RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪
@roninmacbeth.bsky.social
he/him, History MA, History and Classics BA, Aspiring Byzantinist.
In Asgard, the Aesir. On Midgard, the Republic.
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"Can anyone be judged innocent, if it suffices to accuse him?"
-Julian II
In Asgard, the Aesir. On Midgard, the Republic.
Follows w/o mutuals, bio, and/or posts liable to be blocked.
"Can anyone be judged innocent, if it suffices to accuse him?"
-Julian II
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"This is a critique of the concept of multiculturalism from the left"
No, that's dumb. Desist.
No, that's dumb. Desist.
January 17, 2026 at 3:27 PM
"This is a critique of the concept of multiculturalism from the left"
No, that's dumb. Desist.
No, that's dumb. Desist.
So who do you think each of the main characters of Breaking Bad would have voted for in the last three elections? Here's my own take.
Walt: Clinton-Trump-Trump.
Jesse: Johnson-Didn't vote-Didn't vote.
Skyler: Clinton-Biden-Harris.
Hank: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Marie: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Walt: Clinton-Trump-Trump.
Jesse: Johnson-Didn't vote-Didn't vote.
Skyler: Clinton-Biden-Harris.
Hank: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Marie: Trump-Trump-Harris.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
So who do you think each of the main characters of Breaking Bad would have voted for in the last three elections? Here's my own take.
Walt: Clinton-Trump-Trump.
Jesse: Johnson-Didn't vote-Didn't vote.
Skyler: Clinton-Biden-Harris.
Hank: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Marie: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Walt: Clinton-Trump-Trump.
Jesse: Johnson-Didn't vote-Didn't vote.
Skyler: Clinton-Biden-Harris.
Hank: Trump-Trump-Harris.
Marie: Trump-Trump-Harris.
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Me the next time someone says "Might makes right!" or "The strong do what they will!" unironically:
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Me the next time someone says "Might makes right!" or "The strong do what they will!" unironically:
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It's almost impossible for me to believe otherwise.
I'd bet a lot of money that a lot of orders to principal officers of the United States have come only from Stephen Miller.
January 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM
It's almost impossible for me to believe otherwise.
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Miller is actually just trying to completely eradicate the concept of Westphalian Sovereignty here. The only "understanding of law" that fits Miller's definition here that I know of is literally the Athenian position in the Melian Dialogue.
This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.
January 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Miller is actually just trying to completely eradicate the concept of Westphalian Sovereignty here. The only "understanding of law" that fits Miller's definition here that I know of is literally the Athenian position in the Melian Dialogue.
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Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
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Relatedly something a lot of people often forget is that substantively speaking it's not really that hard to be right on the merits about an issue (for example: Palestine) even if you don't identify as left-wing. CVH is as capital L Liberal as it comes and he's the best senator on the issue.
Spanberger is centrist but also clearly genuinely thinks Republicans are scum and for that she deserves plaudits
Wow
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Relatedly something a lot of people often forget is that substantively speaking it's not really that hard to be right on the merits about an issue (for example: Palestine) even if you don't identify as left-wing. CVH is as capital L Liberal as it comes and he's the best senator on the issue.
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
Now watching with a friend (my third, her first)
January 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Now watching with a friend (my third, her first)
The thing is that Supreme Power is one of my favorite series, and helped me get back into comics in my mid-teens. The 2006 Squadron Supreme series is too short and way too...GWoT-era cynical. The Squadron is evil, the USA is evil, but the people they fight are worse, so it's OK when they die.
You know, while we are adapting these quasi-deconstructionist or reconstructionist comics from the 00s, why doesn't Marvel adapt Supreme Power? The SP series itself is good enough and its Squadron Supreme sequel is small enough that you could change it. Marvel should make it an animated show.
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
The thing is that Supreme Power is one of my favorite series, and helped me get back into comics in my mid-teens. The 2006 Squadron Supreme series is too short and way too...GWoT-era cynical. The Squadron is evil, the USA is evil, but the people they fight are worse, so it's OK when they die.
