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That one scholar that published an article claiming that medieval peasants worked less than the average modern worker did so much damage (in fairness, that scholar did subsequently repudiate their own work, IIRC)

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

I'm uninterested in whether politicians and tycoons who play footsie with neo-fascist rhetoric are true believers or not. Many segregationist politicians in the South weren't personally prejudiced, they just found racism a useful tool to attract votes. The wrongs that resulted were the same.

submitted 92 days ago • 29 comments

This is where I drop the fun fact that the PRC has naturalized fewer citizens over the course of their entire existence than the US does in any given month, including during Covid

submitted 100 days ago • 12 comments

May Caitlin Johnstone, Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, and Vanessa Beeley seethe and cope and burn in the worst hells imaginable.

submitted 139 days ago • 6 comments

Assad is out, the South Korean people stopped a coup, and Ukraine is still in the fight. Democracy is worth fighting for in all shapes and forms

submitted 139 days ago • 16 comments

I mean Jesus Christ if you fight people notice. Even if you have some short term losses, it creates momentum. It changes things. People with any degree of awareness and any desire for improvement don’t want norms or bipartisanship. They want to fight. Give us some fucking fighters.

submitted 146 days ago • 91 comments

This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America. — Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%) — Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%) — Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)

submitted 155 days ago • 329 comments

i can name a dozen people who will be saying it is "hysterical" to warn of authoritarianism as people are being rounded up and sent to detention camps

submitted 167 days ago • 84 comments

shower thought: the answer to 'how to make young men less shit' is not 'the right podcast,' it's stuff in the scouting/wandervogel/civic voluntarism vein but geared toward 20-somethings rather than/as well as teenagers. getting people offline in spare time and giving them positive reinforcement.

submitted 169 days ago • 48 comments

Taylor Swift fans having a coherent orderly exit from Twitter based on their values and interests not being respected is exhibiting more personal dignity and organizing power than any actual group of elected officials right now lol

submitted 169 days ago • 166 comments

I've now had two different friends with high school aged daughters who've been subjected to shitty teenage boys telling them "your body, my choice." And to say I'm incandescently angry is an understatement. Guys, you shut that shit down if you hear it. This one is your work.

submitted 169 days ago • 259 comments

just learnt that Rings of Power has Gandalf get his name from the proto-Hobbits calling him "Grand-elf" and if we rigged wires up to Tolkien's grave I'm pretty sure we could power the UK's national grid.

submitted 169 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 169 days ago • 11 comments

Just walked past a woman saying into her phone, over and over in increasingly irate tones, “what female politician would you vote for?”

submitted 169 days ago • 12 comments

biden-era policies were extremely geared toward the working class, whose wages went up at much higher rates than the top half of earners and saw a job boom, as well as IRA investment in traditional manufacturing regions. they rewarded him by switching heavily to Trump.

submitted 170 days ago • 119 comments

This might be the most correct meme in the history of memes

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

It feels different than it did in 2016. I feel existential weariness. You don’t bring back a guy like that unless your country has a collective death wish. It’s like inviting the xenomorph back onto the Nostromo.

submitted 170 days ago • 54 comments

Well to my Ukrainian friends, I’m genuinely sorry. But if you look on the bright side, if you make up something about Hunter Biden stealing money from you he’ll probably nuke Moscow in return.

submitted 170 days ago • 13 comments

It's time for European countries to ditch the "permission" policy regarding giving UA power to strike back. If weapons were sold, they were sold with the understanding that they'll be used. It's for the purchaser to decide how and where they're to be used.

submitted 170 days ago • 1 comment

I will say this though: Hope is not a mistake.

submitted 170 days ago • 52 comments

It makes by far the most sense to read this as part of the overall post-COVID anti-incumbency backlash across the world. But I’m genuinely struggling to square this with the 2022 results—more time for angst from inflation to kick in? Dobbs less immediate? Both?

submitted 170 days ago • 41 comments

in closing, we are a land of utterly unworkable contradictions

submitted 170 days ago • 9 comments

I’m not saying we go to war with Russia, but every “technically not the Russian army” merc in Syria or Africa should be dead by this time next week.

submitted 171 days ago • 3 comments

This is where I’d be a bad president, because this kind of shit would have me asking the SecDef for options with Putin on speakerphone

submitted 171 days ago • 21 comments

Every time s*** like this happens, we need to send another hundred Bradleys to Ukraine, along with a hundred thousand 155mm. Do it again? F-16s. Again? F-35s.

submitted 171 days ago • 14 comments

I keep seeing posts like this and oh God, we’ve been at this for so long. For the love of Christ, Kamala had better win so hard Orange Man has a heart attack. The next chapter of our lives won’t be perfect, but this one has dragged on long enough.

submitted 171 days ago • 2 comments

do not look at polls or exit polls or shit today holy shit fam protect your brain unless its a historic blowout this shit will take a couple days

submitted 171 days ago • 9 comments

I am a Democrat from a red state. Every election is Dave Normalman versus Jimothy Beauregard Hitlerson and every election, socialists are out in force to say anyone who thinks it’s preferable Jimothy doesn’t get his “public executions for gay schoolchildren” policy implemented is a fascist sellout.

submitted 171 days ago • 5 comments

> 2024 not beating the allegations that it's actually cooked up by mad political scientists who want to measure just how impactful a dedicated canvassing operation is

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

I’m a big proponent of not living in a bubble but showing up from twitter with bad vibes is like checking in from a bar named FOOD POISONING and then reporting explosive gut problems

submitted 171 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 171 days ago • 32 comments

regular brain: this shows it's russia expanding brain: it can't have been russia, no spies would be that stupid. it must be someone else trying to throw the us off the scent galaxy brain: this shows it really was russia because of the consistent sloppiness of recent russian influence ops

submitted 171 days ago • 4 comments

Love this triptych about a husband and wife explaining how they decided who to vote for.

submitted 171 days ago • 43 comments

part of what got south korea out under the thumb of authoritarian dictatorships and to real elections (1987) and free and fair ones (1992) were large, mass protests and demonstrations. which is such an anodyne way of describing what happened. it makes it sound bloodless. it wasn't.

submitted 171 days ago • 18 comments

The way this Tressie McMillan Cottom reply blew my hair back…

submitted 171 days ago • 113 comments

“When I mentioned … a study predicting that the price of milk wld nearly double if foreign-born workers were removed from the industry, he shook his head. ‘I don’t think there wld be milk,’ [Idaho Dairymen Association Pres. Pete Wiersma] said. 'I just don’t think we could get it done.’” #WeFeedYou

submitted 171 days ago • 5 comments

talking to Navy Seals:

submitted 171 days ago • 3 comments

The complete neutralization of impeachment in Trump's first term is certainly one of the many constitutional bases for authoritarian rule in the US

submitted 171 days ago • 3 comments

met the neighbour outside looking glum me: You ok him: sad me: its gonna be ok man him: we will see me: what's stressing you out. Election? him: kinda me: ? him: wife asked me if I know what day it is. I said yes ofc election me: yes so him: it is also anniversary me: yeah youre fucked

submitted 171 days ago • 96 comments