i dreamt a dream,

This is in its own way a good argument that we should just accomplish all forms of executive immunity. If the charges are bad the grand jury will fix it.

Interesting how many geniuses on this site know exactly how prediction markets are consistently wrong and yet have no interest in making millions of dollars by exploiting said inefficiencies and structural flaws

I encourage any future Dem President to think along these lines and keep pressing until the other side is willing to accept a return of the rule of law. Unilateral disarmament doesn't work bsky.app/profile/gran...

imprison all of the pardoned people illegally and pardon the people who jail them, you gotta hit them with the reverse calvinball

if your opposition to Polymarket, Kalshi, etc. has anything to do with thinking they're inaccurate you missed the point imo these companies are bad and should be regulated into extinction for reasons entirely unrelated to their validity as predictive instruments

That last one is completely optional. For a debate to be worthwhile, it does not need either of the people involved to change their mind; it only requires that the audience leave informed.

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

The story of BLM was critical masses of angry liberals being used as cover for smaller groups to achieve their actual desired ends (anarchists, hooligans, and looters). It is not a coincidence that the "decentralization" of protest movements post-OWS coincides with their total uselessness.

These people are in love with the aesthetics of radicalism and the libidinal thrill of righteous violence. They are not interested in doing the political work required to improve their material circumstances, which they find boring.

youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"

Your takeaway from the Israeli statement should be to remember that the 3.4 million Palestinians of the West Bank live under a permanent and unaccountable military-security state that has existed for nearly sixty years, and that every major political party in Israel is committed to maintaining it.

more and more people are saying

people are really mad about this one but i honestly don't know why so many people are going to bat for biden. the man meant well but he fucked harris and he fucked america with his selfishness. we SHOULD postmortem that.

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

This week on the blog - more discussion of Hearts of Iron IV and this week's topic is a heavy one, assessing how the decision not to acknowledge or address war crimes and crimes against humanity causes the game to blunder into being a 'clean Wehrmacht' myth simulator. acoup.blog/2026/10/16/t...

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i loathe this man but he's honestly better than our senators and the tent is certainly big enough for gavin newsom

Ossoff: "Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, widely known for his poor character and low integrity and unfit for any elected office in the United States ... we'll end his political career"

As we all know, the natural state of the world is warlords and gangsters. But this idealic utopia has somehow been snatched away from our poor little fascists by jews/women/civilization/etc, and thus the most important thing is to support ALL gangsters and warlords who carry the torch of raw power.

typically, the primary condition of winning a war is that the enemy doesn't get a vote

funny how all of the paid protesters the republicans keep screaming about always end up being on the republican side

alright man, keep on fomenting secession in neighboring countries and see where that gets you. california really is the most deranged blue state in america. our senators should all be retired.

Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

These are the most cowardly fuckers on the face of the planet

An aspect of fascism is a nihilistic violence — not strategic, or really designed to achieve anything, besides the violence itself, and insecure men's feelings. Like Hegseth sharing video of boats blowing up. Or trying to do a livestreamed execution. Very good piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social.

Pete Hegseth "is a loser, following an ideology by and for losers. That means that he is very concerned that other losers prove their devotion to the religion of death by showing indifference to human suffering." @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes today www.liberalcurrents.com/public-execu...

The tragic thing is that this is also true of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, who had never won a competitive general election against a Republican in their lives.

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

Starting to wonder who funds this piece of shit rag.

I never understood the hate against HOAs as entities. They do the will of your median neighbor and if you hate what they do - which is fair, I often hate the median American - it's mostly just that you hate your median neighbor.

The ratfucker parade in action.

It was dumb regardless of who asked them to do it.

glad to see that it's starting to become general knowledge that sunrise is wreckers and sucks shit

People who study Western civilization would have all of these people hanged.

We really should just send all of these people to die on Kharg. I don't even think Iran would mind.

When you're charismatic they let you do it.

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

This is, I think, an incorrect conclusion. There are a lot of things out there I would be happy to hear about that I would nevertheless not support, because it would be socially corrosive.

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

"Talarico blew his lead by taking the 80 side of an 80-20 issue" is one of those things that has become folk wisdom on Bluesky despite being incredibly stupid on its face.

I think trans people are capable of doing anything cis people can do, include being worthless wreckers who stump for Republicans along with the rest of the post-left. That's the magic of agency.