Nietzsche, angry, seething with contempt: Christianity is a religion of slaves against their masters Me, happy, devout: Christianity is a religion of slaves against their masters

I’m gonna be real, the Epstein stuff was fun but I think the gestappo going to a purple state and the healthcare premiums are really what is driving Trump’s apocalyptic numbers

Homegirl’s right. The Empire is Bad but it is worse when it also beats up people at home.

Really have come around on brutalism, just instinctively say, “But that’s so pretty!” whenever someone throws up a brutalist building to mock.

If you are a pastor or priest and not willing to suffer prison or worse for your congregation you should find a different line of work.

Shout out to men, a top three gender!

We have the power to sideline MAGA forever, if only the formal opposition would stop cowering!

Trump take Bitcoin

This would be the end of the Sixth Party system.

But also maybe they should ruin his life? A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life. Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.

God has a special place in his providence for children, drunkards, and the United States of America remaining shockingly plausible for how bad we’re trying to fumble this.

some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that

Gonna write a book called “Moral Society, Immoral Man” that’s about how democratic deliberation and impersonal law allow people to engage in mass ethical projects which would be impossible on a voluntary basis.

Freedom as non-domination explains this. By moving people from being at the mercy of other people into being operating within the law, we actually do free them from domination.

There’s not a solitary soul on Bluesky who would vote for MTG in a general election, what are we arguing about? It’s good when Republicans fight on national television. We should encourage them to do so.

You know nothing is happening in the news when Bluesky decides it is time to argue about prison abolition. Bro we are closer to full open borders. We are closer to the dictatorship of the proletariat. We are closer to major transnational economic redistribution. Prison abolition isn’t happening!

“And in the light of history Stalin will probably have the same relation to the early dreamers of the Marxist dreams which Napoleon has to the liberal dreamers of the eighteenth century.” -Reinhold Niebuhr in 1944 gotta give it to him on that one

Definitely a final boss version of “never thought the leopards would eat MY face”

We cannot be post-liberal because we are not yet liberal. We haven’t harvested the wide field of liberty our forebears sowed. But we will. The thugs and tyrants have been fighting their rearguard action for two hundred and fifty years and they’ve been losing inch by inch.

Moral Man and Immoral Society is so… wrong. It’s just kinda funny. “Corporately, people are worse than the individual” - No they’re not! That isn’t true!

First world countries should give 10% of the national GDP to the support of the global poor and international development. (Also open borders)

I do like,”This is beneath us” more than “This is not who we are”. Partly because it’s a little old fashioned and partly because it is truer.

The way prisons are run is genuinely an insult to our dignity as a free people.

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

“Who knows not that there is a mutual bond of amity and brother-hood between man and man over all the World,” -Milton A lot of people Mr. Milton!

MeToo hasn’t gone far enough

Real it’s not the crime it’s the cover up of the Epstein files turn out to matter

“The people most enthusiastic for liberty - the Athenians, the Lacedemonians, the Romans, and the Carthaginians - were those who enacted the most severe laws against their serfs” -Voltaire, letting us know that Republican crowing about freedom is not new

“[But to] assume that the laws are a mere façade, that they have no validity, and therefore it is pointless to appeal to them would mean to go on reinforcing those aspects of the law that create the façade and the ritual.” -Vaclav Havel

Thirty years and still strong

Inshallah

Every democratic defector driven out of public life. They are putting us at the mercy of lawless men for free. Disgusting.

“At a minimum, the right of any public official to depart from the law should be categorically denied as a matter of public discourse.” -A Well Ordered Republican by Frank Lovet

This is a fun one because what it shows is that wages have grown faster than everything except: College, Childcare, and Medicine. And remember folks: The wage premium for college is still very good!

Reading A Well Ordered Republic by Levett and it’s good and thorough but I am very stupid and he is clearly trying to meet republicanism’s strongest objections on fair grounds so I have to pretend I understand the objections I have never even heard of.

Sometimes I defend high-minded principles of peace and goodwill that I think consonant with leftist values, but my opponents are always able to cite all the worker led socialist paradises that ruthless willingness to deploy violence have wrought so I'm forced to bow before their superior pragmatism.

One key trick to making people mad on Bluesky is to not link the article, which does not propose that women destroyed the West but argues against Helen Andrews proposal that they did! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Resent being made to look at my email. Do you even know what’s in there. What could be in there. And you wish for me to go in and look and see

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

It is kinda funny how the good advice of “try being interested in something women are interested in” can be controversial. Pickme, simp, performative men - These are all words for “someone who tries harder than I do for the thing we all want very badly.”

LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

you should not fedpost. that’s what your democratic elected officials are here to do

“Butterflies aren’t cool” -My brother has completely lost the plot, butterflies are cool

I do think the Vote Blue No Matter Who (Social Media Faction) is sufficiently steaming mad about Schumer’s defection that you can’t imply they’re not sincere.

I want to know what the effect of reading more than one book a year are on voting habits. This, to me, would be fascinating.

The class/playbook in TTRPGS really are a killer app. Underestimated by veteran players because they like the character gen minigame, but vital for swift onboarding.

Very profane to use the Lord’s Prayer like this.