Nemrex T. Barleysheath
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he/them eternally tired
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it is still pretty clear at this point that Israel is actively trying to kill every living person in Gaza.
In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 AM
it is still pretty clear at this point that Israel is actively trying to kill every living person in Gaza.
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I don't think Biden ending the drone war or pulling out of Afghanistan or negotiating an end to the war in Yemen netted Democrats as single solitary vote in 2022 or 2024.
December 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I don't think Biden ending the drone war or pulling out of Afghanistan or negotiating an end to the war in Yemen netted Democrats as single solitary vote in 2022 or 2024.
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It’s pretty crazy that Cindy McCain got appointed to the World Food Program and has since done genuine advocacy for Palestinians in Gaza while her useless daughter is always saying shit like “if my father were alive today he would say the 14 words.”
Most of America has absolutely 0 idea about any of this
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s pretty crazy that Cindy McCain got appointed to the World Food Program and has since done genuine advocacy for Palestinians in Gaza while her useless daughter is always saying shit like “if my father were alive today he would say the 14 words.”
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“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
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Even kings who thought they were deities or chosen by deities didn’t behave like this.
Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Even kings who thought they were deities or chosen by deities didn’t behave like this.
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the default tone of right-wing writing on Mamdani at the moment is sweatily pathetic
Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...
Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.
nypost.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
the default tone of right-wing writing on Mamdani at the moment is sweatily pathetic
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Coming round to this view myself. Even if the money raised from the billionaire wealth tax is negligible, you need to do it to get political buy-in for broadening the tax base and increasing the taxes everyone pays.
1. Taxing billionaires more by itself is not enough to raise the funds for a robust welfare state. You have to also tax upper middle and middle income people more.
2. To have any chance of getting the political buy in to do point 1, you have to make a big show of massively taxing billionaires.
2. To have any chance of getting the political buy in to do point 1, you have to make a big show of massively taxing billionaires.
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Coming round to this view myself. Even if the money raised from the billionaire wealth tax is negligible, you need to do it to get political buy-in for broadening the tax base and increasing the taxes everyone pays.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.
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among other things, "being right in public" is not actually a theory of change. i realize that twitter especially made this seem like being right in public was a theory of change, but it mostly isn't
December 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
among other things, "being right in public" is not actually a theory of change. i realize that twitter especially made this seem like being right in public was a theory of change, but it mostly isn't
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people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything
oh you didn’t like the implicit, subtextual racism of 21st century liberalism? got it: we’ll make the subtext into text
December 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything
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this is sort of the reason i dunk on Matt Y so much despite thinking that moderating on some electoral issues can benefit the party, primarily because *if* your entire thing is pure focus on WAR maximizing, you don't actually have a party
For all the people currently bitching about the Democrats (deservedly so, btw) will be apoplectic when/if they start acting like Starmer's Labour.
I don't think this *will* happen, but it's certainly a possibility.
I don't think this *will* happen, but it's certainly a possibility.
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
this is sort of the reason i dunk on Matt Y so much despite thinking that moderating on some electoral issues can benefit the party, primarily because *if* your entire thing is pure focus on WAR maximizing, you don't actually have a party
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if you wanted to write an extremely bleak "subtext is for cowards" short story about the current moment, try to actually get in the headspace of high level political figures around the trump regime
Mass abuse as politics idk how else to explain it
The most interesting thing about Trump, contra Kat Rosenfeld, is that he shows no loyalty to anyone and keeps selling out everyone he steps on to get where he wants and whenever one of his stepping stones like MTG get the temerity to think they have a reciprocal relationship they're all surprised!
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
if you wanted to write an extremely bleak "subtext is for cowards" short story about the current moment, try to actually get in the headspace of high level political figures around the trump regime
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Swing voters were deaf to Trump's promises to remake America through radical xenophobia, but that does not mean he did not promise it. Voters elected Trump to make them rich. He told them he would do much more, & he is. If we pretend that didn't happen, we only doom ourselves.
Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Swing voters were deaf to Trump's promises to remake America through radical xenophobia, but that does not mean he did not promise it. Voters elected Trump to make them rich. He told them he would do much more, & he is. If we pretend that didn't happen, we only doom ourselves.
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It's so funny how this is just the right's obsession with plastic surgery beauty being turned inward on men but they need to pretend that it's racism in order for them to not feel like women about it
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's so funny how this is just the right's obsession with plastic surgery beauty being turned inward on men but they need to pretend that it's racism in order for them to not feel like women about it
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No they aren't , lol
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
No they aren't , lol
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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every white supremacist for the rest of my life is going to point to the secret police terrorizing latino and Somali communities with ethnic pogroms and say this is the way you stop crime
The murder rate dropped by 20% in 2025, the largest U.S. decline ever recorded
Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?
Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
every white supremacist for the rest of my life is going to point to the secret police terrorizing latino and Somali communities with ethnic pogroms and say this is the way you stop crime
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with $15,000(!) raised a bunch of you have taken this to heart, and of course I am curious to see how much farther we can go
December 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
with $15,000(!) raised a bunch of you have taken this to heart, and of course I am curious to see how much farther we can go