I almost view the boomer shooter revival (so named because it’s meant to bring the genre back to its arcadey roots) as an indirect response to how CoD effectively became the video game version of a hoo-rah jingoistic action blockbuster, complete with direct involvement with the Pentagon

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Want to be very clear to anyone even remotely thinking about coming to events like GDC: Don't. It's not safe to be in the US, nobody's hiring or financing anyway, and it's not worth your life.

Everyone who seriously, genuinely considers themselves left of center in any capacity should be actively asking themselves and their immediate colleagues and comrades: "what would a constitutional and political state of affairs look like where these events are made functionally impossible"?

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

The largest socialist organization in the US (which, notably, does have a council-level presence in the Twin Cities) really ought to return to the kinds of discussions it was earnestly having during Trump's 1st term: constitutional overhaul. How can we be the parliamentary agitators for new law?

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

I dont think every FPS is fascist propaganda but COD is, at this point, an extremely useful propaganda tool for a fascist administration

sigh. roll clip.

Rare use of this meme in an unironic capacity…

if they wanted to stop this they would be fighting it, not funding it.

One problem with having so many millionaires billionaires is that they're by definition so out of touch with lived experience and basic reality that they have no human compass anymore. People hate secret police forces kidnapping neighbours. You need to be very isolated to not to know that.

Man, I hate to break it to you, but I think the White House might actually be involved in all this.

they’ve been assuring everyone this is the case for at least 15 years. It’s always been “next year you’ll see, there’s going to be a flood of regretful detransitioners,” and it just never happens. Instead study after study shows people are have an incredibly high satisfaction rate from transition.

You should start preparing for what you will do if ICE comes to your neighborhood now. Not later.

When it comes to documenting ICE activity, remember what Eisenhower said at the end of WWII. "Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

I don't know who else will appreciate this, but you're welcome

Man the fuck up and start protecting your people. Tell your state police to start arresting these criminals. Mobilize the Guard and tell them they are to take NO orders from a demented tyrant who is executing innocents in the street. You swore a fucking oath to the Constitution.

What's most insulting about "body cameras and training" is yes they are filming themselves doing murders to make memes obviously but also "training"? forcing these nazi thugs to sit at a chair and play on their phone while a tablet plays videos? Oh yeah THAT will fix it.

the trump people, business leaders and the dog-brained pundits in nyc and dc saw trump win in 2024 and thought “okay, we’re just gonna do fascism, the argument is over” and they’re all going to slowly wake up to the simple but true counterpoint: nuh uh

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

If I say what should happen to every ICE and border patrol stooge, every government official above them, every so-called representative hemming and hawing and ultimately letting all of this unfold without resistance, I'll be banned so fast there'll be a Gretchen-shaped hole in the internet

it set in for me how big this was when i saw a real estate content creator in minneapolis make a video about how he was detained and targeted by ICE for following them to protest. this is hitting everyone in their community

Oh boy another fucking murder by a jumpy ICE goon I can't wait for our elected officials to say "This is a tragedy" and not do anything

Yep. There are split duties here. Miller broadcasts undisguised bloodlust to the base, openly relishing the sadism and cruelty of ICE's paramilitary warfare against Americans on Fox News. Vance sells it to non-MAGA Republicans and independents by speaking piously about law enforcement under siege.

Once again saw someone calling Bluesky a "no fun all politics scold zone" Once again it was one of the wave who came here in Nov 24 and turned it from "the fat cock Friday and Tom Boobadill site" to "the place where newbies say 'Orange Man Bad' to each other".

If phrarrell has no haters I’ve left this planet

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

Me and Chandra decided to watch the old he man movie because of how bad the new one looks Guys, this movie is such good dog shit I could remake this entire movie for like $3000 Bad, but very fun

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oh wow robots are gonna do everything for us and we'll never have to work again?? wake up bro. they said basically the same shit about slinkies and guess what? eighty years later we're walkin down more stairs than ever

Can you imagine the reaction from the right if the anti choice freaks protesting at reproductive health clinics got treated with 1% of the hostility filmed here?

The libertarian "fell for it again" award is "reached the natural conclusion of my ideology" award.

And using humanitarian funds that were pulled from actual humanitarian efforts to pay for this. Sickening.

Everyone is getting their time in the “anti war protest gets ignored by MSM” zone

Right up the with MTG's American idol Audition youtu.be/f9VIDHEPxB8?...

this administration is actual real evil. how can anyone approve of this

Minnesota is the best of us.

Do people realize how wide Minneapolis streets are? Filling the streets like they did today takes real numbers. Media may focus on the shrinking minority who like this administration, but they're making themselves less relevant by the day.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

I’ve seen the Google Doc being shared about Spider-Man’s abusive behavior following his switch to the black suit and his involvement in the Sandman bank robbery and while it’s not as serious, I need to come clean - a few years ago, even before the black suit, I saw Spider-Man steal someone’s pizzas

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

Go Nagai going into the Hall of Fame!

san francisco’s Japan consul general Kotaro Otsuki welcomed manga legends and featured @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social “art of manga” exhibit artists Junji Ito (Uzumaki) and Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma 1/2) this week! Don’t miss your chance to see “art of manga” - last day is Feb. 1!

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

A fucking war crime. Christophe Gans should be tried at The Hague.

lol okay “allies” we can dispense with the “pronoun jokes” now - this shit got old years ago. You can just say “Fuck ICE” and go about your day.