My neighbor told me bad boyars keep misleading his tsar so l asked how many boyars he has and he said theyre just thrown under the bus and theres a new boyar afterwards so l said it sounds like he’s just blaming the boyars because he can’t bear to blame the tsar and then his daughter started crying.

one thing that I think is probably under-covered but likely took place on a horrifying scale is the rape of boys and men by southern owners, given what happened in every other slave society. there are sometimes references in adverts to the attractiveness of male children being sold.

From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking.

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!

Don't let up! Look to Stancil's banner and follow it!

"...Russia is willing to absorb higher attrition rates on cruise missiles if the payoff is significant: disabling manoeuvring generation far from the front, disrupting power routing from nuclear plants, and forcing Ukraine into nationwide load-shedding." rochan-consulting.com/russian-stri...

Company co-founded by famously evil dude turns out to be evil. Employees shocked.

as have said before inside all opposition parties/individuals in contested democracies, is a Russian Liberal. it is in us as well. this unhelpful inner voice must be silenced, perhaps by smothering with a rhetorical pillow.

You and what army? No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army. We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?

The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state

Again it's good Bovino got pulled back. It's good there might be even a temporary drawdown in Minneapolis. But DHS is surging in Maine. It is grabbing people around Los Angeles. They aren't stopping. Maybe they're scared but they aren't stopping. The American Dirty War continues.

Many are saying. It also speaks to their complete isolation and rejection of social cohesion. They're all broken people who cannot comprehend doing something for the benefit of someone else.

there were more people in minneapolis involved in the struggle, including labor and DSA, than there are communists in the United States

it is incredible that keyboard radicals can look at the martyrdom of people with perfectly conventional politics and imagine themselves the heroes of a struggle which they do nothing but complain about

There's legions of guys who can identify specific modernizations of T-72s based on the position of ERA blocks, I'm sure they can manage flashcards explaining which small metallic cylinder is concealer and which is lipstick

I've joked more and more about how we need "Theoretical" and "Applied" social sciences -- seeking fundamental truths is good, but we really gotta consider what reality is. I think a lot of this when a lot of academics argue for parallel LGBT institutions largely unrelated to cishet society

something i'm kind of stressed about is that every time someone at dhs was ousted during trump 1, no matter what odious shit they were connected with, they had been ousted for being insufficient hardline

Tonight, most (if not all) the Zipps bar locations throughout Maricopa were raided by federal agents. Community members arrived to legally observe and agents pepper sprayed the crowd least one location. Workers were taken.

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

I was trying to articulate this earlier and this is just the correct frame, I think. Like if you need a good difference between the Democrats and the Republicans - the Democrats aren't a rape cult.

Remember, these people wear masks and are often wearing generic camo with some velcroed on labelling you could probably get from Amazon. They pop out of rental car and duplicate license plates. We do not really know who they are.

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes. And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

Addendum: and will use force to do so

trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax

Things not looking too hot Grima

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me in World of Warcraft auction house chat (iykyk)

Genuinely don't know what the admin would look like if Miller and Noem were shown the door. That leaves... Rubio, Vance, and Hegseth, to play the scheming viziers game

*stripping his rank insignia* you may recall a certain 'wedgie' incident at Beijing No. 25 school

a lot of commentary on the purge of Zhang Youxia has remarked on how Xi Jinping ruthlessly moved against someone he's literally known since childhood, but have we considered that maybe Zhang was a dick to him as kids and this is just a very long revenge arc?

I was trying to determine what the feeling I'm experiencing tonight is, and it's...hope? That regular people fucking broke shit up, without waiting for any useless elected fucks to do anything about it. the bullies have been stood up to and were revealed to be impotent cowards with no fucking game

I keep hearing "oh they weren't ready for Minnesota in the winter" / "if they couldn't handle Minnesotans, they sure can't handle Philly" / etc. And frankly, I think each of our 50 states has its own home turf advantage that's going to stymie ICE in its own unique way, and I think that's beautiful.

They're going to tell themselves they've "learned" from their last failure as they trot off to their next city, and find out there's a whole new toolbox of humiliation that's getting opened up just for them.

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

Taiwan needs to be able to say if you try I blow up all your ports majority of your factories and delete 1/3 of your gdp win or lose maybe then will they hesitate

The takeaway here is : 1) Xi is deadly serious about taking Taiwan by force; 2) the PLA is not going to be ready on his timeline.

Welp.

A bit like the Stonehenge, the brick-henges' creation is swathed in mystery. No one entirely knows where they came from, or who started making them, and whether aliens were involved. Source: Telegram (Oct 2020 - most likely taken Nov 2019)

Acting President Miller has, for the moment, defeated the internal coup against his iron-fisted rule. And until he is decisively *fired*, he is going to keep ginning up Amerimaidan in his efforts to make a thousand Tiananmen Square Massacres bloom.

I mean no, "You are a sad deluded man in a skirt and that's why I gave the host of 'Celebrity Apprentice' intercontinental ballistic missiles," really is one of those things where even if I were to grant the initial premise, what follows is a bit of a trip.

I mean obviously, both shootings were unjustified and Pretti is a goddamn hero in my book. But like on a gut level, I blue screen on “I get shooting someone because you’re scared of lesbians but *guns?*” as a thing people genuinely believe in their hearts.

My inner rube can’t help but be surprised how many Republicans seem to hold the sincere stance that death squads publicly murdering women should be legal but doing it to men is a step too far.

also fascinating that the Admin got want they wanted—a rehash of 2020—and lost it decisively in a matter of days/weeks (depending on if you start at Good or Pretti)

Wait, the MAGA penguin AI meme is really a distorted descendant of the Werner Herzog documentary moment where the irrational young penguin waddles off into isolation & certain death???

They named the company I applied for after the Evil Surveillance Orb in the Most Popular Movie Ever and *smacks lips pensively* ...huh.

"i want him to know it was me"

HEY BOVINO TRY COLLECTING YOUR PENSION WITH ALL OF THOSE HATCH ACT VIOLATIONS YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD