Ya know, the thing Stancil made an online presence out of noting was happening specifically so they could have a Trojan horse to achieve this end

In fact they do It was installed with concerted effort by a syncretic online (specifically Twitter) coalition responding to every “Trump will be a dictator that takes a torch to the Constitution” with “I CAN’T FUCKING AFFORD MILK” in all caps

If this administration hadn't seemingly completely forgotten about the ongoing conventional war in Ukraine we could have spent the last year ruthlessly euthanizing whatever was left of Russian State capacity and made this entire point moot.

The way to end all this is for the EU to immediately get hyper-aggressive with sanctioning and tariffing every American they can find. The man has worse approvals than at any point in his prior term plus it’s an election year. It’s all a bluff. Call it!

Here's the difference: if one of my moderate right wingy low information acquaintances or friends was like 'shit I fucked up on Trump' I would be like, I get it, you're my guy, politics isn't your thing, you came around and that's great. Richard Hanania is not that guy, and won't ever be that guy

I will shit on Richard Hanania's fake ass 'conversion'

I do think there's something interesting in the reactionary/principled 'moderate' or 'centrist' wherein they think they are an avatar in the discourse for the everyman and not, y'know, the people they are who have made at different times the arguments they have

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Incidentally the best explanation we've been given for why the President is so hot to annex Greenland is that it is 'psychologically necessary for success.'

The Mercator projection is useful because it shows true shapes and directions.

He's not doing this because he's angry about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize. That's just a way for an abuser to blame his victim.

Whoever said that Americans treat Donald Trump like a Make-a-Wish kid while everyone else has to treat him like the President of the United States deserves a fucking medal. Even Bernie does it. Frogs boilt all the way through

Oh so its WAY a dementia fixation, cool cool

i do not think that this was The Point of anything that dribbled out of the corner of Donald Trump's mouth today in a straightforward sense but I will note that people spent today screaming at each other about Feckless Democrats instead of signal boosting the work being done in Minneapolis

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a century and a half of precedent this year and strip citizenship from millions of Americans, and the main response from legal academia has been shock and outrage that people have been insufficiently deferential to the people doing this.

Donald Trump is going to be responsible for creating a true transnational European military.

it's interesting to see criticism of stancil that basically amounts to "yes, he's doing good things in the real world, but don't lose sight of the fact that he's annoying online." please take a breath.

can u imagine being not only a baptized christian but an ordained priest and then, when NPR asks you about the Bishop of New Hampshire's comments last week, what you find to say is "I didn't sign up to be a martyr"??

Fundamentally the lesson American voters took from Trump I and Stop the Steal is that Worse Things Aren't Possible imo

OTD in 1945, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved 15,000 Jews in WW2, was kidnapped by the Soviet NKVD who took him to Moscow & killed him. Cos we're the real anti-fascists

Why even have the percent chance to win other than to note that its a dumb way to think about a football game

they're mad that people outside the US won't play along with a decaying old man's make-a-wish imperialism bullshit

asking the opinions of legal experts is totally pointless because SCOTUS will be making a political decision and not a legal one

apparently the Fandom (TM) is upset about SZA as the new Gundam Hathaway OP song. Really ridiculous

o no trump is gonna put a big mean tarff on europe until he gets greenland that'll show em

Folks, I tell you, you can’t make this shit up. A complete reversal from just an hour ago! It’s almost like these accounts just exit to rage bait against dems!

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

Calling for youths to do a National Service in 2026 is like a TVA for incels instead of duracells

how the mainstream media genuinely seems to have understood the Biden years:

the nature of poasting is such that the smuggest mfs alive are always reinventing homeopathic maoism

CNN gets more views being hate-shared here than it does on its network lol

also of course 'university without cancel culture' = half your staff on Epstein's island.

A regular process would mean something like the office gets a request, they log the request, a staff attorney reviews it against a policy, makes a written recommendation to the boss on some date, the boss reviews it, makes a written recommendation to the White House on another date...

Not that any president would remember every pardon recipient, but that is why there was a regular process run by the Office of the Pardon Attorney with supporting documentation. None of that is happening here. Probably nothing is being written at all, to evade criminal liability.

academics be like “you believe in traditional forms of political engagement? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, which is taking you out back and shooting you” and then not take you out back and shoot you

You know the autopen thing is all projection, right? He isn't signing or authorizing many of the actions with his name on them. He's probably not even aware of them. For the ones he does authorize, he's probably not competent. I doubt many of his pardons could survive an evidentiary hearing.

The reason that Tooze got so mad at the 'you don't get your hands dirty' claim is that it was a clean and clear hit

am i the only person who came away from this project liking tooze more but respecting him intellectually less

Democrat leaders looking for "creative ideas" to fight ICE, I've got a crazy one called "go outside to where the shit is actually happening."

I would only ask as a follow up question to Mr. Tooze: Yeah, whatever happened to those German communists, anyway?

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

If things ever start calming down, they'll stir them back up

"i ran over your dog because of starving children in north krasnovia" is not something you would accept IRL

trying to explain the bad behavior this way actually makes it worse, because it gives people a sense that their random idiocy is grounded in some world-historical current rather than a momentary lapse of impulse

I live in Houston, in a state that is one of the major epicenters of vote suppression by the GOP, and there are so many people who are freaking out more than I am about things that they think will happen in my city and others like it

Every time somebody posts something like this, someone else is like “it would just take surgical injection of a few agents at a couple of key sites to suppress huge amounts of the vote” and there’s way shorter ways to tell us your pants are constantly soaked in piss.

Obama was elected to the Senate in my lifetime and was only the fifth African-American Senator ever. There are five African-American Senators currently serving right now. Crazy to think about.