It’s nice that a number of Republican electeds are standing up for America’s long-term alliances. But there’s only one way they can possibly save U.S. power and security: impeach and convict Trump, Vance, and the entire cabinet. If they do it soon they’ll even still hold the presidency.

"i would get coup'd very strongly if i actually tried to do this, but they said i can put some meaningless tariffs up that won't be enforced, as a treat"

if there was any doubt that they intend to invade Greenland, it’s been put to rest

I just fucking hate him from the bottom of my heart.

He is hell-bent on destroying everything for nothing

ICE: "followed by will stancil"

franz von papen, the guy who led an attempted Prussian monarchist coup against the SDP, was a centrist

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

the early communists at least were trying to build utopia, and were willing to build the gulag if it was necessary to get there. these days sometimes it seems like internet communists are trying to build the gulag, and are willing to refer to utopia sometimes if it lets them get there.

Worth remembering that way back when we had that first Signal chat leak that at no point did anyone say "the president said X." Instead we got Miller saying "my sense is the president wants ___"

nobody defended these things as they were happening! Stalin treated them as shameful. he lied and denied them. even the show trials pretended to have evidence. tankieism is a worse ideology than the actual ideology which murdered all those people because at least the murder was hypocritical

i just don't think it's great that i'm expected to respect people who openly fantasize about murdering me

Yeah I think this is a good summary of the situation

It’s encouraging to see some elected Democrats choosing to exercise the powers of their office without delay or apology

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

now THIS is POSTING

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners? TRUMP: I don't talk about that REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?

If you’re going on ICE watch, please please please do not carry a gun. They have more guns. You will not win and they are looking for a reason. Just follow and observe and alert

tentatively in favor of school LLM bans, not because people will not use them, but because forcing people to pretend they're not using an LLM will make them use them better. this is much like telling students not to show up to class stoned. it makes them at least pretend not to be

None other than Fox News reports that "Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was found by a federal judge to have been 'evasive', 'not credible', and was 'outright lying' at times when questioned under oath about how agents used force against the public."

i forgot it turned to an even year in the calendar, which means the seasonal migration of a lot of Don Quixotes getting out there for the dozenth time to try and stop “criticism of the Democrats on the Internet”.

everyone who was mad about Trump's "dictator on day one" promise in 2024 has been fully vindicated. and if you were part of the crowd saying it was trump derangement syndrome to take him seriously i don't think we can fully trust your judgment about where his 2nd term is headed

poster: i'll do digmon_otis like Katyn actual soviets in time period: Katyn? What's that? Is that some pretty girl in the cinema?

one of the things about modern Marxist-Leninists (I'm thinking specifically of Losurso) is that they primarily valorize atrocities which contemporary M-Ls denied

but that's really the mentality of a Poster. The Poster always is making threats when they have no power, theatrical pronouncements of someone being dead to them forever that they barely know, and boycotts businesses they never patronize

The people he looks up to at least had the presence of mind to make false promises to allies before backstabbing them

book rec just dropped:

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

hahaha what the fuck

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We are, quite literally, no longer a free society. What they get away with in Minneapolis is an existential threat to us all and the Republic herself.

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

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It's really annoying that the administration has successfully gotten many people to accept the premise that it would be okay to murder her if he had been nudged with her car at low speed when he was not even, in fact, nudged with her car at all and just fucking slipped and panicked

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

the first scene of Deadwood, where Bullock hangs a man to save him from being lynched, is sort of a summary of the entire show: that there is very little difference, in the end, between civilization and precivilized thuggery, but it is extraordinarily important that we believe there is

this just has the rhythm of a post, I don’t know how to explain it

it's gotta be alan cummings, right?

got this advertised to me on TikTok the other day. anyway here's a pic of elon musk at a babyfur meetup.

This is really good.

This thing that Homan is saying they’re going to do, this *itself* is a flagrant violation of the first amendment. The government making a database of people exercising their rights with the explicit intent of getting them fired or ostracized or worse.

These people are fucking sick

not even talking hard about "we're gonna bring back the ctc and make it permanent". small potatoes but they prefer the vagueness of "uhhhhh we're gonna do. something. about the prices."