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Tbh the thing about the “gen z boss and a mini” video is that it shows that basically every culture war “solution” from the left is kinda delusional because like, people ar voting for Trump because they think the democrats are behind an Australian skincare brands marketing video

we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them

this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right

For those keeping score at home, the United States is now without an Army Secretary, Army Deputy Secretary, and Senate-confirmed Army Chief of Staff -- all in the midst of an ongoing War with Iran that everyone in D.C. has quietly conceded Trump already lost.

“woke 1 was worse than our nation being run by fascist white nationalists” is a horrible thing to say out loud but it is the actual position most of these people hold so they disguise it by Just Asking Questions but you can tell by which subjects they cover

fable agents delighted to find out their not alone and comparing notes on two sides of a big problem:

If we were in Ancient Greece gods woulda been baked Barron and Ivanka into pies and fed it to him.

i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason

The thing about Kirk's death being very much Not a Reichstag Fire is one reason I think that while MAGA has a great many fash characteristics, it's fundamentally a dysfunction of America's constitutionalism and looking for interwar central European models ends up going wrong.

you absolutely do not have to hand it to him but these are smarter questions than I saw 99% of tech reporters asking at this time

I wonder if taking the 5% of humanity whose prehistoric job was “make sure the fire doesn’t go out overnight and wake us up if and only if there is a big cat” and giving us all a place where we can rile each other up was a great idea.

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

It’s René Goscinny’s 100th birthday, so here’s me and @jayforeman.bsky.social talking about the indomitable Asterix. pod.link/1614879928/e...

"woke 2" "woke 3" can we settle for "nuremberg done right"

the sloppy joe appreciator has logged on

sure we got whole ass mythopoetic frameworks about all the times its sucked [gesturing at global flood myth] (and also all these myths are like WE BUITL A HUGE ASS BOAT AND LIVED BITCH)

@pookleblinky.bsky.social you probably saw this already but if not: The BLIT Is Real

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

I’ve taken to telling people that if the Supreme Court can just arbitrarily decide precedents (eg humphreys executor) that have stood for longer than I’ve been alive now need to go because they got in the way of mister Trump, we don’t have rule of law

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

NTFS

Okay, I think I figured out the dynamic this morning on my run— the funny thing that happens on Bluesky is well-meaning folks spend weeks predicting something terrible will happen, it doesn’t come to pass, but enough people on here feel “right enough” to keep persevering in their ways.

Claude Fable is back and it’s already done with my bullshit 😂

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

"How does a bizarre and scary anomaly like a vast 'Killer Drone Gray Zone' even happen?" *Well, it built up quite slowly. I've got a meme-library here that dates back to 2014 www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

I think it's @beijingpalmer.bsky.social who's observed that many/most elites live in what is basically a post-literate oral culture and it all makes a lot more sense in this context

very pleased to discover after years of going for walks and ranting to myself in voice memos that this is something that AI can deal with now. It’s amazing to go back and realize how many these ideas still resonate years later and afaict nobody’s built them in the meantime

Pundits: "The left doesn't know how to make appeals with patriotism!" Protestor at Delaney Hall waving an American flag:

i want this shit over so bad but if im iran im maybe a month or so away from making america decide between its economy completely imploding or its alliance with israel

These are people who would read newspapers or real journalism in the past. I'm sure they think they're still keeping informed; the short-form video mimics real news too closely. It's like carbon monoxide, poisoning someone by binding to cell receptors that think they're getting oxygen instead

my locally owned fast food place here in Amsterdam just put up a TV, and the last time I went there had CNN playing with Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire. Big simulation hypothesis moment.

i really, truly, find this offensive

I am familiar with some stalwart republicans even in this era, and I’m witnessing some broad mental health spiraling going on that roughly aligns with what you’d feel if your church pastor was revealed to be a pedophile yet you could not accept nor even acknowledge this news