Raleigh Forrester
@raleighforrestr.bsky.social
Detached from Reality.
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We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.
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Man, I was hoping taking the day off posting would make me feel better, but damn. I’m in a dark place right now.
In case anyone was considering it, I advise against making intellectual arrogance your primary personality defect and then being wrong about everything.
In case anyone was considering it, I advise against making intellectual arrogance your primary personality defect and then being wrong about everything.
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Man, I was hoping taking the day off posting would make me feel better, but damn. I’m in a dark place right now.
In case anyone was considering it, I advise against making intellectual arrogance your primary personality defect and then being wrong about everything.
In case anyone was considering it, I advise against making intellectual arrogance your primary personality defect and then being wrong about everything.
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They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.
Trump on Renee Good: "When she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming 'Shame. Shame Shame Shame.' So loud. Like a professional opera singer. She was so loud. And so professional. She wasn't a woman that was hurt like, 'Oh my heart is injured.' She was a professional."
January 21, 2026 at 12:44 AM
They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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at some point you have to see it as a psychological issue. the people who run this country are cowards. the media who reports on them are cowards. they have never been able to face what is happening, they are committed to a project of persuasion: pretend everything is fine and it magically will be!
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM
at some point you have to see it as a psychological issue. the people who run this country are cowards. the media who reports on them are cowards. they have never been able to face what is happening, they are committed to a project of persuasion: pretend everything is fine and it magically will be!
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all women who believe in liberty are my sisters :)
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
all women who believe in liberty are my sisters :)
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all men who believe in freedom are my brothers :)
January 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
all men who believe in freedom are my brothers :)
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Our worthless class of elites is responsible for Trump, not because they agree with him but because their affectation of seriousness has suffocated them and made it impossible to leverage their resources and platforms to stop or slow him. They’d have to break the pose, and REACT, and they will not.
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Our worthless class of elites is responsible for Trump, not because they agree with him but because their affectation of seriousness has suffocated them and made it impossible to leverage their resources and platforms to stop or slow him. They’d have to break the pose, and REACT, and they will not.
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and yes, if you are an American who claims to be anti-Trump and pro-international solidarity, but whine about the prospect of being mildly inconvenienced: you're a child. grow up.
January 19, 2026 at 6:51 PM
and yes, if you are an American who claims to be anti-Trump and pro-international solidarity, but whine about the prospect of being mildly inconvenienced: you're a child. grow up.
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The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union."
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union."
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
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*frantically googling*
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wikihow diy moral arc fix
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Who up bending they arc toward justice
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
*frantically googling*
moral arc bent wrong how to fix
wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
moral arc bent wrong how to fix
wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
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that's right. we need to reinvent liberal internationalism. we're ten years behind the curve on the authoritarian internationale here
Okay, look. I’m taking a break from the posting break to say we gotta be one team, one fight on this shitshow instead of infighting between American and Euro-Canadian posters.
January 19, 2026 at 11:16 PM
that's right. we need to reinvent liberal internationalism. we're ten years behind the curve on the authoritarian internationale here
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“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?”
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?”
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
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I mean, this is mostly storytelling, not game design.
There are a great many people who like thinking up fantastical worlds in their heads. There are far, far, far fewer people with the skills to compellingly realize those worlds in any kind of artistic medium.
So the bottleneck isn't on my side.
There are a great many people who like thinking up fantastical worlds in their heads. There are far, far, far fewer people with the skills to compellingly realize those worlds in any kind of artistic medium.
So the bottleneck isn't on my side.
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I mean, this is mostly storytelling, not game design.
There are a great many people who like thinking up fantastical worlds in their heads. There are far, far, far fewer people with the skills to compellingly realize those worlds in any kind of artistic medium.
So the bottleneck isn't on my side.
There are a great many people who like thinking up fantastical worlds in their heads. There are far, far, far fewer people with the skills to compellingly realize those worlds in any kind of artistic medium.
So the bottleneck isn't on my side.
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They hate the modern world-system: trade and growth and connection and friendship that makes everyone better off
They yearn to return to the old world: zero-sum, kill or be killed, the only way to get rich is by taking someone else's stuff
They are insane to want this; the old system was terrible!
