The most profound insight in Disco Elysium is that fascism is not about racism or authoritarianism or anti-communism…it is about wömen.

I agree with Thierault and Stanton’s assessment: the way trans people are being scapegoated is an early warning sign, even if they’re a category covered by the Genocide Convention. Stoking fear of a minority is a classic tool of leaders seeking to build power and can snowball into worse abuses.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

For those who think impeachment isn't practical good tactics: If a president violates the constitution or breaks the law and you don't impeach, you're ceding that the constitution is void and so is the law. So much for practicality and good tactics.

Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

Hey so maybe we should take the nazi billionaire who controls the CSAM machine and, oh I don't know, put him in prison for inventing a CSAM machine?

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

I'll see that and I'll raise you: devaluing the arts and the humanities is a big part of the reason why we're in this mess in the first place.

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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

2025 FIFA Peace Prize Winner

two paintings, for the connoisseur

An aim of the global far-right is to rehabilitate and legitimize the colonial project.

oh no who could've seen this coming

IMPEACH AND REMOVE

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.

One person responded with “because modding and boobs are fun” and if that was the only response the furries gave to that post it would’ve been so normal. Instead it’s Nuremberg Trials but with dog titties

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

Oh VERY cool! Their base conclusion is that there is no long-term risk of death from getting the COVID vaccination, and it may actually reduce mortality (they actually expect to see *more* deaths in the vaxxed group due that cohort being older, but saw fewer)…

so, joking aside, I do really dislike this dynamic one of the reasons I very rarely get in fights On Here (aside from finding it personally upsetting) is that I believe that most people on the left-liberal spectrum have their hearts in the right place and prefer to direct my ire at people who don't

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

For gazillionth time, the standard you walk past is the standard you accept

Maduro sucking or not sucking is a peripheral question and a classic misdirection. The USA isn’t removing Maduro because he sucks! They’re removing him because he refuses to give them what they want

The 'Release the Full Epstein Files' thing is the actual distraction from 1. US Imperialism in full view, without the usual rhetoric 2. The fact that people have died and will die 3. The need for the US, whoever its administration is, to abide by international law and the UN Charter

This is what the people can do in the span of less than a day and yet some will say the electeds with dozens of staff and how many millions of $ behind them are trying their hardest by mumbling tepid concerns about proper imperialist procedure. It is NOT that hard to stop the machine of war.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

I want to help make a government that isn’t evil and works so well that you don’t really think about it

Many Americans woke up to a sick sense of deja vu. Under the guise of liberty, an administration of warmongers has lied to justify an invasion and is dragging us into an illegal, endless war so they can extract resources and expand their wealth. 1/2

We must pass Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s War Powers Resolution that asserts Congress' authorities, and Trump must be impeached. 2/2

Ex-JAG here—the proper move was to get arrested. That way when the court-martial comes around and asks him “what did you do in response to this obviously illegal order” he could’ve said “I went to the brig rather than follow it” and he would’ve been exonerated. Now? Well, now he won’t. War crime.

Statement on US aggression in Venezuela

I'm remembering how incredibly severe the consequences of the Gulf War were, how they defined the political order for decades to come, and now thinking about what happens with a much more half-assed repeat with no allies and no plan beyond "we want to, and we can"

“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.

Saying it again. Playing into the idea of a Hierarchy of Bad Things and claiming the “lesser” bad things are distractions isn’t how fascism works. Fascism multitasks. Resistance needs to push back everywhere.

Imagine a republican mass shooter, in a bell tower, shooting at a crowd of people. Imagine how monstrous you, personally, would sound if with each person shot you screamed "he just shot that guy to distract from shooting this other person!" When it's concrete, with no abstractions, it's obvious.

Muloobinba/Newcastle Hands off Venezuela snap protest 6pm Sunday 4th January CNR Stewart Ave and hunter Street Newcastle west

Honestly, the "this is a distraction" people need to gtfo. The rest of us can hold more than one idea in our head at a time, and so can this terrible administration.

Angry? Do something about it. Find & gather into a group of other angry people with the aim to collectively do something about it. Read some literature on What Is To Be Done & arm that anger with knowledge. Remain angry, but don't remain unmoved.

a level of realpolitik here: the United States is unlikely to face serious international consequences for being lunatics acting with impunity, in large part because we are lunatics acting with impunity at the end of the day this is going to be up to us to solve, domestically

September 1, 1939: Using lies as justification, Hitler broke international law by invading Poland. February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine. January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.

"Why does the United States support Israel?" A report in October noted that the most recent time Israel violated the ceasefire, the stock prices of RTX, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing each jumped by at least 1.8%. THAT'S WHY.

If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.