history is full of Henry Kissingers who tragically passed from this earth before killing even one thousand innocent people
history is full of Henry Kissingers who tragically passed from this earth before killing even one thousand innocent people
the reason we know them is *because* they lived forever. the autocrats who die 6 months into their regime fade from history
not that i dont believe yall but can anyone point to some concrete evidence of this? it'd be good to have something to point to
At his most basic level, Trump is a bully. And the halls of American power are filled with the most insecure losers this planet has ever seen. He's been shoving them into lockers for 10 years now and it's worked flawlessly
In hindsight, Trump was actually incredibly shrewd to recognize that our "elites" are in reality fragile little babies who can be bullied extremely easily
wish i wasnt trans bc there are so many jokes worth spending a night in jail for rn
Hate to give spacex credit for anything but reusable rockets are probably an important part of the equation
fighting for trans rights by voting for the guy who is "completely aligned" with charlie kirk on trans rights ok. sure. you do that
In the end it's very simple. I would not ask you to sacrifice your rights to preserve my rights, and I will not sacrifice my rights to preserve yours. If you think you can win without me, then go ahead, but don't cry when the thing I am telling you three years in advance is going to happen happens
things that my republican relatives talk about over Thanksgiving Dinner: the transgenders; the gays; immigrants; Andrew Tate things that my republican relatives do not and have never talked about over Thanksgiving Dinner: Joe Biden's broadband internet regulations
idk how to tell you this Mr. Jeffries, but Republican Uncles don't talk about highway infrastructure at the kitchen table, they talk about the neo-marxist immigrant plot to castrate their children and exterminate the white race
He could literally shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and the centrist crowd would be writing op-eds scolding "The Left" for their hysteria the next morning
The wealthy have class consciousness. He does know what's coming, and maybe he doesn't particularly care for it, but he also knows that his class will remain on top and he will likely be fine. And historically, that's not a bad bet
If you're gay and throwing trans people under the bus then you are a traitor and deserve worse than Trump
Good luck winning as a Democrat without the support of the LGBT+ community
i just really need dems who arent massive pieces of shit to learn the same lesson
does it bother you at all that your immediate reaction to this ruling, effectively threatening to arbitrarily imprison trans ppl for habing sex, is to nitpick the tactics of the ppl protesting it? do you actually believe in anything? is there anyone you wouldn't sacrifice in the name of pragmatism?
I think the fact that they keep losing to him so spectacularly has blinded democrats to the reality that Trump is the best-case scenario. Anyone even remotely less buffoonish, remotely more intelligent, would have slaughtered the opposition and fully consolidated power by now
HIM DYING DOESN'T FIX THINGS. IT VERY POSSIBLY MAKES THINGS WORSE. WHY IS THE AMERICAN LIBERAL SO ENAMORED WITH TRUMP, SPECIFICALLY?
I don't think Miller and those like him have a specific, articulated plan in mind, but I also don't think they're acting on impulse. I think they are deliberately working to sieze as much power as they can for its own sake, with the end goal of establishing some flavor of authoritarian regime
In a non-fascist Republican administration, we could probably survive this court's vague, technical rulings, because we could trust that non-fascists would not immediately sieze on any ambiguity as permission to act. That's the framework John Roberts operates under and it's going to kill us all
I think these people operate by pushing boundaries. If they have a power, they will use it and then some in order to claim more powers to use. It's why the Supreme Court's rulings have been such an unprecedented disaster
Hey, just a thought, but maybe we could use just a pinch of elitism in the era of college dropouts trying to audit federal agencies
never thought i'd die fighting side by side with neocons
what if we made a political party for the stuffy uptight grown-ups in kids' shows
It is exceptionally annoying that one account can go on a reposting spree and clog my entire feed with 900 dad jokes and I either have to sift through that mess, or deal with the "discover" tab that is 90% irrelevant bullshit
it's the guilt that weighs your soul down
the practical target audience for articles like these is liberals who desperately want to believe that conservatives aren't all slobbering hounds and are just one more medicaid cut away from seeing reason
Not in the military but I'd imagine "safe and convenient to drive in an american city" is a lower design priority than "doesn't catch on fire and blow up when it catches explosions"
thinkin of you, goku!
rolling out my new program: a calculator that you can talk to and sometimes gets the answers wrong. i think it's gonna be revolutionary. my target audience is primarily accountants, lawyers, and data scientists, all of whom have great difficulty using calculators as-is
If populism is understood as appealing to "common" concerns and railing against elites, then America's common concerns are murdering minorities, and the elites they want to murder are just more minorities
I don't think we really have a culture of populism here. Populist parties in Europe are like "we will cancel student loans, and also murder every migrant we see" "populist" parties here are like "we will murder every migrant we see, and every brown person we see, and every trans person we see, and-
Trump built his 2016 campaign around fighting misinformation!
