Benjamin Leggett
@bobsonsnugnutts.art
Liberal wine dad
1. Gets excited about dumb things
2. Plans to keep doing that
3. Regressives can fuck off
(he/him, they/them, y'all)
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1. Gets excited about dumb things
2. Plans to keep doing that
3. Regressives can fuck off
(he/him, they/them, y'all)
(personal account, unaffiliated with employers)
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Benjamin Leggett
@bobsonsnugnutts.art
· Nov 30
Millennials, and I say this with great respect, need to shut the fuck up about Muppet Christmas Carol.
It is increasingly apparent that white nationalist tech bros absolutely understood The Lord Of The Rings as a racial parable.
I swear if you create a fake startup that you called “GONDOR” and told pants-wettingly fearful tech investors that it was an AI-powered weapon that executed pedestrians on sight if they looked too long at your house, you could raise $50 million in investment and get a DHS contract in 6 hours.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
December 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It is increasingly apparent that white nationalist tech bros absolutely understood The Lord Of The Rings as a racial parable.
Mobile Suit Gundam '79?
Great show.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam? Badly written, hypersexist trash.
Anime Fans Are Wrong And Have Bad Taste, Lesson 3,546
Great show.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam? Badly written, hypersexist trash.
Anime Fans Are Wrong And Have Bad Taste, Lesson 3,546
December 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mobile Suit Gundam '79?
Great show.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam? Badly written, hypersexist trash.
Anime Fans Are Wrong And Have Bad Taste, Lesson 3,546
Great show.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam? Badly written, hypersexist trash.
Anime Fans Are Wrong And Have Bad Taste, Lesson 3,546
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The people who need to make us feel like their useless tools are inevitable are doing EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY CAN to conflate themselves with the actually useful (and generally ethical) uses that have been around for a while.
This confusion is 100% on them.
This confusion is 100% on them.
December 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The people who need to make us feel like their useless tools are inevitable are doing EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY CAN to conflate themselves with the actually useful (and generally ethical) uses that have been around for a while.
This confusion is 100% on them.
This confusion is 100% on them.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Nonviolent resistance is what you do when violent resistance is no longer an option for you. It's a last ditch effort. It is not less costly and it is not less bloody.
December 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Nonviolent resistance is what you do when violent resistance is no longer an option for you. It's a last ditch effort. It is not less costly and it is not less bloody.
People think nonviolent resistance works because nonviolence has magical properties that makes everyone stop fighting.
No, it works because when violence is no longer a tactical option for you, throwing a mass of bodies in the gears is the only effective tactic, and it infuriates your enemies.
No, it works because when violence is no longer a tactical option for you, throwing a mass of bodies in the gears is the only effective tactic, and it infuriates your enemies.
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People think nonviolent resistance works because nonviolence has magical properties that makes everyone stop fighting.
No, it works because when violence is no longer a tactical option for you, throwing a mass of bodies in the gears is the only effective tactic, and it infuriates your enemies.
No, it works because when violence is no longer a tactical option for you, throwing a mass of bodies in the gears is the only effective tactic, and it infuriates your enemies.
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And this administration is FULL of people who are big fans of what happened in Russia and Hungary. It’s not at all a coincidence they’re trying to run the same playbook here.
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And this administration is FULL of people who are big fans of what happened in Russia and Hungary. It’s not at all a coincidence they’re trying to run the same playbook here.
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This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.
Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.
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An interesting aspect of this is that in the lead up to the debate Buckley himself was dismissive of Baldwin and other Black theorists and thinkers at the time. It’s why he looked the fool, he was sure Baldwin was simply a bitter guy with hate for white people.
One of the lasting impacts of William Buckley getting dog walked by James Baldwin in the Cambridge debate in 1965 was that racial conservatism decided it was easier to dismiss Black ideas because they couldn't win the argument.
December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
An interesting aspect of this is that in the lead up to the debate Buckley himself was dismissive of Baldwin and other Black theorists and thinkers at the time. It’s why he looked the fool, he was sure Baldwin was simply a bitter guy with hate for white people.
