Good evening zelensky called assad a douchebag

More mixing nonsense, but I'm having too much fun with it! 😊

Another weekend doodle, another painted shield 🗡️🛡️

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

I preferred the 2017 version

The Last Podcast on the Left has really taken huge editorial strides since Ed Larson came aboard. They aren't the exact same Woke as me but they're doing good shit in the way that needs doing right now. There is no leftist Joe Rogan, there are only funny folks who care.

The Suitors: "So ya Odysseus murdered us and that's why we're in the underworld." Agamemnon, nodding his head: "Good for him."

Well it's not "one mile" from Jerusalem. The State of Palestine legally includes East Jerusalem.

I was just thinking: in the past 120 years there was only a sixteen year period when I could have potentially emigrate to the UK. Right now pre-2004 or post-2021 I would not be able to qualify for any visa routes

When the last Labour government got in, if you married a UK citizen you could get British citizenship after one year for less than £100, and claim benefits straight away. By 2010, it was a minimum five-year process that cost seven grand, you had to do a test, and couldn't claim benefits in that time

"What are we, a bunch of Russians?" is a statement that should fill you with burning rage that you should promptly direct at the administration who expects you to roll over like one

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

this is the memorandum from Lavrentiy Beria ordering the Katyn massacre, bearing Stalin's signature. it was taken from the Soviet archives and published by the Russian government in 2010, accompanied by an admission of guilt.

Just one taint looking out for another.

there is absolutely not a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. the primary reason that tens of millions of people are going to die is that we aren't feeding them and providing public health services. no one took that over. no one even tried.

Maybe posting ragebait is a good way to drum up business, but I have to say that if I was in the market to get stepped on it would be a dealbreaker if she didn't know what Lend-Lease was

Watching Megalopolis and enjoying how heavy-handed it is about the late Roman Republic, the suits with lapel embroidery, the choices in casting, the sets, everything. It's so stupid and I love it.

this is the funniest thing I've seen this week

In 1943, during World War II, statistician Abraham Ward published a groundbreaking study on relieving symptoms of inflammation in planes. He illustrates his insight with a famous diagram showing exactly where planes experienced inflammation, and the efficacy of acetaminophen in treating it.

TIL that the medicinal compound present in Tylenol is exactly what's inside a paracetamol capsule. This is what causes autism? RFK Jr. still has a job? Cheryl Hines is still waiting up for this chump? Dr Oz has the cure? Can I die, please?

Are you a bad enough dude?

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Never forget how absolutely, openly furious so much of our news media was that Biden ended the war in Afghanistan

To be fair to Americans, most Anglophone countries are going to have to wake up to this fact at some point and our normies seem just as clueless.

I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often? She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

again, as somebody who has actually lived in a dictatorship and worked with dissidents from across the world, this kind of whiny cosplaying by academics pretending they have some secret knowledge of resistance is very annoying.

Guys I’ll just say this and then I’m out for the night: if you can’t stomach the risk of nonpublicly attaching yourself to a huge protest, it doesn’t seem like you have much ground to criticize execs and college presidents who couldn’t stomach the risk of being specifically targeted by the admin

Imagine being a corvid and you rob the first metalworker of the tiniest copper shaving and how crazy the other birds would've gotten.

Don't be chickenshit.

2022 — a confession:

Low social trust is how reactionaries get a foothold. Don't trust an email list? Bedrot instead. The whole thing is a scam. Won't register for a protest even under an alias? Oh, Agent Smith is on your case. Just turn up then; just turn up. 'Can't, opsec is compromised' You little baby bitches

An enormous amount of this discourse is Cult of the Operator for guys who smell like patchouli oil and have a favorite Kropotkin.

Also, have a tiny bit of bravery. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians put their name publicly as dissidents when they joined "We are all Khaled Saeed," and that was (and is again) a vastly more brutal and repressive regime than we have.

Concerning the protest email discourse, if you have ever donated to a Democratic political campaign, your name is already on a list they submit to the government with your personal information, some of which becomes then public. If you're at all politically involved, they already know.

The Gray Man Protester shit is also Cult of the Operator you cannot change my mind here

if you really believed this was the threat environment you wouldn't have an account on this website.

If you actually believe this then that's the ball game, it's over. This is the end goal of what they want, don't give it to them preemptively

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

WSJ when an American conservative gets killed versus when Arab children get killed:

Went canvassing today. Four different people said they are concerned about immigration, by which they all meant they are concerned by how demonised it is and blame Labour for failing to fight fascism. Inner city Glasgow. Stick that in your narratives

My toxic trait is mixing late Roman with late Medieval 🫣

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

This is definitely a gender thing. I had a heart to heart with my also-quite-online brother about how the event had shaken us, both of us having hated the man for so long, how bittersweet his demise... My sis-in-law on the other hand saw things on the sunny side :)

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good