I'm not saying anecdotes matter, I'm just saying they've mattered every time I've used them.

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it.

Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids.

Don’t let this go!!!

People who use government authority to erase history are always - *ALWAYS* - on the wrong side of it.

What if déjà vu is just your player save-scumming to get a specific ending?

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. -John Leonard, critic (25 Feb 1939-2008)

Nobody wants to live through daily unprecedented historical events. We're all exhausted right along with you. Their cruelty is intentional and what they want is for the people they hate is to feel alone and helpless, but we're neither. People who want to stop them are doing everything they can.

Mass arrests are coming.
Unmarked vans are coming.
"Re-education" centers are coming.
Armbands and oaths and rewards for reporting neighbors are coming.
We've seen all of this before.

Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. -Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)

I'm not saying you're racist, I'm just saying that you seem like the kind of kid that was genuinely shocked when the Scooby Gang pulled off the mask and it was an old white man running some kind of scam every single time.

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

[Aelx Falcone, Loosely Paraphrased]

Finding out that Entrance of the Gladiators was originally a war march is like finding out that Yakkity-Sax was originally a funeral processional.

I'm not saying that *all* Boomers are racist. I'm just saying that it's a near certainty that if you see "hip-hop isn't real music," you're going to find a Facebook account plastered with pictures of boats, pets, grandkids, and a whole lot of absolutely vile political memes.

For every practical purpose, Project 2025 is a more meaningful Bible for American Evangelicals than the Christian Bible.

"They'll only take away the rights of the people I don't like and then they'll stop. They super-duper pinky promised."

- Every Single Republican Voter

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -George Jean Nathan, author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958)

Pt. 9. End of rant. Discuss if you want. I'd love to hear some thoughts.

Pt. 8. Cryptids. Aliens. Lizard people. Hollow Earth. Flat Earth. Moon Landing. Illuminati. The moon is fake. Chem trails.

WHY!? What the hell could possibly be the benefit of keeping this stuff "hidden?"

I mean... None. That's what.

But they have to think it serves some kind of purpose, right?

Pt. 7. What could possibly be the benefit of maintaining this historically unprecedented deceit? To what end? I mean it. When I engage with these people, that's the question I always ask and nobody has ever had an answer.

Pt. 6. It's would have cumulatively taken the equivalent of trillions of dollars over two millennia to keep that many mouths shut and cooperative. So does that just all happen off the books? Or is it voluntary? And ultimately, what I think is the most important question: Fucking why!?

Pt 5. That means there would be an absolutely unprecedented, coordinated effort across 2,500 years, hundreds of governments, and possibly several thousand scientists, explorers, and world travelers. And they've all what? Been part of a secret society, I guess? And for free? Because...

Pt 4. Let's talk about Flat Earth. It's hard to dissect, because it's stupid from top to bottom. But take a look at not only how much provable, repeatable science you have to ignore, but just how many scientists that would have to be in on it. We've know the earth is round for thousands of years.

Pt 3. Now tell that secret the literal THOUSANDS, even TENS of thousands, of people it would require to keep most of the popular conspiracies. This is especially true when it comes to science.

Pt 2. Take your own deepest, darkest, most embarrassing secret. Now, tell a group of a hundred strangers and make them all super-serious pinky swear not to repeat it. Then place your bet on when - not if - you hear about your own secret from someone you don't even know.

Conspiracy Theories: A Thread. Part 1.

Do you know how hard it is to keep a secret? Even inside a government, there are things only a handful of people are allowed to know, because large groups are notoriously leaky when it comes to information. If you have a genuine secret, you keep it close.

Wanting other people in your society to be treated well even when it doesn't directly benefit you doesn't make you Marxist, it just makes you a decent person.

If that statement makes you mad, then you're not.