I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

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This is why a hybrid regime scenario is the likeliest if the democratic backsliding continues. You aren't going to see totalitarian, one-party states, but you're gonna see managed elections with the dominant party winning without fail to keep up the veneer of democracy.

The main explanation I have for this is that most Western elites live in milieus where liberal democracy and the rule of law are a given but they feel besieged by demands of the “woke”, minorities, etc. The rise of the far right is seen as a contrary faction that will put “those people“ in line.

Even outside America the pandemic alone basically warped everyone's perception of time, at the very least. Like it felt like I blinked and bam, it's already 2021.

As of the 2025 #AzerbaijanGP, only four teams have had both drivers qualify in the top 4 at least once this year. * McLaren * Ferrari * Mercedes * Racing Bulls The last one's not a typo. #F1

In a media environment that is full of people breaking the rules (slush funds, sexual violence), the fact that it's become natural to speak of how "foreigners who break the rules" are a real stress on Japanese society requires we consider the assumptions that make that statement even possible

The FIA are considering reversing Max Verstappen’s Spanish GP penalty after realising that any additional points could be crucial in their efforts to gift Verstappen another championship.

Choushinsei Flashman (1986) Episode 15

Also, "there is no hope" is coward's bullshit.

The rapture offends me the because it’s based, in part, on the idea God wouldn’t let the church suffer through the Antichrist. Christianity isn’t a get-out-of-suffering-free card. It definitely isn’t leaving others to suffer. It’s the cross and resurrection. Never one without the other.

I kinda like the juxtaposition of "faithful to the Church" Tolkien implying, but not writing about sex with "lapsed and will let you know about it" Martin writing as many sex scenes as he could. Also contrast the way they write about food.

Two words to drive any Morrowind fan nuts: Cliff Racers

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

I really like how they committed to the comic book look for this movie.

I guess the Kirk memorial really is a perfect tribute in distilling Charlie Kirk. Some cursory and uncomfortable nods to Christianity with loud angry diatribes about how your enemies should suffer and be killed.

If you canceled Disney+ and want a replacement for the MCU now is a good time to get into tokusatsu. There’s decades of shows and movies to watch stuff like Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Ultraman. Especially with Kamen Rider and Ultraman now simulcasting new shows free on YouTube with subtitles.

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

@sharonk.bsky.social I know it's orthogonal to your usual topics but what are your thoughts on the bsky censorship thing? (I get that artsky and sharonsky rarely interact, but I'm curious.)

This is an incredible price to play such a beloved classic Please play Chrono Trigger. There are so many reasons why people say this is one is a must-play

Starting grid positions of the points scorers at the #AzerbaijanGP: VER - 1 RUS - 5 SAI - 2 ANT - 4 LAW - 3 TSU - 6 NOR - 7 HAM - 12 LEC - 9 HAD - 8 #F1

℣: God damn America! ℟: That's in the Bible

Trying to demystify American Racial Theory for non-Americans such as myself. So AIUI White people are the Volk, Black people are second-class citizens *at best*, Mexicans are apparently subhuman. What else?

funny how alliteration comes more naturally to me than rhyme

I think about the fact that on a day of mass protests against government corruption that the Mass readings were about the fact that man cannot serve both God and mammon

Khorne = Hegseth Nurgle = Kennedy Jr Slaanesh = ? Tzeentch = ?

The man is a disciple of Khorne, no matter what he says he is.

he is trying to ensure that there aren't Black soldiers because he thinks they won't massacre protests

Also that logistics is the real game-breaker. It's even funnier when you consider that the US was a big contributor to victory in WWII not because it had hulking Space Marines as mainline troops, but because they could do things like regular access to ice cream on their boat among others.

There’s something profoundly gross and spiritually wicked about the religious display we are witnessing on television today.

Military history has been a series of "The army with superior logistics needs to be lucky once; the enemy without must be lucky every time" moments that nobody wants to learn from because logistics is an email job.

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

Got to use my favorite example for why translating the Bible is complicated today for RCIA: "butt dial" and "booty call" are literally the same phrase

What is your "this is the weapon of the enemy" thing?

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how did libs get the f-35 in the national divorce

A lot of governments the world over have issues including corruption or lack of political will. What the American gov't has is a massive culture of death that deems life forfeit in the pursuit of its goals, which also involve death.

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Good morning

Lot of replies claiming that Americans are not smart enough TO read books. No, no. That’s not what I’m saying. They merely don’t read. Don’t mistake aliteracy for illiteracy. You may be wiser than someone who doesn’t read, but you aren’t necessarily smarter.

“every time you fuck up and then fix it, thousands of people will remember the fuckup forever as evidence that you’re fundamentally evil. fixing it will be forgotten instantly and retconned into someone else’s moral victory over your fundamental evil” sure is an incentive structure of all time

new hyperwar just dropped

Last three podiums for Williams: 2017 Azerbaijan GP, Lance Stroll (P3) 2021 Belgian GP, George Russell (P2) 2025 Azerbaijan GP, Carlos Sainz (P3) #F1

The older I get the harder it is to escape the conclusion that the typical American reads approximately 0 books or even articles a year.

imo the idea (shared among both Helen Lewis and Shadi Hamid) is the idea that social media is a genuine public sphere when it's mostly just a place for Content. which is why so much of contemporary politics is basically fandom culture

Actually on that note what's everyone's country's social media site where Everything Happens? FB is for PH as well.

Twitter is great for liberals/leftists who hate leftists/liberals more than fascists, because it’s a constant deluge propaganda about how whatever left of center tendency you dislike is the source of all the world’s ills.

I re-read Letter from a Birmingham Jail the other day and I was struck by just how stunningly brilliant it was not just in writing but strategic thinking. Like, not news, it's a modern classic for a reason. It's just a remarkably clear vision of a strategy to achieve change.

At least part of it has to be that you get pushback on here if you try to do that 80s High School Bully But In A Cool Leftist Way schtick the hard left fuckin' loved on Ye Olde Birde Site. Also people here correctly clock you as a dipshit if you use the r-slur.

I actually don't think it's just the British hard left on X. There's a lot of American hard leftists that basically view this place as essentially the Taiwan for Bidenists