembly, freedom of association etc., all like water in the ocean to a fish.
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
I think it's more a signal for regime paramilitaries to go out and kill protesters and minorities.
America now
The amount of online you have to be in order to understand he's trying to do a riff on the "abolish bedtime" leftism critique does not intersect with the amount of offline you have to be to be open to supporting Andrew Cuomo.
Beat me to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsH...
I’m extremely skeptical that these exercises produce any meaningful data. People are very bad at telling you which messages they find convincing!
Yeah both takes are crazypants. Newsom is doing some good things right now with counter-gerrymandering and holding up a mirror to Trump, love to see it, I don't really prefer the guy as a future nominee but that's far away, and if he manages to win the primary I'd happily vote for him.
This was how search worked forever. "What are the ways that search fails to get me the results I'm looking for and how can I work around that?" Now search is an AI abomination (at least it's getting better!) and we have to lean new triage strategies to get good answers to our questions.
Somebody who claims to be on the left but would not vote for Kamala Harris in an election where her opponent is Donald Trump is not actually on the left in any meaningful way related to ideology or policy. That's just somebody using the label leftism to describe opposition to Democrats.
Fair, you may have more conservative elements to your politics that place you as a moderate or "centrist" or are just ideologically untethered on a per issue basis, but the ones you first listed are all squarely representative of left policy preferences.
Pretty much in broad strokes the same scandal that doomed Chris Christie.
Biden deserved re-election.
I like what Newsom is doing. I like what Pritzker is doing. I like what Mamdani is doing. We need all hands on deck NOW. We can worry about the presidential race LATER. Once we secure its relevance.
Sort of a perfect example here as to how much political labels have collapsed into aesthetic judgements and tribal signaling. As a matter of pure policy these are policy goals of the left. But without representing them as being in opposition to existing Democrats, the affect is center-left.
You were told to fuck off because your post was a transparent lie and the public facts to know that it is a transparent lie are fully available to you.
The Biden WH literally tried to engineer Netanya's ouster in response to his intransigence on a cease fire but I'm sure you're right in your theory it was all actually kabuki and they actually were big fans.
Criteria for speaking at the convention: Are you going to promote the candidate uncritically and will your appearance encourage people to vote for the candidate? "Well, not entirely..." Bzzt, thanks for playing. This is true for every single cause or issue without exception unless somebody fucks up.
One reason I find it sort of hard to take these people seriously is that “Kamala Harris was committing genocide” is an absolutely incoherent statement. In what way was she doing that specifically, and what is the mechanism by which she could have ceased?
i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.
At least 1.5 British.
