I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

The last decade or so resulted in me really understanding the lead up to WW1 in a way I hadn’t before

You’re right—swallowing the bird was a half-measure. The bird did eat the spider, as planned, but now you have a bird in you. It reminds you of swallowing the spider to catch the fly. You’re seeing the pattern. Would you like me to suggest some animals which could eat the bird?

Question Throwing it out there Why DO Americans want their country to be the moral leader of the world? Maybe they can fuck off and let other countries make their own decision in that regard

This is an example of why mandatory age verification is nigh on impossible. During a week when X's status as a child sexual abuse image factory was exposed, the issue of requiring children to upload photos of themselves to the internet under the guise of child safety is abundantly problematic.

*Seeing a blocked account* Now did I block them (well within my rights, they must have been incredibly annoying - toxic, in fact, and wrong about everything, I was merely doing my eyes a favour) or did they block me (hysterical overreaction from some haughty drama queen scared of the truth)?

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

just tell trump he got greenland. he'll most likely be dead soon, so you probably won't have to keep up the lie for very long. if he asks to visit you can fly him literally anywhere and say it's greenland

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

Something I don't talk about too much but that I love and fell in love with in college is Universal Design. The idea and ways that things can be made so that everyone can use them without compromise. Eg, bank cards don't have raised numbers on them anymore, that probably sucks for blind people!

When the far-right was re-grouping in the 1990s, it pivoted from talking about race and skin colour to "culture" and compatibility. This has now seemingly become a guiding principle for the BBC's political output.

Idk I just feel we should be making a bigger deal about members of the Oireachtas speaking at an event run by anti-semitic conspiracy loon Eddie Hobbs

It’s no good Governments being slow-footed in response to this. You can’t sit back and wait for the real life consequences. It’s OK to stand powerful against such rotten conduct. And swiftly and fiercely.

I feel like I need more people to acknowledge that we never allowed "we used to manufacture child porn but stopped because of the pushback" as a legal defence before a famous billionaire did it. This isn't the kind of thing you get second chances for.

If we have to choose between a future where we slowly cede our quality of life to US capitalists while debasing ourselves, or one where we rip off the bandaid and tell them to go fuck themselves, I'm not having a hard time choosing the latter.

Legit tho ‘I think that you know as well as I do that five years from now, things are going to be five years worse, unless action is taken at both a civil society and legislative level to constrain the wanton behaviour of those with money and power and vast technological resources.’

forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

The first point here is she isn't his girlfriend; she's a sycophantic computer programme he's set up to praise him. We need to stop indulging this

This is madness. Big Tech and their insatiable demand for energy coming before housing, transport and our environment. All our electricity bills will rise even higher to allow these data centres use more than a third of our total electricity.

Chill evening at home

the entire administration is making content for twitter nazis and they are convinced that those twitter nazis are genuinely representative of the vast majority of american sentiment they believe all the election conspiracies and think the country is 80-20 in their favor

On the language of the nefarious Grok prompts: "I’ve rarely encountered a more pitiful evocation of misogyny – of the deep sexual derangement of men who make a fetish of their own hatred of and alienation from women – than this blank language of technologised command and control."

Thinking about this once again

Despite the headline, most of this article is not about fear of being shot but about fear of being detained and then deported Which undocumented people in Ireland also have www.independent.ie/world-news/e...

As we said ten years ago: there is no Just Right point on the racism and xenophobia Laffer Curve, a place you can pitch the crackdowns and flag-fucking and please reactionaries. They weren’t reasoned into these fears, so they can’t be reasoned out of them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak. I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡

seems like those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty?

I am the exact kind of pedantic nerd that would make this kind of argument if it were true, but I am also old enough to have used these. And yes, we just called them floppies. Almost nobody actually said diskette.

They want it formally dead, but NATO is already functionally dead as a geopolitical reality. Even if he backs down (wouldn't bet on it), there's no going back from sending European capitals into a spiraling panic that the US is seriously about to invade one of them. You can't unring that bell.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

american liberals are fine with millions of deportations as long as they happen quietly and the police don't hurt any white people. proud of it, really

the Catholic Church being right about 60% of the time these days takes some getting used to

Starting to feel like it's an explicit job requirement for political pundits not to admit the most consequential trend in American politics of the last 40 years.

In almost exactly twelve months people have developed an iron certainty that controlling Greenland is a vital interest of the United States. Fascinating

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer. “Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!

They fucking did this shit after W and Trump 1, how did it fucking go, I forget

I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence

always worth reiterating that riley gaines actively ran cover for her coach who was accused of abusing and assaulting multiple women on the team while she made a small fortune crying about lia thomas being a predator

Baaaahahaha. Excellent work guys. This is why the Mayor and Governor aren't helping you! They're busy helping ICE. Anyway remember when everyone was like "look how tough Mayor Frey is saying the f word" lol Charlie Brown ass mfs

these first two sentences are laughable coming from the governor of the state where the citizens actually burned down a police station in response to police violence

Can’t remember the exact context of this, but I never saw anybody so badly bodied by someone ostensibly offering support

If the US invades Greenland, upending the world order and unequivocally ending the Transatlantic Alliance, by all accounts because Trump saw how big Greenland looks on a map and therefore wanted it, it's at least going to be vindication for us anti-Mercator Projection partisans

Outside US embassy to say: Hands off Venezuela Hands off Cuba Hands off neutrality The government has no interest in sovereignty. They just want to lick the boots of Trump. They want rid of the Triple Lock so Irish troops can be sent to fight for US power. We need to save it.

American exceptionalism is believing it's the only country in history where a revolution would be dangerous for the revolutionaries

This is so clueless I'm not surprised an American is saying it