Phoenix Empress Maylisht Stan
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23, kinda numb rn, she/her pan girl
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DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.
A lot of liberals would act just like conservatives if their ethics didn’t dictate outwardly appearing different.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A lot of liberals would act just like conservatives if their ethics didn’t dictate outwardly appearing different.
Wow, an actual fascist on here with some traction. Please block who I’m quote posting,
December 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wow, an actual fascist on here with some traction. Please block who I’m quote posting,
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This is how you do it folks
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is how you do it folks
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The Utah GOP is having to trick people into signing the Independent Redistricting Repeal Referendum sometimes borderline harassing voters
You can remove your signature here protectutahvoters.com
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December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Utah GOP is having to trick people into signing the Independent Redistricting Repeal Referendum sometimes borderline harassing voters
You can remove your signature here protectutahvoters.com
You can remove your signature here protectutahvoters.com
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Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
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There is an interesting albeit not that deep tension in how pro Israel American politicians and outlets talk about Arab states— they bemoan the lack of democracy but are also aware that any democratic Arab state would be more anti Israel than the regime it'd replace, and so they support the regime.
What is all the more bewildering though is that the Saudi state is still remarkably friendly to Israel, and is friendly against the wishes of the Saudi public. This sort of complaining by pro Israel outlets looks absurd in this context. It is almost impossible for Saudi to be more pro Israel.
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is an interesting albeit not that deep tension in how pro Israel American politicians and outlets talk about Arab states— they bemoan the lack of democracy but are also aware that any democratic Arab state would be more anti Israel than the regime it'd replace, and so they support the regime.
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this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
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Polygon really trying to have their cake and eat it here - the headline on the link pays lip service to the controversy around the game, but the headline on the actual article and the body of the text make no mention of it, and read as a straight promotion. Pretty fucking gross, honestly.
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Polygon really trying to have their cake and eat it here - the headline on the link pays lip service to the controversy around the game, but the headline on the actual article and the body of the text make no mention of it, and read as a straight promotion. Pretty fucking gross, honestly.
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fucking howl it from the rafters
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
fucking howl it from the rafters
Look I disagree with liberals that the Iraq War did not, partially, have to do with resource control but we really do need to let the “US only does wars for oil” shit die.
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Look I disagree with liberals that the Iraq War did not, partially, have to do with resource control but we really do need to let the “US only does wars for oil” shit die.
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"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
This backyard ADU from Type Five is pre-approved by the city
Berkeley's OK means this customizable home — from a local company — can be built quickly and more easily.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
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“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.
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Something I'm genuinely tired of seeing is how far people will reach to call something awful.
I'm all for having higher standards and all... but much of it feels disingenuous lately, at least to me.
Is it so wrong to just enjoy things for what they are sometimes, even if they aren't the greatest?
I'm all for having higher standards and all... but much of it feels disingenuous lately, at least to me.
Is it so wrong to just enjoy things for what they are sometimes, even if they aren't the greatest?
December 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Something I'm genuinely tired of seeing is how far people will reach to call something awful.
I'm all for having higher standards and all... but much of it feels disingenuous lately, at least to me.
Is it so wrong to just enjoy things for what they are sometimes, even if they aren't the greatest?
I'm all for having higher standards and all... but much of it feels disingenuous lately, at least to me.
Is it so wrong to just enjoy things for what they are sometimes, even if they aren't the greatest?
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really tired of everyone acting like it’s all just fine, this will just be over soon. and slightly less tired of everyone acting like it is all just horrible, and will never, ever end.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
really tired of everyone acting like it’s all just fine, this will just be over soon. and slightly less tired of everyone acting like it is all just horrible, and will never, ever end.
Though, in fairness, I’ve become a misanthrope so there is an argument that I’m just as insane. But I at least don’t make it other people’s problem.
Look, I get why Lockhart is the way she is, but I’ve been thoroughly burned by the far left and I still don’t act like they’re all my personal strawmen. In fact there’s many of them that I still respect even if I disagree with them nowadays.
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Though, in fairness, I’ve become a misanthrope so there is an argument that I’m just as insane. But I at least don’t make it other people’s problem.
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Birthright citizenship is like one of the only unequivocally modern elements of the American constitutional order and should be protected at, literally, all costs.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Birthright citizenship is like one of the only unequivocally modern elements of the American constitutional order and should be protected at, literally, all costs.
Look, I get why Lockhart is the way she is, but I’ve been thoroughly burned by the far left and I still don’t act like they’re all my personal strawmen. In fact there’s many of them that I still respect even if I disagree with them nowadays.
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Look, I get why Lockhart is the way she is, but I’ve been thoroughly burned by the far left and I still don’t act like they’re all my personal strawmen. In fact there’s many of them that I still respect even if I disagree with them nowadays.
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we live in this bizarre time where “being racist” is, by the rules of discourse, Bad
but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”
but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
we live in this bizarre time where “being racist” is, by the rules of discourse, Bad
but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”
but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”
I suppose sports isn’t the magic cure to fascism.
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I suppose sports isn’t the magic cure to fascism.
Do people really not think fascists genuinely believe in their ideology?
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Do people really not think fascists genuinely believe in their ideology?
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Yea and also to say… crossovers were and are never reliant on corporate mergers, it feels like another instance of someone trying to justify their fandom interests/disinterests with performative leftist rhetoric
I saw someone say they lost any interest in crossovers because of Corporate Mergers and that makes me sad.
Fuck corporate mergers... but like when it comes to fan made crossovers... that shit isn't our fault.
Fuck corporate mergers... but like when it comes to fan made crossovers... that shit isn't our fault.
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yea and also to say… crossovers were and are never reliant on corporate mergers, it feels like another instance of someone trying to justify their fandom interests/disinterests with performative leftist rhetoric
I mean this with much respect, have you all been paying attention before 2025? Stephen Crowder has been an out and about racist since Trump’s first term. Probably before then too. He literally ran towards a vehicle with immigrant working yelling “I’m gonna report you to ICE.”
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I mean this with much respect, have you all been paying attention before 2025? Stephen Crowder has been an out and about racist since Trump’s first term. Probably before then too. He literally ran towards a vehicle with immigrant working yelling “I’m gonna report you to ICE.”
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if you believe this, every single one of you has to be prepared to demand this of your Dem representatives in 2029 and be prepared to primary them if they stand in the way
New Nuremburg is the moderate option.
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
if you believe this, every single one of you has to be prepared to demand this of your Dem representatives in 2029 and be prepared to primary them if they stand in the way