They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.
look, like him or hate him, the clear _fact_ to be learned from the tattoo is that this is a man going through life with a chip on his shoulder and moths in his skull
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe totenkopf tattoo, bad as it is, has sort of overshadowed the fact that whenever Platner talks policy it becomes obvious he has no idea what he's talking about. Remember when he said big pharma is closing rural hospitals?
I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3mo agoReuters: VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES DEMOCRATIC-DRAWN CONGRESSIONAL MAP THAT HAD TARGETED FOUR REPUBLICAN-HELD U.S. HOUSE SEATS
Folks! Who do you think can apply for a low paying, high prestige job? It's neither average people (representative) nor salaried technical experts (massive pay cut). It's people who don't need the income!
I do think most of the political wishcasting on here about tactics and policy and rhetoric and strategy and reform is all sort of pointless because it's all downstream of the entirely unanswerable question of: "Will the current status quo of partisan polarization break or not?"
future linguist: “discourse bomb” is a corruption of “discordiae pomum,” the Golden Apple of Strife
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3mo ago::lobs discourse bomb a day late:: Homeric Epics weren't epic when they were first told, they were Family Friday Night on ABC -- entertainment for everyone. It's why Lattimore is an inferior translation to later ones.
(inventing social media) we want to start releasing DLCs for the DSM-5
We do need to acknowledge that a lot of the Biden Administration's timidity was because the public very much wanted to "get back to normal" in 2020. They demanded normalcy. A president who wasn't constantly making news. A country where things were relatively quiet & problems were handled in time.
Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's really easy in hindsight to view Biden's team, including Garland, as too timid in their response to Trump's actions on J6 and the threat he posed if he returned in 2025. Sure, there were plenty of folks who wanted a more direct and pointed approach to go after Trump early. Hindsight is 20/20.
The public asked for all this, got it, & quickly decided it was bad & dumb & we wanted the clown show back. So now we're here.
Good: Andor ESB Rogue One third act ANH ROTJ TFA first two acts TLJ A plot (Rey) mandalorian s1 Disappointing but entertaining: The Acolyte TLJ B&C plots Rogue One first two acts Mandalorian s2 Solo ROTS TFA act three Kenobi Actively bad: TPM Rest of the Filoni shows AOTC Utter Abomination: TROS
Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo ago1. empire strikes back 2. a new hope 3. return of the jedi 4. rogue one (large gap) 5. the last jedi
pro tips for EU5 province management:
XaiaX ̆̈ (🏳️🌈)@xaiax.net · 3mo agoEventually much fewer people will be starving if you just wait.
I like how Schlock Mercenary deals with this: the monsters are the descendants of autonomous military tech that's gone feral
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3mo agolike "oh no! a big monster that runs real fast! and has claws!!" guys i have got news for you about all the big monsters that run real fast with big claws: we wiped those suckers out with spears twenty thousand years ago
Schlock is borderline indestructible and can eat anything because he is the result of evolution starting from a hardened storage substrate that was engineered to survive the apocalypse and spent millions of years settling arguments by trying to eat each other
Also if all the Jedi Council where constantly doing Medici type schemes to get their various bastards into positions of power, it helps explain why none of them where too surprised to find out some jedi master nobody remembers had apparently raised a huge fuck-off clone army in secret.
Gene Wolfe was, besides being a hella writer, also the guy who devised the machinery that makes Pringles potato chips, something I didn't learn till after he died.
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 3mo agoI hear it’s a day to celebrate science fantasy with hokey old religions and blasters and swords and giant space monsters and maudlin androids
Gene Wolfe growing a Mr. Pringles mustache and Pringles later retconning history to “Mr. Pringles copied Wolfe” feels like something out of the “Sun” books.
Slightly diminish a book: East of a pretty great place
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 3mo agoSlightly diminish a book. Baronet of the Rings
they’re already doing it to us; let’s see how they like it
It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump
The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.
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Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf Democrats can win a trifecta in 2028 despite the gerrymandered post-Callais maps, obviously, court and electoral reform are Day 1 priorities. But we should also make it clear that if you eliminate your Democratic representation, you don't get a seat at the table for any budget or 1/
i also remain amazed at how, all these years later, conservatives are still angry and aggrieved that barack obama extended empathy to a black teenager who was killed for no reason. shows you what is in their hearts.
every new doohickey guy in 2025: all right. I'll do it. AI waifu Jodie Foster with H cups: I love you, onii-san
Don’t try to shoot anyone over it, which won’t help anything, but it remains absolutely true that Trump is an existential threat to America who should be removed from office as quickly as possible. He’s a sociopathic megalomaniac whose corruption and unfitness is unparalleled in history. Impeach
Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.
