Immunocompromised people in real life: ‘Yeah, mask if you’re sick or in a hospital or something like that, but you don’t need to do it all the time.’ Bluesky users: ‘If you aren’t wearing a mask literally every second you are outside your own home, you are a eugenicist Nazi murderer.’

What this site, at least, is lacking is people with the backbone to stand up and say "So what? He wants to be a dictator? Fuck him, he doesn't get to be one." Far too many scrupulous neurotics so obsessed with the pain and injury they can't even start to talk about what will lie beyond it.

One consequence of maintaining a social circle of fellow ideologues in the age of algorithmic reinforcement and closed app ecosystems is that you gradually lose any perspective on how mainstream your ideas really are. I don’t think these Nazis understand how much they’re hated.

Seeing a lot of "Well that's it, it's over, we don't have a Republic, we have a dictator/king, time to lie down and wait for death" shit floating around from the budget people and, I am sorry, you are weak and craven and need to shut the fuck up. If we have a dictator we have to force him out.

Making sure all my enemies know that there's a big rally about how much I suck coming up, & also that it really bothers me

The ideological chart of presidential assassins is so funny, and it'll be a loss when you realize what it can also mean.

what even IS a rhetorical question, anyway

Swear to God, after 2024 I don't want to fucking hear 'candidate OLD' ever fucking again

“Jd Vance commiserates with his group chat” would be a good SNL cold open

🎶 Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my Dragula🎶

The ‘we should be masking forever’ position is cope from people who wanted to maintain *quarantine* forever. If I might be uncharitable, lockdowns gave a lot of deeply antisocial people their first and only taste of social power, and a lot of people never wanted to give that up.

Listening to even liberal Europeans talk about immigration is enough to make even the most accommodationist Democrat go pale

I don't care that they were never worn, I'm not paying full price for secondhand shoes.

Let Kamala have her fucking book tour If y'all wanted to protest her, y'all should have elected her Stop blaming Kamala, she didn't tank the economy and send stormtroopers into US cities

Aside from its pervasive influence on politics, this mentality is also why a lot of nerds now review-bomb games on Steam and tell themselves that it’s a form of activism

There’s never been a ‘realism’ mod for any game that actually made it more fun to play, in any genre Change my mind

This sounds mean and I absolutely intend it to be, but the internet‘s validation of introversion was an epochal disaster for society at large. Go outside and make some friends, you nerds.

If you refused to support Harris to "stop genocide," congratulations, you did genocide.

the thing about woke 2 is that it’s coming

The simplest way to end protests against ICE would be for this administration to stop kidnapping people off the street, and that is often left out of coverage of these National Guard deployments

My only contribution to The Discourse is that nobody on Bluesky should talk about children in any context unless they’re sharing a funny anecdote Y’all are Weird About Kids on here

Howard Zinn has much to answer for with his *People's History of the United States*, but the very largest part is in creating this flat framing of the history of the US as Mighty Whitey squishing everyone else over and over and over, with us cast as two-dimensional moronic victims.

Also forgetting the humanity of our enemies- especially fascists!- leaves us uniquely vulnerable to them coming again. Hitler was just A Guy. Trump is just A Guy. There will be more, and they could be anyone. The only antidote against them coming about is, ironically, love and compassion.

I need "dehumanizing people, even evil ones" to remain off-limits. Tired as fuck of not living in polite society.

Me: schism! Schism! Pope Leo, grabbing the mic: SCHISM! SCHISM!

Again, it's really important to understand that anyone who hates theatre, art and academia - three things Britain is still *really bloody good* at making - just hates Britain.

It’s going to be really hard to convince myself to forgive the many people who supported a racist rapist pedophile who had already attempted a coup

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

it's wildly interesting how the claim to save western civilization is more or less the sole threat to western civilization

Guy who lives in a country where the annual family fun festival involves wearing blackface and setting fire to a papier-mâché antisemitic caricature while dancing around the maypole: wow, the casual bigotry on display in America right now breaks my heart

these guys want -- indeed feel entitled to -- cultural hegemony but don't have a popular culture to offer anyone outside of podcasts where dumb guys complain. they're hoping AI will make one for them but i got bad news

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

The 90s had a lot of missteps but the then-earnest belief in diversity and multiculturalism brought on by post-Cold War optimism was one of it better fruits

I get beside myself angry when I think about how a presidential candidate repeatedly fucking said he’d be a dictator and the press response was ha ha that rascal I’m sure he probably doesn’t mean it

i saw on a fiction writing tips site this line that stuck in my head which is that "readers don't find the everyday lives of your characters as interesting as you do" and i think it sums up a lot of the problems of the coffee shop AU thing

It’s easy to criticize the Israeli Government without being antisemitic. The first step is to not be antisemitic. The rest works itself out.

Jewish-Muslim solidarity in Europe and North America is needed more than ever now.

Labubus look like a creature that was kicked out of the island from Where the Wild Things Are for unspecified bad behaviour

An underappreciated great thing about Star Wars is that it’s about a science fiction universe being forced to follow high fantasy conventions. And it turns out that Sauron isn’t actually very good at running a Type-III Kardashev civilization

I think the average person is much smarter than they give themselves credit for, except when it comes to politics, where they are about as cognitively capable as one of the less-impressive primates born after sixteen generations of aggressive inbreeding. Unfortunately this kind of outreach works.

Frank Miller could never

I'm a single issue voter now, my issue: revenge

It is a direct violation of my rights as a citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to even know that New York City *has* a mayor, I should never be subjected to even a syllable of discussion about a mayoral primary without financial compensation

future historians are going to assume the new york mayor was some kind of national emperor with the power to disband parliament & initiate pogroms all because new yorkers insist on having the most insane discourse possible about parking charges and grocery stores or whatever

The ‘no ethical consumption’ saw is one of those useful conversational tells, because any time someone says it sincerely, you know immediately that you’re dealing with a incredulous buffoon who has nothing of value or interest to say

Can we kill this flavor of American Exceptionalism (Derogatory)? Because it is incredibly ahistorical and honestly just bullshit

Damn it, now that right-wingers are angry at the People’s History of the United States, my own personal loathing for the late Howard Zinn and his work *from* a left-wing perspective is suddenly a lot less socially acceptable

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want