This is the part where all the DSA boosters tell us that we don't actually care about Ukraine, we just say we care about it so we can use their dogshit opinions as a club to hit them with because caring about foreign policy issues isn't a real thing liberals do

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17h ago

Remnick: So we shouldn't send weapons to Ukraine? DSA co-chair Megan Romer: No! Remnick: So, just allow Russia to overrun Ukraine entirely? Romer: We should be sending huge teams of diplomats. We should figure out how to negotiate.w

I'd just like to mention that violence is a means of communication. I am signaling my intentions and conveying my very clear stance on the matter by sending a JDAM through a Russian soldier's head.

t-minus two days until What If A Man Was Large, The TV Show returns if you have not yet watched Reacher now is a great time to start

The infantile comparison of Taiwan to this hypothetical rump-Confederacy immediately shatters upon contact with the question, "Was there anything that the KMT did, that the CCP didn't do themselves?"

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not the stupidest thing here, but "let's do a treaty with China on (thing), when they have explictly and repeatedly said they have no interest in a treaty on (thing)" is a surprisingly durable idea (looking at you arms controllers)

Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 2d ago

see this is what I find confusing about the rationalists. no, Donald Trump, a president who invested the US in Nvidia and who is singularly devoted to the stock market, will not broker a no-more-AI treaty with China, a country with probably very little interest in such a thing. it feels like cope

East Germany is to Marxists what Rhodesia is to chuds

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥@thoc.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Superior civilizations" usually last long enough that the shit built within a human lifetime aren't its "Ozymandias" ruins with the lone and levels sands stretching far away...

healthcare needs to become cheaper. do not touch my job as a travel nurse. higher education costs are out of control. do not touch my friend who makes six figures as university admin. housing needs to be more affordable. I will fucking kill you if you hurt my property value.

a mizrahi jew pushed to suppress his arab roots (2022, colorized)

Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 6d ago

what the fuck am I reading lmao

There is a substantive difference between a defensive action, like shooting back at pogromists and lynch mobs, and an offensive action, like bringing rifles along to set off fireworks outside ICE detention centers. One is easily portrayed as self-defense, the other is easily portrayed as terrorism.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...

Ma’am these people think the things I take meds for are All In My Head and Lifestyle Choices, we shouldn’t validate them just because they‘re Nonpartisan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · last wk.

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

If you’re really going to dance this dance just fucking commit to the bit and defend them for shooting a cop, don’t do this “oh muh smol bean didn’t mean to hurt anyone when they opened fire and besides it was just a basically harmless ricochet, what even are handling safety rules” coward shit

"Abraham Lincoln has a credible claim to being the inventor of the chokeslam" is one of those things that sounds like it belongs in a self-aware parody of overly patriotic APUSH textbooks but no that's just a true statement

John@johnmcgivney.bsky.social · last wk.

1) Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame 2) he chokeslammed people

Daniel Biss, who Kat lost to, was *also* stridently opposed by AIPAC. But also he is Jewish, so who can really say if AIPAC bought his victory or not

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

AIPAC may have bought our election in Illinois, but we're not going to let that happen in Michigan. 5 days left to make them panic. Vote for Abdul on or before August 4th.

This is gonna make a lot of people mad but 1. Oppenheimer 2. Tenet 3. Dark Knight

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2w ago

lets keep this discourse going. rank your top 3 nolan films

I feel like a lot of people are ideologically invested in a post American world that has yet to arrive Like no, sorry, this is it! This is the thing you’ve been waiting for! No returns or exchanges; feel free to leave a review though

America is an integration engine. Even our mullahs be recording sunglasses selfie videos in they truck

This isn’t true, there are far too many Yankees fans on here for it to be a base for the antifascist intelligentsia

Root Beer Man@root-beer-man.bsky.social · 2w ago

bluesky is only kind of a “social media site”; more fundamentally it’s base of operations for the antifascist intelligentsia under a fascist regime. and what do you expect people will usually be talking about? if for no reason other than: it’s what we have in common. but also, why else are we here?

