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<"Eleanor Rigby" voice> Zohran Mamdani Popular guy whom Bill Ackman knows just how to stop: Maniac Cop

Again: taking the strategy radicalises the people involved. It bombs all the off ramps, because when you're going out there saying "this guy is basically Hitler and he will murder the Jews in another Holocaust" you can't just walk back from it. Once it's out there you have to stick with it.

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

it’s time for Millennial James Bond. he’s listening to podcasts in the Aston Martin. a henchman steals his vape and instantly dies after taking a hit. there’s an action sequence where he gets too high at an LCD Soundsystem show and starts punching people

It's probably a bit late now to try to tell British journalists that their job *isn't* to inflate or outright invent massively inflammatory numbers about Them Foreigns and present them on the front pages with an air of menace, to drum up domestic support for fascism.

what if you have good jokes

I can't imagine bsky has a big crossover with facebook users these days but I run a couple of pages on there and get the default newsfeed it gives you when you don't follow anyone where it just shows you the most popular posts, and it's 80% straight up calls for pogroming muslims from the UK

Few things are as life affirming as this glorious minute or so of footage of a party in Texas in the 1960s with Lightnin’ Hopkins playing guitar and two girls dancing away. (Ta to Alexis Petridis who stumbled across it) youtu.be/dQ4wExg_TBs?...

When they say the coffers are empty so they've got to keep children in poverty with the two child benefit cap or PIP is unaffordable for disabled people & they must be forced into lives of further restriction & indignity remember: there's oodles of cash for military hardware that will never be used

Every Sensible Centrist in the UK: "Trump is a massive danger to the world, the only way to stand up to him is by giving him huge amounts of money and in turn even more control of Britain's military." www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...

Cops are great

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

For the police "bike safety" just means stealing bikes from kids

You can be more certain than anything that Iran doesn't have, and has never had nuclear weapons, because if they did we wouldn't be fucking bombing them.

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

listen, you can’t blame a centrist for not spotting fascism. it was very very easy to miss

jesus.

Dems get a free sub

Not loving the legislators who are going: "It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and UNCONSCIONABLE of Donald Trump to bomb Iran without the authority of Congress, which I would GIVE HIM IN AN INSTANT IF HE ASKED."

Google Veo 3 providing new and exciting ways to do racism.

“Tell me, are any of those ‘key allies’ currently being indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court?”

He's doing it 😭😭😭

Groimes oim rewroiting the corpis

Would maybe not have phrased it quite like that?

The fun part here is that none of this had to happen: the referendum was 100% the result of the Tories pandering too hard to racist pensioners, to shore up their vote against Farage. And then playing it straight, point blank refusing to admit they had idiotically fucked themselves and everyone else.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

Important to understand: as far there is a plan, it is to destroy Iran’s government, collapse state capacity and then let the chips fall where they may. It is to turn a nation of 90 million into an ungovernable disaster zone, just as America has done over and over across Africa and the Middle East.

Sure 12 people have as much wealth as 4 billion people combined but they told me this is human nature and the best we can do so this is what life is and always will be ❤️