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Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.
the image of will stancil these people have built in their heads (grand wizard of the mega klan) is at odds with any time I've seen him post (dweeby, harmless)
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.
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>the president has gone certifiably batshit insane and is deploying airborne brigades to U.S. cities to support his secret police while starting multiple conflicts and creating a crisis to annex the territory of an ally at the same time he’s renaming multiple government buildings after himself
January 18, 2026 at 5:50 AM
>the president has gone certifiably batshit insane and is deploying airborne brigades to U.S. cities to support his secret police while starting multiple conflicts and creating a crisis to annex the territory of an ally at the same time he’s renaming multiple government buildings after himself
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WEEEEEEEE
I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE
I LOVE POWER VACCUMS
I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY
I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N
I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE
I LOVE POWER VACCUMS
I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY
I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N
January 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
WEEEEEEEE
I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE
I LOVE POWER VACCUMS
I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY
I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N
I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE
I LOVE POWER VACCUMS
I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY
I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N
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[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking
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What did the duck have for breakfast Quacker Oats
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What did the duck have for breakfast Quacker Oats
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They’re not betraying anyone if they have said from the start they want everyone to suffer and die
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
They’re not betraying anyone if they have said from the start they want everyone to suffer and die
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What if I played video games all day wearing a mothman onesie? What then?
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
What if I played video games all day wearing a mothman onesie? What then?
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“Americans yearn for guns, low taxes, and being left alone” empirically wrong. Americans yearn for herrenvolk welfare state and cheap Russian oil.
an american version of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit would probably do numbers simply because the average american voter who isn't a strong partisan is usually in the top left quadrant
(libertarians are in the bottom right)
(libertarians are in the bottom right)
October 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“Americans yearn for guns, low taxes, and being left alone” empirically wrong. Americans yearn for herrenvolk welfare state and cheap Russian oil.
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I see so many ostensible progressives or liberals "joke" about how Canada has no real culture but they're a brotherly people so making them part of the US would be a net positive for them which is identical to the justifications that Russians use for genociding Ukrainians
October 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I see so many ostensible progressives or liberals "joke" about how Canada has no real culture but they're a brotherly people so making them part of the US would be a net positive for them which is identical to the justifications that Russians use for genociding Ukrainians
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Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way
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it's the 'now you have to pay bills' at the end that always gives it away; the real nostalgia is for living with your parents and having an allowance.
its so interesting how vaccuous this nostalgia is. like they dont even know what to be nostalgic *for* — yolo hats? monster energy? walmart? teen wolf? just endless products that exist as symbols of consumption
no we can't be doing 2012 nostalgia
I refuse
I refuse
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
it's the 'now you have to pay bills' at the end that always gives it away; the real nostalgia is for living with your parents and having an allowance.
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To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
September 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.
It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.
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the ratio between the rate of institutional creation and destruction is not 10:1.
germany had recovered industrial production to prewar levels within five years of WWII, surpassed its prewar GDP within 10, and was the second-largest economy in the world within 15.
germany had recovered industrial production to prewar levels within five years of WWII, surpassed its prewar GDP within 10, and was the second-largest economy in the world within 15.
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the ratio between the rate of institutional creation and destruction is not 10:1.
germany had recovered industrial production to prewar levels within five years of WWII, surpassed its prewar GDP within 10, and was the second-largest economy in the world within 15.
germany had recovered industrial production to prewar levels within five years of WWII, surpassed its prewar GDP within 10, and was the second-largest economy in the world within 15.
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its genuinely wild how this administration is all just cargo cult authoritarianism, no understand of how authoritarian systems function, pure fake it till you make it behavior
I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
its genuinely wild how this administration is all just cargo cult authoritarianism, no understand of how authoritarian systems function, pure fake it till you make it behavior
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*extremely There Is No Pepe Silvia voice* Okay but this is EXACTLY how I'd Weekend At Bernie's this shit if things were full-tilt Death of Stalin in the East Wing right now
"BLAST SOME MUSIC HE LIKES REALLY LOUDLY AT MIDNIGHT"
"BLAST SOME MUSIC HE LIKES REALLY LOUDLY AT MIDNIGHT"
August 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
*extremely There Is No Pepe Silvia voice* Okay but this is EXACTLY how I'd Weekend At Bernie's this shit if things were full-tilt Death of Stalin in the East Wing right now
"BLAST SOME MUSIC HE LIKES REALLY LOUDLY AT MIDNIGHT"
"BLAST SOME MUSIC HE LIKES REALLY LOUDLY AT MIDNIGHT"
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Trans people are basically suffering from being a small group which a non trivial (not a majority but larger than trans people themselves) group hate. Various centrists have decided that they're therefore the most painless group to drop in order to signal a break from the left. I think this is bad.
1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.
He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.
It's so much worse than being reported.
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He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.
It's so much worse than being reported.
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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.
www.erininthemorning.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trans people are basically suffering from being a small group which a non trivial (not a majority but larger than trans people themselves) group hate. Various centrists have decided that they're therefore the most painless group to drop in order to signal a break from the left. I think this is bad.
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This is something I fervently believe, our problems are stark and awful but eminently fixable with a few sustained congressional majorities willing to govern, which is both not much and also seems impossible
There isn't really a political problem in the states that couldn't be solved with a decade of constructive rule
August 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is something I fervently believe, our problems are stark and awful but eminently fixable with a few sustained congressional majorities willing to govern, which is both not much and also seems impossible
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The defunding of USAID was the American Wannsee, the moment the ruling party’s psychosis and disregard for human life led them to choose to kill millions of innocents for its own sake. There is no normal politics possible after that, and no one has understood that yet (not even me, at a gut level).
July 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The defunding of USAID was the American Wannsee, the moment the ruling party’s psychosis and disregard for human life led them to choose to kill millions of innocents for its own sake. There is no normal politics possible after that, and no one has understood that yet (not even me, at a gut level).
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generally you get an invasion or a huge costly series or wars or economic ruin or in the old days, famine exascerbated by natural disaster. 'borger too woke and expensive' doesn't really qualify
it is admittedly more challenging to find empires who were, by their own historical standards, doing entirely fine until they hallucinated decline and then brought it about deliberately
July 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
generally you get an invasion or a huge costly series or wars or economic ruin or in the old days, famine exascerbated by natural disaster. 'borger too woke and expensive' doesn't really qualify
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July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Legit one of the most affirming arguments for trans rights I’ve read was on the Bulwark. It made the case that people are complicated and messy, life is hard and confusing, and that there’s no need for perfect understanding or for everyone to be a perfect victim at all times to care for each other.
June 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Legit one of the most affirming arguments for trans rights I’ve read was on the Bulwark. It made the case that people are complicated and messy, life is hard and confusing, and that there’s no need for perfect understanding or for everyone to be a perfect victim at all times to care for each other.
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"They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazis success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it."
Man, way too fucking relevant.
Man, way too fucking relevant.
That last Arendt line in the middle paragraph. Fuck.
March 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazis success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it."
Man, way too fucking relevant.
Man, way too fucking relevant.
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“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion..."
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion..."
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So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover.
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover.
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/