Trudeau is 100% Castro's kid

first sentence i lowkey thought you were reminiscing about the good old days when depictions of dragons made them larger

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

I'm deeply familiar with DSA politics & while this view isn't isolated, it is also not even close to representing a majority. Most DSA members, even the more radical ones, oppose Russian expansionism, tho views on whether the US should keep arming Ukraine vary. This is cherrypicking

If the same standards were applied to other decentralized empires throughout history, many other regions would be just as messy

General Grievous...you're hotter than I expected

Scott Drakula

they stole an hour from women

the Vegan Tyranny...where milk possession is punishable by death

It's wild watching people defend the Iran War because its an oppressive theocracy all the while Trump says he is OK with Iran being an oppressive theocracy just as long as he gets to appoint the oppressive theocrat.

obviously this is ridiculous and stupid, but the total land area of the hypothetical region sums up to about 1 million square miles and I think that's nice

Map highlighting Afghanistan, Iran, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain

that's probably the best solution. however if we were to decide the boundaries of a "Middle East" (archaic & orientalist though the concept may be) by combining the old meaning with modern politics, it would lie between the post-Ottoman states, the post-Soviet ones, and the former British Raj:

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

i think its also pretty important to remember that the US Very Extremely Does Not Want A Strong Democratic Iran. they want a weak and geopolitically irrelevant wasteland. Iran used to be a strong democracy and they fucking slaughtered it which eventually created the theocracy to begin with

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

A photograph of a number of Iranian police officers facing off with a single seated demonstrator. The text over it reads Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without Three Perspectives Analysis, Current events 2026-01-07

In Iran, an uprising has been underway since December 28, pitting grassroots movements against the government but also against monarchists seeking to co-opt the revolt to take power.

We present three perspectives on the uprising from within Iran and the surrounding region:

crimethinc.com/Iran2026

If you live in New Jersey, make a call

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Zohran Mamdani wearing Mets cap

Accurate.

Her parents Ruwee & Jobal were played by actors in their mid-late 50s in deleted scenes for Episode II. Entirely possible they were still alive during the original trilogy too (though in comics set after IV, an investigation on Naboo on behalf of Vader trying to find his son in doesn't mention them)

good point

They do learn about her at some point but it's still really weird that she's never mentioned, yeah, especially after Luke finds out about his dad. More a fault of the original films' sexism than anything to do with the prequels though (not that those are perfect on that front)

I mean that was a conversation full of half-truths & lies by omission, kind of makes to not be completely accurate ("from a certain point of view Yoda did train me, when I was an initiate")

...your point still stands from a Doylist perspective though

definitely succeeded with Unterzakhn then! (i do not recall whether i physically cried, but i definitely felt it on the inside)

probably Greek or a hellenized Libyan, maybe Jewish, but I guess Luke's moots consider those sufficiently Italian-adjacent lol

"DJ Dooku Dropped Jedi Party", a haiku

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your bodies, to the thrum of
sonic perfection?

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americans still talking about the "bey area" like cmon guys it's 2025, you're allowed to call it the ottoman empire

Like you genuinely just have to be a bit dumb to not immediately get that the existence of "toxic masculinity" implies "masculinity" without the "toxic," in the same way referring to "tall people" inherently implies there are people who aren't tall. This is a basic function of how words work.