Liberals think that shrieking "we'd never hurt a fly" will somehow spare them from the Right Wing Death Squads, but it just makes the mass murder to come more likely. You don't avert a genocide by promising not to resist your slaughter. You *stop* violence in part by being capable of it.

Nice supporting argument lmao "4 years ago one of usdid a debate with Kirk on “Democratic Socialism vs. Conservative Populism.” His politics have trended in an even worse direction over the years since, flirting with much uglier forms of nationalism and xenophobia, but.." jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

German liberals in 1933 after a high ranking Nazi propagandist is assassinated:

Not saying it wouldn't change the minds of some individuals around the margins, and if the media all decided to hype something nonstop then it actually would change things, but these monsters commit worse atrocities all the time and no one cares.

you know these fuckers can't let what happened with Luigi happen again... would be very enlightening to see Shane Tamura's social media takes.

pretty clear that every qAnon/qAnon-adjacent Trumper will simply invent new conspiracy-rationale to justify the admins erasure of 'the Epstein list'. seems weird and dumb for leftists to giddily hyper-focus on that hypocrisy as a winning gotcha while ICE ramps up to do military style occupations.

I should damn well hope that Democrat senators are "pawns of a subversive anarchist agenda" -- after all, the Anarchist Council of Nefarious Evil that runs the world pays them handsomely for their service and they always stick to our talking points. www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/07/gop-...

how I've been coping: doom-seer.bandcamp.com/track/divine...

Here is a drawing I did on a piece of cardboard, pen and ink, sharpie marker, color pencil and crayon. Abolish ICE.

i consider it a sign of the reactionary shift in the overton window that it is difficult to criticize one of the most hegemonic and powerful institutions on earth without getting piled on by "progressive" defenders, even if you add the caveat/hedge of "extremism"

times like these really expose how all those ppl i thought had semi-decent politics are actually vicious dumbasses who swapped empty-headed american exceptionalism for an equally empty-headed inversion of american exceptionalism, and kneejerk teamsport electoralism for kneejerk teamsport geopolitics

I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just saying there’s not a lot of hard proof about Alderaan—witnesses, footage, perpetrators. It’s a big number…how do we know it’s accurate? Then the Death Star conveniently blows up, destroying all evidence? Just seems like a lot of unverifiable coincidences.

But wait, I thought we were supposed to believe empathy is a weakness that will destroy our civilization.

I mean I'm pro graffiti and shooting guns off every once in a while to keep prices down, but let's also get sidewalks and bus service.

if tiktok was around in 1942, you need to understand that german youth would be doing dance off competitions in front of the emaciated jews and roma watching from behind the barbwire fences

When Viggo Mortensen kicked that Orc helmet and screamed out in anguish at the deaths of Merry and Pippin, ICE didn't exist yet. Literally no ICE agents knew he actually broke his toe, because there was no such thing as ICE. We can go back, not to save his toe, but to that life

oh no is the paintball ok

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

CW: Mounted police using batons to beat person who is on the ground, while the horses simultaneously stomp them #acab #abolishice #chingalamigra

Ugh, he just gets better. 😩

these are closely related logically consistent positions--both CSAM (/apologism) and persecution of trans children stem from a sense of entitlement over children's bodies & a drive to shape & mold children according to adult desires & power

she did nothing wrong. set her free.

The depravity here cannot be overstated. A recent poll found: - 82% of Israelis support forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza - 56% support forced removal of Arab Israeli citizens - 47% support IDF murdering *all* inhabitants of enemy cities they occupy www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

People want cities to somehow not be cities, and then condemn city-dwellers for liking the things that make a city a city and opposing the things that destroy cities merely so suburbanites can feel comfortable passing thru once a month.

as a farmer I'm opposed to whatever-cides (conventional or organic) bc the notion of totally annihilating a recalcitrant element is short sighted and full of long-term ramifications that exacerbate the disequilibrium that causesd such problems – ultimately creating a *need* for constant -ciding.

imagine how glorious she feels

when are these ice fuckers gonna get afraid

I’d like to think that if I met myself 15 years ago – in the throes of blackout drunk nihilism, having almost completely lost touch with my values and any deeper sense of being – I’d be compassionate. But I’m not sure I wouldn’t deeply dislike old me.

hard to pick favorites but as far as stages of ladybug go, larva is a top contender

this is my dungeon synth project for any of you into that kind of nerdy shit all done with cheap analog vintage keyboards; all poor musicianship and mistakes are both intentional and signs of my authenticity 😌

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

not sure where the billboard on that photo is but I'll be damned if I've seen a more Molotov cocktailable sign it literally begs for the flames

don’t give them their freedom, because they’re not going to give you yours

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant). She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️

👁️👄👁️ e x p e r t h a c k s

The Trump administration is now just straight up disappearing people. This is something that happened in Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Nazi Germany, or still happens in places like North Korea or Equitorial Guinea. It is now happening in the United States.

difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed

🚨 Salvadoran human rights group Socorro Jurídico estimates 1,000 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under the state of exception due to negligence, torture, & extrajudicial killings. A total of 388 people are now confirmed dead, including 4 children. 94% of victims have no proven gang ties.

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

Actually that's kind of downplaying what Nazi Scientology wants, the O9A think if they can sacrifice enough people in an orgy of violence they can open a portal and summon Hitler back from Hell to establish a Nazi Space Empire.

I guess one small upside to our grimdark timeline is the accompanying dark humor. would be cooler if the guy had followed up his epic win by hurling Trump from the parapet @joeabercrombie.com style but we have to be realistic about these things.

If the ruling class is going to run roughshod over the labor laws and worker protections we won in the 1930s, then sure, we can go back to how things were before then. But they won’t like what happens 🧨 theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy...

started watching arcane and feel like it really has it's shit together plot wise Seems more like a book (tight plot in which things happen that have actual meaning further down the road) rather than these lost-ified shows that feel like they're barely sketched out, filled with pseudo-foreshadowing.