it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
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it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
Hey Chicago area anglicans! Trump has declared war on Chicago, how are your churches preparing to protect and aid your communities and can we outside of the Chicago area support your work? โ๏ธ
Do you remember in like 2023 when Wagner, having run out of HE, started shelling Bakhmut with thermite? I remember the video footage of that night, and I hate this with a powerful hatred
the spectator article from yesterday made that clear
i think the absolutely crystal clear example of what i mean here is cutting off the guard deployments at 29 days so they don't have to give them fedpay. fucking over the pay for the guys you expect to be the button to turn off political dissent is a fuckin wild choice
There might not be anyone in the country who has been so dedicated to executing the principle that ultimate legal power rests with he who defines the exception than McConnell His remarks arenโt repentance or reflection, theyโre a victory lap to rub it in Democratsโ faces because they are the enemy
this is worth every penny of my subscription fee
Donald Trump loves Kurtz because he strongly relates to being deeply evil and getting shot by a sniper
Eslam used to have thousands of followers. you should follow her new account. she managed to get out of Gaza but her family is still there. every day she worries, prays, and tries to raise money for them to survive
@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team We can NOT accept that you keep on restricting Palestinians accounts without offering them any accessible way to appeal that restriction. Eslam just got her password back but you're already blocking her ??? Why ?? STOP THIS ! You're being complicits !
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i've said it a hundred times for a dozen reasons but for once there's an expressly political one: the democratic party must push for the us to become a signatory to the rome statute. our justice system has failed, and it will take time to fix it that these people can't be given. give them to the icc
The problem being that the people with the most resources to rebuild are ghoulmaxxing
I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.
I'm at the snitch president. I'm at the pedophile president. I'm at the combination snitch/pedophile president
the war crimes one is really terrible in part because it's so obviously effective imo
there are imaginable right and center coded abundance projects. weโve done a bunch of them to varying degrees of success! the GI Bill, mortgage subsidies, private/public research partnerships, interstate highways, rural electrification- better or worse, mostly better, we built the country on these
yeah thatโs kind of the other thing: the abundance conceit completely fails to square with the actual actions of the tech right in cooperation with Trump. slashing USAID or NIH or higher education is a frontal assault on abundance.
Trump Or We Burn The Country doomsday clock is set at two minutes to midnight
love to live in a country where I can wake up and see that the president posted an AI meme about invading one of our own cities with our own troops and Iโm not even surprised, thatโs just a normal thing that happens now
I do more spirited defenses of American liberalism for free and against my will than the Argument can muster with writing careers and millions of dollars
I was unaware that they lost track of Samuel Taylor Coleridgeโs remains, and then found them again in a wine cellar a few years back: www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...
I feel like for the modal Argument writer the alternative to Pollyannaism requires setting aside a Twitter grudge and they'd rather let the galaxy burn than do that
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
Trump Or We Burn The Country
I think what separates me from a lot of the people who write for places like the Argument is that they are a lot more optimistic that the future of American governance returns to a debate about the role of social progress instead of a fight over what regime rules America.
I feel confident that if Vance becomes #48 he'll predecease his successor iykwim
I genuinely despise Vance more than Trump.
Donald Trump, that man of blood
this image alone is an abhorrence to our stateโs (federated) sovereignty โ I canโt even joke about it, because itโs so heinous to me
Ah
Where did you find this horror
Ooof, what a humiliation
This isn't his usual posting style, he died before sunrise
just doing buny business
The opposite of victory is not defeat, it is surrender, and the right isn't surrendering without a fight
You had people grafting chimpanzee testicles on to maximize their male potential, there was a cocktail named after it
That's not his posting style at all. He's dead
a thing I have found increasingly important over the past decade: there is no amount of political or intellectual sophistication that will survive giving into the "history is driven by the people I find personally annoying" impulse
For Years, Black Trans Women Have Been Told Their Life Expectancy Is 35 Years. Thatโs False www.them.us/story/black-...
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The core principle of American centrism right now seems to be "Left-wing people are annoying on social media and I don't like it when they shout at me." Some of them shout at me too and it sucks but that's not an ethos
the transition tax is so real, most cis people have NO how expensive it is even before any surgeries. i hope things arenโt too hard and you get everything you want out of your transition ๐
itโs good to set expectations up front www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
sometimes it seems like not looking at news sources that consider me subhuman filth is a good alternative to reading them
cistal swords
Let's talk about values when the Speaker of the House and the Ambassador to Israel campaigned with a known pedophile, when the President is transparently part of a child sex trafficking ring, when the military murders innocent people across the world from Korea to the Caribbean.
Let's talk about values when the Secretary of Defense is a wife-beater and a drunk, when the WH press secretary had a child out of wedlock with a man more than twice her age, when the DHS secretary wears a $50,000 wristwatch to tour a concentration camp.
My woife left me cos o feminism. Ou was being too feminist for 'er
Keep praying for Sophia Forchas, who was injured during the shooting at Annunciation in Minneapolis. She is in critical condition. Pray for her family, for her home parish of St Mary's Greek Orthodox Church & for other survivors & for traumatized first responders and medical providers. โ๏ธ
I will not be lectured on morals by a man who left his wife for his research assistant. Character counts.