They yearn to return to the old world: zero-sum, kill or be killed, the only way to get rich is by taking someone else's stuff
They are insane to want this; the old system was terrible!
January 19, 2026 at 9:57 PM
They hate the modern world-system: trade and growth and connection and friendship that makes everyone better off
They yearn to return to the old world: zero-sum, kill or be killed, the only way to get rich is by taking someone else's stuff
They are insane to want this; the old system was terrible!
They yearn to return to the old world: zero-sum, kill or be killed, the only way to get rich is by taking someone else's stuff
They are insane to want this; the old system was terrible!
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It’s not a popular thing to say among the irony-poisoned lefty cynics but America was in fact a democracy when it elected Donald Trump, as such responsibility for putting him there lies with The People so us Yanquis need to get a lot more comfortable taking that responsibility on the chin
Your country is threatening to conquer the only majority indigenous state in the Americas, take your lumps lads.
I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.
January 19, 2026 at 10:04 PM
It’s not a popular thing to say among the irony-poisoned lefty cynics but America was in fact a democracy when it elected Donald Trump, as such responsibility for putting him there lies with The People so us Yanquis need to get a lot more comfortable taking that responsibility on the chin
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I can't stop you from having delightfully provocative conversations with Hanania about the racial IQ gap and the threat of wokeness at your think tanks and in your group chats, I am not obligated to pretend that doing so constitutes some kind of valuable political work in service of the Republic.
January 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I can't stop you from having delightfully provocative conversations with Hanania about the racial IQ gap and the threat of wokeness at your think tanks and in your group chats, I am not obligated to pretend that doing so constitutes some kind of valuable political work in service of the Republic.
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The debate "rehabilitating" Hanania in particular is profoundly stupid because he has changed none of his views, suffered no consequences, contributes no benefits or assets, theoretical or practical, to the anti-Trump coalition, and is very open about being having total contempt for his allies.
January 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The debate "rehabilitating" Hanania in particular is profoundly stupid because he has changed none of his views, suffered no consequences, contributes no benefits or assets, theoretical or practical, to the anti-Trump coalition, and is very open about being having total contempt for his allies.
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The DHS goons are, to a man, *volunteers,* they volunteered for this either because they like it or because they dislike it mildly enough that the soft comfort of hard cash is enough to overcome their morals.
Either way, they have no screen of obligation mitigating their guilt.
Either way, they have no screen of obligation mitigating their guilt.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The DHS goons are, to a man, *volunteers,* they volunteered for this either because they like it or because they dislike it mildly enough that the soft comfort of hard cash is enough to overcome their morals.
Either way, they have no screen of obligation mitigating their guilt.
Either way, they have no screen of obligation mitigating their guilt.
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the only thing Democrats should be saying on Greenland is "this is evil and wrong and if we do it we will be punished"
like do i trust bernie would oppose the annexation? yes. do i think this is good messaging that is what EU allies need? no
January 19, 2026 at 4:11 AM
the only thing Democrats should be saying on Greenland is "this is evil and wrong and if we do it we will be punished"
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i still have the capacity for fear and outrage but i just find myself greeting most of it with a quiet resignation. “well, that happened. it’s awful, terrible, but it happened anyway. oh well”
January 19, 2026 at 3:15 AM
i still have the capacity for fear and outrage but i just find myself greeting most of it with a quiet resignation. “well, that happened. it’s awful, terrible, but it happened anyway. oh well”
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trump will lose but sadly one way he has already won is just how acclimated i have gotten over the last ten years to things i previously would have thought insane, and how low my expectations are for people to be normal
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 AM
trump will lose but sadly one way he has already won is just how acclimated i have gotten over the last ten years to things i previously would have thought insane, and how low my expectations are for people to be normal
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Truly banana pants insane. Every time a federal law enforcement official shoots anyone it should be investigated fully (investigations dont nessacary mean they will be charged, that is why you investigate!). This is the bare minimum for a functioning society instead of a dictatorship
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Truly banana pants insane. Every time a federal law enforcement official shoots anyone it should be investigated fully (investigations dont nessacary mean they will be charged, that is why you investigate!). This is the bare minimum for a functioning society instead of a dictatorship