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can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol

The biggest problem with most of you is you think Kendrick Lamar is your revolutionary friend. Luigi Mangione is your revolutionary friend.

This is what Musk actually believes! The idea that white Afrikaners are the true "indigenous" population of much of South Africa and most black South Africans are interlopers who immigrated from other areas of Africa more recently was - and I guess is? - a key tenet of Apartheid ideology.

way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America

Monday thought:

Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement every single day since they signed it.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

The fact that any right wingers are shocked at any of these “revelations” about the rot of the United States just shows everyone they’ve never understood the system they have supported the whole time and that they also have never opened a real book in their entire life

Have... have these people ever met lesbians? Like legitimately? 'Confident fuckgirl lesbian' is definitely a thing.

I dunno liberal ghouls seemed accurate to me

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

my outsider perspective on US politics is that it seems like i spend 4 years getting told the democrats can't do the thing because they need just one more vote, and then the republicans get in and can do whatever they want because half of the democrats vote with them

lmfao

Thanks for all the help so far!! I'm still like $800-900 away from my goal but I'm trying to stay hopeful 🫠

@stitch.bsky.social STITCH! I KNEW YOU WERE THE "ELITE" ALL ALONG!!

Reminding myself for the billionth time that we don’t need to be surprised in order to be outraged

Trump 2020: 74,223,975 Trump 2024: 71,353,267 Difference: -2,870,708 Biden 2020: 81,283,501 Harris 2024: 66,415,656 Difference: -14,867,845 Trump actually lost support since ‘20, but Harris’ courting of Republicans (95% of whom voted for Trump!) collapsed Biden’s ‘20 coalition.