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he/him | bi | vietnamese | democratic socialist 🌹| perspective about and from vietnam | a fucking mess
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In a just world Curtis Yarvin should be made to stand trial and rot in prison

Curtis Yarvin just wrote a thread on X about a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory that claims the United States purposefully killed one million German POWs at the end of WWII. In case you were wondering how things are going.

What the fuck?

i will defend congestion pricing until my dying breath

Honestly, the bigger question was always "What do you tell the Senate the next day when they ask why you assassinated the Supreme Chancellor?"

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

Bluesky today: “I think that some people *should* be bullied off the platform” Bluesky 2 years ago: *people insinuating Yglesias should be hit with a hammer* If anything it’s gotten calmer on that end

Something that gets missed about the Cultural Revolution is that it was not just the killing of people. It was the elimination of all elements of society deemed politically inconvenient. Entire generations of Chinese experts in STEM, military, and politics suffered because of this.

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

I suspect one reason DHS is suspending Harvard's foreign student program is the Tinpot Tyrant is angry about all his recent losses in court, and all the criticism he's taken for corruptly accepting his new toy plane from Qatar. So they need to find some way to make Trump feel powerful and effective

The Nordic Model does not protect sex workers. This isn't a debate. The Nordic Model actively harms sex workers, and its supporters ignore this fact because a moral crusade to eliminate sex work is more important than sex worker lives.

Do i need to tell the story about the racist bar in Sweden being allowed to racially profile women and it being legally okay if their intent is to "end demand" again?

Cory Booker doing an entirely performative filibuster and then voting to advance the President’s felon father-in-law is hilarious. Selling your personal virtue for *nothing.*

“We must prosecute all the criminals of Trump II. Aggressively. Federal officials flouting the Constitution, ICE goons ignoring court orders, white-shoe law firms committing flagrant bribery—all of them. We must go after not just foot soldiers but ringleaders—elites.”

Pic 1: VN Gov encourages citizens to get rich to serve the nation. Pic 2: a number of goals of VN re. private sector (establishing it as the leading force for economic development, and aiming for it to make up 60% GDP by 2045). VN also plans reforms and deregulation to support the private sector.

Joe Biden prevented his vice president, a black woman, from separating herself from his unpopular administration with the implicit threat he would throw her under the bus if she did so.

theo's vitriol here is a) deserved and b) instructive - he held out even a little longer than I did in the 'Biden could actually do the right thing and cut Bibi off' fantasy and he's appropriately betrayed, because it was all a lie

Per one Democratic aide, members reached out for a meeting to talk about "women's rights, violence against women, revenge porn and AI deepfake porn on the internet, and mentioned specifically that they had constituents of ours that would want to talk to our team about these issues ..."

Aye, she's a beaut'

a Democratic party led and directed by bizarrely pro-Israel New York machine politicians is not an opposition party fit for purpose

reading the early drafts is also a great insight into why the prequels were terrible; because by that point nobody was saying 'no' to George Lucas or making him rewrite shit.

The gutter racism at work in the Claudine Gay situation and the craven, wholly unforgivable complicity of the NYT in the stitch up I think will go down as a shining light example of how the liberal US establishment helped pave the way for Trump’s fascism.

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

this is the most devastating burn I’ve ever seen in all my life and only Chuck Schumer deserves it

the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat is apparently (checks notes) the bulwark magazine and former federal prosecutors like ken "popehat" white? is that correct? did i have a stroke at some point???

yeah i have just blocked every hamsick on bluesky as a bloc

People keep trying to draw a hard-and-fast line between national liberation and ethnonationalism, and there simply never has been, and never will be one. Which is why a commitment to universal liberal values of human rights and dignity is so important for any state or national project.

Turns out that when you base essentially your entire case for becoming president on the idea that there's an ongoing invasion by murderous criminals and only mass deportations can solve the problem, your voters expect you to produce said criminals. Now they're just going after anyone they can.

“And all of these people of the Christian right with this mean spiritedness, that think they’re more righteous than anybody else, there’s a special place in hell for all of you!”🔥 ~Mayor Ras Baraka #MayorRasBaraka #StopICE @hereswhykevin.bsky.social

ras baraka told right wing christians 'there is a place in hell for all of you' and said any person in newark who rides the bus is a 'resident' and fuck man we need more of this shit

wait I need to go back to church I didn't realize the Archbishop of Newark was a huge lib who literally said "I don't believe that there's a compelling theological reason why the pope couldn't name a woman cardinal."

Guy just choose the shittiest hill to die on

Look I get performatively not caring about the new pope, I do. But I want you to consider two things: 1) there is now a nonzero chance JD Vance gets excommunicated 2) think about what must’ve happened to his face between hearing “there’s an American pope” and “it’s the one that hates you”

HCMC will give women who gave birth to 2 children before the age of 35 (from 21/12/2024 to 15/4/2025) a one-time payment of 3m VND (~115USD). This is part of a resolution passed by the City Council aiming at boosting the birth rate.

The day before the NY Mag piece went online, Fetterman lost it in a meeting with a teachers union: "Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk" apnews.com/article/john...

I just pretend India and Pakistan do not exist, because I cannot handle the implications of two *nuclear power* at each other’s throat.