The White House is occupied by an administration openly hostile to common weal, stare decisis, the rule of law, and constitutional limits on power, and David Brooks has more energy to handwring and moan about us rather than the White House's gilded-fasces decor or pedophile occupants
David Brooks, like the cyberpunk future, has been here all along, just unequally distributed. To the hoi polloi, he's had only wagging fingers and scolding. To powerful men who blighted history every week of their time in power, he's had only silence
Go down the list of virtues and at every turn you will find the conservative movement rejecting them. It has always been a lie and an excuse to indulge in the worst human behaviors, all the way back to Bill Buckley's family newapaper's defense of lynching.
Sure, David, let's talk about the values side of the equation and how the movement that gave us Donald Trump is winning the values argument.
David Brooks is a human cuttlefish valued entirely for his ability to produce obscuring ink on demand
The social role of David Brooks is to act as a way for centrists to pretend that Republicans can be rational against all the evidence. He has not been able to fulfil this role for about twenty years now and yet people persist in giving him money to try.
there's a lot continually said about the way algorithms are destroying peoples' brains but i think history will point to infinite scroll short-form video as being particularly evil because it is the distillation of every addictive strategy and negative psychological hack as the ultimate skinner box.
The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldnโt use โ a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.
No, not wanting to hear languages that aren't English isn't a legitimate belief we should tell you is fine to disagree about. It's one we should tell you is stupid as fuck, get over yourself. And the people who seek to implement that view by force should face a burnished row of steel.
The problem liberals have is not that they don't reject bigoted pustules of human beings enough.
Moonraker
Audition
The country is so poorly run we canโt receive packages from overseas anymore, and Iโm not sure it makes the top 10 of the administrationโs dumbest, unforced errors
an awful lot of people are ignorant and mean out of choice, not circumstance.
Oh I love this genre
Full offense, actually, but you should probably resign or at least speak publicly and make then fire you if you actually believe this.
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being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic
... look, far be it from me to side with Extinction Rebellion, but this is maybe the most universally known tactic of nonviolent resistance and these cops are talking about it like it's some new way to cheat.
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He's gonna have to announce that the USS America was lost with all hands to slipshod construction
Pick fights. The media *clearly* responds to it. And the fundamental truth is that they *are* biased against us. So we ought to act like it. Complain and pick fights.
โWhen you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, itโs not crime or trans rights or wokeness. Itโs the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.โ
Everything else about this post to one side, it is completely cooked how "understand[ing] on an emotional level" the viewpoint of an evil person is somehow seen as any sort of virtue, or stepping stone to national reconciliation/coalition building
Gym partners and trans mutuals stressing out over the same news
My grandfather was driven to drink after he saw kanji during the war. He saw all the fighting on Okinawa too, and a mass suicide off a cliff. But the kanji is what did it for him
rethought about this today as multiple cabinet ministers whose path into government was laid out for them by controlled opposition in our upper legislature made their most nakedly nazi moves yet in one afternoon to much consternation by the party that surrendered to their ascendance
when you see liberal forces claiming strategic surrenders are the path to victory, ask yourself why the fascist force doesnโt operate that way
At that paygrade? Much more often, and moreso as the nice people across the aisle get worse
Got you covered
All non-basic lands are now mountains. God help us all.
Yeah, the chud talking point (on X, no less) was that the same logic applies even moreso to veterans
the thing is -and I say this as a reformed China hawk- nobody gives a shit because Americans correctly see each other as the most immediately dangerous threats to their security and way of life
The administration: Hey, we're looking into whether or not we can exclude trans people from the Bill of Rights! Hope no one minds! Our Democratic "allies": *silently wait for consultants to tell them what to say, if anything*
And then you have stuff like this, which is just kind of sad. RK Post did a very clever reinterpretation of his own 20-year-old art for Unmask, which was clearly intended for an actual reprint of Unmask that presumably got cut from the set when it was pivoted to being in Standard.
it rocks how abundance guys are like "we're just little birthday boys we just want to build stuff ๐ฅบ" and you ask what stuff and they're like oh you know... haha...
I never thought they'd support trans rights but I could see them opposing centralized background checks this much
@theatlantic.com also published an article defending the right of grown men to assault teenage girls while yelling about pornography! I think we're going to need a hard drive check for @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
Of all the new turns of phrase I've seen online "My lobster is too buttery and my beer is too cold" to describe when people are complainin abt things that aren't just not bad but actively highlights of whatever it is they're complaining about is probably the one I've most wanted to see catch on irl
We need to reevangelize. We need to disenchant harder.
Ten thousand Vivians
Looking for some privacy in the engine room where the diesel generator is loud enough to drown out yelling, the air is foul, and the best place to be pressed up against is the creeping engine that shakes hard enough to loosen fillings
Oh, you're on the rota with HER tonight. Have fun! And remember, while she's next to you, you address her as "sir" or she'll get mad
I mean Qanon is going to love this regardless to how stupid it sounds to the rest of us.
What about MILFs because I may still have a sperm or two left