Ian
@tadvish.bsky.social
He/Him, LGBTQ+ alley, Wyrd, Sexy, Retroist, QPR, Pragmatic Leftist, None of the images are mine unless stated
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dawg, did you even watch TOS?
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
dawg, did you even watch TOS?
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It is never the fault of the conservatives is somehow a position by the left populists too.
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is never the fault of the conservatives is somehow a position by the left populists too.
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Also, the man is still getting 36.5 Million Pounds for beating the everloving shit out of a Paul.
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Also, the man is still getting 36.5 Million Pounds for beating the everloving shit out of a Paul.
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but many of those same people treat neoliberals as human agents and reactionaries as a force of nature
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
but many of those same people treat neoliberals as human agents and reactionaries as a force of nature
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neoliberalism didn't create either of those, it just failed to solve them
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
neoliberalism didn't create either of those, it just failed to solve them
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people on the left like to talk about how Trumpism is a result of the failures of neoliberalism, and while that's not-not accurate, the case is far less tortured that it's a result of the failures of neoconservatism and the GFC/GWOT
Trump as populist is a product of the Bush administration's *failures*, not its successes bsky.app/profile/jsam...
Reagan and Bush were necessary but not sufficient to produce Trump.
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
people on the left like to talk about how Trumpism is a result of the failures of neoliberalism, and while that's not-not accurate, the case is far less tortured that it's a result of the failures of neoconservatism and the GFC/GWOT
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The argument for that is something like that he is a virus that has infected the Republican Party such that it will now create Trumps. But it’s also clear that the new Trumps don’t have any juice because they don’t have his “that guy was rich on tv” thing.
December 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The argument for that is something like that he is a virus that has infected the Republican Party such that it will now create Trumps. But it’s also clear that the new Trumps don’t have any juice because they don’t have his “that guy was rich on tv” thing.
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Pretty much. The writers strike left a hole in NBC’s schedule that needed to be filled and without that the apprentice doesn’t get renewed for future seasons
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Pretty much. The writers strike left a hole in NBC’s schedule that needed to be filled and without that the apprentice doesn’t get renewed for future seasons
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My guess is that demand increased for reality TV, so they spun off “Celebrity Apprentice” and that bumped his media profile even more than it already was.
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My guess is that demand increased for reality TV, so they spun off “Celebrity Apprentice” and that bumped his media profile even more than it already was.
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Like Trump doesn’t become president without the writers strike in 2007.
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Like Trump doesn’t become president without the writers strike in 2007.
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Trump was able to be Trump not just because of a series of decisions in 2015 and 2016 but because of a toadying media culture and real estate regulatory capture in NYC in the 70s and 80s and the boom in reality television in the early 2000s and and and.
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Trump was able to be Trump not just because of a series of decisions in 2015 and 2016 but because of a toadying media culture and real estate regulatory capture in NYC in the 70s and 80s and the boom in reality television in the early 2000s and and and.
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People on here will be like “our system will keep churning out Trumps” and like ok if that’s true then
1) why is Trump the first Trump (please don’t give me some shit about how Bush or Reagan or Nixon was Trump before Trump) and
2) Trump took decades to become who he is, who’s in the wings?
1) why is Trump the first Trump (please don’t give me some shit about how Bush or Reagan or Nixon was Trump before Trump) and
2) Trump took decades to become who he is, who’s in the wings?
trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.
December 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People on here will be like “our system will keep churning out Trumps” and like ok if that’s true then
1) why is Trump the first Trump (please don’t give me some shit about how Bush or Reagan or Nixon was Trump before Trump) and
2) Trump took decades to become who he is, who’s in the wings?
1) why is Trump the first Trump (please don’t give me some shit about how Bush or Reagan or Nixon was Trump before Trump) and
2) Trump took decades to become who he is, who’s in the wings?
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I may be out on a limb here, but collectively blaming, and murdering, Jewish civilians in Australia because you disagree with the policies of Israel seems about as antisemitic as it gets.
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I may be out on a limb here, but collectively blaming, and murdering, Jewish civilians in Australia because you disagree with the policies of Israel seems about as antisemitic as it gets.
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At some point we need to address the fact that ‘anti-Zionism is not the same thing as anti-Semitism’ (true!) has been warped in many people’s minds into ‘if it’s framed as anti-Zionism it can’t be anti-Semitism’ (blatantly false).
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
At some point we need to address the fact that ‘anti-Zionism is not the same thing as anti-Semitism’ (true!) has been warped in many people’s minds into ‘if it’s framed as anti-Zionism it can’t be anti-Semitism’ (blatantly false).
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You can definitely oppose the current Israeli government without being antisemitic. This isn’t that.
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
You can definitely oppose the current Israeli government without being antisemitic. This isn’t that.
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Shut the fuck up moron
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Shut the fuck up moron
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The guy who loudly led the effort and made the choice to deny aid to people all across the Global South is posting about white genocide on his public site everyday.
ah i see where the confusion's coming rom here. none of this has ever been about saving money. it's about racism. hope that helps
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The guy who loudly led the effort and made the choice to deny aid to people all across the Global South is posting about white genocide on his public site everyday.
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i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
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it's not the A story but that's because a combination of political pressure and judicial rulings forced them to basically nix that entire relationship. it was a win for us. this is rubbing their faces in it.
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
it's not the A story but that's because a combination of political pressure and judicial rulings forced them to basically nix that entire relationship. it was a win for us. this is rubbing their faces in it.
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yeah disagree here, because CECOT had vanished almost entirely since the Venezuelan migrants were let out in the summer, any degree of attention they are getting for crimes in the rear view mirror is bad for them (and Bari's reputation)
I'll be a bummer & say that I expect people expecting the Weiss decision to pull the story to massively backfire are wrong. CECOT was already known, there are no new facts here that will attain prominence. The needle movement would have been this being shown to less political norms. She stopped that
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
yeah disagree here, because CECOT had vanished almost entirely since the Venezuelan migrants were let out in the summer, any degree of attention they are getting for crimes in the rear view mirror is bad for them (and Bari's reputation)
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They are spiraling at this point.
December 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
They are spiraling at this point.
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deliberately writing a paper where the only ethical move is to fail you so you can get a shortcut to the right-wing grievance circuit and victimize some random trans and trans-friendly academics on the way up
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
deliberately writing a paper where the only ethical move is to fail you so you can get a shortcut to the right-wing grievance circuit and victimize some random trans and trans-friendly academics on the way up
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The Heritage Foundation implodes and SCOTUS immediately goes against Trump. Curious.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Heritage Foundation implodes and SCOTUS immediately goes against Trump. Curious.