The truly uncomfortable thing is that most of the communist leadership slid smoothly into the fascist oligarchy without blinking

’”I’m Olivia Nuzzi.” “I’m Mike Lindell.” “I’m Benny Johnson.” “I’m Rudy Giuliani.” “I’m Clav.” “I’m Bronze Age Pervert. Those stories, plus Curtis Yarvin, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

"i would genocide millions for my family and country" but would you set your thermostat to 78 degrees?

i'm not being funny i dont really have much tolerance for that argument anymore. russia could have /simply not transformed into a fascist state again/ by the same method that the rest of us did

Russia could have lived happily in the post-cold war system, but then it would not have been an empire with subjects. Just like the MAGA dudes who could have lived happily in a liberal society, but then they could not lord over their wives, children and neighbors. Huffing the fumes of domination.

This claim is hilarious when you consider how absolutely unhinged Russians still are about the Great Game compared to UK

I'm not particularly concerned about the risks of nefarious Russian militarist propaganda in children's cartoons, but could we maybe not give money to a country that is using that money to murder civilians? Please? Like, Russia is being sanctioned for a reason.

"treat the Russians the same way you would treat the British or the Americans" is a shockingly easy bar to clear that everyone prefers to be clotheslined by

Honestly surprised at how little I feel about the country’s 250th birthday right now. No sudden outburst of patriotism, but no real sorrow or anger either. Only sort of a tired, resigned acceptance that a drunk giving Kid Rock joyrides in an Apache gunship is just our lives now, you know?

maybe don't pay the Greater German Reich National Orchestra to come and play him for you

it's actually bewildering to see "cultural russophobia" discourse rear its head every damn time because it's like i'm a refugee in the west in 1942 watching english people insist why it's totally normal for them to keep putting on Wagner

For the final time, Ukrainians (or anyone brutalized by the Russians) are trying to tell you that you should more critically approach Russian cultural works given the society and context that produced them because most of you don't do this and treat them as if they exist in an apolitical vacuum

there is an actual trivially obvious reason why you should not allow the broadcasting of russian cartoons in the west and it is that the country is under goddamn sanctions

"One may, with as much reason and decency, plead for murder, robbery, lewdness, and barbarity, as for this practice: They are not more contrary to the natural dictates of Conscience, and feelings of Humanity; nay, they are all comprehended in it." www.liberalcurrents.com/african-slav...

my favorite thing about the sspx/lefebvrists debacle is the number of rando protestants who are outraged about who and who is not in communion with rome like, buddy, i have some news about what happened in 1521. you're gonna want to sit down.

Emma Southon's book on Roman slavery goes out of its way to hammer home that the word of masters on their slaves cannot be trusted, and that the world of the enslaved has to imagined emphatically through the fragments available. I appreciate this more right now since I'm reading a book on ...

If we're lucky we might see a new antipope.

also in case you have missed the excellent memes about this in the replies: yes, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith did in fact used to be called the Inquisition you may be familiar with their earlier work

“The stolen valor Medals of Honor stay ON during homosexual incest” —Leader of The Republican Party of the United States of America, July 1, 2026

as a lutheran. it is my solemn protestant duty to declare. that these newly minted protestants. are doing protestantism wrong. and are worse than papists

Do you ever think about how the foreign policy subdivision of the largest explicitly socialist organization in the country is run on the conspiracy theories of a crypto-Nazi whose org got big by plagiarizing the John Birch Society and their mainline doesn’t deign this worth expelling them for

Few things demonstrate the absurd self-delusion of fascism (the current US brand, in particular) than the fact that their politics demand they must appear to unironically enjoy the works of Kid Rock and Uwe Boll.

The cool thing is how he talks about this like it’s an imposition of some drastic new policy order instead of the preservation of the status quo for the last century and a half—literally the conservative thing to do—because he and his audience are legal and historical illiterates

1) what possible outcome of the war does Putin perceive as the worst possible threat to his rule (and therefore life) - NB his answer is not necessarily rational 2) would he risk his rule for the chance of winning the war - NB his answer is not necessarily rational 3) does he believe he can win

Mills was offered a basically endless cache of ammunition with which to open up on that despicable bastard over the course of months and for reasons presently known only to herself she elected to attack him only half-heartedly and occasionally Responsibility for that much lies on her

I had no idea Uwe Boll was still making films, and had just shifted from shitty videogame adaptations to shitty fascist propaganda.

i hope they answer so many questions I had at the end of edgerunners: why was it an all human cast, where were the orcs, trolls, goblins and elves? why did they run without a shaman or adept, are they stupid? why was there no mention of President Dunkelzahn?

live view from the great american state fair

This Great American State Fair is pretty sweet if I do say so myself

Much like "orange man bad" is in fact an entirely valid and self-sufficient philosophy, so is "Russia bad", and you should, in fact, be suspicious of anyone who claims otherwise

I think we should take all the weapons we're sending to Israel and instead send them to Ukraine.

we shoulda test fired PRsM into a Russian theater HQ or air base, not an Iranian gym next to a school

the ukraine test works literally every time as a heuristic for "is this person human garbage"

Every conspiracy theorist eventually becomes a National Socialist in exactly the same way that all crustaceans eventually become crabs

Turns out I accidentally only read the first response and I didn't scroll down enough to see more. So I'm only talking about the first one here.

There's an irony in that the failure to recognize non-white empires as *empires* with all of the exploitation that implies is fundamentally racist, predicated on the assumption that imperialism is something only white people are capable of (in both a moral and ability sense).

Here's the leftist, anti-imperialist position on Taiwan that it seems so hard for the left to figure out: "The People's Republic of China does not have a legitimate claim to the Qing Empire's former colonies." Period. Done.

Imagine you’re primed to be the next Thanos of the MCU, and then you’re doing Ben Shapiro’s anti Islam propaganda movies

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“Hey, look, guys, we know that the military that massacred you last time is still pretty much completely intact and we massively retrenched its control over the state, but at least we delivered the cheapest and most worthless form of payback on your behalf should you ever wanna try again” Enraging

there are a lot of DSA candidates i would *not* vote for, but i do not think competitive pressure on incumbent dems is inherently a bad thing by default

As another example in "social media is not real life" Based on comments from fellow Europeans over here you'd think we're all deathly allergic to AC. In reality literally everyone I know IRL is buying air conditioning, to the point they're sold out nearly everywhere.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

I don’t think it’s great that people are flirting with Holocaust denial

It's unfortunate that they did not decide to feature my favorite Forge World, so I shall have to settle for making my Skitarius a Martian.

A really funny thought about a lot of the natsec/foreign policy plot holes in video games and movies set in approximately this time period can be resolved by "assume it's the Trump administration"

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

For those keeping track at home, the sides in WW3 so far are the US, Israel, Gulf States, Russia, El Salvador, gamers, and Peanut the dead squirrel versus Iran, Cuba, Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Ukraine, South Korea, Mexico, transsexuals, vaccines, algae, and a dead duck with an unknown name.

as with many things in re i/p, my basic bitch liberal take is that AIPAC sucks ass *and also* that the people who think "AIPAC=ROTHSCHILDS!!!" also suck