Are Leiby 🍵🐈‍⬛

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Writing is hard. Writing is great. Writing sucks. I love writing. I wish I could stop writing. I cannot stop writing. Please help. Please leave me alone, I have another 3 pages to get through. Please read my work. Please never perceive this garbage I've created. Respect me. Ignore me.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

10/10 😆

Jeeeeeesus Christ

“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”

Germany really knocked it out of the park with pretzels and beer.

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Thomas Mann and the Temptations of Fascism The resurgence of right-wing populism has set the table for the far right’s renewed fortunes. Published in 1947, Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus offers a guide to the mythmaking and rejection of reason t...

Thomas Mann warned that fascism wasn’t just mob rage but a pact by elites intoxicated with myths of greatness, contempt for reason, and indifference to human suffering—and that same aestheticised, fact-free politics is once again being sold as strength.

More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:

-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation

-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people

Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Grok: "A police state is one that polices the behavior of the population by spreading the woke mind virus. 🤣 None of that here -- just vibes, good clean fun, and undressing children! 🚀✊🏼 Elon gets it cuz he's a cool guy with a ton of friends."

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

Who up popping they edibles and being at their most enigmatic and expansive

If ChatGPT can improve your writing it means your writing was dogshit to begin with, so much so that ai slop counts as any kind of improvement. I would be embarrassed to admit this.

goode folke... [subdued gesture of yntroductioun] the weeke ende

you do NOT get stardew valley in the culture war

Figure we’ll see elites of all kinds steadily abandon the MLK Day charade. If not a campaign to reestablish King as the most hated man in America.

May it be a welcome clarification. Let’s think about what King stood for in his last year. 🧵

Big Panda walking with tiny dragon stating that it’s about the company you keep and not the journey or destination itself that matters most.

Happy Sunday!

#memes #tinydragon #bigpanda

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011 Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

I don't know, man, what's a function with you?

I am begging you, as an American, to boycott the Olympics, boycott the World Cup and sanction us

We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

"Fascists strive impotently for a bigness the shrunken aspirations of their soul can never reach. Fascism is the banal dream of tiny men and deserves its place in the sewage of history."

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social on fascism's hatred of left, relevant now:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.