Bureaucracy is essential to freedom, it’s just hard to see this because not only can it enable tyranny, the mechanisms that make freedom possible superficially resemble tyranny as well. Postal services and secret police alike keep standardized registries of the names and homes of the citizenry.

> the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful it is the third most successful example of behavioral engineering ever done, following only “the wolf that lives in your house” and “the grass that wants you to eat it”

Reading what Nuzzi and Lizza are writing about each other

*sees DS2 and Silksong, the only two games I put any significant chunk of hours into in 2025* I like my video games 100% natty. No filter. Moisturized, not juicing. Certified organic. Uncooked only. I rawdog my gaming.

Ultras unironically think this is good because it’s more democratic or something

how is Stan Rogers so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp4F...

Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue. Virtue is real and our elite lacks virtue.

For years we've been saying every accusation is a confession, and now all these guys who've spent that same time screaming about trans people are just openly confessing to felonies in order to protect their big wet pedophile from consequences

don’t smoke kids

Thinking about this again, how one interpretation of mass demonstrations in 19th/20th century was that they were a show of force for the kind of mass warfare that characterized the age. In that sense, this encounter and others like it, more than the mass street marches, are serving that function.

Impossible for issue polling on immigration to function when the average voter wants "a tougher system, like [describes an idealized system that is vastly more liberal than the status quo]"

For the next century, the descendants of these teenagers will speak with pride about their ancestors, and the descendants of these ICE agents will either conceal what they did, or admit it with condemnation or shame.

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

most politicians are lawyers (or otherwise jargon-heavy wonks) who sound like it but AOC's messaging always sounds like a much better, sharper, smoother version of the way I would break down consumer financial law in legal aid client intakes

@mrbtx.bsky.social the protagonist is a jaded dyke, too bsky.app/profile/mrbt...

CW: SA. This kind of normalized predation of underage girls he's talking about was the norm until about 15-20 years ago, and a lot of powerful people who used to rape underage girls and miss it are trying to bring it back. If they succeed, that 15-20 years will be a blip.

I’m glad he shanked it because I’m a Packer fan but I think it rules that the Giants’ kicker is a Korean dude who grew up in Ridgewood and I hope he has a long and successful career in the league

A way that the reconstruction government can consolidate is by doing an extensive survey of outrages like this and not only holding accountable the people who gave the orders and carried them out, but also by generous restitution for the victims.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

it's appeasement insofar as *that's what they think they're doing* bit this speaks to the paradox of it, right? hitler getting the sudetenland is a nazi goal, by helping him get it you're supporting that, while convincing yourself your opposing them

It's not that we want the Outright Antisemitism wing to beat the Trump wing, it's that we need there to be a fracture in the GOP in order to defeat it in detail. At this particular moment the Trump wing is weak and we can concentrate force against it.

unfathomably based spanish railroad worker's union poster from 1937

Tom's mistake is that he conflates full blown authoritarianism with fascism. As if fascism only occurs when there has been full consolidation of power. There are 2 major scholarly definitions of fascism both of which tom is ignorant of: 1) Palingenetic ultranationalism (Roger Griffin) /1

Never mind the horror of building a lost cause narrative for raping teenagers, I’m struck by the fact that they’re straight-facedly claiming that this is all over and in the past when Donald fucking Trump is president?

One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...

A&M back down to 11 men like everyone else

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Catholicism: is it in the church’s teachings? Protestantism: Is it in the Bible? Hyperprotestantism: Wouldn’t it be nice if it were in the Bible?

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

The reason I get frustrated with people who overindex on the example of Nazi Germany and treat it like a note-for-note blueprint for where we are now is that they terrify our people into making terrible decisions, or into quiescence, or, worse, suicidal hopelessness.

All right folks I’m nearly locked in to supporting endorsing Chi but before I commit, open to any and all closing arguments and comments

AI is the aesthetic of 21st century fascism because 21st century fascism is about being a consumer of your reality of choice. Thinking for yourself, writing for yourself, making art for yourself - those are all things people who live in a shared reality do.

This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

jesus christ man

Anthony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Olivia Nuzzi and the worm in RFK Jr’s brain

Fascists bluff. They usually don’t have the cards. But if you fold on every hand, it starts to think like they have a straight or a flush or a full house every hand. Because they beat your cards every time, even if your cards are good!

this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia

No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'

Building up a head of foam

Who else out here looking respectfully

The SVU episode about Epstein and Ghislaine, made because the story was well-known enough that people would watch it and immediately know it was “ripped from the headlines”, aired on February 2, 2011

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

Profile of some cool Bay Area transit activists

NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.

But Elon Musk’s many fanboys said the only way to do this was to blow up a bunch of these over and over again

Oreos are in eternal dialectic between chocolate cookie and frosting. Double stuff was the negation of the single stuff relation, but in its need to increase the share of chocolate, it produced within itself the conditions of its own unmaking. Oreo Loaded is the negation of the negation.

[puts on queer radical feminist hat] I think this is related to Megyn Kelly's not-technically-a-pedophile remarks. Reactionary patriarchy only cares about sorting "normal" from "deviant". It doesn't care about sufficiently *normal* kinds of violence, abuse, coercion, harm, etc.

In light of recent news

This really encapsulates all of it, doesn’t it? Transphobia is so reinforced by propaganda, that if you were *assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein as a child,* the kind of people who raped children alongside him will make the story that you’re a lying slut and you’re the disgusting party for being trans.