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DONALD TRUMP STARTS NUCLEAR WAR

the ex-special forces south korean bar owner who did a racist imitation of the Japanese has a special place in my memory. (He was a nice dude! just, you know, about average levels of feelings about the Japanese for a South Korean guy born in 1960 or so)

it was probably a good idea they wrote Altar Boy out in the 2010s though.

Matt Taibbi finding new ways to degrade himself every year is honestly kind of delightful to me. It's like how Milo has been reduced to shilling tat and claiming to be ex-gay.

Italy/Vatican City crime in the 1980s is one of the only places where 'freemasons did it' is not a conspiracy theory.

happy Orban lost and the Pope is weak on crime day to all who celebrate, this could be a top 10 social media day because the night is still young

That disease? Morality.

we come ever closer to the Mar-a-lago Antipope.

i really hate that i can tell when the president is coming back from his mansion in florida just with my ears however this does mean nighttime arrival photos: orban just lost edition are about to drop

John Langan, who wrote my favorite horror novel of the last decade ("The Fisherman"), has what looks like *two* new novels coming out in the next couple of years. Very excited.

I'm gonna assume a lot of this is hurtfic.

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

Here she is at the March on Washington wearing her Resistance medals, incredible flex

Our own history is a reminder too: Jim Crow is within living memory. Slavery seemed hopelessly entrenched in our politics and economy. Things can change if people work and fight for that change.

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Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Alison Killilea’s Corkonian translation (“Boyo-wulf” naturally) has “C’mere to me!”

'waaaaasssssuuuuppppp'

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I will hand a Peabody Award to anybody who writes a streaming limited series without flashbacks, jumpbacks after an in medias res opening, or parallel timelines.

If I was still dating I would say that my entire dating resume is that I can get a cat to do this

this is an exceptionally pleasing tweet to choose to parse literally

It is extremely blackpilling to remember when the whole thing went down last year over her “verifying” these accounts and the whole site mobilized in anger at…Theophite, for saying it looked fishy.

Worth noting that Hungary was much further down the road to fascism than we are. And with one election and a motivated electorate, it’s over.

honestly "Hungarian nationalism" and "subservience to Russia" were a very bizarre mix to begin with.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

after they do this, you'll explain to newcomers to the city that they used to just pile trash on the sidewalk and they'll think you're fucking with them and telling an obviously made-up tall-tale

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

ugh, did not know that Fischer had gone fully chud.

Send him to Moscow.

Despicable. An 86 year old French woman, married to a former American soldier, was held in ICE detention for nearly 10 days.

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

To cap off this wonderful moment I’m going to go read Z blogger tears.

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

Hungarian Voters Increasingly Out Of Touch With Heartland America---Will This "Danubian Elitism" Prove To Be A Mistake?

can't wait for the NYT piece about how actually JD Vance always thought backing Orban was a bad idea

mood

the Hungarian super-majority margin is going to be thin enough that it is quite possible that JD Vance going there got enough people to the polls to spite him to make it possible

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Bal sors akit régen tép, Hozz rá víg esztendőt, Megbűnhődte már e nép A múltat s jövendőt!

i know this is my very specific industry hobbyhorse, but this is true, it's been true for longer than people realize, and many of the systemic solutions for it are pretty hard to implement, both technically and politically

The world was safest and fast food the best when I was 8, music the best when I was 21, and the city I moved to a year and a half after I moved there when I was 25. It has nothing to do with me being those ages, why were you asking

we didn't have an au pair but they were extremely common in middle-class Manchester in the 1990s, normally a nice Spanish girl who took your spare room for a year for room + board + basically pocket money.

just did some maths and, *inflation-adjusted* my parents paid in 1977 roughly ten percent of what they would pay today for the same house

I hope Orban ends his life in a miserable Russian exile.