I maintain that the biggest problem with the 343 era is that they set up a genuinely interesting story in Halo 4, freaked out because of fan backlash, and have been stepping on rakes ever since because they're too scared to ever let their writers cook where anyone can see it
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3d agoHalo 4 is deeply flawed but the relationship between John and cortana is the best it’s ever been
Unapologetically: East Germany is a failure of a Leninist social experiment, a demonstration that you cannot create democrats out of the grandchildren of nazis without actually practicing parliamentary democracy
Guntiiiii@guntiiiii.bsky.social · 4d agoSaxony-Anhalt could well be the first state in Germany with far-right government as AfD is now only a seat away from absolute majority according to latest estimates from @dawum.de
the reason that this is news is that it hasn't happened for decades and it's being run by a january 6th rioter
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 5d agoCOINTELPRO never ended; it just became the modern surveillance state.
now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A
why are you all taking iranian propaganda and a singular retired GO with an agenda at face value
Robert Farley@drfarls.bsky.social · 5d agoIranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General www.twz.com/news-feature...
It sure would be nice if I could read a critique of Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" written by someone who'd actually read the book--or who is at least responding to something more than their literal reading of the title.
I can tell I’m an old soul because I keep getting the kinds of diseases British colonial administrators would die of in the 1870s
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. (Humbert Wolfe)
My favorite one was the Call of Duty game where you could play as a brainwashed assassin for Ronald Reagan with they/them pronouns.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 7d agoWe should highlight the funniest excesses. I still maintain Saira Rao starting a consultancy where she has dinner with white lib ladies and yelled at them to be my favorite part of woke 1. Her tweets were also awesome. Generational posting talent.
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 · last wk.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 · 3w agoNot 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 · last wk.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
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 · 2w agowhat 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 · 2w agoI 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 · 2w agoThere 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 · 2w ago1) 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 · 3w agoAIPAC 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 · 3w agolets 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 · 3w agobluesky 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 · 4w agoNew, 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 · 3w agoThe 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 · 3w agoWhat 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 · 3w 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
