Iran knew the best way to hurt America was making us step outside.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

I read this in Billy Butcher's voice

If the opposition is useless, force them to be useful. If they can't be forced, fight for their replacement. If they can't be replaced, make them irrelevant.

We already live in unprecedented times anyways, maybe it's time to start believing they can be unprecedented in our favor.

Reply to a post about Peter Magyar's plans to purge every Orban official, saying that Dems need to do the same when they retake power. The reply reads: "Instead they will just explain that they need to work together on bi-partisan bills"

I'm gonna be real, I've always hated this kind of rhetoric.

Not because I think it's an inaccurate assessment of the Dems, but rather because it feels like a way to smugly justify giving up in advance.

Like, yeah, the opposition is useless. Maybe we shouldn't just accept that's the way things are.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

"Pragmata is activating women's ovaries in real ti-"

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

Palestine cannot be saved by stanning the right Celebrities Support my Writing with a Tip Stan culture is a very specific description of behavior that blends parasocial following of notable influencers, artists, actors, musicians, or athletes. Over Twitter, I...

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I feel like the best way to do a movie like this would be something akin to The Green Knight or The Northman - simultaneously gritty and fantastical, with a lot of quiet, meditative moments between the bursts of spectacle.

...Which given the studio and director, is very much a possibility here.

We truly do live in a period.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

the last time a president got this unpopular with this much time left in his term was Carter, and Reagan followed. the last time a Republican president ended up here, the New Deal happened

"The Washington Arch was built at the behest of Hatsune Miku"

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Is it possible to block someone telepathically?

Yep, and even if you had to, AI slop for a good cause is still AI slop.

Your Muted Words: Lego Iran and Iran Lego

Alright, I've had enough.

I don't care how funny you think it is, or how much you want to stick it to the regime, stop putting this slop on my timeline.

Always drives me up a wall that people portray China as some champion of oppressed peoples across the world when in reality, their foreign policy consists mostly of taking the le enlightened centrist position on every international issue that doesn't directly involve them.

free childcare so women can stay home and make art

This just failed.

'is bluesky a publicly traded company', the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

The US Navy used to have entire ships just for making ice cream.

Pending reclassification to Keter following Incident 9239-1-B, which necessitated the deployment of MTF Epsilon-9 "Waffle Fighters"

ICE terrorized children at the Whittier public library last year then peed all over the building when librarians wouldn’t let them in. Mayor Joe Viniateri loves ICE so now he’s out of a job.

We love to see it!

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

So many headaches could be saved if the common term for it was something like "rule of the proletariat" or "governance by the proletariat" instead