My father pronounces it "hee-un-dai" which is?? Bizzare???

I'm a moderate (it's depraved that America's biggest cultural event is an overhyped, overcommercialised physical contest between engineered teams, but it's good that there's a concert in the middle of it.)

LRT: DSA is a truly evil organisation and you can't join it and be a good person.

As a Democratic Party voter who doesn't need to pay in to the party just to count myself among its number, my hands are far cleaner than anyone who willingly forks over cash to the DSA every month that goes to funding its denialism of Russia's slaughter in Ukraine.

"no one is illegal on stolen land" is a fucked up thing for europeans to be saying about america; no one is illegal, period, there is no myth of unbroken blood & soil that could ever give the right to renounce the duty of hospitality

Even "communist" hasn't really been plausible for decades...

I struggle to think of anything that might be in the Epstein Files that could possibly be worse than what he's doing right now every day right in front of us.

Every time I see a rightist make a good point I check their timeline and it's all gutter racism and vaccine denialism *sigh*

Me in 2005: Moore's Law means that computers will get super fast over a very short period of time!

Me in 2026: my computer freezes up if I leave my browser open for too long

Yeah your One Drive ran out of space or whatever. This means your computer will fail to do shit that's been standard since Windows 2000.

The construction of regime security forces tends to be a pretty deliberate, focused project in authoritarian regimes for this reason. The Iranian regime's security apparatus - their staggering brutality on display recently - is a very intentional construct.

Trump does not cut the cops' paychecks.

but doing a bunch of highly-broadcast one-off murders in broad daylight is like, the worst possible strategy for deterrence versus outrage since they’re highly-publicized but also don’t actually kill that many people, so they just drive higher turnout and so mean to crackdown they need to kill more

I 100% think this

Something should have been done about the Convoy and its international siblings, but unfortunately the thing that needed to be done about the Convoy cannot be achieved by a democratic state.

Caitlin Johnstone: Sure is a crazy coincidence that all this totally organic unrest in Iran is happening at the exact same time the US empire is waging a campaign of unprecedented scale to rapidly crush disobedient governments and populations throughout Latin America and west Asia.

I am not a supporter of the Iran protests but you really don't need to do this; it's not a mystery that people resent being governed.

Rich cultural text that Will Stancil is in the streets of Minneapolis fighting ICE while the ten thousand losers who want him to dead are petrified of No Kings events because they might see a mom with a cell phone.

Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.

I don't know a huge amount about him but "extreme personal bigotry" is always a good bet in situations like these.

"...allegations he choked a woman in December." This guy sounds like a real peach, allegedly.

So, just Godzilla, then?

Christopher Hitchens would be supporting ICE if he hadn't died

Escalating until the opponent completely exposes themselves and you can win total victory is a workable tactic. Sometimes - not this time! - even moral.

But do these guys not *know* this is what they're doing? If not, they're not going to have a good time.

Do these guys not have any theory of mind at all?

I do not think he is doing these things to distract from the Epstein files.

People say silly things about Orwell's 1984. "Orwell implies that Oceania falls because the appendix is in the past tense." No, the appendix is in the past tense because that's the tense you put fictional stories in.

lmao that was a quick block

What on earth makes you think this will have any more effect than the last dozen agitations over there?

...he can only do this if he pivots away from the genocidal racism that already discredited authoritarianism in the West for eight decades. Racial nationalism is not a sustainable basis for a polity.

So the question is, how cooked is his brain?

I mean this. Despite all the cope, Vance is a smart guy and a decently charismatic politician and I believe he would have the capacity as President to make the USA a bulwark against the Void and lay the groundwork for a real Academy there. But...

Will Vance be smart enough to drop the racialist crap when he becomes President? Much depends on the answer.

Unironically this is what you should do.