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Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh). Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times." The fuck kind of country are we living in?

Both of my siblings are naturalised British citizens, so I feel I should be allowed to call this nonsense out. Mind you, even the poorest Bulgarian municipality where I grew up does not have the insane racist vomit and urban decay of the South.

Babe, wake up--Yanks are hallucinating things about a European country again.

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.

It actually wasn't, all societies have codes. I've written a number of papers on 17th century mercenaries and they spent most of their time suing each other. That's in the middle of the worst war in Europe. You have to be "a sheep" within your own society or nothing functions

Me, a curious pattern-seeking primate: What happens if I release this dangerous chemical into the neighborhood water supply? Society: This will be dumb and harmful. Me: Tee-hee, doing it to see what happens! Exasperated officer of the law: [grumbling] Okay, off you go into the hole again.

This is correct. Society and the state should use their monopoly on violence to stop me from having apocalyptically dumb, primate‑brain ideas that could harm myself and others.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I'd rather be a French peasant in the 1340s--high risk of getting bubonic plague or an Englishman caving my head in during a chevauchée--but at least I won't be literate to endure this torture.

If you all want an actual Most Woke Opinion, it’s that romanticizing backwater patriarchs who only have themselves to blame for their ills is a betrayal of every battered housewife, lynched minority, and queer kid cowering in the closet.

these posts--from the same poster--a leftist!--speak to how the lure of the imagined natural grips even people on the left. but actually what is "natural" to humanity fucking sucks. most of human history is a story of violence, scarcity, and rape from which we have only recently escaped

This should barely qualify as news at this point; it’s how the Russian army generally operates in occupied territories. No city or village has been liberated without the discovery of countless graves, torture chambers, and other crimes.

I'd rather be a French peasant in the 1340s--high risk of getting bubonic plague or an Englishman caving my head in during a chevauchée--but at least I won't be literate to endure this torture.

It’s wild when you see how much time the Russian opposition spends online crying about how mean we are to them, yet never about the barbarity their state engages in daily.

There is almost a weekly influx of new "Rome fell because [insert hysterical male fantasy]" and I'm not complaining. Tremendous content for all of us here.

Ok, putting on training wheels for this conversation. The main reason historians don't really like the notion of a "fall" of the Roman Empire anymore is because the transition between the Western Roman Empire and its barbarian successor states was far more orderly than people imagine

I'm afraid this is very layered entertainment: Elon frothing at the mouth, only capable of saying “white birthrate” between ketamine spams, even his nazi followers desperately trying to insert a little more nuance--only to fail miserably. Both are wrong, of course.

Really enjoying Leo's Woke Chicago Pope run so far. Since he's a big film guy, it only confirms that phone users during screenings are getting dumped in the worst sections of hell.

This one was amusing - back when I was active on The Bad Place I clashed with Roman Helmet Guy & his poor (and fashy) grasp of Roman history repeatedly. And Senpai finally Notices Him only the say he isn't fashy enough. Hilarious. (hat tip @lefaucheux.bsky.social and @freydalpishti.bsky.social )

I'm afraid this is very layered entertainment: Elon frothing at the mouth, only capable of saying “white birthrate” between ketamine spams, even his nazi followers desperately trying to insert a little more nuance--only to fail miserably. Both are wrong, of course.

I often have trouble explaining to people that the Russian youth is just as dumb and evil as the rest of the population

listen, who among us hasn't supported their friends through peccadillos like the sexual exploitation of children? everyone has their bad habits, smoking, eating too much, the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in a way that wounds them for life.

If you are going to make fun of my age and taste, do it properly. Missing Max Payne, KOTOR, System Shock, Medieval II, NFS Most Wanted, Half-Life, Thief: The Dark Project.

Blackouts push innovation

> gets 5.7 million euro subsidy from the German government > machine translates the German text localisation I love Ubisoft, man.

Yep, called it.

What other app can you find where people will just post: "I'm very woke and progressive, that's why I think we should do extrajudicial murder of the undesirables"

This post feels very natively Balkan coded *sees Serbian flag* Ah, yes, we truly rule the crevices of dark wisdom online where few dare to expose themselves.

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

the thing about predicting russia's collapse is eventually you'll be right you just have to wait anywhere from a few weeks to seventy years

my best friend is undocumented and we’ve had long talks about her fears of being disappeared. I regularly lose sleep over it, which is nothing compared to her. so I’d just like to say in the kindest way possible: go fuck yourself you conspiracy addled grifter

This is an all-timer stupid Jacobin post, I'm not even annoyed 10/10.

Semi-serious question: why is there no official Pedocon Theory entry on Wikipedia? It's more legit than 2/3 of the theoretical physics sections.

This is an all-timer stupid Jacobin post, I'm not even annoyed 10/10.

Vince Gilligan is never beating the allegations of being a fucking legend.

No, I'm fine, really. I can allow a couple of fancy 17th-century hats, but the Wars of Religion don't need a comeback.

“I don’t give a shit about how your great-grandpappy started digging coal as a family tradition and fought at Blair Mountain, PLANT THE FUCKING TREE”

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Every single promo shot they release makes the costumes even more embarrassing. Troy (2004) also had basically made up clothes/armour but at least looked functional and sometimes even pretty.

Pinker has been in eugenicist email/chat groups since the early 2000s with some of the worst people imaginable. He should have been cancelled out of existence ages ago. Another case of the elite media class finding more interesting things to fill their time with.

writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care

someone see if Kissinger is in the emails and we can make this one so much funnier

Broadly there's really no question that the press is functionally on the side of (1) Republicans (2) rich pedophiles. The only question is if they're doing so deliberately or not

You just know there is a random sicko who paid to watch Villeneuve's Dune movies dozens of times to ensure he gets the studio to fund the giant-ass rambling worm god protagonist sequel.

"Biological weapons disseminate disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants." UN/Office of Disarmament Affairs A big stretch to call this bio warfare--these are just seeds with no morphine to produce heroin, which the Taliban sold to arm themselves.

That's just......no. The first time she took on male clothing, the two men escorting even implied she should do so. Both them and the locals from Vaucouleurs gave her male clothes so that "she slept wearing her surcoat and hosen, tied tightly together.” I don't think I need to explain why.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.