Yeah don't do this 18 USC 2232(a) is not even a little bit vague on this point, if you try to prevent the government from searching or seizing something it is legally empowered to search or seize, that's a for-real felony. This is only the first such application because duress passcodes are new.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 3w ago

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

The thing about foreign policy is that the lives of millions often depend on the particular poison you pick. The DSA’s fopo is shotgunning cyanide.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2w ago

The entire Blob's foreign policy views are also psychotic. The present Egyptian government is mainly differentiated from the Assad regime by how much popular unrest they face. The Algerian regime killed 100,000 people in their civil war. The Saudis and Emiratis are genocidaires. Pick your poison.

More to the point, that the rest of the DSA hasn’t been able to bring them to heel speaks volumes as to their internal dysfunction. It’s why “well, join and persuade from inside the tent” is not an effective rejoinder to criticism of the IC and their influence on DSA’s foreign policy.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2w ago

What I think some liberal DSA people are missing is that this isn't necessarily about the tankies being a threat or morally worse than The Blob, it's that having to engage and take seriously people who are *completely irrelevant* everywhere else is profoundly exhausting and a big turn-off.

“you have to look past our crankish public statements, its just noise and it will have no consequences” is not acceptable after ten years of trump

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2w ago

“DSA foreign policy has always been like this, why are all these libs bringing it up now” is admittedly a funnier response to it from DSA folks than i expected

DSA defenders will repeat ad nauseam that the kooks on the IC are marginal and powerless and yet it is impossible to look at the foreign policy section of the platform and not see their influence; where it isn’t comedically vague to avoid upsetting them, it hits points on their wishlist

Peck@ohheckitspeck.bsky.social · 3w ago

Explicit mention of freedom for Palestine but crickets on Ukraine and Taiwan whilst demanding the complete destruction of the alliance structure that would protect them, but please tell me more about how the DSA's foreign policy isn't run by insane campists program.dsausa.org

as someone who delights in Large Man Punches Things while acknowledging that it is often problematic, the fact that Reacher generally punches chuds and the guy who plays him has these politics delights me to no end please watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show it is fantastic

Explicit mention of freedom for Palestine but crickets on Ukraine and Taiwan whilst demanding the complete destruction of the alliance structure that would protect them, but please tell me more about how the DSA's foreign policy isn't run by insane campists program.dsausa.org

DSA Program

Workers Deserve More!

program.dsausa.org

Antisemitism is genuinely rising, and we need alliances to fight it, and prominent American Reform rabbis would rather burn their credibility defending a war criminal who has nothing but disdain for Reform Jews anyway! It’s a betrayal of our community in so many ways.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s embarrassing that the rabbi of Central Synagogue - one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in the US - is portraying Mamdani’s accurate description of Netanyahu as a war criminal as a sign of antisemitism. This is part of why young people take antisemitism less seriously than they should.

Applaud his taste?

Max Weiss@maxthegirl.bsky.social · 3w ago

What are we gonna do with the knowledge that Christopher Nolan’s favorite James Bond is Timothy Dalton?

one cannot claim to be proud of this country, to believe in an “us”, while also disclaiming responsibility for anything people don’t like about it, that’s not how it’s ever worked. if you are an american you either feel shame at our misdeeds, or you *do not actually imagine the community*

forget punishing or pleasing the rurals, we need to unite on a common goal: punish long island

Oh, this actually brings me to a different historical population fact: there are fewer Jews today, globally, than there were before the Holocaust, even as the global population has gone from ~2.3 billion to well over seven billion

@daveapong.bsky.social · 4w ago

Roughy 5-10% of the population at the time were Jews (figures are speculative though) which is way more than I would think but also explains how influential the diaspora was as well the tensions and later rebellions against Roman persecution.

What archaeology cannot tell us is whether Mycenaean soldiers wore this stuff for real, or just until their sergeant major was out of sight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendra_...