1/ A tailor. A teacher. A cop. These were Hitler's Nazis. Not monsters. Regular people waiting for the 'big moment' to push back.That moment never came. Mayer's 1955 study of Germany reads like America's breaking news.We can't ignore the lessons of 1930's #DV1#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory#USDemocracy
Back when the Cold War ended, I remember reading that there could be still a nuclear threat from a lawless rogue state. I just never expected that to be us.
“With all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation’s press.”
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 406
1/ How many Americans even know what the real "storm troopers," the Sturmabteilung, as opposed to the other jackbooted scum, were anymore?
Because that's who these fucks are: party troops, radicalized thugs and opportunistic bullies. Not "law enforcement." Their very purpose is to act unlawfully.
You know, between Cheney fucking off the mortal coil, Mamdani winning, and the Jets trading away their two best players, today’s a rough day for Staten and Long Islanders.
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
As 2024 comes to a close, here's a look at which Pro Football Reference player pages had the most views in each state this year.
Who was the most viewed player page in your state?
A former empire atrophying year after year due to the idiotic decisions and negligence of a senile bigoted billionaire head? Dallas really is America’s Team
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
Golf telecasts should start keeping a graphic on the guys who went to LIV. Like a bonesaw. Just so I know which flotsam and jetsam guys I can root against.
i’m not exactly a connoisseur when it comes to film and literature, but it still blows my mind that these guys all conceive of art as just an updated set of jingling keys dangling in front of their moron faces
Removing the block function from Twitter takes the conservative vision of free speech full circle from "I have a right to say it" to "no one should criticize what I say" to "you should be forced to hear me say it"