Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

All wars are world wars if your scale is right.

I've only read others' screenshots, but the title and subtitle are already devastating. Everything changes, but arguing FOR an ideology to change its definition in order to "save" it is... not a hallmark of integrity.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

I have Kansas City; you have... famouser places. May you find your Rosh Hashanah as sweet. #5786 #ThisIsTheBirthdayOfCreation

This is much more abrupt and severe than I understood before. Explains a great deal 😮‍💨

in which Douthat lets the imperialist cat out of the universalist bag

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

"So you see, feminine gender is best understood as a construct serving as store, exchange and justification of status and labor exploitation. That's all it ever was. If its purity, scarcity, material basis or ownership were undermined - well, it's obvious why some take offense! In this essay I will

Now it's time for the Airing of Grievances.

Fluoride causes teeth

Please be respectful

This genre of conservative rhetoric was quintessentially transphobic in the 1740s: it didn't come from nowhere.

This is not the paradox it seems, for them. Patriarchists believe queer people altogether don't exist on their own terms bc patriarchism naturalizes strict binary gender and sexuality. Patriarchists believe queer people are (crypto-)satanist perverts, the chief danger to para-Christian patriarchy.

By the by, the full-spectrum establishment reaction to Charlie Kirk's death is a trial run for Trump's own. That's the whole drive behind elevating an obscure bully to heroic sainthood. If it can be achieved for the one, easier later for the other. (The vengeful reaction on the right is different.)

Flavor can be hit or miss (more of bad is worse) but what the heels of a loaf do have is CRUST. As a child I also reviled them but, especially on a typical sliced bagged loaf, they _can_ be the only part worth eating.

Hey, Americans. You’ve been propagandized on levels you’re just starting to grasp. America’s history, mission, and what it represents is a lie. It is not freedom. It is not truth. It is enslavement, destruction, submission. Why do I know this? ‘Cause I’m Native. Some unprogramming advice: (1/3)

It really is this simple. (Caveat to stop-only-when-stopped: it's only immediate. That is, they will stop the one thing, then and there, but will look for some other contest, or resume the one they just stopped as soon as resistance wanes. They can only be exhausted or diverted.)

Stancil vs Infinite Monkeys on Infinite Typewriters on Infinite Earths

The normies on Threadz, aka, Instagram, aka Facebook, are openly trashing Charlie Kirk The right wing overplayed its hand and absolutely none of the normal people are buying it. Nobody has seen even one percent of this demand for reverence for a person—not even war veterans like John McCain.

If adherence to law is preventing you from fixing said law, the problem isn't the adherence but the law. A system that can't be maintained is just an event. Build one you CAN maintain. Just recognize that a system can be used to maintain it once it exists, but not to create it before it exists.

I care less abt pundits than populace, and I agree abt the Right being in fact opposed to free speech and ideological diversity. But a source of much confusion here is that the Right very much DOES have principles - they are simply (and this should be intuitive) directly opposed to Left principles.

Expanded Vpon In Leviticus

"And when I had a great joke, there was no stand-up left to send it to."

The center cannot hold - but it can realign like nothing else.

Not to brag (much) but some of us noticed this decades ago and have just been wondering (while wailing Cassandrines and organizing in the quicksand) how long it would be before someone tried to REALLY take advantage of it. I did not expect Trump to win, either time. But both times it echoed doom.

I mean... They hold EVERYONE in contempt, but also they project their own traumas and fantasies on everyone. They want to control everyone but especially young people; many of them were subjected to controlling elders; they assume everyone is the same: no alternatives, only rivals.

We're saved! What perfect timing! 😭

Anapodotons were the Aliens of the Week in Star Trek's famous "More Things Change" episode. (An oversight resulted in the name being reused as Magic Particle of the Week in "Soong Remains the Same".)

This was a blaring red light from a couple years back that prominent elected Republicans welcome political violence as long as it is directed at people they hate. Their calls for violence are only getting worse.

I've thought about this before, including the last week. The only reason not to speak ill of the dead, otherwise deserving, is fear. Unless you believe the dead are null, impotent, or w/o agency, there will be times it isn't worth the risk of attracting their attention (just as w/ the living).

Especially if "of faith" includes commitment (however complicated) to any (especially disfavored) particularism within or alongside leftism's universalism.

One fascist shot another fascist, and our entire society decided, at the behest of the fascist regime, to declare political retribution on leftists, transgender, Latino, and Black people, while most white people are publicly chastising us for "celebrating political violence". Don't fall for it.

I want children to FEEL & BE safe @ school as a function of all persons being safe in general. This is an easier goal in that it doesn't require special focus on schools (or children, tho that wld be fine if all children) but harder in that ours is a society in which safety is privilege & commodity.

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

If you don't think your take was simpering praise, then this isn't about... Oh... Never mind.

Sigh... No, intelligence isn't the problem here. It's a problem of principle and axiom.

Yes, but the reasonableness of that response is an illusion, and not an accident. The reasonable response is transgressive indifference and befuddlement.

Most of them were apparently just waiting to be... triggered (ironic). And that was known, so I guess in retrospect this was inevitable. Just a question of when and how petty.

The Goose, squinting: "who does 'our' refer to in this analogy, David?"

Anyone confused about fascists attacking each other, remember: the ideology prioritizes the contest over everything else. Their animosity is as much directed inward as outward, as much about determining who ranks highest among them as it is who ranks below them.

My community is so fringe, we remember the name of the dye we used to use for special fringes even though it hasn't been available for centuries, and we argue about what color it really was, whether it's possible to recreate it, or even permitted.

My community is so fringe, we only refer to fringe in the plural (but constantly).

Getting started on my completely false but strangely plausible in-memoriam right now

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

Everything about this paragraph from NYT hagiography is weird. Kirk endorsed so-called GR theory? Well, did he or didn't he? If he didn't call it that, why are you calling it that? The theory doesn't just claim whites WILL be replaced but are being and have been AND deliberately.

In a normal country we would be talking about the fact Charlie Kirk was a fascist stochastic terrorist engaged in coordinating attacks on educators, children and others opposed to his fascist views. Reminder the media is willingly lying about Kirk and tpusa. Kirks legacy is white power terror.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

It's official: I hold US citizenship, but I am NOT "American"