this is widely acknowledged as a Very Good System of Government by all rational observers
the American legislature has been so dysfunctional for so long that legislators themselves have adopted the activist framework of suing and hoping the Court is stacked with their activists. which is insane because activists only started doing that in the first place bc the legislature was so useless
as a society we are going to be stuck re-enacting the failure of reconstruction over and over again while the world falls apart like a hollow in dark souls
He is going to win the presidency and "save" democracy by allowing red states to re-implement jim crow
I think a good rule of thumb rn is that Democrats need to be leaning harder into standing up for literally anything
honestly do not know why I expected the Party That Enabled all of This Overseas to not enable it here, but I guess I'm an optimist at heart
How did we find another, even stupider Sam so soon after Bankman-Fried? I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on Sams until we can figure out what the hell is going on
they just need to get one more trans person killed and then i'm sure the public will finally like them
damn the guillotine is getting zero rest today
he's on the list idk what to tell ya i dont make the rules
the feminine urge to lock yourself inside, live entirely through the vicarious excitement of internet drama, and emerge years later with the most headass opinions anyone has ever seen
Chef John is the primordial soup from which all would-be "food-tubers" evolved. We pay him homage in the form of a little cayenne pepper in everything we make
sorry, theyre not on the list i dont make the rules. please wait in line until your name is called
Chinese cooking demystified is also good but unfortunately I made the list already so...
kenji lopez-alt is notoriously very white
Townsends and Tasting History are also acceptable, but only as food-adjacent content, not proper Youtube Chefs
kenji lopez-alt, adam ragusea, and chef john are the only acceptable youtube chefs and anyone who disagrees is free to make a calm and reasonable argument for that position while we are erecting the guillotine
transfemme fed who is supposed to be monitoring ISIS chats but spends all her time on bsky at her desk disrupting the queer community entirely by accident bc her opinions are such dogshit
Once you've been a journalist for ten years they should confiscate your license and ship you off to a farm in California, where you will be free to write as many articles as you want for an audience of AI generated facebook accounts
I can be the tiebreaker if you need one
dreaming of a world where i dont have to rely on random twitter posters for accurate hrt info 🥲
I have heard ppl say online that at very high E levels your body starts converting some of the E to T, which might explain it? But that's just randos online I have no idea if it's even a real thing
Honest to god I do not think these clowns have the popular support necessary to do the kind of fascism they want to. Everybody fucking hates them and I can't believe that that's meaningless
I have seen a vision of the future. In it, we spend the rest of our mortal lives trying to undo the Jim Crow State that President Gavin Newsom erected in 2029. Time is a flat circle, everything old is new again, we will be paying in blood for the failure of Reconstruction for 7 generations
I know that it won't make a difference, but the idea of them allowing states to ban gender-affirming care under the rationale that states can restrict medical treatments more or less however they please, only to prevent states banning conversion therapy, is fucking abhorrent
Had a professor in college who went on a rant abt how Blade Runner 2049 is derivative generic hollywood nostalgia slop and that was the day I realized that college professors can also be morons
they won't even be good at hiding it tho, like ppl will resign in protest and shit will leak and they won't be able to doctor the unemployment numbers enough for him so they'll start yelling about TRUMP'S TRU-PLOYMENT REVOLUTION at press conferences
what the actual fuck even is this party anymore. they eschewed the "resistance" branding just as soon as it won them the 2018 midterms in favor of,,, normalcy, i guess? that just barely worked in 2020 because covid made "noemal" very appealing. if it weren't for that Trump would have absolutely won.
Dems haven't really stood for anything for my entire life, but they did used to have a *brand,* which is the most important thing in our era of politics-as-consumption. Wokeism was their strength for the entire Obama age and they just completely abandoned it for,,, nothing?
Nobody wants to admit that they are disempowered and alienated and are going to spend the next 4 to 40 years reading the news and feeling angry and powerless, but statistically speaking that's what the majority of us are going to be doing.
The criminal justice system is just an excuse for the abuse of state power against the marginalized. We should abolish the police and focus on community restoration. Unless you have committed one of the Bad Crimes, in which case you should be skinned alive and fed your own roasted organs ☺️
I think that we need to get rampant speeding under control, but I don't want to further empower the police or artificially restrict cars. This leads me to the logical conclusion that we must let nonspeeders affix heavy weaponry to their vehicles and die historic fighting bad drivers on the fury road
No you just think you can make a "strong case" that the best way to understand human consciousness is as a prediction algorithm. Why should anyone give any more of a shit what you have to say than the twitter leftists who you've been arguing with all day?
