Holly Jolly Burb
@politiburb.bsky.social
Nerd obsessed with comic books, 90s television shows, and unfortunately politics. Annoying scoreboard tracker. Neoliberalism was right all along. A Biden Democrat to the end.
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Holly Jolly Burb
@politiburb.bsky.social
· Feb 14
The Work. Never. Ends. Humanity is (hopefully!!) stuck here forever, and while we're here we have to help each other. And that means fixing broken systems, then our kids fix it again, then their kids fix it again. Looked at cynically, we're all Sisyphus.
But one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
But one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
It's a real stumper.
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's a real stumper.
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lots of people manage to put up a mental block between people who create the things they love and that person's politics
someone with Reiner's politics, who was just a politician, r/conservative would love Trump's statement
but because Reiner made and starred in things they like, they hate it.
someone with Reiner's politics, who was just a politician, r/conservative would love Trump's statement
but because Reiner made and starred in things they like, they hate it.
The dudes in r/conservative appear to be universally appalled at the President's post about Rob Reiner, and I gotta tell you, when you've lost the pandering sycophants of r/conservative, you've finally gone too far
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
lots of people manage to put up a mental block between people who create the things they love and that person's politics
someone with Reiner's politics, who was just a politician, r/conservative would love Trump's statement
but because Reiner made and starred in things they like, they hate it.
someone with Reiner's politics, who was just a politician, r/conservative would love Trump's statement
but because Reiner made and starred in things they like, they hate it.
What in the fuck does cumlasagna think is going to cause this total collapse? Step 1 is "don't curtail feminism and be nicer to immigrants" and Step 3 is "the literal apocalypse", what is Step 2?
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
What in the fuck does cumlasagna think is going to cause this total collapse? Step 1 is "don't curtail feminism and be nicer to immigrants" and Step 3 is "the literal apocalypse", what is Step 2?
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So do we ”confront the dangerousness of the right“ by engaging — judiciously, if you will! — with user ”cumlasagna1” and his threats of “oceans of blood”?
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
So do we ”confront the dangerousness of the right“ by engaging — judiciously, if you will! — with user ”cumlasagna1” and his threats of “oceans of blood”?
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that's right, double down, you hateful piece of shit, even your own supporters hate this, they're just starting to realize that all stick no carrot means they get the stick, too
Trump on Rob Reiner: He was a deranged person… Trump derangement syndrome. I was not a fan. I thought he was very bad for our country.
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
that's right, double down, you hateful piece of shit, even your own supporters hate this, they're just starting to realize that all stick no carrot means they get the stick, too
Watched "Predators" last night (the documentary on To Catch a Predator and its legacy) and I highly recommend it. Pretty essential text when it comes to documenting how we got to where we currently are in terms of how people perceive law enforcement. Deeply uncomfortable watch but a necessary one.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Watched "Predators" last night (the documentary on To Catch a Predator and its legacy) and I highly recommend it. Pretty essential text when it comes to documenting how we got to where we currently are in terms of how people perceive law enforcement. Deeply uncomfortable watch but a necessary one.
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Considering we have polling that suggests that both Iowa and Texas are competitive (especially if Paxton wins the primary), that Susan Collins is heinously unpopular in Maine, and democrats have literally won statewides in far redder environments in Alaska, I think you're being a bit obtuse tbh
I keep asking people who say this to tell me which Senate races besides NC are actually gettable for the Dems, and all I get is vague hand-waving and “12 point Dem environment” which I don’t find persuasive
December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Considering we have polling that suggests that both Iowa and Texas are competitive (especially if Paxton wins the primary), that Susan Collins is heinously unpopular in Maine, and democrats have literally won statewides in far redder environments in Alaska, I think you're being a bit obtuse tbh
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i'd say "this is the time to stop playing fortnite" except i don't believe that at all as the correct time to stop playing fortnite was when fortnite was released
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i'd say "this is the time to stop playing fortnite" except i don't believe that at all as the correct time to stop playing fortnite was when fortnite was released
You will never find a man so desperate to claim he's making an original observation that just about everyone with a brain has been making for the past 10 years than David Roberts.
