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Just here to learn history & politics from 23 year old libertarians-turned-communist. Earnest poster. SE DC. Woodworking. Dogs. Bikes. Science. Social democracy.
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submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

submitted 1 day ago • 278 comments

All that we’re missing is calling the Dems cockroaches and Tutsi scum

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

submitted 3 days ago • 420 comments

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

submitted 3 days ago • 378 comments

One thing that can't be emphasized enough is that maga folks are generally miserable as HELL, buddy, and their whole goal is to make everyone around em miserable too. Bitter as fuck. Even when they win, they lose

submitted 119 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Members of the In group will never admit they are wrong or guilty, as that will be seen as betrayal by their fellow travellers and result in exile and attack. This is authoritarian capture in practice right in front of your eyes.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism. To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

"The American regime today arrested a member of the legislative opposition, after declaring it would 'liberate' that senator's province from opposition control using the armed forces"

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It’s completely insane that the media pretends every random protester or activist in America speaks for the Democratic Party, but Trump’s agencies can directly quote white supremacist accounts on Twitter and the same media won’t link these people to Trump

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

What happened is that people rightly began thinking of the Confederacy like Nazi Germany — a fundamentally evil cause. That doesn't mean "every single" Confederate soldier was evil. But it means we have begun discussing its leadership the same way we treat Nazi leaders, not naming bases after them.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 8 days ago • 425 comments

Saggy old dunce in charge of everything frantically re-upping on troops over and over until the TV stops showing him stuff that makes him upset. What a way to DECLINE.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

This guy is eventually going to be doing interviews wearing wraparound sunglasses from his car

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

submitted 10 days ago • 61 comments