LLM AI is an interesting technology that I know nothing about and I wish poli-sci majors would leave it to the experts and stop spamming my feed with their hot takes
jfc haven't you spent the last few days complaining about bluesky users posting out their ass about shit they know nothing about? and now you're gonna tell us what consciousness is? you're exactly as bad as the people you've been railing against
jobless codecels need to put down the keyboard and learn how to talk about emerging near-peer threats to AUKUS in the Asia-Pacific at fundraiser dinners
when i was a kid i thought No Country for Old Men was about nihilism and violence and how it breaks people down over time. then i reread the book in college and realized it's actually about how city metrosexuals with green hair and body piercings have destroyed society
It's comforting to believe that we could win at any time with one simple trick, because the alternative - that things are very bad and we may lose even if we do everything perfectly - is terrifying
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it's myopic defeatism. i won't think any less of you if you leave but don't act like the fight is already over while others are still risking everything fighting for you, and *especially* don't use a large social media platform spreading that idea
Like the latest news from the UK. The government is not in fact banning trans men from all bathrooms. They *are* allowing individual organizations to ban trans men from all bathrooms, which is horrible! But it's important to be accurate when we're talking about policies as harmful as these
Caraballo in particular has frequently misinterpreted news and policies and has basically been having a slow-motion public breakdown since the election. She literally told her followers to flee the United States or die at one point. It's always rubbed me the wrong way even tho I like her other work
How are you gonna defeat trumpism by letting trumpists determine your position on everything?
starting to think the monarchists were right and this whole "democracy" thing was just a crazy 200-year fad
You shouldn't put any stock in dumb "democracy index" measures, but iirc The Economist published a disclaimer to their 2025 edition basically saying that they didn't take into account anything that had happened since the election and insinuating that America would no longer rank as a democracy
i mean women have always had a place at the front of antifeminist reaction. From Phyllis Schlafly to Leni Reifenstahl
It's been wild to watch Will Stancil self-radicalize from "there has been a noticeable decoupling of economic sentiment from measures that used to predict it" (true!) to "the economy is flourishing and if you feel like ground beef is becoming unaffordable it's because you eat out too much"
bluesky users, or "Skeeters" as I like to call them, will forever remember this as the day that Big Joel succumbed to the woke mob. SAD!
boss i think our interest is getting out of control nonsense we're the center of the global financial system, global trade and the free world. as long as all of that is true debt is fake ummm,,,, boss...
wait, demonmama's still active? she dropped off all my social mefia feeds like maybe a year ago
your honor as you well know pornography is in fact illegal if it is legal but close enough to being illegal that it makes a 2/3rd majority of suburban dads use their vpn to watch it
Walter White would 100% vote for Kamala and act extremely smug and entitled about it
Ok but the music tho. It's actually good now
i just assume that 90% of what straight ppl do is repressed kink (the other 10% is overt kink)
idk if gay furries were doing this i'd just assume it was a kink thing
what money am I supposed to buy drugs with rent has like doubled in the last 4 years
Every time a potential Woke Stephen Miller emerges the party apparatus black bags them and sends them to El Salvador. The party leadership is too afraid of contraversy and being unpopular to allow anyone to fight that ruthlessly for what they believe in
Republican politicians are either business ghouls or ideological freaks who entered politics to shape society. Democrat politicians are that kid from Model UN who was busy drafting treaties while the other kids were getting high and having sex in the bathroom
or alternatively we need to RETVRN to our proud working class traditions of having loud, sloppy sex on the only bed in our single room apartment while our 7 roommates and neighbors all pretend to be asleep
Did I say a thing that's objectively true? Yes. But feel free to pick up an L on that count too
What are you right about? You were wrong that I was talking about Democrats. You were wrong that I was talking about Vanderbilt. You were wrong that I did not vote. You were wrong that I voted third party. And npw you are wrong that I am lying. Take the L before you're wrong about something elsr.
I know this because I'm the same way, it just so happens that in this circumstance I'm not wrong about anything and you are wrong about everything. But it's ok I'm sure you can argue your way around this
of course you do! because you're a massive fuckoff weirdo who gets off by arguing on bluesky. you're constitutionally incapable of admitting that you were wrong.
Chat is he going insane? he's arguing with shadows now
If I said yes, would you admit to being a massive fuckoff weirdo for the last hour? Or would you just move the goalpost again? (I did vote for Harris, by the way)
Where did you read that I didnt vote for Harris? Be specific, I'm sure you wouldn't make a claim like that without any evidence.