george patton and douglas macarthur never served on the same battlefield of WWII or even on the same side of the planet. holy shit this is so stupid

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 5h ago

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

i have never used AI for anything. i don't even know how i would access a program like chatgpt. is it an app? a website? don't actually tell me, i don't care

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

it's so odd learning about how in eastern europe the nazis are thought of not as genocidaires, but as the most recent example of messianic anti-russianism. the same way hitler is often seen in india not as an example of absolute evil, but as an example of absolute (almost absurdly) tyrannical power

protect your neighborhood, eat your local vegan

will you guys be mad at me if i say that sloop john b is the best song on pet sounds

i'm sorry to betray my fellow transgenders but im gonna keep playing the word games on my mother in laws NYT subscription and i just can't feel bad about it

possibly no more overrated songwriter in american history than paul simon. he's leonard cohen for guys with no sex or mojo, bob dylan for people with no hard edges

spinning off an idea of hobsbawm's, it feels like every political movement worth anything is intellectual heir to one of three revolutions: america 1776, france 1789, or russia 1917. the movements that reject all three, such as nazism, tend to be the most regressive. does MAGA align w/ any of them?

now reading. ngl this historian's prose is shaggy as hell but he makes great points in the midst of his wordmud so i'm willing to slog

nw:

there's no way to effectively translate the desire for honor and heroism in the original Odyssey text into the 21st century western mind. the idea of warfare as something inherently good for society died at the marne 112 years ago. it can *only* be understood as destructive, because it is

Boston Tom Levenson@tomlevenson.bsky.social · last wk.

Saw The Odyssey last night and realized there’s another reason the right’s rage furbys are foaming at their mouths over the film. It is deeply antiwar, making an argument that builds incident by incident. Nolan’s sin: making explicit the vicious destructiveness of “heroic” ambition and violence.

tfw you're reading the historian eric hobsbawm writing in the 1990s about the 1930s and come across a section that's somehow exactly about trumpism

my wife is canadian so u know we do a land acknowledgement before laying pipe

my wife is canadian so u know we do a land acknowledgement before laying pipe

imagine my surprise when i moved to canada and found out the humorous children's nursery rhyme "little bunny foo foo" is actually the melody to Alouette, the most ancient and celebrated children's song in canadian history

tfw you get off on being a know it all but fail to understand that a cup is a measure of volume and a gram is a measure of weight

can't wait for 2028 when the republicans nominate tucker carlson and dems nominate the decaying corpse of chuck schumer and we get to lose out on this as the left

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Enten on the 67 point swing (!!!) against Israel among Americans: "We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore. The general electorate has turned against Israel. This is not just a left issue. It's an American issue. The trend line is unbelievable."

i simply will never, ever listen to a voice note. write it down or get lost, you illiterate heathen

michael bay already did this

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.

taking it day by day with five translations, i finally finished the Tao Te Ching. i feel so wise and yin yang rn

trying to identify a bird of prey while doing 70 on the turnpike with my family in the car

god i love thomas pynchon so much

for some reason bluesky keeps asking me for age verification because it thinks i'm in texas for some reason?? i keep having to share my location with the app to prove i live outside the US in a free country

That goal was worth it just for this tbh

i am mick jagger shaking my capped head in disappointment

had diarrhea all last night in solidarity with my friends in america

Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame

ALT: Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w ago

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her and other justices is increasingly encroaching on their personal and family lives. https://to.pbs.org/4f1DhjZ

the idea of calling yourself a christian and then imagining beating up jesus in a fist fight. incredible. the sermon on the mount is dead in the hearts of men

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

"I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.”

It’s cool being trans because even though we have a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch us they will kill us - but first they must catch us. We’re cunning and full of tricks, and our people will never be destroyed.