They’re doing a whole thing pretending to be mad about the Odyssey? Like every other fucking thing ever? That they’ll shut up about soon? Damn that’s crazy. “Thanks for letting me know.” -Luke

Trump's "settlement" is bad not just for reasons others mentioned but the fact it goes with a theory I've had for awhile: That RWers don't just want to be openly bigoted, they want to be rewarded for their bigotry, and here Trump is, outright making exactly that happen.

Thing is, 'political violence' happens often. It's just not *called* violent and is given the biggest of leeways far more than us plebs get. Namely State-sanctioned violence. That's never actually punished, never truly criticized, never really stopped. It's always "acceptable" when it happens.

John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo...

And let's be very clear here, we're in the "manufacturing consent" phase to justify the policy position the establishment has. It doesn't matter if there's 0% approval of eliminating autistic people (like me) from society, it is now going to happen. Everything else around it is to justify it.

Also to add to this, this is why most fandoms and such online tend to be "woke" due to them having all types of people who like them. By extension it is also why the companies "go woke", because they see they've got this broad customer base and they want to make sure they stay customers.

Met Gala? No I've never heard of anyone named Gala!

I don't think it's a bad thing gaming is getting so expensive. The pricier things get, the more people are gonna explore and 'look back' at older games, not just the latest and greatest. This will lead to a resurgence in popularity for older games and more will see that gaming can be better.

Probs one of the more annoying things to me in politics is that the Right treats things as if they're all in a bubble and separate. "The government is terrible at spending money!" Ok *why* is that? "They just are!" They ignore further order things, like say, politicians being bought off...

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

They have the "Thing I don't like" mentality. "I don't like this thing, ergo that must make it evil (because I am *such* a moral person I can make that call for everyone), ergo I must put all my time and energy into banning this thing because NO ONE should be able to have the thing."

And yes that means they can and will justify mass murder/genocide of a group or even whole populations if it means the 'thing they don't like' is gotten rid of, and they'll still see themselves as somehow being morally superior for it. They can do no wrong and see you as 'evil' if you oppose them.

It's essentially the 'evangelical' mindset. They see themselves as morally superior, and therefore if they say they don't like something, that makes it 'evil', and therefore it is their moral obligation to make sure NO ONE AT ALL can have/be that thing.

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

I really think the complete detachment of Twitter from everyday life has cooked the brains of the pundit class.

Cuz the real goal is killing autistic people. That's where this leads, where it always leads. They're not interested in 'fixing' or 'preventing' autism, as they see it as us having committed a 'sin' and were punished with autism for it. And to these types, there's only way 'salvation' for us: Death.

As someone who's autistic...yep. Saw this coming. Was always the plan by these types. And autism isn't some 'thing' you can just choose to stop being. I describe it as a 'thousand tiny' disabilities that add up rather than a sole 'big' one. No amount of punishment will make me stop being autistic.

Evercold? The new expansion for XIV is called Evercold? I must admit them doing a crossover with Game of Thrones was not on my bingo card. Can't wait to fight the White Walkers as a Red Mage.

Testing post because apparently Bluesky is bein a bitch today.

I dunno, call me crazy but I think Orban can still pull a victory today.

Something that gets old to deal with is that Leftists of any stripe are treated with 'collectivist guilt' for every wrong (whether real or imagined) that every other Leftist has ever done ever. Yet the Right is given 'individualist blame' and people refuse to look at systematic things the Right...

And yet, the thing that animates them the most is calling them transphobic and by saying that it is somehow "shutting down debate." The feigned outrage is literally the same tactic used by white supremacists who bring up "race science" or antisemites talking about Jewish people in media.

So whenever you see that by conservatives elsewhere, just know it's something they do without even thinking about it. It's a knee-jerk response to just instantly dismiss anything that isn't perfect good news about anything the Right is doing, even if (and quite often) the reality is the opposite.

Funny that he got CN'd like that, but folks should just remember: That's what the GOP says about anything that makes them look bad. Post or say something that they don't like, and they call you a 'liar' instantly, on instinct. Because they can't actually counter whatever point you are making.

"Adventurism" basically feels like the "Great Man Theory" but for Leftist ideas.

Ok but how would one celebrate bad news but in a good way?

I will say that despite everything else going on, as someone who love space exploration and all that, I'm really, genuinely glad that the Artemis launch went off without a hitch.

“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning." - Third Way President Jonathan Cowan Iiiiiiinteresting. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is...

Endlessly tapping the “Explaining a thing is NOT the same as endorsing it” sign

This isn’t really about Today’s Thing, but if you are a journalist you are either explicitly a leftwing activist or you are default serving the right. Neutral is rightwing we count those.

I've noticed a trend where the establishment/RW claim to hate something "the Left" does. But then turn around and do it themselves. Yes it's a double standard, but they're not against it 'on principle', they're against it being done against *them*. Everything is meant to be Left-punching 24/7.

Of course this can just as much be a bad faith RW talking point because the person doesn't want to *admit* they're a conservative, so they feign ignorance and act like their views are just something 'everyone thinks' to appeal to the masses without having to defend how they really feel about things.

It's astounding that once you know how to spot and see the bad-faith RW framing of things, you can spot it anywhere. This is also where the "I'm not political"-talk comes from too. People have been so flush with RW BS that they genuinely see RW views as being normal.

Even the framing about Piker is still being used in a RW fashion: "Hasan Piker is the Nick Fuentes of the Left." They compare the two but still frame it to favor the Right even with that.

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

The peril of the SAVE Act is not that its requirements inherently disfavor Ds over Rs. It is that once a nation-scale systemic mechanism to reject voters on the say-so of the federal government is put in place, that mechanism can be abused to target regime opponents and allow supporters leniency.

Us on the Left (even more moderate ones) might disagree (even vehemently) sometimes. Those never reach the level of "You're part of an assassination plot against others in the MAGA movement!" And yet us Leftists are supposedly the 'radical' ones?

Thinkin on this a bit more, the Right is gonna pass all these laws and force women to follow all these rules, it's gonna eventually collapse womens' sports entirely. They're not gonna jump through all those hoops to play sports, they'll just quit and start their own thing without all the BS rules.

I think we can also toss in the hyper-individualist "succeed at all costs" mentality we have in this country. "If you're not winning, then you're losing, and if you're losing, then you're a loser and you'll lose everything forever, so stop losing." - Mindset of far too many people in this country.

Point being is that just because someone's old, or black, or a woman, or all of the above, let alone any other identity someone could be, giving them "Power" and letting them keep it will show them for who they are every time. Sadly, we see that in real time from Congress right now.

As I've gotten into older adult years, I've noticed that "Power" really is proof that we're all human beings no matter who we are or what we look like or identify as. Give someone "Power" and it always reveals who they truly are, good or bad. It's universal. "Power" doesn't discriminate when given.

The GOP is right in that millions of 'illegals' are voting for Dems insofar as the GOP wants to make it 'illegal' to vote for Dems. Or really vote for anyone besides the GOP. Or really taking any action that would result in the GOP losing the tiniest iota of power anywhere for any reason.

here's my plan prospect.org/2026/03/18/s...

That way they never *outright* deny you the right to vote, they "just happen" to make you jump through so many new hoops (that are purposefully done to be as frustrating as possible) that you just decide to give up and not bother voting.

And the 'trick' the GOP uses to make it not *seem* as bad is they'll do this at the Federal level while leaving out the fact that at State/local level they'll "just happen" to shut down places people can *get* these new mandatory Voter IDs in primarily Dem-leaning areas.

If you aren't generating profit, then the State will make you generate profit for someone somehow. That's what this boils down to ultimately. And it also gets rid of 'undesirables'. It's starting with "just" homeless vets, but it won't only be done to them, they'll move onto others before long.

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This is probably one of the most frustrating part of trying to talk to people about politics, this "head in the sand" mentality so many people have. "If I didn't see it happen, it didn't happen at all and therefore I'll base my political view/talking points around that."

A personal theory of mine (and probably not unique to me to have thought of) was that all these AI techbro chuds didn't make/support these AI that are now everywhere with the intent of making things better. They did so with the intent of making something that'd never tell them 'no' on anything.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.