PSA for anyone who still has stuff on livejournal that's not backed up anywhere else.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Stop conceding in advance, clutch your freaking man pearls and figure out how you, yes you, are going to fight back.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

Jordan Peterson stumbling through denying Christ is the kind of thing ten year old Christian children could proudly navigate and come out on top

Literally the “one day an atheist will try to trick you into denying Christ but you’ll stand firm! tell the truth, Timmy!” 2000s Sunday school daydream

This kid really mopped the floor with Jordan Peterson. The last sentence is gold.

there was a brief period of time where i thought jordan peterson would be a big threat to the left but i now view him as a harmless jester that dances for our amusement

Donald trump isn’t getting a parade for his birthday; the US army’s 250th celebration lands on that day, in the worst coincidence so far.

Of course he’s gonna make it all about him.

But y’all don’t have to carry water for the dictator by calling it “his parade”

"Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it." -Tolkien, "On Fairy-Stories"

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

people regularly ask me what they should do to prepare for the possibility of mass violence and civil unrest. we give this advice often on It Could Happen Here but this is my list of advice in no specific order:

unpopular stance: ACAB includes Scully but not Mulder, because there's absolutely no way Fox Mulder understands what the law really is or that his job is to enforce it. he has less capacity for moral cognition than a K9 unit.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/