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[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

people will come on this website and say anything. "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a liberal". no he wasn't. that isn't true.

Kinda feel like I'm in Moscow in 1987

"If the president does it, it is not illegal." Or perhaps more presciently, "The king can do as he likes!"

Fuck, man. We're going to invade Canada.

Debating on whether to flee to New England or California after the inevitable Yugoslavization of the US

You have to realize our President is a big bully with no ideological consistency, terrible memory, and the inability to function at a high level before noon. This is obviously extremely bad but there's openings there for anybody not constrained with those problems.

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”

A whole lot of European settlers in the Americas were fleeing famine, displacement, and persecution The trouble of having to pack up your life and move across the world kinda selected for the most wretched That doesn't make what they did in the Americas not settler colonialism

Used to really like some Atlantic writers, but I've slowly and bitterly come to this exact realization

Re: Odyssey discourse, I know this will shock the type of person who uses BlueSky, but most people hated English class, don't read for fun, and devote precisely zero brain power to classic literature.

A lot of lefty folks think a bunch of politically active negatively polarized women who voted against Trump three times are fascists eager to join the Trumpenreich SS but manly men who voted Republican every election since 1996 are one Rogan interview away from socialism. I don’t think that’s true.

(seeing you don your apparel) “GAY! 🫵🫵”

Anti vaxx is unambiguously the most evil movement of our time. It's people trying to kill children not because of any vision or higher values, just conspiratorial lunatics and their shameless power hungry lickspittles. An orgy of nihilism destroying one of our greatest achievements as a species