Aaron Cynic

An og soup_ tweet: why do billionaires care if they lose all their money? they'll just make it back with their superhuman work ethic, right?

Journos frothing at the mouth defending the societal import of their words, like they aren’t going to disintegrate hours later, whereas my girlfriend posted this 6 years ago and no one can forget it.

If only 21% of Americans support "initiating an attack" how does that number change when you ask "do you support bombing schools"

"Initiating an attack" is certainly one way to frame "bombing and killing people"

It’s actually pretty revealing that the Democrats aren’t opposing the war and are just demanding an explanation.

What fascism does is eliminate the need for a cover story or narrative to launder bloody imperialism and destruction. What they want back is the veneer of morality.

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

The NYT style guide

It was really gorgeous and thankfully sunny and 30 degrees so it almost felt like spring

Thank you!

A closeup photo of a dragon at Chicago's Lunar New Year parade. A blue sky with thin clouds is in the background

A photo of people walking at the Lunar New Year parade in Chicago. The person at the front is wearing a yellow coat and holding a large bladed weapon. Behind them are people in dragon costumes.

Things are really dark right now so it's important to find joy where you can. Chicago's Lunar New Year Parade was a really good choice today.

The lack of appropriate sun shelters at bus stops in this city is what’s gonna turn me into a single-issue voter in the fall lmao

It's getting to be you can't even profit off war deaths on the insider trading app anymore

Now is a really good time to be talking to and reading and listening to movement elders with experience in antiwar work.

There is a long and storied history and a lot of insights hard-won.

Seek their wisdom.

IMO Trump would love an attack and this is a feature not a bug.

guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before

so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors

Imagine you're paying like $100 a month or whatever for Claude and realizing the government used the same shit to kill schoolchildren in Iran. And they're using your tax money to pay for it. So you're paying Claude twice to kill kids. Crazy.

I love this for you!

Hello Constituent

it's me again, Senator Averagedem. what is happening in Iran today is simply too much. we've seen many disturbing things from this administration but now a line has been crossed

that's why I'm asking for a small donation of $5,000 to support my efforts to draft a strongly worded

If you're a DC area bartender or related service industry worker and you hear govt./military people talking about the strikes on Iran, let me know what they're saying. I'm on signal at nslayton.12

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Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

iran is a country where millions of people are born, live, fall in love, have children, make art, read books, play sports, doomscroll, cook, build homes, care for one another, fight, argue, complain, and die. iran is a place with real people and we pretend like theres two sides to this shit.

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

"Everyone is 12" theory going strong

Yes, I criticize the Democrats. We know the Republicans are evil bastards. They don't pretend not to be evil bastards. I'm criticizing the people who should know better, the ones who text me every 45 minutes asking me for money.

Today's death threats were from Trump supporters calling me a traitor for not supporting his latest illegal war.

Not entirely sure how I'm a traitor for pointing out that he's violating both the Constitution he swore to uphold and the international law he is legally required to follow, but okay.

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork.

The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.