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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Rogan keeps on talking up deep-in-the-rabbit-hole esoteric Nazi shit like Kali Yuga and prehistoric hyperboreo-atlantean super-civilizations, he absolutely knows the fire he's playing with and is just playacting the dumbass
Joe Rogan wants you to regard him as a passive observer just talking to buds but he knows he was key to the Trump campaign and will be key to the future Fuentes campaign.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Rogan keeps on talking up deep-in-the-rabbit-hole esoteric Nazi shit like Kali Yuga and prehistoric hyperboreo-atlantean super-civilizations, he absolutely knows the fire he's playing with and is just playacting the dumbass
Yep
This is what Fulnecky and her mom are after
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yep
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"When you post on X you are basically pitching a story to Der Stürmer. You are not speaking to anyone that they don't want you speaking to. You're not being courageous; you're collaborating. You're associating your name with that outlet. And you're making them money."
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...
berjon.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"When you post on X you are basically pitching a story to Der Stürmer. You are not speaking to anyone that they don't want you speaking to. You're not being courageous; you're collaborating. You're associating your name with that outlet. And you're making them money."
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Isn't it Weiss that is making the American media look silly?
Also treachery by whom, against whom, exactly?
This is panicked gibberish.
Also treachery by whom, against whom, exactly?
This is panicked gibberish.
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Isn't it Weiss that is making the American media look silly?
Also treachery by whom, against whom, exactly?
This is panicked gibberish.
Also treachery by whom, against whom, exactly?
This is panicked gibberish.
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Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Never seen a guy who so badly needs to be in front of a crowd to feel good about himself.
Trump: "Tell me what you think of my 'Master of Ceremony' abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job?"
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Never seen a guy who so badly needs to be in front of a crowd to feel good about himself.
Generate money (but not by taxing the powerful and wealthy) and spend it on war, and the powerful and wealthy (but absolutely no one else).
That's conservatism, baby.
That's conservatism, baby.
This is such a tremendous waste of money, I’m absolutely blown away lmao.
I see posts saying $10-15b for the first tranche of 10 ships and no that’s gonna be for the first two units (minimum)
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Generate money (but not by taxing the powerful and wealthy) and spend it on war, and the powerful and wealthy (but absolutely no one else).
That's conservatism, baby.
That's conservatism, baby.
Being a fan of a media franchise or property is bad for you as an adult.
It's a shorthand you use to guide your interests as a child, when you haven't fully learned how to think about and enjoy the media you consume.
If I had to judge the 21st century for something thus far, it would be for that.
It's a shorthand you use to guide your interests as a child, when you haven't fully learned how to think about and enjoy the media you consume.
If I had to judge the 21st century for something thus far, it would be for that.
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Being a fan of a media franchise or property is bad for you as an adult.
It's a shorthand you use to guide your interests as a child, when you haven't fully learned how to think about and enjoy the media you consume.
If I had to judge the 21st century for something thus far, it would be for that.
It's a shorthand you use to guide your interests as a child, when you haven't fully learned how to think about and enjoy the media you consume.
If I had to judge the 21st century for something thus far, it would be for that.
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Alfonsi was very respectful when she explained that you can't hold an investigative piece because the government refuses to comment because that's giving the government a veto. It only sounded condescending because it's so fucking obvious.
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Alfonsi was very respectful when she explained that you can't hold an investigative piece because the government refuses to comment because that's giving the government a veto. It only sounded condescending because it's so fucking obvious.
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2026 resolution: Get Derfed
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
2026 resolution: Get Derfed
The only nexus of gamers I respect
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The only nexus of gamers I respect
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This might sound nice to some, but this isn’t a thing.
People yell that we need “fighters” then say everything needs to be perfect forever without them having to do anything, not even vote.
Everything will always be a struggle, there is no “one weird trick” to utopia & progress forever.
People yell that we need “fighters” then say everything needs to be perfect forever without them having to do anything, not even vote.
Everything will always be a struggle, there is no “one weird trick” to utopia & progress forever.
It will be critical to bring Trump and his henchmen to justice. But it will only be part of the recovery process. We need to fool-proof the country against this ever happening again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This might sound nice to some, but this isn’t a thing.
People yell that we need “fighters” then say everything needs to be perfect forever without them having to do anything, not even vote.
Everything will always be a struggle, there is no “one weird trick” to utopia & progress forever.
People yell that we need “fighters” then say everything needs to be perfect forever without them having to do anything, not even vote.
Everything will always be a struggle, there is no “one weird trick” to utopia & progress forever.
There was one slap in Mobile Suit Gundam, there are dozens, hundreds of slaps in Zeta.
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
There was one slap in Mobile Suit Gundam, there are dozens, hundreds of slaps in Zeta.
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