Now that Israel has gone full Bond villain and demonstrated that state terrorists can hijack your electronics at the source and pack them full of deadly explosives to be used whenever they feel like it -- well, that shouldn't make anyone feel good about what kind of future we're living in.
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Now that Israel has gone full Bond villain and demonstrated that state terrorists can hijack your electronics at the source and pack them full of deadly explosives to be used whenever they feel like it -- well, that shouldn't make anyone feel good abou... -
"JD Vance decided the only way to beat the 'weird and creepy' headlines was to become so violently racist people would have to talk about him as dangerous rather than pathetic. If you need a concise explanation for the Republican Party.""JD Vance decided the only way to beat the 'weird and creepy' headlines was to become so violently racist people would have to talk about him as dangerous rather than pathetic. If you need a concise explanation for the Republican Party."
Standard bully shit.
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If you've ever wondered what "it's socialism or barbarism" means, just look at the US.The US is not a civilized society. It's barely even a "developed" one. It's a handful of billionaires, twelve mega-corporations, a bunch of cops, and the most insanely powerful military in the world wearing a trench coat.
The rest of us hate it here.
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If you've ever wondered what "it's socialism or barbarism" means, just look at the US.If you've ever wondered what "it's socialism or barbarism" means, just look at the US. America abandoned any pretense of civilization when it decided the rich and powerful could exempt themselves from laws, regulations, and any form of social responsibility even if it meant destroying the planet. Meanwhile, if you don't pay a $2.90 subway fare, the cops will shoot you in the head.
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Cis people hate trans people because we insist on being ourselves instead of some subordinate, inferior other thing they can make fun of and push to the margins, because we insist on our identities having the same weight and validity as theirs. Their a...Cis people hate trans people because we insist on being ourselves instead of some subordinate, inferior other thing they can make fun of and push to the margins, because we insist on our identities having the same weight and validity as theirs. Their arguments are just semantics.
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The only thing I have to say about 9/11 is how it drove our politics insane.America's reaction to 9/11 and its War on Terror was to treat itself as the poor, bullied, misunderstood white guy who became a mass shooter, to insist it deserved sympathy despite all the thousands of people it killed and the horrific manifestos it issued beforehand.
And that was the end of it, basically.
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The only thing I have to say about 9/11 is how it drove our politics insane.And our politics already sucked, obviously. But everybody reacted to 9/11 not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to enact their most violent, rapacious fantasies upon the world.
When the War on Terror finally petered out, it was a huge waste of money, time, and innocent people's lives.
And nobody learned anything.
October 7 became a new opportunity for all involved to unleash their racist, fascist, genocidal id, and they invoked 9/11 as such, as pretext, as justification.
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The only thing I have to say about 9/11 is how it drove our politics insane.The only thing I have to say about 9/11 is how it drove our politics insane.
Republicans under Bush saw it as a pretext to enact their imperialist ambitions in the Middle East.
But Democrats got on board to prove their ultra-violent patriotic bonafides and out of sheer bloodthirsty racism and Islamophobia, which continues to drive their foreign policy to this day.
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"White people who aren't really undecided claim to be undecided to magnify their influence.""White people who aren't really undecided claim to be undecided to magnify their influence."
The same way a lot of them claim to be "independents" or "moderates" or whatever despite voting like diehard partisans, usually Republicans.
And the media plays along.
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Nobody cares about these people.I'm not sure calling Trump and Vance "weird" entirely compensates for running a "more of the same" campaign that insists on advertising how much "good Republicans" like them.
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Nobody cares about these people.Nobody cares about these people.
"Harris campaign to bring Scaramucci, Olivia Troye as surrogates to Trump debate"
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4871303-harris-trump-debate-scaramucci-troye/
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I don't know why people think Republicans can't get away with doing everything they're doing when literally nobody is trying to stop them.The whole problem has been foisted onto voters struggling under increasingly anti-democratic systems and gosh, if voters can't stop Republicans then there's just nothing anyone can do.
Every time Democrats win, they wash their hands of the problem. Because they won anyway, right? So voters can just keep voting harder, right?
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I don't know why people think Republicans can't get away with doing everything they're doing when literally nobody is trying to stop them.I don't know why people think Republicans can't get away with doing everything they're doing when literally nobody is trying to stop them.
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Everybody on Bluesky agrees federation / decentralization sucks and Mastodon requires a degree in nuclear physics to use.Everybody on Bluesky agrees federation / decentralization sucks and Mastodon requires a degree in nuclear physics to use. They don't seem to realize Bluesky aims to be decentralized as well and get very angry when you point it out.
Like, it's okay if they want to avoid Mastodon because of its racist tech guy sea lion reply guy brigades, but they don't have to justify being on Other Twitter by pretending Mastodon is "too hard." It starts to irk me after a while.
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The right wing are the vanguard of cultural enshittification but influential, affluent white liberals and moderates have NIMBY'd their way into normalizing so many terrible things themselves such as attacks on homeless people, mask bans, transphobia, "...This is first and foremost an era of elite pushback.
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The right wing are the vanguard of cultural enshittification but influential, affluent white liberals and moderates have NIMBY'd their way into normalizing so many terrible things themselves such as attacks on homeless people, mask bans, transphobia, "...The right wing are the vanguard of cultural enshittification but influential, affluent white liberals and moderates have NIMBY'd their way into normalizing so many terrible things themselves such as attacks on homeless people, mask bans, transphobia, "crime" hysteria, and anti-immigrant racism.
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I wish it registered more with Americans that Israelis loathe Netanyahu and want him gone and how many of them support a ceasefire.I wish it registered more with Americans that Israelis loathe Netanyahu and want him gone and how many of them support a ceasefire.
That is, it would be nice if our media were honest about what's going on instead of playing up every bit of Israeli propaganda in support of genocide.
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Texas is 25 million people living in a handful of cities, where basically all of the money is made, held hostage by Neo-Confederate politicians backed up by a mere 5 million rural voters whose districts dominate the legislature.Texas is 25 million people living in a handful of cities, where basically all of the money is made, held hostage by Neo-Confederate politicians backed up by a mere 5 million rural voters whose districts dominate the legislature.
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"Don't post about politics if you want people to buy your books.""Don't post about politics if you want people to buy your books."
People don't buy my books anyway. Checkmate.
Seriously, though, my politics are all throughout my books even if they're often presented in a more humorous way.
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"Trump might win if these people withhold their votes!""Trump might win if these people withhold their votes!"
Yeah. Which would suck, obviously. But that's the point. It simply shouldn't be this hard to get Democrats to care about bombing children.