Idk if it’s comforting at all, but James C. Scott has pointed out that people like this have existed for awhile now. But before they were tech people, they were scientific managers, state planners, and city planners. The difference today is that people in power believe their bullshit.

Nobody who doesn’t already subscribe to the Atlantic knows what ‘authoritarian’ means. They might have some instinctual sense of what ‘fascism’ means. But I do hope the next three years are taken up with lexicographical debates about how to describe the thugs beating us with rubber truncheons.

As a kickboxer myself, this resonated with me. In our post-truth non-meritocracy where so much of our life is in the hands of authority figures, combat is clarifying b/c there's no ambiguity, and you have as much autonomy in the ring as your training gives. There's a certain truth to that violence.

I'm just so tired of bullies in this world running around unopposed by anyone with power while average people have to take it upon themselves to defend themselves. The strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

Este país sería um chiste cómico si no tuviera el poder destruir el mundo

good. faz o L porra

Know that this behavior is absolutely, positively driven by fear. Fear of the other, fear of the outgroup, fear of the unknown, fear of the foreign. Fear fear fear fear fear. Miller and his ilk, even in the halls of power, are perpetually cornered dogs in their own minds.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

it’s weird watching an ostensibly Catholic guy claim Catholic stuff is “pagan” because Catholics typically do not like this terminology as applied to them??? It’s like they’re literally all running evangelicalism under the hood

my GOAT would NEVER

I’m happy so many on here are so confident about their loyalty to us and hatred for this administration but to be honest we’ve already crossed several ethical lines I thought the military leadership might have fought harder against so call me a doomer but I have reservations.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

If only he could muster a fraction of this intensity when it comes to the rest of us being in danger and not him being personally made fun of

🇨🇳 China condena seu ex-ministro da agricultura à morte por corrupção. Tang Renjian recebia propinas que somam mais de R$ 200 milhões de reais. O tribunal afirmou que as propinas "causaram perdas gravíssimas aos interesses do Estado e do povo, portanto justificaram a pena de morte".

I think it would be fun to blast some shit into their zone like "medbeds PROVEN to do sex changes to trans people" for a few months

If I could describe the attitude of Democratic electeds towards voters in a word it would be "contempt." They believe voters are incomprehensible space aliens to be studied under a microscope in hopes of determining the special combination of words and messages that will beguile them.

The horse, the open steppe, the eagle, and the bow

Monte Dolack, 1995

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Totally tangential, but I think the Bronze Age Collapse is a crazy underrated time in history and an open world, your-choices-matter action RPG set in the Mideast with fast travel between Egypt, Sudan, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Persia would go so fucking hard.

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So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

Just starved, denied medical care, threatened, beaten forced to drink water off the floor

We need to figure out what to do as a society when our elites undergo delusional psychoses and remain at the levels of power. The destructive power of technologies like AI or social media wielded by the private sector are clear and we need to start treating these people like they have launch codes

nobody's done more to promote political violence than the GOP, but damn if the dems haven't played a huge role in creating the conditions for mass violence by absolutely choking off any sense that people can create positive change through non-violent, traditional political channels

This would require a broader and spectacular defeat of the fascist movement such that the victors are in a position to administer justice without being thwarted. And unfortunately I don’t think Trump being gone will enable that. The boat bombings, the deportations would go on. The fight will go on.

A good ad on the DC Metro

Lula is my adopted president right now since mine is broken

Among very little reporting on this… english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

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“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.” Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social sticker spotted on H Street in Washington, D.C.

This week, we've been inundated with evidence of exactly where, and who, some pundits are capable of feeling for. Class, gender, and race solidarity are compelling explanations.

like every single other inquiry into dangerous political extremism, if the administration flips this rock they'll just find more of their voter base lmao

I will become a fucking electoral CRUSADER for any congressperson who can get Gaben to confirm under oath that we will get Half Life 3

Check your registration‼️

Listening to Dems & NGOs talk about how to make a brutal system better is failing to see the truth of the immigration enforcement agencies that I have been warning about for yrs. But these people only listen to each other. You have to be an attorney, PhD, or CEO for them to even consider you worthy.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

It’s cool that American Protestantism is just Oops, All Heresies now

As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.

For anyone with lingering doubts about just how unbelievably depraved, inhuman, and disgustingly cruel CBPs culture is, this book is a good first look through the window. The idea that there are unaccompanied children in these peoples custody would be too dark to entertain if it wasn't so important

How fucking pathetic does one have to be to pass up this moment in history like this? Does he have low self esteem or something?

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The lack of professionalism is really something, just a total collapse of culture, (to the extend there ever was one)