"Blood of Angels" by Brown Bird could be a lot of fun.

I don't think we should invade or bomb Iran, but if we do, [REDACTED].

Any Marxist who doesn't fall somewhere between a hard-line "kill all royals" and merciful "they can become regular people and work alongside their fellow countrymen" is not a Marxist. Crowns and socialism are incompatible.

The kinda tired no amount of sleep will stop.

BIG WIN HUGE WIN CELEBRATION TIME

Alberta taking up the battle cry of all conservative provinces/states/countries connected to a greater whole: "We will not follow your rules or contribute to the greater whole, but we demand the full benefits received by those who do."

i will catch a ton of shit for this because people dislike this framing but the culture of poverty dictates you buy visible consumer items to present financial success to your peers while hiding the fact that you are on really fucking shaky financial ground.

We moved to Finland last spring (yes, because of that) and one of the biggest pleasant surprises is how the kiddo’s school casually does a wide variety of sports and outdoor stuff. “It’s -15C out today so naturally we will cram everyone onto the tram and go ice skating.”

I'm sure that having a party apparatchik ask me why I don't like them, than laughing in my face and posting the video on the Internet when I answer would turn me right around, though.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

It's not surreal. People will remember being treated shabbily, and they especially remember being treated shabbily in person. Representing your campaign isn't something you stop doing. You can't turn it on and off like a light switch. Sure, it may have only cost a handful of votes, but they add up.

"Crisis demands leadership. As your representative, I will fulfill my oath the only way I know how, by pressing a giant button that says 'Feed the Moloch” over and over again."

"The media's influence on the race is immaterial" makes absolutely no sense in a Democratic party that swapped its Presidential candidate at the behest of donors and the press within the last 24 months

Getting concerned that the judge is referencing Charles I as precedent for my speeding ticket hearing.

Me to my Korean friends as I watch their democracy succeeding at punishing an insurrection while our own failed miserably to do so:

Imagine living in a country where thd president attempted an insurrection and the *positive* outcome for him is dying in jail. Instead of living in a decadent shit pile incapable of being reformed, as I do.

Okay, this is just straight up funny.

First Nations people in America and Canada have been being murdered like this for decades. Look up "starlight tours". It is straight up evil, and the message to take away is what you have just seen is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for law enforcement, it's just becoming visible in cities now.

Well, this is apparently unpopular with a lot of random accounts I've never seen before?

Hasan Piker discovering international class solidarity while on vacation in China is hilarious, because the class he feels solidarity for is the bourgeoise. "Wow, they're just like me" is a good realization, but when untethered to actual socialist thought, indistinguishable from The Grand Tour.

Hasan Piker likes China, and there's nothing they do to their workers that Hasan wouldn't do to his dog.

Marxist activists went to jail for labor organizing but it’s fine. Healthcare has famously been not affordable for most people but that’s not relevant to Americans

Considering the options for belief we see from our elected officials, including Democrats, a sincere Christianity should be considered positively harmless. I mean, I doubt the sincerity, but I doubt the sincerity of all American Christians without evidence they actually hold any belief.

The tabletop gaming market is completely overwhelmed with new games. Luckily, AI will fix that, as companies who embrace it will just release endless trash and outright stolen designs, and eventually poison their reputation so badly they fall apart.

If you think for one second that if AOC wins the primary they donor class won't try to bounce her you're fucking kidding yourself

Being called a nihilist for not believing in liberal democracy is best understood through the lens of being accused of nihilism for not being a Christian. If you do not receive your salvation in the approved way, and don't hold to the proper rituals, then clearly you believe in nothing.

Capitalists aren't *planning* to make the world worse just out of malice. They're doing it to make money and hold power. It's not some satanic conspiracy of evildoers, but just raw self-interest, pursued by people with incredible power and no chance of facing legal consequences.

How about we start with you proving that you are aware in general, then we can work towards you proving knowledge in specific fields? Because right now, I'm not seeing much evidence in your favor.

Reading about the Mediterranean Theater, to sharpen my hatred of Winston Churchill.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Not sure if the people who are horrified that the liberal capitalist party is not actually looking to do anything revolutionary are more annoying than the supporters of that party who are insistent that the party is just one good election away from revolutionary change, but either way I'm annoyed.

I actually do want the Trunp administration to "reform" the war colleges, though. I want US regimental commanders to be so moronic that Gulf State militaries make fun of us.

This really gets the message across, I'll give them that.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I love all of the mouthpieces for the administration getting it on record that they think requiring warrants means their program is dead in the water out loud like letting everyone know they know they're violating civil liberties

Yelling at the Democratic Party about not having a theory of victory after getting poweris like screaming at a dog about what he plans to do when he catches the car. The dog doesn't want to do anything with the car. It wants the car. It wants you to help it get the car.

There's liberal aversion to class distinctions in a lot of places, but I think my favorite is the people who use a man worth over $200 million as a stand-in for the median voter. Very smart political analysis. You nailed it.

Going around the Aegean Sea and telling everyone that Athens was just a group of peaceful philosophers, and seeing how mad they get.

Just giving a David Attenborough narration like we're watching a jaguar disembowel its prey while my cat is trying to eat.

Okay, listen. People can make the case that Trump winning over Harris was a net negative for Palestine, but the idea that the Democratic Party was going to suddenly just rip all of their support from Israel and demand an immediate peace is absolutely absurd. They had lots of chances to do it in 24.

Fascism has always filled the void when there's no organized socialist alternative to liberal decadence. She's correct on this. Either give people a real alternative to their current conditions, or watch them abandon you.

I am literally never voting for Gavin Newsom. The odds of having to make that choice are slimmer than many on the left think, but regardless, I am not doing it.

Every explanation for fascism is acceptable, except for the one where we confront that the system is breaking under its own weight and those that rule us are more comfortable with violent fascism than with the most mild, compromised form of socialism.

So the initial forces I have arrayed for the "Market-Garden Rejected" scenario are at least provisionally complete, but I'm going to need to put some really, really unpleasant victory conditions on the Americans to make it work, because it's a bastard of a mismatch.

Working on a hypothetical Market-Garden alternative, where Montgomery is told to clear the Scheldt Estuary, and instead all of the extra supplies and resources are put into First Army's sector to try a push through Aachen and towards Cologne.

TFW you turn around