I think the guy who had done best with it is probably Zelensky? Mainly because he goes in expecting the knife, but also I think his show business past may be a factor

THEY. LITERALLY. WANT. US. TO. DIE. IN. THE. REVOLUTION. *FOR*. THEM. LIKE. WE'RE. THEIR. FUCKING. SERVANTS.

I assume people will tire eventually of modifying photos in AI, but at the point the damage will be done that photographs will never again be seen as mementos of lived lives.

I mean, it’s a remarkable skill, but I hate that Trump is effortlessly capable of creating new entries to the zeitgeist out of thin air. Hundreds of you are now posting about the Donroe Doctrine as if it is a real thing out in the world. Hell, I guess that’s now what I’m doing.

Even more important than this. Even more fundamental than this: You all hate each other You absolutely cannot perform a massive communal protest when your baseline is contempt, selfishness and disdain for your own cohort. You guys are not built for this.

I feel deeply cynical about people who spent years mocking artists and models for “e-begging” and now want to talk about general strike Like sir Online fundraising would be a primary structural pillar for a major strike

... ... ... ... ... ..."women now DOMINATE business and higher education???" ...WHERE!? Are you posting from f---ing BarbieLand?? 60% of businesses in the U.S. are owned by men. 90% of Fortune500 CEOs are men. As for "Higher Ed" - ask the them how the post-graduate hiring market looks. Dummy.

The moment Democrats file charges to impeach him the narrative is going to instantly switch to "Democrats holding a bunch of hearings and talking about legal bullshit instead of DOING SOMETHING." because that's what happened the last two times they filed charges to impeach him.

The people who spent months spewing bile at Holocaust Harris supporters wanted all of this to happen.

I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.

Area tankie discovers that Hispanic voters in the US aren't a monolith of the exact same kind of communist as them, and flips out. I've made no secret of the fact that I think Dems chasing votes of people who think anyone left of Reagan is Hugo Chavez is pointless, but the screenshot ain't it.

look, given the demographics of who very online people are its really time to stop portraying cringe people as un-masculine schlubs in glasses

Seeing an interview of Ron Perlman saying he wanted Hellboy 3 to be made and would even accept the offer now made me so sad please get this man back as Hellboy those first 2 movies are beloved to me.

A distressing number of leftists seem to want exactly this in a leader, and haven't even remotely considered the further consequences of voting in such a person.

“Normie” has intense proxy pro-Dengist vibes.

It's very simple: if you blame Democrats for what Republicans do, I don't trust you not to crash into a tree and blame the tree.

Sure, fighting for free speech is always worthwhile, yet you can do that without endorsing harmful sites like 4chan or Kiwi Farms that love to dox and harass innocent people to the point of self-harm or suicide. Of all the things Taylor Lorenz has posted, this is by far the most sus.

Scorpia is the best. That is all. #SheRa

Remember a few weeks ago when Mark Kelly & a few others released a video reminding troops, “Our laws are clear — you can refuse illegal orders,” & Trump/Republicans melted down & called him a traitor Turns out we didn’t have to wait long for another preview of future courts martial

the Democrats have failed utterly to give me anything to do with my Sunday afternoon

i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said

I have to push back on this because there’s nothing more inane or counterproductive than foreign liberals bullying American liberals for the actions of American reactionaries. The far right is a global movement which cannot be countered if we abandon internationalism as a virtue.

like having a sense of humor is cool and fun but when you start to live your life solely directed by dunking on the nerds it’s actually a problem

Getting 7k likes for saying “NO MORE STRONGLY WORDED LETTERS! I’m going to back… a strongly worded letter we’ve already sent twice!!!” really is the dominant Bluesky political culture in a nutshell lmao

bigotry is destroying this country and that’s really most of the basis to understand the constant leftist/liberal dynamic. misogyny, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, homophobia. it’s all there. and none of us are immune

Also my sense of the Venn diagram of people who say vote scolding is bad and people who say bullying works is one completely overlapping circle.

The thing about whining about vote scolding at this late date is that it’s a threat, or gloating at the threat having been realized.

Pretty fucking wild to see people in January 2026 whining about “vote scolding” to defend people who couldn’t get off their ass to vote against Trump. Whatever they thought of Harris, they can never honestly answer whether the world would be better if she’d won (lol of fucking course it would).

every once in a while i remember this stupid fucking cartoon and get so fucking mad

Voting is a civic duty. Period. You vote for the candidate that most closely represents your views or will give you the best chance of getting to where you need to be. Also, “massive power” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m Black, I don’t have the luxury of waiting for the perfect candidate.

A mantra I would like the ppl on this site to repeat to themselves every time they think Trump has some brilliant master plan:

"Donald Trump" was a folklore character of the late years of the Atomic Age, intended to teach Northamericans the dangers of hucksters.

Figures like this were frequently associated with gaming, legitimate or otherwise, hence his name derived from a word for a winning card. Those who still argue for his historicity have to explain this away with questionable etymologies.

same thing happened with Boris Johnson in the UK, people just loooooove being had, they love nothing more than to voluntarily welcome a scorpion onto their back

You ever explain “candy cigarettes” aloud to a Gen Alpha person only to realize that you were an abused child? No? Oh, me neither then…

June 5, 2025: Trump is in the Epstein files! Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!

Still. STILL.

At once excited and terrified to find out how many parts there will be to the Spectator's interview with Dominic Cummings.

I’m gonna have to play the Kant card for a second to build on this, like, it’s understandable that people in South America are angry with the US over Trump, but that does not thengive you license to bully random people online. Categorical imperative & all

Attacking Jeffries is attacking the opposition party to fascists. Do you think history is going to remark on what the opposition party failed to do when the voters gave it no power? No. History will only ask why regular Americans failed to vote for the opposition when the other choice was fascists.

Frankly, individual European countries trying to match the US/China development for development is EXACTLY the reason EU integration of these kinds of massive projects makes sense. You can't DO it on our budget. It's how Russia ended up broke in the 80s..

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”

Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.

He saw what was in the Epstein files and he could not stay.

Seeing that Captain America panel posted everywhere again. The next two panels are worth checking out too. From Daredevil #283 (1990) by Ann Nocenti and Mark Bagley.

Starmer could be weaponizing this by pointing out that it was a lovely idea to be a sole independent nation state once upon a time, but then trade wars, then Russian invasion, and then the US became an aggressive, out of control adversary. For which needed European togetherness and solidarity.

There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

Without a doubt the very worst kind of posting on here (supercharged by the Venezuela crisis) is the "woe be unto us Americans, the world will forever shun us and we will deserve their cruelty 😢" bullshit, please avoid me if you plan on engaging in that.

greetings from hell

'It's really about the oil that is in a major price slump right now in a world that is increasingly diversifying away from it' is, in defense of the people making the claim, stupid enough to be Trump's actual reason to do it