"I don't need some semi-illiterate parish priest to explain the Bible to me! I can read it on my own!" 500 years later "Jesus only wanted us to take care of white Americans and he thought empathy makes you a pussy"

And may I remind you it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty

...whatever happened to Tae-Bo, anyway?

So far as I know, I haven't been labeled "Rude" on here yet, and I kind of feel like I'm not living up to my full potential as a result. Maybe I should try out some insult comedy on here?

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

before the war you're getting elite idealists. hemingway and orwell enlist in the spanish civil war, explicitly allied with comintern. your big spy ring is named after fucking Cambridge. after the war you get a psychologically damaged marine bsky.app/profile/segy...

Again, just because American bigots said civil rights activists were Communist agents trying to overthrow America, this does not in fact mean that Communism is actually good.

Btw, for those who may have mixed up their history, since this realm is often not covered well; this is not the Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer), which would be gross enough. Wounded Knee was a no-shit massacre.

the thing about HQ that has been lost in modern retellings is that she was an actual research psychiatrist whose romantic obsession with the Joker now makes her dress up like a clown and code switch into talking like she’s a working class goon’s girlfriend

the soviets trying to pin this one on the nazis is why we had nurmburg trials, originally the us and uk just wanted summary execution

"You'll never turn me to the dark side, your highness. But I'm not a Jedi, like my father before me, they're actually really problematic and—"

Seeing genuine Stalin apologia in the wild reminds me of the people who say Batman comics strawman Poison Ivy into being a killer so you won't realize environmentalism is good, and how their replies are always filled with "it fucking rocks that Poison Ivy wants to kill the human race for plants tho"

"Anyone who opposes a US-installed regime is obviously a Soviet agent." "Fuck off, I don't believe in that made-up nonsense." "Anyone who opposes a Soviet-installed regime is obviously an American agent." "OMG, so true!!"

Good lord, why is everybody simping for Stalin today?

seriously tho, blaming literally everything on either capitalism or "neoliberalism"

Wait, so there actually were pro-Palestine protests against Trump when he was at the UN? It's not just some desperate salve to the consciences of overly-online white people with more rage for someone who was never President than the actual current President of the United States?

She didn't abandon us. She was rejected. And she no longer "works" for US citizens, bc you don't go back to congress after you're a sitting VP.

Random Observation: I find the people who say Kamala Harris ran a bad campaign are the same people who routinely ignore how race plays a factor in their daily lives.

they all are convinced that: a: they are in-group Americans b: Trump wants what's best for in-group Americans, the specifics really don't matter at all c: Democrats only care about out-groups therefore only good things would happen if they voted for Trump

Nothing mattered because these people started from a premise that trump was a good guy who wants good things, so anything he said that they liked they believed wholeheartedly and anything they didn't was just "trump being trump." They were just totally and catastrophically wrong about everything

The year is 2025 and we've got to deal with self identified "leftists" trying to argue "ackshually, the Allies were barely better than the Nazis / Japanese." So I guess it really isn't a surprise that we reelected an open Nazi.

There seems to be an unspoken idea in political talk, and it's to the effect that the American people can never fail at anything, but can only be failed by the "elites".

american men must be WARRIORS and do PULL UPS and drink RAW MILK and DEFEND WOMEN but ESCALATORS are TERRIFYING DEATH TRAPS, you will get KILLED on the BUS and i have NIGHTMARES about CARJACKINGS

Slightly north of the city of Los Angeles, you'll find science fiction's most famous outcropping: Vasquez Rocks.

we have reached the point where leftists are defending coal because David Sirota did

When you post anything complimentary about the Western Allies in World War Two, and somebody jumps in to "WELL ACTUALLY" you about Operation Paperclip, the Bundeswehr high command, and/or Paragraph 175 so the West were the real bad guys all along: (meme courtesy of @amandakerri.bsky.social )

it is my opinion that the Allies in World War II were the good guys and I am glad that they won

I remember the Bush years and the claim that many leftists, liberals, and Democrats were inherently anti-American. It really pisses me off that some self-proclaimed progressives have jumped at the chance to become the caricature Republicans claimed that they were.

At some point one has to learn the concept that they are not in fact required to care about absolutely everything trivially bad that someone does.

Look what we have here then.

There is a decades-long coordinated effort by hostile interests left, right, and foreign to prevent these women from ever getting their hands on the reins of power. These two women are the embodiment of their greatest fears and the foundation upon which their inferiority complexes are built...

I'm going to grit my teeth and reluctantly respect the grind of "Eastern Front and Chill" that I saw today. I hate myself.

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

historical revisionism on main, post Allied memes

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the point i am trying to make is this: we can't flinch from power. pretending we won't be a world heavyweight for the foreseeable future isn't some virtuous refusal. it's just self-serving delusion. power doesn't go away when you pretend you don't have it.

scrawling ANTI ICE on a bullet in ballpoint pen seems like the kind of thing that the author spent roughly 90 seconds thinking about. take that as you will.

I was flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa before y'all even became a type-1 civilization

Maybe it's a bad comparison, or at least an outrageous one, to say that Communism is the Lost Cause of the 21st century (with all that very deliberately implies). I'm still gonna say it, though.

Well, here's a new curséd WW2 take: "By preserving the Japanese monarchy, the US deliberately robbed the Red Army of victory."

The Kimmel thing is, at base, normie mainstream Americans staying to push back on Trump and his regime. I think it's interesting in a bad way to see anyone treating it as a meaningless distraction.

Turns out the US federal government was overall a net good for literally everyone and decades of stupid, seductive anti government Right Wing Conspiracy Terrorist propaganda appeals so much to the masses because the idea of hating your government despite all the benefits is appealing and cool.

Honestly I’m of the belief that a better foreign policy abroad is connected to a more *WILLFULLY* educated populace at home, the problem is the willful part, because I’ll be damned if I can’t discuss decisive policy things with family at home without “well they’re over THERE”

It's wild how many people agreeing with this post seem to believe that the US is the only country where this weird right wing nativist shit is happening, because, um (gestures at every moderately rich country over the last decade)

I feel like the specific thing that breaks a lot of people's brains is that both of the following are true facts: 1) The USA has done a lot of absolutely awful things, pretty regularly throughout history. 2) It is still almost always more moral and less oppressive than any contemporary major power.

Okay so this is literally a GOP talking point, he's making a full throated defense for isolationism but leftistly.

Think of Soviet propaganda as Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes' character in _Demolition Man_): The product of a forgotten time, reanimated in the present and wreaking havoc because nobody knows how to deal with him any more.

"Europe builds up big armies to guarantee its security" naturally leads to "Europe decides to go use those big armies" and the last two times they did that it turned into a problem we couldn't ignore

The thing no one wants to acknowledge here is that America electing a questionably lucid, virulently racist old autocrat with a cult of personality doesn't discredit us with the rest of the world, it makes us more like them.