J Wal
johnrwal.bsky.social
J Wal
@johnrwal.bsky.social
Try not to feel so lonely.
Bastille day came about because of imagined horrors inside. They didn't find them but they found the armory and that helped.
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Westerners will look you in the eye and tell you that the fact that China purges government officials for crimes is evidence of their greater corruption. At least their generals can get rich without murdering nearly as many children.
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
One day people will have to admit that the decisions made by the cpc were worth it. The USSR fell and everyone celebrated the nonviolence of it all. Then life expectancy dropped and we ended up here with a terrible war in the heartland of its corpse. China now is building the future of the world.
Me, to the Chinese national wife: I want you imagine that you wake up one day and the people you trust the most are shooting you in the head
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 AM
A steep slope at 2:12? Can I form a committee to say a 3" pecker is large?
January 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I go around giving these out
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I work as a framer and we still use the word cripple/crips all the time. Sometimes we discuss trying to say something else but every other word seems to be confusing. I suppose don't hear it used as a slur anymore so I guess I hope that one day this definition will be even more confusing.
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Studying building code and I am very troubled by the definition of corrosive. I hope we are done torturing albino rabbits cause that is fucked up.
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Do what you would do if they were an Iraqi you worthless cowardly dog. It would make you feel alive again.
At this very moment ICE is dragging Mainers out of their homes, terrorizing communities across the state. They're calling it "Operation Catch of the Day."

It is disgusting.

Maine will fight. We will fight for our neighbors and for the people we love.
January 22, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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do you mean marx?
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Truman pissed on their graves in 1947 with his doctrine. A better world could have been built but this country stacked Korean corpes instead. When you appeal to this western alliance do you know what they did? The maomao rebellion. The French in Vietnam. The Western alliance's end will be celebrated
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
January 21, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
If Hilary Clinton didn't want to be complicit in the sex crimes of her husband she shouldn't have spent 30 years helping him cover it up. She wanted the benefits of being married to that wealthy rapist she must pay the cost.
Went back and read Comer's Hillary Clinton subpoena in the Epstein pseudo-probe and it is THIN.

1) She's married to Bill
2) Ghislane's nephew worked for her once
3) as SecState she maybe has "knowledge of efforts by the federal government to combat international sex trafficking operations."
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Capital controls but only for the poor. Lmao I don't think people on welfare are impacting our nations foreign exchange.
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
January 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
This is a very funny thing to say sarcastically when the architects behind this operation are universally obsessed with the traumas of the Cuban revolution and the nationalization of the oil sector in Venezuela.
Politics isn’t actually about an analysis of the present, politics is about reacting to past trauma
January 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”
— President of Colombia Gustavo Petro
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Don't mean to be an annoying pedant but the model codes are written by building inspectors by means of a convention. This seems like a zoning issue.
people who aren't deeply yimbypilled have no conception of how much building codes are just written by random "technocrats" with no connection to either voters or actual expertise
It seems he's a UT Austin architecture professor who was "shocked" to learn that windowless bedrooms weren't illegal when a student mentioned to him a few years ago that they live in one. So he immediately set out to ban them, without investigating/considering any broader context for why they exist.
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Lol, Germany must first rethink being the USA's vassal. Why should the Chinese negotiate with an occupied government when they are already negotiating with the occupiers?
October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
People will look you in the eye and say this case where the federal agents did not face justice shows that federal agents can be brought to justice. No, it doesn't. It shows that even if you clear the made-up legal hurdles, political conditions will still stop you.
Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge for manslaughter.

A different DA then got elected and dropped it, but that was after the Ninth Circuit said he didn't have sovereign immunity and could be tried on state charges. It's a high bar to clear but it's not impossible.
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Recession indicator
October 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This logic sent the Japanese to internment camps
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Two years later and I still believe the people who attempted to break out of the prison camp were unambiguously correct in their actions. Mordechai Anielewicz did not cause the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto he fought and died heroicly.
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is crazy. The resistance to fascism in WWII was a very small minority in most of the European countries, and other than like Poland and French Colonials were mostly communist. Most people were too scared to resist because the Fascists would kill you.
With fascism, you're either a collaborator or part of the resistance.
September 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Germany had already committed the herero genocide and just did ww1 with the gassing. Europeans 1900-45 were not civilized. They only became civilized after the colonized taught them some lessons from 45-79. The lesson was stop killing us and was taught with AKs.
September 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just finished Leopold's ghost. Better than average pop history book. Tells a compelling story with what sources are available. Ignorantly anti-communist so it would be published and promoted. It is perverse to look at the greater crimes of colonial powers to the internal conflict of the USSR.
September 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM