judgement of kings by richard swan is the beginning of a trilogy worth burning through in a week

i would recommend this to any interested party

sometimes it goes down when i call in sick for work and read dark fantasy novels for 8 hours straight

i think outside leadership most mainstream dems are fond of Mamdani and eager to welcome him. this ain’t 2016

also, what does “not supporting” even mean? the race is over! If he’s speaking positively about him, that’s more than enough! Is he supposed to endorse his campaign retroactively?

“Mamandi win”? lol

if you asked Hakeem his favorite type of pizza, he’d say “i think pizza is a foundational American food, ultimately it’s the decision of the pizza parlor what type I get”

hot take but i think it’s bad to have a leader in a time of fascist regime consolidation who is incapable of having a normative or prescriptive opinion about ANYTHING AT ALL

good, it makes you strong and also it’s morally correct

lol i knew when we got a good pro-Ukraine anti-Russia thread going the American Sillyman would make an appearance

i think you missed “russia has a legitimate sphere of influence” while they advocate the complete disarmament of US allies because they’re in OUR sphere of influence. otherwise, you nailed it

like were the nations resisting Nazi imperialism “funding the war machine instead of striving for peace”? When the “peace” in question is capitulation to a tyrannical empire, armed resistance is the most morally justifiable response in the world!

This is apropros of nothing but the entire anti-Ukraine left needs to shut the fuck up permanently. All this (justified!) uproar over Gaza, and none about a nation in a morally similar position. I go insane, as a leftie, seeing the bonkers inconsistency here. It’s the same fucking struggle!

this is how all these centrist data guys are. they’ve structured their professional lives so that someone is always telling them they got an A+. it’s just that person is now Chuck Schumer and not Mrs. Miller in 9th grade or whatever

or used as forced labor for Putin’s siloviki cronies

i would say that anyone defending a nation full of working people is by definition a friend of the working class, in that he would prefer them alive and not dead at Russian hands

shorter version: “this time centrism will work guys, we definitely won’t lose again”