Jacek Olender

A still from "Rosemary's Baby", with Rosemary looking terrified at the stroller woth her child.

We are now cutting live to the newborn's room.

Is this post a @dankaszeta.bsky.social bat signal?

Big LOL at "outraged Palantir workers". Outraged at what? That a concentration camp company they joined is building concentration camps?

JFC, even @libdems.org.uk went on this bullshit.

Sure, boomer homehoarders need more government handouts. Can I retire at 60 then?

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Did someone paint a tunnel on a side of a house and he walked right into it?

Btw, has anyone seen Trump this weekend, or is he tweeting from behind the curtain again?

Tbh, that might be to American advantage, because Miller and co act according to a cartoonish vision of themselves and hence look like idiots.

I agree they probably don't have enough buy-in to overcome the loss of popularity. I just don't want people to believe that a dictatorship needs a hundred goons per precinct or whatever, because they don't and that's not how it works.

*fear, jfc

...but I genuinely think Americans, even the well read ones, have a completely cartoonish image of what dictatorships look like.

In a fptp single-member districts gerrymandered to hell and back they don't need to "nullify" anything. The only thing that needs to happen for them to win is to plant enough feer in the heads of marginal voters in competitive districts. That's it. I don't think they're there yet,

They will, but it's not about them. Most of them live in solid blue districts anyway. It's about everyone who decides it's just slightly too dangerous for them to be seen in public on a given day. These are the people who need to be defended and reassured so they'd go voting.

As much as I agree that Trump doesn't have neither the buy-in, nor the gunpower to occupy the US, that's not how authoritarian voter intimidation works at all. It's not a prison regime.

Obviously the Russian regime has a head start on that one, but at the end of the day it always comes down to personal safety calculus and how much the regime can show itself as omnipresent and resolved enough to scare enough people. Especially in US system, where districts can hinge on minorities.

Lol, that's some serious racist exceptionalism right there. Literally half of American political spectrum is pro-serfdom right now and they control three branches of government. I know you just can't imagine this, but Americans are regular people, like all of the rest.

*you get

Also, it's not like you daily pogroms in Russia, yet the population is cowed completely. It really doesn't take much for a country to simply give up as a whole and believing that certainly can't happen in the US is unserious. We're not there yet, but there's also a year at least to go.

Have the inevitable allegations about Douthat surfaced already? Because clearly this is where it's going.

Like seriously, are you incapable of reading?

Are you stupid?

Not really? One believes there should only a minimal safety net, the other believes safety net is ok, but belongs only to minimal number of people. Both agree that only deserving ones are members of the volk.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

When I say there will be no accountability or reckoning in 2027, or 2029 or ever, it is because there won't be any accountability.

Disgusting from a station that still has @shayan86.bsky.social and claims to state the facts.

They obviously have no spines or morals (as evidenced by the past 8 years), but if they change tune out of pure calculation, that's good too.

I'm sorry, but does anyone believe that these seven have not had a pre-approval from the leadership? The refusal to whip is a fairly clear sign of where Jeffries stands on the issue. People are right to equate the seven with the rest, because the rest approves of the seven.

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

Yes, some HC smoke grenades have been deployed in Portland durin BLM, not now. No one died because of those as far as anyone knows. Any further epidemiology is bogus, because controlling for other variables is near impossible. For the rest recommend following Dan: