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I don't think we're in a democracy anymore. Unmarked secret police kidnapping people off the street? A dictator mobilizing the military against civilians? Defying court orders? Ignoring due process? Arresting political opponents? Democracy has left the building. We CAN & MUST get it back, though.

submitted 1 hour ago • 113 comments

Mainstream media is simply not saying enough about roving squads of unaccountable secret police terrorizing American citizens. Every day, more violence, and it’s just… not a story.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Here I made this for everyone I feel like it will be handy

submitted 107 days ago • 34 comments

The confluence of "I'm deeply concerned about far-right units incorporated into the Ukrainian military" and "Critical support for Hezbollah and the IRGC" is really a fascinating one

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Also the thing is as well that Kallas has actually made my life hell by all but guaranteeing that mentally diseased tankies from Oregon or something who claim Irishness through a great-grandmother are now going to post all over the place about how British colonialism was real and Russian wasn't.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Live the kind of life that doesn’t require you to tweet your urinalysis

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This is a failing of imagination on my part but whenever I have a player with a dramatic and extensive backstory I can't help thinking to myself, like, damn how'd you get through all that without levelling up

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Bulterian Jihad tonite 👀 Butlerian Jihad tonight queen??

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

i suspect in retrospectives of the 2020s, the invasion of ukraine and the entire stuff re: iran is likely going to drive nuclear proliferation

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Somehow, Biden also to blame for the fact that we don't bother enforcing the constitutional ban on the President taking bribes.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

what gets me about this stupid ass shit is that Ukraine is dealing with literal russian tanks and meanwhile the president is about to toss american power into the MENA meatgrinder once again

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I’m sorry, but if you needed “artificial intelligence” to let you know why your stores closest to movie theaters needed more candy you need to go back to business school you didn’t eat enough crayons

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Lots has happened since 2021 I suppose but "end US military aid to all governments" grates so very fucking much

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

i see you, people who are doing this, and it's nasty

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

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As an Eastern European I find this take exceedingly bizarre.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“In the years ahead, RFK Jr. will likely do everything he can to make vaccines less available, less affordable, and more feared. To believe otherwise, is to ignore everything he has said and done for the past 20 years.”

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

And so, a playground becomes a gathering place, where residents of shattered buildings sit and gaze at the worst of the strike, an apartment ripped nine floors down its gut. They murmur to each other. Some are bandaged. Psychologists hover at the margins, in case anyone needs support.