If this anger burns you- if it makes you feel guilt and shame, *do not turn away from that feeling*. It is good and human to feel guilt and shame when you do wrong. Face it. Accept it. Consider why you feel it. Consider how to be a better person that does not feel that guilt and shame. Grow.

Happy New Year! Wishing you a year full of chicken and happiness :3

"But Janus, you can simply move to the city, isn't it better and more vibrant and has all the people you love-" Shut the hell up. I am of the *Anigiduwagi*. I know where my land is. It lies between three mountains- it is forests and rivers. It is the land of my people since time began.

Another increasingly prevalent position on here is "To my allies the world, to everyone else nothing at all", proclaimed proudly with full chest by self-professed liberals and progressives and champions of equality and good for all. The hypocrisy here, and its ugliness, is hopefully obvious.

So, I've been drinking, which is why my account is reactivated for now and probably will be for a couple of days. Jesus Christ, what is wrong with you people, really. New Year's Eve and this site is relitigating, once again, their desire to genocide me and my tribe.

Reactivating specifically to say this: a whole bunch of people, including some people I respect, have red asses right now and some are making excuses when they should be going "Yeah, I'm gonna eat a big spoonful of shit on this and reflect" and have that be the entirety of the sentence.

Yeah, sorry, this take was bad enough I had to actually reactivate: nobody, and *especially* nobody in the US, has demonstrated a sufficient trustworthiness to cut a line between "Evil and wicked superstition" and "good and authentic folk religion".

All of this is to say, as you might guess, that if I *do* come back to this website for good, it's going to be accompanied by me just cutting the cord on politics. I think the important work for that is done in the real world and I am too easily pissed off to endlessly argue about it.

Now, people often react to the sentiments I state in this thread (which I encourage all of you to read) with a number of defenses, which I'm going to address here point by point. First: "They aren't politicians, why do you care what they think, lmao?"

The fact this post immediately spawned in two characters in my follower list demanding I *prove* to them the Democrats aren't stabbing America in the back helps prove my point. I sound like a nutjob to you because you've been boiling yourselves in this site's toxicity.

The Democrats in the real world, the one people live in, are currently speaking out that the 14th Amendment guarantees Birthright Citizenship no matter what SCOTUS says and is publicly building lists of names for trials.

I hate to climb back into the filth for a moment, but- one thing I think is notable, and which *you* guys should think about very seriously, is the fact that Trump is now drawing bright lines between "The GOP", as a broad party, and "MAGA", the True Movement of the Elect.

Hi folks, I'm back for a minute. Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! Anyways, I think my absence from here is going to be long-term, if not "for good". I think I've laid out a good part of why in my previous posts, but my time away from here and looking at it from the outside has helped too.

Play me off, boys:

Right, if you've followed me over the last 48 hours and somehow don't hate me yet, last call. Respond to this if you have a Discord want to be able to keep in contact with me off of this piece of trash site. I'm deactivating after tonight. Probably for a month. Maybe until 2026. Maybe forever.

If you want a Democratic party that will murder children for your bloodlust, you need to actually turn up. That is the bare minimum. That is what makes me the most pissed- none of you fucking so-called radicals *do* anything.

You think there needs to be some kind of guerilla insurgency with a political arm but instead of making one yourself you just sit around, shitting your pants, and whine that the Democrats won't make one for you.

And at this point, I don't care, if you really think that fascism is *imminent* and the need for violent retribution is *imminent* and you *still* do nothing but fucking sit around on your ass and yell at Chuck Schumer for something he whipped votes *against* I assume you'll never do anything.

You're fucking French Maoists, sitting around in cafes and making tierlists of who should be purged in the Revolution, standing up on your soapboxes to make longwinded apologia for atrocities and putting forth ever more incestuous and deluded political theories, and fucking *doing nothing*.

Fascists don't fear you. They fear you even less than the Evil Eternal Surrender Monkeys you imagine the Democrats in your heads to be because the latter could at least *theoretically* form a roadblock. You aren't even a pebble sticking up out of the road.

"innocens ego sum a sanguine iusti huius vos videritis". If this is Leftism, if this is all the Left can amount to, I want zero fucking part of it. I'll take the people who try and fail over the cowards on the sidelines who spit on them for trying after lying and saying they'll give credit.

Over and over again you say that you want the Democrats to fight the unwinnable fight, and even if they lose you will give them credit. And here we are, with the Democrats having fought an unwinnable fight and lost in your eyes, and you say "They should never have tried at all".

And if they had never tried at all, you would say "They should have fought, even if they lost, we would give them credit." Snake-tongued hypocrites, all of you. You want them to win the unwinnable fight- you want what you cannot and can never have, slaves to fear and desire, *all* of you.

A Bodhisattva or Buddha could throw down ropes to lift you out of the pit of despair, they could strip away the scales on your eyes and make you see the reality of things, but I am neither. I am a man, and I am a man who is tired and disgusted with you.

What more is there to say? What more can be said? Nothing at all. You will continue to be filled with bile and vitriol, you will continue to be worthless and impotent, and you will never change your ways. My words and presence here are of no value whatsoever.

If you want a Democratic party that will murder children for your bloodlust, you need to actually turn up. That is the bare minimum. That is what makes me the most pissed- none of you fucking so-called radicals *do* anything.

Cool, you know what party you should vote for, then. Go vote for the Republicans. You and them are ideologically aligned.

A problem with the new Onion is that, as with most things, the writers spend way too much time on niche social media websites

Anyways, yesterday I got pissed off, but a lot of people yesterday and today are showing the ugliest parts of their souls and insisting that having that in them makes them the most pure and noble, and it really makes me want to spend less time on this site.

The thing about defining "winning" as 1) Consisting entirely of crushing your enemies and 2) the only thing that matters is that pursuing this logic makes you fungible with the GOP in all the worst ways. This is visible by how many people here today sound like Rush Limbaugh.

The extent to which these people will go to avoid placing blame on Republicans for bad things Republicans do is actually remarkable I do not actually think Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding guest list was at the top of mind for the Virginia senator when he voted to get federal employees a paycheck!

This is Rush Limbaugh with extra steps

Health & safety otter takes his job very seriously.

Another species no longer on the global Endangered list: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.

id never post a youtube video again if i got a debunk this serious

Not my preferred deal, but I'm not a fan of this site's one two move of assuming away all tradeoffs and on that basis, attacking people's motives.

None of this will fucking matter in 2026, all you people are doing is making me hate you when I couldn't, all I'm doing is making you hate me when I couldn't, I'm out of here.

Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.

"Keep denying appropriations until either the Republican Party decides they like the ACA finally, or until the 120th Congress is sworn" doesn't meet that criteria

any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state

In other words Senate Republicans saw the results this week & opted to throw Vought under the bus to preemptively protect themselves for a few months & opted to betray Trump by negotiating instead of nuking the filibuster like he keeps demanding & they could’ve done at any time to end the shutdown.

Right, all of you "primary all of them, this was all kayfabe, Chuck Schumer BETRAYED US" clowns line up, I clearly need to clean house around here.

Technically-speaking this could still fail, and if it fails because Based Mike Lee is holding out for legalizing hunting Koreans for sport or some shit I will have a stroke.

My default assumption is that this passes at the final cloture vote, but the road here is so fucking narrow that's not 100% on lock.

people think this is kayfabe to protect other mods, but there are mod senators who have already announced retirement (gary peters, for example) who didn’t go for this, this was moderate wildcatting, and they’re gonna need to be primary purged

I think the notable thing here is that many of the Usual Suspects (Schiff, Warnock, Peters, Murray) were not involved. This was wildcat shit, leadership did not want this.

Well: the most successful shutdown ever by an Opposition Party, without failure. Still think we could have gotten more political benefit from it, but it ain't nothing.

as for all the "PRIMARY" fulminating, not a single senator who voted for the deal is up in 2026 as far as I can see, so there is a 0% chance it affects a single primary outcome, for better or worse