I find the current political situation impossible to parse except as a global community of shithead gangster bosses doing odious favors for each other. Domestically and internationally, that's the only ideological through-line. Bossism, fascism, sure, but finally it's just Epstein Island everywhere. - ThreadSky

davidjroth.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I find the current political situation impossible to parse except as a global community of shithead gangster bosses doing odious favors for each other. Domestically and internationally, that's the only ideological through-line. Bossism, fascism, sure, but finally it's just Epstein Island everywhere.

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idiokratie.bsky.social•8 days ago

Fun fact, Epstein was a spy.
Elite defection is how you win. The Pizzagate thread: https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lfkvp5hbn22m

davidepike.bsky.social•9 days ago

The WaPo fascist rag is part of the "odious" cabal of despicable rich dudes doing favors: boycotts work!

jakemadtown.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Less than Zero" pegged the younger version of these people perfectly. Drugged-up pedo elites who think they will never deal with blowback for their depravity (and they may well be right).

harrisoncklee.bsky.social•9 days ago

At this point PedoCon is a theory like gravity is

ryancraig.bsky.social•9 days ago

i've sort of been waiting for you to christen a "Waingro from HEAT" pull on this platform and i think your opportunities are plenty now

parasocialista.bsky.social•9 days ago

Have I got an author for you

dingokayfabe.bsky.social•9 days ago

Men of all creeds and tongues adopting the way of just being greasy ass motherfuckers

bullgooseparty.bsky.social•9 days ago

They promised us the internet would bring us freedom. You could work from anywhere! Do anything! Get all of the information in the world! So of course they just used it to do Oligarchy 2.0. Oh and you have to come into the office 9 to 5.

wonky-1138.bsky.social•9 days ago

What a fucking monster.

davidjroth.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm trying not to do posts like this because it's not additive and there are thousands of them on here already. I will uh do better.

relaxing.bsky.social•9 days ago

No please keep doing it, I don’t follow the thousand other people.

vegavannah.bsky.social•9 days ago

Sometimes you just have to type/ say it out loud for yourself because it’s too much to hold in all the time.

summonrats.bsky.social•9 days ago

Sometimes we just have to vent at how fucked it all is.

donnerparty62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Your framing of that “ideological through line” what kind of freshish and meaningful to me.

I think we’re really having trouble directly looking at and discussing the international phenomena at play.

goldkin.bsky.social•9 days ago

Odd as it sounds, "everything is Epstein island for these people" isn't commonly understood, so this does help. Not just for now, but for understanding their theory of power, what it means, and how to defend against it.

So this helps, I think?

norbizness.bsky.social•9 days ago

OK, *now* start Pizzagate. Oh shit he's dead.

shawnconnery.bsky.social•9 days ago

I land in the same place, it only makes sense if you see it through the prism of the NY Five Families.

markshatraw.bsky.social•9 days ago

We're all kinda doomed to let *something* out about The Interminable Suck, whether it be a post or a blog or a scream

sknowsthatp.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don’t think additive is a quality independent of its source.

saukfish.bsky.social•9 days ago

No, it’s not additive, but I’m not sure there is much else to do or say — short of measures none of us really want, at least now, to contemplate.

We are beginning to feel in this country, for the first time, the desperation that drives people into the streets with non-peaceful intentions.

coltranethedog.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think it's a useful observation.

You never know what words will resonate and advance our understanding of *gestures broadly* all of this.

tredavid.bsky.social•7 days ago

Funny enough is to realise that these shitheads have been produced from the atrophying school system over the past 30 years; removing any alternative ideology against the "live to compete for money" - and that's what we have become: a bunch of empty banknotes fabricating value which has left us.

opinionatedlab.bsky.social•9 days ago

I thought we didn’t care about war crimes anymore.

Oh, sorry… this is about Russia, not Israel.

leokitty.bsky.social•9 days ago

pedocon is real

busjus.bsky.social•9 days ago

If we're going back to that, it would be nice if it could spawn a flood of mid-budget action films where the villain is a greasy pervert in sunglasses with his belly hanging out, taking calls on his comically large veranda.

redloribrighteyes.bsky.social•9 days ago

that is exactly what is happening - it's monsters vs the rest of us

redloribrighteyes.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/redloribrighteyes.bsky.social/post/3k3qy2p3qng2u

teorema.bsky.social•9 days ago

The curse of how corny it is to say “Evil, Inc.” but it is literally that

winternighttravel.bsky.social•9 days ago

Applebaum nailed it in the title of her book,”Autocracy, Inc.”

grahamistearingup.bsky.social•8 days ago

“Gangsterismo”

crikeywoman.bsky.social•9 days ago

Precisely!

seitzy.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's like COBRA from GI Joe actually exists.

sherrellmccoy.bsky.social•9 days ago

War criminal

timprice.bsky.social•9 days ago

Displeased by rising grocery prices, cultural diversity, and modest temporary restrictions on their ability to cough on each other, voters elected to place a network of human traffickers in charge of the world's nuclear arsenals. Historians have dubbed this era The Age of the Moron.