ScipioAsina
@scipioasina.bsky.social
History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband to an amazing wife and dad to many cats and one large dog. Liberal, humanist, and Episcopalian.
it is actually nice to see democrats engage in a good ol' fashioned american ratfucking
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4h agoOperatives aligned with Alaska Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from her Republican rival. The group worked to coax would-be spoilers into the race to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult Peltola to victory. trib.al/gWKhuWh
You're not going to believe what the trad discourse on the other site is...
IrishPhilosophy@irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 6h agoI wonder what proportion of the Church hierarchy would be forcibly deported if 'remigration' was in fact brought in.
I should never be president because I would start WW3 by telling Putin "Sir, this is an Arby's" after the fifteenth time he started rambling about Borislav the Jew Slayer's 1346 claims to lower Ruthenia means the war in Ukraine is completely justified somehow.
Christopher Miller@christopherjm.ft.com · yesterdayVladimir Putin used most of his call with the leaders of Finland and Norway to lecture them about medieval Slavic history, underscoring the difficulties Europe faces in asserting itself in upcoming peace talks with Russia. w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a384...
Dude is a professor at Cambridge and he’s the dumbest person alive
The fact there is even a debate over why Putin invaded Ukraine is kind of remarkable.
Christopher Miller@christopherjm.ft.com · yesterdayVladimir Putin used most of his call with the leaders of Finland and Norway to lecture them about medieval Slavic history, underscoring the difficulties Europe faces in asserting itself in upcoming peace talks with Russia. w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a384...
It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours
George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterdayAw nuts *BOLSONARO EN ROUTE TO THE US, FOLHA REPORTS CITING ALLIES
An Obama scandal would be like “Obama sympathizes with murdered boy’s family” A Trump scandal is like: Trump launches crypto scam funnels billions to Russia who helps Iran kill Americans in War Trump started for no reason driving gas prices into stratosphere
i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years
i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.
The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag
Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social · 2d agoSomething happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.
this is just further proof that the guiding light of Matt's politics is getting negatively polarized by people he sees on social media
Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social · 2d agoI just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
Yes they absolutely were voting for mass deportations. They just thought they would be the special ones.
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3d agoYes exactly. I think there is an unfortunate tendency to blame voters who often are very hardpressed for time and lack media literacy. A majority of Hispanic men voted for Trump, as did nearly half of Hispanic women. They weren't voting for deporting 20 million people.
The Reich's victories are getting closer and closer to Berlin.
Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · 3d agoAll the places we expected them to spend the last week of this campaign at the start of this year.
Was having a conversation with my wife a couple days ago about how, if the Republican Party could stop being so fucking racist, it could appeal to socially and fiscally conservative individuals across race. But that’s a bit like saying if an orange was an apple it would make a great pie.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party"
Photo of Today 25 October 1945: Photograph showing what is believed to be the IJN destroyer Asagumo under fire from the USS Denver (see ALT for details)
Congratulations to the world's new champions of liberty, the...*squints*...Magyars and...*squints again*...Serbs.
Holy shit hard to find a clearer profile of the banality of evil than this cop
Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social · 3d agoEarly this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵
marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government
Hegseth Barred Trans Troops. Military Boards Are Rejecting Those Orders.
The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.
nytimes.com
this is what it was like all the time, man. obama would say “republicans are corny” and the fox news ecosystem would shriek “CORN? THE THING OUR WONDERFUL FARMERS GROW?” and they did this all day every day for eight years. we lived in the garden.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d agoTHE FACTORY
the common man can only dimly comprehend the possibility of a more exalted restaurant than the cheesecake factory. why, i can imagine your average laborer, stained with grease, would tear up as he beheld the interior for the first time, saying "finally, a venue fine enough for my daughter's wedding"
lolno the workers abandoned the Democrats for Getting Too Woke about civil rights and the Vietnam War, take your own advice and read a book
Dave Strock@davestrock.bsky.social · 5d agoPeople don't vote to punish. That's just not a thing in the head of anyone but people making excuses. The Dems have overseen decades of policies that saw workers increasingly abandoned for the PMC who were allowed to take over the remaining institutions. Dems were either complicit or incompetent
This is 100% of Republican voters now. They're all gutter racists who have failed in life and need to find someone to blame.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
It would be tragic--tragic!--if anything like that ever happened to properties associated with an American dictator.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈@nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 4d agoHitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” has burned & authorities have expressed plans to rebuild it: “we’re not going to leave a wreck there”. I say, fine then, raze the ruins & put up some (small) interpretive signage… …AND DON’T REOPEN THE FUCKING RESTAURANT. No rebuilding Nazi vacation/work retreats.
