So turns out worshipping pacifism and civility over every other virtue creates an environment where fascists can just kill you and everyone will just shake their heads and wait for the next chance to vote out the FUCKING FASCISTS.

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

Capitalism is stacked against moral people because in any corporate structure as soon as you become a manager you will be forced to choose between standing up for your direct reports or making the decision *your* boss wants you to. The whole system self-selects for useless, egotistical sycophants

People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.

I don't like that I have to consider it more and more these days. #webcomics

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Nobody seems to understand that the argument "parents should be able to decide how their children are raised" escalates in lockstep with "parents have a fundamental right to abuse their children however they see fit." Conversion torture is parent-approved child sex slavery.

If you don’t work until you die to produce these goods you will be homeless. Thank you for coming

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

People putting a whole lotta faith into Boots when it's kind of the whole point that blind, unaccountable obedience is the first thing beaten into them at camp

Definitely. And like—the fundamental problem with a “vote with your wallet” system is that people with more money have more votes.

Imagine how quickly Christianity would become cool overnight if every conservative politician just dropped dead at the same time

"Abolish ICE" is the compromise position. you're not allowed to talk about the actual position

No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.

I would urge all so-called progressive Christians who are STILL concerned about how the rest of us talk about religion to think about ACAB, and replace Cop with Christian. Do you get it now?

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Is there any way we can quickly and convincingly spread a rumor that the rapture only works if you kill yourself? I think that could solve a ton of problems tomorrow.

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

Torn between opposing the Charlie Kirk memorial on UVU's campus as an abhorrent monument to hate and fantasizing about all the really, really funny things the students would do to it if it were built.

Buying into the lie that capitalism is a logical system driven solely by the rational impulse to profit/maximizing efficiency is the great failure that weds many Left and Centrist analyses even if the former sees this as a force for bad and the latter as a force for good

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I’ve tried for years to educate, handhold & be kind - but I’ve been repeatedly framed a villian. I try so hard to be kind, but I’m at a fucking point where if you arent fucking out here speaking up for trans people as we’re about to be labeled terrorists by the FBI, I’m don’t have time for you.

Art motivation 💪

This country is going to have to grapple with the fact that conservatives aren't just ignorant by chance, or even just by failed education. Religion plays a massive corrupting role. It targets the most vulnerable, the youth, by recruiting their similarly brainwashed parents to perpetuate the cycle.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Trying my best to be positive but it’s always the small things that pile up fast. I hope I’m likable in shared spaces, even if I get too anxious to post a lot. I try my best 😭

“Witness my burden, share the weight of forbidden knowledge. Is this the deep past or the near future? Now you must ponder this horror for as long as you carry me…” “Sight beyond sight.” Art of a nature mage, Mena, being “blessed” by a Shard of Helx. #furryart #worldbuilding #Argemi

Every time I see a person call themselves 'apolitical', my brain translates it to "my rights as a person aren't constantly up for debate and I don't care that yours are."

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

"Political violence is bad" says the nation founded by one of the most dramatic and impactful examples of widespread political violence in recorded history.

SCOTUS: "Business owners who dislike homosexuals can refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding." US DoJ: "Business owners who dislike Charlie Kirk cannot refuse to print materials memorializing him."

Imagine bending over to suck trumps cock, sending your country down the river for a fascist paycheck, and he turns around to sue you for $15 BILLION anyway. If we ever make it out of this we should bring back seppuku specifically for mainstream news media outlets. Pathetic and embarrassing.

Hey guys how did we end up beating fascism last time? Asking for a friend

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Charlie Kirk wasn't assassinated he was put down like the dangerous rabid dog he was

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

Trump could go on live television tomorrow and masturbate to a video of him raping a baby, declare himself emperor, and I'm not convinced that anybody with the power to stop him would even attempt to do so. We're so fucked.

Fundamentally, it all feels part and parcel with what I think of as "smol bean Christianity," this worldview that insists that individual (white) Christians are actually kindhearted good people who are completely not at fault for the immeasurable evil done in the name of their faith.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Some art of Dhelx from my comic, a little snapshot of her life before the events of the comic. About 17 years before. She’s an old person in comparison to the rest of the party. Shore being the next oldest. #furryart #Argemi

This is literally how Houdini died

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Leah and her sculpture "Post Dimensional Null Space " (2021)🧡 #nsfwart #pinup #stardew

Imagine knowing literally anything about history and believing that fascists can be shamed into moving anywhere but further right.

yearning

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.