Before rushing to furiously correct someone saying "this hasn't been done before," just mentally append "within living memory" to their statement, see if it's true, and if it is, let it go.

Astreia@redoubters.bsky.social · 3d ago

"This isn't a new thing" [pointing to something that was last done 100 years ago]

It is impossible not to notice the rise in casual antisemitism online and in person. If you don’t see it, you’re lying to yourself.

Wait, what do you mean protesters are trying to topple a right wing government in the developing world? I thought we got rid of USAID

Jacob 🇺🇦🇵🇸🪳@fuckaasbitch.bsky.social · 5d ago

*whispers, fingers crossed* Indomaidan Indomaidan Indomaidan

For most people, the first time they become aware of how bad a problem is is when somebody attempts to start tracking it, which they then interpret as the cause of the problem. To them, the cover-up is preferable to unveiling the crime, so long as the crime doesn't affect them directly.

Keeping an eye out@yanshuf09.bsky.social · 6d ago

The first Trump administration stopped sharing the same statistics about drone usage that Obama would share The intent was to hide how much drone usage was escalating under Trump. It worked And ever since, idiots have acted like that meant that drones were only an Obama thing Fucking idiots.

California elected a second immigrant governor before they elected a second Latino to the same office.

Every fucking time.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 7d ago

another fun bit of lore is that he got divorced in 2019 and it triggered his MAGA binge

another fun bit of lore is that he got divorced in 2019 and it triggered his MAGA binge

Trumpists have a deep, burning hatred for all the things that actually make America beautiful, Example #-2147483648

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.

Heartwarming: For First Time in Decades, Nerds Find New Niche to Force Women Out Of and Claim All to Themselves Instead of Crashing Out at Women Taking Interest in Thing of Theirs or Simply Fleeing It

Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD@mikesenters.bsky.social · 6d ago

Chuds getting into enemies to lovers the same way many women did 20 years ago is wild.

The Irish political and media classes and NGO industrial complex are a gaggle of Andy Dicks in desperate need of their Jon Lovitz.

When it comes to CA, I'm of the firm conviction you don't get to hate it until you've loved it, because skipping the latter inevitably leads to hating it for the most deranged, misinformed reasons imaginable.

Vaquera Elisa@boxelderdust.bsky.social · 7d ago

In the Republican language “California” is one of the worst curse words it is possible to utter

Citizenship is a rent - nativism and protectionism are two of the largest kinds of rent seeking.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 7d ago

Rarely do you see nativism explained so honestly as wanye has done here - people who hate admitting they have privilege hate even more the idea of having to work as hard as someone else

Just dawned on me (I have seen the movie like 50 times) that a fight with a bunch of nihilists who are mad because their fake kidnapping fell apart and are willing to settle for your pocket change might be the most *literally meaningless* fight in movie history.

The Big Lebowski is my favorite movie for exactly this. Dumb shit is going to happen. Some will be good, some will be bad. Some will go away, some will change your life forever. You have to wake up every day and keep living.

Going to do the same but for The Big Lebowski (not really, do not request this of me)

Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD@mikesenters.bsky.social · 7d ago

Alright, that's it. I'm gonna do it. I'm going to start working on a pitch to @liberalcurrents.com explaining why LOGH is the perfect piece of media to watch in our current day and I swear to God I'm going to get it submitted by the end of the week.

They hate black women working in government roles because they consider it cheating for them to work in places where anti-discrimination laws are actually enforced, since it undermines their entire myth of the "lesser races" being genetically incapable of working White Man Jobs.

Anna Gifty@itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 7d ago

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Biden's actual biggest foreign policy failures were not assassinating Bukele and demanding the suicide of Mohammad bin Salman.

Protestantism was a mistake.

Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · last wk.

Latin American democracy is doomed without a Thirty Years War that extirpates their Pentecostalism.

Find a crowbar that’s being used to pry apart a western liberal democracy and the person leaning on the other end of it will be in Moscow.

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · last wk.

AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany

"I will demolish the ballroom and the arch on Day 1" is table stakes for the 2028 primary. None of this wishy-washy "come together to solve problems" bullshit - the monuments to his ego must go, period, end of sentence.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history

Yes, I want everyone in attendance at this rally to be miserable, impoverished, and cut off from access to the privileges and luxuries of the civilized world for the rest of their lives, and I won't be shamed for thinking it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Would anybody like the hear The Snake? We gotta whip it out. This is in honor of Springfield, Ohio, a quaint little town of 32,000 where they took in 35,000 and put them into Springfield. It didn't work out too well and they're being removed." The crowd starts chanting "De-port! De-port!"

Silver lining of this trend is watching even fairly progressive people start to realize that unions are not actually intrinsically good and becoming increasingly open to disciplining or even busting some of the worst actors

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.

what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!

It's because they think if they can get Israel officially charged with Committing Genocide it'll retroactively justify the Holocaust and proactively justify a second one, and those who dispute it will never agree with them even if they changed their minds on the issue nominally being discussed.

Jeff Fecke@jkfecke.bsky.social · 2w ago

If the soi-disant pro-Palestine folks were serious about helping Palestine they would be happy to say, "Look, you don't think it's genocide but you do think it's crimes against humanity? And you agree Israel needs to be reined in? You're an ally." Instead, they've made it into a shibboleth.

No, after watching white supremacy return to the mainstream with almost no resistance for a decade, you are not going to make me mourn the execution of Timothy McVeigh.

When foreigners or CJR activists decry the barbarity of the American justice system, they're nearly always specifically describing the South.

Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · 2w ago

About 6 in 7 executions in the US since the 1970s have been in former slave states. It's about 9 in 10 if you count the former New Mexico territory.

AI media are teaching the masses the same lessons online veterans learned in the days when LiveJournal and DeviantArt first made it possible for anyone to write and publish all the fanfiction they wanted without needing access to printing paraphernalia or having to host it on their own websites.

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

I feel like the people bemoaning the use of AI in the creatives need to be reminded of Sturgeon's Law