Robert M Brown

Read it. 😀 The Art of War, too.

'Centrist' Democrats think by being the lesser evil they can get trans people's votes and then throw them under the bus. "We might be bad, but the other guys are EVEN WORSE." I say we all stand together, or all go down together. None of us are free until all of us are free.

There are two groups in American society. One is protected by the law while the other is bound by it.

AI. It's AI. Funny, though, how they never explain why the Nazi bar with CSAM on the menu as the only place where they can have a nice conversation about AI with like-minded people.

There was a time when a reasonable person could believe the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth, but that ended decades ago. Far from being immune to it, the Army was actually the source of the antisemitism that spread through Germany in the 1920s.

Living life on the edge this past week. Been using my phone without a case.

Constantly voting for 'the lesser evil' just gets you more lessers and more evil.

Human rights are not negotiable, and anyone who thinks they are is a god-damned fascist. Fight me. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Not long ago I was called racist for saying that the Supreme Court is important and Democrats should have been doing more to defend it. The Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it means. The Court has the power to overturn EVERYTHING.

Versailles? What a terrible time to know history.

Technically, the loser usually pays the winner, regardless of who was the actual aggressor. See WWI. Sometimes the winner pays, to 'purchase' land that was beaten out of the loser, to avoid the appearance of aggressive conquest. See the Mexican-American War. That's not what's happening here, though.

I have to admit, Donald Trump screaming, “What the fuck are you doing?” at Benjamin Netanyahu is probably the most relatable thing he's ever done.

Not looking forward to all the people telling me I can't comment on Texas politics because I fled the state after living there for 30 years.

Whenever people say something like, "Why don't X just do Y?" I answer--usually to myself, because I don't reply to EVERYTHING on the Internet--"Because they don't want to." And that's usually the answer to any policy question. Why don't they? They don't want to.

People should know more about the 1876 Presidential Election.

I would be interested in knowing how many fled right before the 2024 election, anticipating the outcome or reacting to measures already enacted in their state. I know the number is well above zero.

Man, toxic optimists. "If good things don't happen it's your fault, for not wishing hard enough. I genuinely believe this; it's not just an obvious way of diverting blame from the powerful to the powerless."

The stupid Star Wars stuff cannot distract us from what the Fourth of May is really about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-...

While we don't know much about the debates and processes on the segregationist side, we have extremely detailed knowledge of what was going on in the civil rights movement. Not just because so many in the movement wrote memoirs but also because of all the wire taps and FBI recordings.

One reason--not the only reason, but one of them--why the US is cooked is that Democrats spend a lot more time telling people NOT to support them than trying to get people to support them. After 40 years of this I'm about done.

"That's right, you can't kill me, motherfuckers!"

There are no No Kings protests scheduled for April 19th? This is not a serious organization.

Why is this still a question?

Happy Zombie Jesus Day to all who celebrate. Careful; he's a bit bitey.

I don't understand why people lie about this. No one hates prologues and epilogues. The hate is all from authors, directed at the people who skip prologues and epilogues.

April 1st, when all of the people with no sense of humor make their best effort to show that to the world.

The only ethical way to access Potterstuff, or anything else from the Wicked Witch of YA, is to steal it.

It's amazing how some people will get up one day and decide to show the entire world how stupid they are.

He had a good last few months, but left us this morning. It still doesn't seem real. Farewell, mighty hunter.

Normalizing fascism is what the news media is for. It's what they've done every day for more than 10 years now.

Not a new idea, BTW. "The primary and necessary object of all existence is to be happy, but happiness cannot be obtained individually; it is useless to expect isolated happiness; all must partake of it or the few will never enjoy it." -- Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World, 1836

Even if there was no poem, and they weren't coming for anyone else, speaking up would be the right thing to do. None of us are free until all of us are free.

My assumption when I see someone dismissing any possibility that the Federal Government is even capable of influencing elections is that that person is a fascist operative trying to preclude opposition.

This is completely missing the point, which isn't that the books have only sold 37 copies because they're bad, but that she's LYING about how many books she's sold, and how much money she's made.

Practically every time I meet someone in a professional context I'm asked, "Do you go by, Bob, Rob, Robert?" And I tell them and they respect that. Every-damn-body understands the concept of preferred names. Some people just pretend not to in certain contexts.

What the Federal goon squads are doing now isn't anything new; it's just the current state of policing in the US, following the trend of the last 50 years. They're just open about it. That's why the Democrats won't do anything; anything that disrupts ICE would also disrupt local police.