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I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
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exactly this. do you correctly view MAGA as an evil force that jerks off over murdering women and flash banging babies, which must be crushed and destroyed forever? Or are you still clinging to a dangerously naive delusion that these creatures can be won over with the Power of Debate?
the dividing line amongst democrats is basically do you view republicans as existential threats to the country or do you view them as sparring partners.
it’s 2026. cuck democrats can either get on board or get primaried
it’s 2026. cuck democrats can either get on board or get primaried
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
exactly this. do you correctly view MAGA as an evil force that jerks off over murdering women and flash banging babies, which must be crushed and destroyed forever? Or are you still clinging to a dangerously naive delusion that these creatures can be won over with the Power of Debate?
Supreme Power Doc Spectrum and Amphibian being an item is strange, but I like it.
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Supreme Power Doc Spectrum and Amphibian being an item is strange, but I like it.
OK so here's a pitch: a Delta Green campaign set in the present, as the Trump regime has gutted so much of federal law enforcement and directed most of what is left to racist terror that Delta Green is on the verge of collapse.
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
OK so here's a pitch: a Delta Green campaign set in the present, as the Trump regime has gutted so much of federal law enforcement and directed most of what is left to racist terror that Delta Green is on the verge of collapse.
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Minnesota should send an attractive middle eastern man to negotiate with Trump on their behalf.
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Minnesota should send an attractive middle eastern man to negotiate with Trump on their behalf.
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what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
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academics be like “you believe in traditional forms of political engagement? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, which is taking you out back and shooting you” and then not take you out back and shoot you
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
academics be like “you believe in traditional forms of political engagement? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, which is taking you out back and shooting you” and then not take you out back and shoot you
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how the mainstream media genuinely seems to have understood the Biden years:
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
how the mainstream media genuinely seems to have understood the Biden years:
I genuinely wonder if I could get a mob of people on here mad at one of the usual BlueSky cultural rogues gallery by finding some tangential paywalled article and then posting a link to it with a picture and a completely different thing.
No one here is beating the "only read the headline" allegations. Even worse because that's not the actual headline, it's a summary of one tiny part of an article that is mostly not about Filoni or Andor and is conveniently paywalled so most people can't tell.
January 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I genuinely wonder if I could get a mob of people on here mad at one of the usual BlueSky cultural rogues gallery by finding some tangential paywalled article and then posting a link to it with a picture and a completely different thing.
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they are weak. finish them
NEW: As the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach.
Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling.
Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling.
Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
www.axios.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
they are weak. finish them
Look, Filoni is on the record as saying he thought Andor worked well and is the kind of thing that can create an audience, but his dislike of the series is now taken as gospel because of a single source, mentioned in a single sentence, in an article that's not about Filoni or Andor?
January 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Look, Filoni is on the record as saying he thought Andor worked well and is the kind of thing that can create an audience, but his dislike of the series is now taken as gospel because of a single source, mentioned in a single sentence, in an article that's not about Filoni or Andor?
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The Wrap: "Dave Filoni disliked Andor according to one source."
Dave Filoni two years after season 1 of Andor aired: www.indiewire.com/news/general...
Dave Filoni two years after season 1 of Andor aired: www.indiewire.com/news/general...
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The Wrap: "Dave Filoni disliked Andor according to one source."
Dave Filoni two years after season 1 of Andor aired: www.indiewire.com/news/general...
Dave Filoni two years after season 1 of Andor aired: www.indiewire.com/news/general...
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1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
out of curiosity, could you give us your top 5 most important issues/causes/concerns that you want a candidate to focus on?
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.
3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
Now this might come as a shock to you, but Boris Savinkov? Notorious womanizer? Former SR terrorist-turned-nationalist? Kind of a misogynist.
Has anyone read Savinkov's "Pale Horse?" Because for some reason I'm feeling an urge to re-read it.
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Now this might come as a shock to you, but Boris Savinkov? Notorious womanizer? Former SR terrorist-turned-nationalist? Kind of a misogynist.
It's me, fighting for "A Cure for Wellness" ten years on like an IJA holdout.
January 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
It's me, fighting for "A Cure for Wellness" ten years on like an IJA holdout.