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submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

heroes aren’t heroic because they’re flawless every one of us is problematic somehow, some way heroes are heroes because at the right time and place broken people had the courage to do what was right instead of easy beware of anyone criticizing bravery with someone’s flaws cynicism breeds loss

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Yeah I play AD&D Attention Deficit &hyperactivity Disorder

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submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Society is predicated on it. The alternative is fascism. The issue is that, unsurprisingly, fascists have no honor. It's why you cannot reason with fascists, cannot appeal to their better natures, cannot negotiate with them. If someone violates the honor system, the only alternative is force.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

'This Could Be the Day'

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

submitted 12 hours ago • 72 comments

I wouldn't read too much into members of the 82nd cheering for things tbh. They're just happy they got to stand in bleachers instead of spending all day looking for an m9 their PL lost during a jump.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." William Lloyd Garrison

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Victory is possible. Dare to believe in it. None of us asked to be in this boat but in the boat we are and you will have to live with how you respond to this for the rest of your lives. Be brave, be faithful and be good to each other.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

submitted 8 hours ago • 187 comments

the whole reason Hegseth is at DoD is to produce propaganda footage. how about we not freak when he does that

submitted 6 hours ago • 34 comments

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 54 days ago • 29 comments

it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

submitted 7 hours ago • 124 comments

Trampoline

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Skeleton Warrior by John Tedrick www.artstation.com/a...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

they’re not, they just aren’t, full stop. much smaller countries with much larger federal police forces / paramilitaries buckle under this kind of strain. you cannot just redeploy the US military domestically on a whim and doing so is a monumental risk to your own regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

the american voter approves of the idea of giving everyone a pony, but if will go psychotic if ever have to deal with horse shit on the street, and don't vote for pro pony candidate because they'd actually only give ponies to black people

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

These charts in the post together with The Chart® tell the entire story of the election and most of the discourse and punditry about it is just completely unnecessary.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the empirical evidence is pretty conclusive that the 2020 protests contributed to trump’s defeat. why did it take four years for the “calamitous imagery” of those protests to have a decisive electoral impact in trump’s favor, & what caused the political valence of that imagery to reverse entirely?

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Yes, and it makes them not realize that the point wasn't to win then and there, that day, but to horrify bystanders. Showing everyone that Jim Crow was nothing but a playground for the most vicious thugs who happened to be White--that was powerful.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

He's so chill

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

We need a bigger boat

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

We are at war.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

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Research shows that outreach to members of the military and security services is one of the single most effective activities civil resistance movements can engage in! Military forces are much less likely to shoot protesters if they think their friend or cousin could be in the crowd.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Stunts! The Best Stunts of All Time www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

it's kind of nuts that the Empire unveiled the Death Star, destroyed Alderaan, and had the Death Star blown up on the same day. Imagine what the memes on Star Twitter were like.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

It's going to be a long hot summer.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild. 🐢

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 3 days ago • 381 comments

watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD and had a chuckle thinking about the in-universe tell-all book about the aides who knew president ross was the hulk the whole time

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

was thinking about how the UK avoided the dangerous American worship of the military in part because of class snobbery: the squaddie - depicted as working-class, sexually uncontrolled, violent, drunk, possibly Irish - is not a figure of admiration.

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c a r g o c u l t a u t h o r i t a r i a n i s m

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

At 56 years old, Ted Roosevelt Jr was the oldest man to land on June 6, 1944 as assistant division commander of the 4th infantry division at Utah Beach. When he and his staff discover that they landed at the wrong beach, Roosevelt simply remarked, “Well start the war from right here.”

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Happy D-Day to all of those that celebrate!

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I always really liked Eisenhower's message before D-Day

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law...And remember that we are not descended from fearful men." - Famous Murrow speech just got cheers on Bway

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments