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AfD is out there cooking up new kinds of racism like they're working on the cure for cancer.

South America extends decades of hospitality to the German right, and this is the thanks they get? apnews.com/article/braz...

If war is a continuation of politics by other means and our politics are incredibly stupid and incoherent then our wars should be too. That's just theory.

Watching the first round of the Chilean election.

I can think of worse cases for the DRC...

Take any given loud gentile zionist, and there's a really good chance that they love the Jewish people so much that they'll help them pack.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Whatever else you think of Pete Buttigieg, this is a very effective Republican attack line, and recognizing why is important.

Ancient American Proverb: "Trump conquered Greenland, but Clinton conquered Trump."

"You see, I was only on Epstein's plane because I was going to meet Woody Allen."

I was just streaming a show on Hulu with a character based on a guy I know in it. Within the first twenty minutes, him and colleague walk into a meeting to be greeted by "oh look, the retards are here."

*throws live grenade into discourse* Satoshi Nakamoto is a British transwoman who invented the block chain so she could buy hormones. medium.com/@artibian0x/...

This actually applies to a whole range of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Above average intelligence plus ignorance and arrogance has always been a reliable recipe for a crackpot.

There were always two sorts of Anti-Communist, those who hated the Bolsheviks because they (to my thinking, rightly) thought Marxism-Lennism would never deliver on it's promises, and those who hated them because they feared that they would.

Thou shalt not compare stocks to flows.

They're doing @seamus.bsky.social dirty with this one.

Trump's totally bizarre preference for fraiming everything in terms of zero sum domination and conquest strikes again. Generally, helping a state suppress an insurgency is considered a form of aid.

Somehow, we elected and then re-elected Nelson Muntz president.

Given that they both worked closely with LAPD chief William H Parker at the same time, its very likely that Gene Roddenberry and Daryl Gates knew each other. I don't know what to do with that information.

Okay, first of all...

Antisemitism just very bleak to think about as an issue. Like in terms of how widespread a prejudice it was 20 yrs ago compared to today I don’t think think any other prejudice has seen more backsliding. Really just a combination of worst case scenarios.

Because the countries in question are ICC signatories, anyone involved in this can potentially be indicted.

Trump is the darkest manifestation of this phenomenon.

it went the other way too, where you'd get thrown off. was michael jackson an elaborate bit? here i am watching him talk to ernest from the ernest movies and they are acting like they know each other...

the 80s had a high density of celebrities whose authenticity was hard to figure out, as a kid. like, was Mr. T a real guy? he was like that in shows/movies but also in interviews? or pee wee, elvira, max headroom, various wrestlers. even alf was on celebrity squares. it was a confusing time.

I'm going to start a charity to finance George Lucas style special editions that digitally remove Jared Leto from every movie he's ever been in.

I stand by my judgment that the guy's not a Nazi and, so far as anyone can tell, hasn't been involved in far right politics in any way. But the standards for being a senator should be a lot higher than that.

Sliwa for something. Definitely not mayor, but like something.

Let's check in on how the regime consolidation is going. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

One of the things I have to come to terms with is that my aesthetic preferences cut hard against my politics. Fascist, or for that matter, Stalinist displays of order, modernity, and discipline are just really cool looking. The sorts of society that are good at producing them tend to be horrifying.

In Platner's defense, who would ever have thought that a Dalmatian tattoo parlor would be full of Nazis... Hold on, I'm being passed a note.

Okay, no need to freak out, but someone gave Dugin a copy of the Necronomicon.

When did he have it?

I'll put down my chips now and say that Ingrassia will be back at a non confirmable position.

Any form of regime change, in this case, from a representative to a personalist, authoritarian system, requires building an alternative base of loyalty. It's worth noting that Trump's pitch to established stakeholders leans heavily on the promise of enabling corruption. It is not a sign of strength.

It's hilarious that this guy is also a big fan of Andrew Tate, a very much non-white man and alleged Muslim, with a long history of assaulting, among others, white women. He just started with being a piece of shit on general principle and worked his way back to racism.

The socially optimal amount of crime is not strictly speaking zero.

There's a fundamental problem with expecting the media to rein in an amoral media figure who's risen to the heights of power. For a lot of these people, Trump is aspirational.

Random fact that most people not familiar with the deep esoterica of Latin American history won't know: Oscar Romero was a friend of Josemaría Escrivá and quite close to Opus Dei.

another broad point: people who have spent their entire working lives inside think tanks and magazines talking about how work needs to be more masculine are overcompensating for their own insecurities.

Modern right-wing authoritarians have the very serious problem that they're trying to graft a completely alien political tradition onto the American system of government, and its very awkward.

Countdown until he dies in a plane crash during a mysterious flight to Russia.

It's very important to announce your covert actions in advance. That's how you keep them covert.

Coolness is, almost by definition, an exclusive club and can never be the aim of mass politics. Embrace the cringe.

ICE didn't exist until the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a law that Dick Cheney of all people originally opposed for the very sensebile reason that it created another layer of bloated, unnecessary bureaucracy.

Imagine these being your values: I think disabled children have it too easy, they should have less stuff. That's the global right atm, those are the people we're dealing with.