The way a state is created is primarily by having it solve problems. Before then, it's either just a wacky org with a lofty name, or a guy with an army.

people who post online are overwhelmingly yuppies. And yuppies, are the kind of people who think they're working class, because class analysis refuses to acknowledge the existence of the professional/proletariat divide. Fundamentally different groups of people

That's simply not true. There was no golden economic period where jobs grew on trees, where it was easy to buy a house and everyone got one, where no one had to rent or have roommates in their early 20s. You have hallucinated an era of history and then given yourself depression for not living in it.

People say honor is dead. This is nonsense. We have an unprecedented ammount. We just call it "civic duty" and "good samaritanism" and "professionalism" and "code of conduct" and "duty of care"

I wish people would stop projecting American politics on other countries. Like just a little bit of reading on Peronism would grant you some insight into why Argentinians are skeptical about left wing governance in the context of their history.

Hey Bluesky devs, People would probably be going easier on y'all regarding today's massive performance issues if you ACTUALLY HAD A PR TEAM DEDICATED TO TALKING TO USERS. Believe or not, y'all staying completely silent on these issues on all major Bsky accounts is not helping you in any way.

Hasan Piker’s a moron and I actively think less of the people going to the mat for him and you should too! Why don’t the Democrats want their people talking to the guy who constantly attacks the Democrats? That’s a real fuckin’ mystery, man.

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

when you reach that point in your Victoria 3 campaign where you start blasting united states of eurasia by Muse

Peronism is fascism but you don't have the cult of action. This is genuinely bizzare, because it otherwise has the structural features of it. But instead of daddy, the state is mommy.

Good people are not cowards when holding positions of penultimate power actually. Category error. If you're cowardly in the face of terror as a leader, step aside and let a brave person take up the job, lest you be selfish.

The thing is "we need to harass turbolibs off the Internet" is EXACTLY what gamergate's objectives were. Not even a word changed.

A useful reminder that you *want* 'your side' to be losing military war games a lot. The whole point is to ask, 'how will this go in unfavorable circumstances' or 'what is the worst, most effective way my enemy can come at me?' If your military wins all their war games...those are bad war games.

Apropos of nothing, the antinatalist line of “it’s immoral to bring children into this fallen world to suffer” is enraging horseshit, especially coming from comfortable Americans whose primary idea of suffering is vicarious through doomscrolling.

is it so hard to say "That's shouldn't have happened to you. you shouldn't have to feel this way"? instead it's all "go to therapy I'm not a professional"

Begging people to understand that unlike everything else, in war you cannot TACO unilaterally. He's trapped and can't get out unless Iran lets him out. He will keep doing this back and forth because he wants to TACO but he **can't**

"why should americans care about ___!?!?" prior to wwii we had this idea that we could just live away from the world. the war was a brutal reminder that despite the size of the atlantic and pacific, we do in fact live in the world. this is truer today than it's ever been.

The people arguing for this (not me) would say they're OK with crafts(wo)men making money from building houses, but not with mass production -- other than government housing. Which is convenient for those who inherit or hold property, as neither of the above will produce enough housing for demand.

this book apparently presents douglass as passively waiting for providence to end slavery, which is so fucking backwards and obviously wrong that it feels straight up racist

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

I don't really want to call my mom either but I have enough self-respect not to make it society's problem.

It was at like 26% approval at the start of the war. In comparison Afghanistan was at 90%. THINK ABOUT THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE! Gas prices ere not needed to make Americans hate this! It's just another kick in the nuts!

you laugh but "selling socialism as a lifestyle brand for teenagers" really cuts to the heart of leftist discourse in america

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

Even the strongest needs the help of others! that's a thing! you don't stop needing help just because you're the strongest!

Men wearing boxershorts kinda slutty

The US is showcasing the freedom of action that's available to democracies. For the worse i think. Democracies do what they'd like, and presidential systems are particularly willing to day "fuck it we ball". We had safeguards, they were in the way. They're not required to maintain the state at all.

Medusa the gorgon but she's gpt such ridiculous honkers it's actually hard to look at her face.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Part of the problem with the gender wars is that a guy from norway will post about his experience (as if it was universal) and then a girl from india will respond (as if her experience was universal)

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

SO MUCH THOUGHT! has been given to this deranged sex pest Sade! He was just insane actually. Probably bipolar and deeply unwell. He is too inconsistent to be analysed in any way greater than as a man who loves and hates himself for his wickedness and percived greatness. He is an insane outlier.

"You are somewhat like beastboy in Teen Titans Go" - @andromeda.fyi

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

please god make it stop private equity is not buying all the homes and they definitely aren't bribing local news anchors to cover it up you people are schizophrenic

People constantly worry about the pacifying effect of media, but we've experienced the consequences of radicalising media and i think it's way worse actually. People do not get radicalised towards the truth, they just go crazy.

I have a solid alcohol tolerance but somehow port does me in like nobody's business

My cards do not work on the food delivery app, so as a compromise @andromeda.fyi put me into her family group, featuring me and her. So anyway, i can order by asking mommy for money for food

Genuinely they should execute people for insurrection spesifically. Like, a lot of the really bad dictators of history were imprisoned for insurrection, were let go, and then did it again. Kill those motherfuckers. Only place i approve of the death penalty

I don't seek to go after the rich to fix the budget. The issue is the sheer ammount of unaccounrable power and influence they have, and how they're completely unbeholden to the law that binds the rest of us. They're simply too powerful to exist in civil society.

honestly i think the main draw of elf hating is that it's classist (against the well to do) and seen as punching up. Dwarves are just like somd guys in the mountains that are pretty clearly peer creatures. You have no cause to hate dwarves, because the cause would be their percived deviancy rates.

I've lost some weight recently. very happy about that.

girl who's only seen one form of exploitative hirarchy in their life: "I'm getting a lot of capitalism vibes from this"

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

We really do need to rebuild the capacity to meet strangers in public places, and stuff like this ruins it for everyone.

I have the crackpot theory that women often actually put on makeup in a way which imitates the aesthetics they find attractive in men. Chiefly the increased colour variance and the emphasis on the eyes.

In the most obnoxious voice: "It's only a bug if it's from the Hemiptera branch of the tree of life"

The trick to escaping ICE is to be at least 12 stories up in a building with no elevator.

The writing is so forced man. "Obesity might cause or accelerate alzheimers, new research shows" "My father had alzheimers said trump"