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Yearning for the vast and endless sea.
Eh not necessarily, but it’s also important to remember that mainstream Democrats and media outlets preferring to make concessions to the Fuentes wing than the Sanders wing really doesn’t help things.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Eh not necessarily, but it’s also important to remember that mainstream Democrats and media outlets preferring to make concessions to the Fuentes wing than the Sanders wing really doesn’t help things.
“Too big to jail” lines up pretty well with FDR’s definition of the essence of fascism being private power becoming stronger than the democratic state.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Too big to jail” lines up pretty well with FDR’s definition of the essence of fascism being private power becoming stronger than the democratic state.
I got angry at Harris for that in part because I wanted her to win. Mamdani’s different because he already won.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I got angry at Harris for that in part because I wanted her to win. Mamdani’s different because he already won.
That’s why the weak need to band together and large power differentials, both globally and locally, should be inherently suspect.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
That’s why the weak need to band together and large power differentials, both globally and locally, should be inherently suspect.
Observing that one genocide is more visible in the US, and more dependent on US support to continue, is not at all the same as saying that genocide is worse.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Observing that one genocide is more visible in the US, and more dependent on US support to continue, is not at all the same as saying that genocide is worse.
Even the wokest patina put on our carnage will almost inevitably normalize and strengthen the foundations for the raw bloodlust behind the "standard" (or racist/homophobic) B-52 in the analogy. Violence begets more violence and imperial boomerangs come home.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Even the wokest patina put on our carnage will almost inevitably normalize and strengthen the foundations for the raw bloodlust behind the "standard" (or racist/homophobic) B-52 in the analogy. Violence begets more violence and imperial boomerangs come home.
The thing is we have decades of evidence to look to. The Rainbow bombers will have different domestic policies, and those certainly matter, but both will bomb similarly large numbers of foreign civilians. And in addition to the moral valence of those similar casualty figures, it is crucial that...
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The thing is we have decades of evidence to look to. The Rainbow bombers will have different domestic policies, and those certainly matter, but both will bomb similarly large numbers of foreign civilians. And in addition to the moral valence of those similar casualty figures, it is crucial that...
Apparently she’s friends with his daughter.
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Apparently she’s friends with his daughter.
Biden stoped the bombing in Afghanistan, but he continued the bombing in Yemen and enthusiastically supported the bombing in Palestine (and probably Sudan and elsewhere?). Saying he “stopped the bombing” full stop is delusional.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Biden stoped the bombing in Afghanistan, but he continued the bombing in Yemen and enthusiastically supported the bombing in Palestine (and probably Sudan and elsewhere?). Saying he “stopped the bombing” full stop is delusional.
“On bombing other countries…” even if they’re different on other issues, they both would bomb other countries. Maybe not the same ones, but if the past three decades are any indication it’d be on basically the same scale.
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“On bombing other countries…” even if they’re different on other issues, they both would bomb other countries. Maybe not the same ones, but if the past three decades are any indication it’d be on basically the same scale.
Lots of online centrists love authoritarianism too, so long as that authoritarianism doesn’t have any pretense of redistribution.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Lots of online centrists love authoritarianism too, so long as that authoritarianism doesn’t have any pretense of redistribution.
I’m sure my takes weren’t that bad! I also think we’d be a lot better equipped to support the Ukrainians if we hadn’t spent 2 decades building our military posture around bombing peasants instead of fighting peer competitors.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’m sure my takes weren’t that bad! I also think we’d be a lot better equipped to support the Ukrainians if we hadn’t spent 2 decades building our military posture around bombing peasants instead of fighting peer competitors.
Did nobody tell you Biden bombed other countries? Credit where credit is due getting out of Afghanistan was great of him, but it does not excuse the rest of his presidency.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Did nobody tell you Biden bombed other countries? Credit where credit is due getting out of Afghanistan was great of him, but it does not excuse the rest of his presidency.
It being understandable one garners more outrage isn’t the same as saying one is more worthy of garnering outrage, but it is grotesque whataboutism to have either cited by supporters of a foreign policy apparatus supportive of both.
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It being understandable one garners more outrage isn’t the same as saying one is more worthy of garnering outrage, but it is grotesque whataboutism to have either cited by supporters of a foreign policy apparatus supportive of both.
They’re all worthy of fighting, I highly doubt any Israel apologists would want to do any thing about the GCC, but we’re arming one much more directly, we’ve got more relatives of the victims resident in our country, and only one is being used as a stalking horse for domestic repression.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They’re all worthy of fighting, I highly doubt any Israel apologists would want to do any thing about the GCC, but we’re arming one much more directly, we’ve got more relatives of the victims resident in our country, and only one is being used as a stalking horse for domestic repression.
Obama did, if you’ll excuse “blockade” as a shorthand for broad spectrum economic warfare.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Obama did, if you’ll excuse “blockade” as a shorthand for broad spectrum economic warfare.
The Obama administration, and “blockade” as in broad spectrum economic warfare.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Obama administration, and “blockade” as in broad spectrum economic warfare.
I never once said they were the same. Rainbow war criminals are better than Nazi war criminals… I just think a) the war crimes make any smugness about the former’s superiority pretty grotesque, while b) rainbow war crimes pave the way for more and stronger Nazis.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I never once said they were the same. Rainbow war criminals are better than Nazi war criminals… I just think a) the war crimes make any smugness about the former’s superiority pretty grotesque, while b) rainbow war crimes pave the way for more and stronger Nazis.
I never said she would, I said she would continue the economic warfare Obama started and Biden continued (while bombing civilians somewhere, as all US presidents in my lifetime have done). For the record I still voted for her, she’d obviously be better than Trump, but it was still an obscene choice.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I never said she would, I said she would continue the economic warfare Obama started and Biden continued (while bombing civilians somewhere, as all US presidents in my lifetime have done). For the record I still voted for her, she’d obviously be better than Trump, but it was still an obscene choice.
I voted for Harris asshole. Accepting six figure civilian death tolls for each presidential administration is still obscene, as is getting smug about (purely presumed!) differences within that range.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I voted for Harris asshole. Accepting six figure civilian death tolls for each presidential administration is still obscene, as is getting smug about (purely presumed!) differences within that range.
Well also US foreign policy in the 21st century has mostly failed even by its own sociopathic goals too. Slaughtering foreign peasants as our default setting isn’t good for anyone expect Silicon Valley and whoever builds McMansions in the beltway.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Well also US foreign policy in the 21st century has mostly failed even by its own sociopathic goals too. Slaughtering foreign peasants as our default setting isn’t good for anyone expect Silicon Valley and whoever builds McMansions in the beltway.