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saw ROTS in the theaters with Jaclyn and I gotta say. watching it in the current Andor-induced climate of actually engaging with the undercurrent of sexual violence in star wars: JFC Anidala really does become the scariest thing in the world once Anakin starts tripping balls on the dark side

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

A reporter genuinely dedicated to chaos would have told him “I guess nobody thought you were important enough to know what was happening”

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

There is a certain “burn it all down” impulse that is sometimes articulated under the guise of abolitionist, antiracist, anticolonial, or anarchist politics (ask me how I know) that is too often divorced from the practical question of whether you’re actually prepared to survive societal collapse.

submitted 42 days ago • 41 comments

The pizza place in my grandparents’ town that closed down It was obscenely greasy and even made me sick the last time I had it, but it always tasted so fucking good

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh good, another opportunity to post my Take that the entire Death Star project can best be seen as an act of bureaucratic warfare by Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader against the Imperial Navy and security state. (archiveofourown.org/works/45500191)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

there's a bad habit of treating the "working class" as a source of authentic virtue that can only be bamboozled into bad politics, not genuinely hold them

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Jesus Christ. Democrats respond to Trump's wildly unlawful, corrupt weaponization of the Justice Department against ActBlue by... going on ActBlue to make fundraising pitches.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

And to make matters worse, they publicly admitted this is true and still expect us to treat them with respect.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I’ve been thinking about this a lot because I think it’s instructive. Biden said that the ERA had been ratified but nothing changed about any enforcement of anything, so what did it matter? Trump uses claims of enforcement discretion to make things very very different in the extreme short term.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The most "unifying" politician of my lifetime is Barack Obama, who tried to bring radicalizing conservatives back from the brink with his unwavering moderation in all things and his overlooking of the Bush admin's criminality. Instead, they saw a Black President and it broke their brains.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Every other Star Wars show: Pew-pew! Uh, so *that* just happened! There’s only one power in the universe greater than the empire: friendship. ANDOR: here is how we plan to exterminate the natives to extract their resources. being a rebel means starving in the jungle before your comrades frag you.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

It’s totally fine if you don’t care for ANDOR. Everyone is different and having bad taste others should ignore is one of the the things that makes you you.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I like how SWT and his ilk have been begging for R rated Star Wars for over a decade. Until someone actually puts something above cartoon violence in it. Then it becomes clear they only wanted war crimes that make the fascists look good and cool

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

stancil functions as a derangement mirror. the emotional pitch and inflexibility of his arguments rise in direct proportion to how batshit whoever he's sephirothposting at is

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

chuckling as I do a mental inventory of which factions were broadly correct about Trump. you have a bunch of neocons and natsec guys, the "right wing" of DSA, the Squad, a handful of elite lib commentators, a clear minority of establishment Dem officials and operatives, and, like, 90% of normie libs

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Storm tonight 🥰 I love rain and thunder when I go to bed

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments