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Leftist Luminary. Media Critic. MLS Lover. Screeds are Canon.
Batman: Why isn't Superman buying Sabra Hummus?
Alfred: Have I ever told you about my time as a soldier in Mandatory Palestine, Master Wayne? We brought democracy to the desert, but all they wanted to do was tell us to go home. Some people act without reason. They just want to watch the world burn.
Alfred: Have I ever told you about my time as a soldier in Mandatory Palestine, Master Wayne? We brought democracy to the desert, but all they wanted to do was tell us to go home. Some people act without reason. They just want to watch the world burn.
July 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Batman: Why isn't Superman buying Sabra Hummus?
Alfred: Have I ever told you about my time as a soldier in Mandatory Palestine, Master Wayne? We brought democracy to the desert, but all they wanted to do was tell us to go home. Some people act without reason. They just want to watch the world burn.
Alfred: Have I ever told you about my time as a soldier in Mandatory Palestine, Master Wayne? We brought democracy to the desert, but all they wanted to do was tell us to go home. Some people act without reason. They just want to watch the world burn.
You leftists are too idealistic. What we need to do is join ICE and push it left from within.
July 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
You leftists are too idealistic. What we need to do is join ICE and push it left from within.
Disappointing Euro snobbery, but consider the material conditions.
In the same way that young men gravitate towards fascism in the absence of uplifting ideas, when you live in a city like New York that's so completely devoid of culture, you latch on to anything that resembles it.
In the same way that young men gravitate towards fascism in the absence of uplifting ideas, when you live in a city like New York that's so completely devoid of culture, you latch on to anything that resembles it.
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Disappointing Euro snobbery, but consider the material conditions.
In the same way that young men gravitate towards fascism in the absence of uplifting ideas, when you live in a city like New York that's so completely devoid of culture, you latch on to anything that resembles it.
In the same way that young men gravitate towards fascism in the absence of uplifting ideas, when you live in a city like New York that's so completely devoid of culture, you latch on to anything that resembles it.
Instead of trying to "de-radicalize" your right wing conspiracy theorist friends and family, simply direct them into thinking Elon Musk is an evil lizard or alien, or whatever silly shit they believe.
We can jump start the revolution one crazy uncle and Facebook mom at a time.
We can jump start the revolution one crazy uncle and Facebook mom at a time.
January 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Instead of trying to "de-radicalize" your right wing conspiracy theorist friends and family, simply direct them into thinking Elon Musk is an evil lizard or alien, or whatever silly shit they believe.
We can jump start the revolution one crazy uncle and Facebook mom at a time.
We can jump start the revolution one crazy uncle and Facebook mom at a time.
LA paying incarcerated teenagers 5 dollars a day to protect mansions in the Palisades, is a perfect encapsulation of where California liberalism starts and ends.
January 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
LA paying incarcerated teenagers 5 dollars a day to protect mansions in the Palisades, is a perfect encapsulation of where California liberalism starts and ends.
Bass and Newsom have had a lot of criticism about the lack of empathy they've shown in policies surrounding the houseless, but, I must say, after these Palisades fires, they've really turned things around for some reason.
January 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Bass and Newsom have had a lot of criticism about the lack of empathy they've shown in policies surrounding the houseless, but, I must say, after these Palisades fires, they've really turned things around for some reason.
Why does the Navy football team have pirate flags on their helmets? Feels like that's saying the quiet part out loud.
December 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Why does the Navy football team have pirate flags on their helmets? Feels like that's saying the quiet part out loud.
The shooter's cousin plays in MLS Next Pro, and, according to his g+ breakdown, probably should hit him up for tips.
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
The shooter's cousin plays in MLS Next Pro, and, according to his g+ breakdown, probably should hit him up for tips.
Elon hid likes to enable Nazi sympathizers, only to have it become a major driver for hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate the death of a CEO. Beautiful irony.
December 5, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Elon hid likes to enable Nazi sympathizers, only to have it become a major driver for hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate the death of a CEO. Beautiful irony.
Turns out martial law doesn't last very long in South Korea without US backing.
December 3, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Turns out martial law doesn't last very long in South Korea without US backing.
Highly recommend listening to season 3 of "Blowback" for some historical context about why it took so long for South Korea to become a "liberal democracy" and how many workers were murdered before the powers that be allowed its people to have the freedoms that said system is now trying to strip.
December 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Highly recommend listening to season 3 of "Blowback" for some historical context about why it took so long for South Korea to become a "liberal democracy" and how many workers were murdered before the powers that be allowed its people to have the freedoms that said system is now trying to strip.
Did anyone have the US providing ISIS air support in Syria on their bingo card? If you follow history, you should have.
December 3, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Did anyone have the US providing ISIS air support in Syria on their bingo card? If you follow history, you should have.
Man, I can't believe a country that started as a police state after the worker councils were abolished and communists massacred, would do such a thing.
🇰🇷⚔️The President of South Korea has declared martial law in the country.
🇰🇵He held an emergency meeting, after which he declared a threat of paralysis of power due to attempts to conduct impeachment proceedings against him by Pro-DPRK forces.
🇰🇵He held an emergency meeting, after which he declared a threat of paralysis of power due to attempts to conduct impeachment proceedings against him by Pro-DPRK forces.
December 3, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Man, I can't believe a country that started as a police state after the worker councils were abolished and communists massacred, would do such a thing.
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December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
A little lesson from sports about solidarity.
Last year, LA Galaxy fans took action by boycotting games until the team fired the president. The team desperately tried to undermine solidarity. Used players to try and guilt fans while continuously preaching that the fans couldn't force change. 1/2
Last year, LA Galaxy fans took action by boycotting games until the team fired the president. The team desperately tried to undermine solidarity. Used players to try and guilt fans while continuously preaching that the fans couldn't force change. 1/2
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
A little lesson from sports about solidarity.
Last year, LA Galaxy fans took action by boycotting games until the team fired the president. The team desperately tried to undermine solidarity. Used players to try and guilt fans while continuously preaching that the fans couldn't force change. 1/2
Last year, LA Galaxy fans took action by boycotting games until the team fired the president. The team desperately tried to undermine solidarity. Used players to try and guilt fans while continuously preaching that the fans couldn't force change. 1/2
I wish Mark Fisher was alive to read to the comment section of the Hasan Piker Pod Save episode. You can see Exiting the Vampire Castle in comments trying to cancel him over, as well as Capitalist Realism in the way these MSNBC moms positively react to very basic ideas they've never been exposed to
November 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I wish Mark Fisher was alive to read to the comment section of the Hasan Piker Pod Save episode. You can see Exiting the Vampire Castle in comments trying to cancel him over, as well as Capitalist Realism in the way these MSNBC moms positively react to very basic ideas they've never been exposed to
Really not much good in all these countries declaring they'll arrest Bibi if he enters their country. Invite him over for cookies and then tell him.
November 21, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Really not much good in all these countries declaring they'll arrest Bibi if he enters their country. Invite him over for cookies and then tell him.
These Trump nominations are unhinged. I pine for the days of Biden when he nominated good hearted people like Lloyd Austin who (checks notes) was a Raytheon board member.
November 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
These Trump nominations are unhinged. I pine for the days of Biden when he nominated good hearted people like Lloyd Austin who (checks notes) was a Raytheon board member.
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Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
The thing to remember about the democratic party is they aren't blind to their approaching failures. They are simply ideologically opposed to how you fix them. The "blue wall" was built on labor politics, however, the party, post-Reagan, is largely a neo-liberal entity. Those two can't co-exist.
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 PM
The thing to remember about the democratic party is they aren't blind to their approaching failures. They are simply ideologically opposed to how you fix them. The "blue wall" was built on labor politics, however, the party, post-Reagan, is largely a neo-liberal entity. Those two can't co-exist.
Solidarity forever.
One of the Largest Unions in the US Backs Sanders Bid to Block Israel Arms Deal truthout.org/articles/one...
SEIU, One of the Largest Unions in the US, Backs Sanders Bid to Block Israel Arms Deal
The Senate is slated to vote on the landmark resolutions on Wednesday.
truthout.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Solidarity forever.
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Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
The Barbie movie is apartheid apologia and I won't hear otherwise.
November 20, 2024 at 12:41 AM
The Barbie movie is apartheid apologia and I won't hear otherwise.
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The @nytimes.com accidentally sent an internal email to the Electronic Intifada, which used it to show the internal workings of their anti-Palestinian bias.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans, internal email reveals
Reporter reveals frustration that editors blocked story on Amsterdam events falsely portrayed as anti-Semitic.
electronicintifada.net
November 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
The @nytimes.com accidentally sent an internal email to the Electronic Intifada, which used it to show the internal workings of their anti-Palestinian bias.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
A perfect fit for Italy.
I legitimately thought this was common knowledge at this point lmao. Yes, Pulisic is MAGA, we found that one out a while back, it was a BIG thing on twitter. And yes, he just did the Trump dance, that is his mans.
Folks just finding out he’s MAGA through this tweet got me dying
November 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
A perfect fit for Italy.