Guys, this Trump guy? Well, I realized he was bad news like, right away.
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You will never find a man so desperate to claim he's making an original observation that just about everyone with a brain has been making for the past 10 years than David Roberts.
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Every American should look at Trump‘s remarks about Rob Reiners death to understand what pure inhumanity looks like. Without empathy there is no humanity .He made Rob‘s death about him, & if there was impeachment from the human race, he would qualify.
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Every American should look at Trump‘s remarks about Rob Reiners death to understand what pure inhumanity looks like. Without empathy there is no humanity .He made Rob‘s death about him, & if there was impeachment from the human race, he would qualify.
If they do the Vong my ass is in the seat on opening day. Will attend a midnight showing actually.
Daisy Ridley provides an update on the NEW JEDI ORDER movie
“We are moving in a great direction.”
(Source: @LiveKellyRyan)
“We are moving in a great direction.”
(Source: @LiveKellyRyan)
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If they do the Vong my ass is in the seat on opening day. Will attend a midnight showing actually.
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the primary difference here is that george w bush understood politics better than trump, and didn't demand unquestioned fealty from republicans if it came at the cost of party losses. draw your own conclusions about how this plays out for them over the next three years.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the primary difference here is that george w bush understood politics better than trump, and didn't demand unquestioned fealty from republicans if it came at the cost of party losses. draw your own conclusions about how this plays out for them over the next three years.
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this is what the republican party fall is going to look like. people who think MAGA rubes are going to fall to their knees and repent are fooling themselves, it's going to look like "i'm a conservative, but not a republican, and not a maga republican", this is what it looked like in 2007, too
‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country
Trump administration policies slashing staffing and funding for public lands are waking a sleeping political giant in Montana. Will either party notice?
www.politico.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is what the republican party fall is going to look like. people who think MAGA rubes are going to fall to their knees and repent are fooling themselves, it's going to look like "i'm a conservative, but not a republican, and not a maga republican", this is what it looked like in 2007, too
Lmfao this is insane. Imagine looking at the current state of fresh young right wing thinkers and coming away with the belief that yeah liberals should dump mountains of cash on this too.
There is a great discussion from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social of this problem from a few months ago. Right wingers will dump cash on any potentially promising newcomer. The liberalsphere is way more cautious www.vox.com/on-the-right...
How conservatives help their young thinkers — and why liberals don’t
Liberalism has a serious pipeline problem.
www.vox.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Lmfao this is insane. Imagine looking at the current state of fresh young right wing thinkers and coming away with the belief that yeah liberals should dump mountains of cash on this too.
Take a look at the kind of shit that occurred on Little Saint James and ask yourself what would have been improved in this situation if it had been even easier for every girl over the age of 18 to be taken there for "legal" sex work.
I think sex work being wholesale legalized would have roughly equivalent repercussions to gambling being wholesale legalized. I don't think we even know how bad it would get. Imagine telling someone about DraftKings 10 years ago.
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Take a look at the kind of shit that occurred on Little Saint James and ask yourself what would have been improved in this situation if it had been even easier for every girl over the age of 18 to be taken there for "legal" sex work.
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people crying over chomsky on this website are repulsive frankly. he was quite plainly a piece of shit long before anything related to epstein came out
fuck right off with this too please.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
people crying over chomsky on this website are repulsive frankly. he was quite plainly a piece of shit long before anything related to epstein came out
There's a percentage of the public who would see this post and snicker something about "serves him right!" because they're entirely incapable of understanding emotions other than spite. No one knows the exact number, but I say this should be the last time we ever elect one of them President.
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There's a percentage of the public who would see this post and snicker something about "serves him right!" because they're entirely incapable of understanding emotions other than spite. No one knows the exact number, but I say this should be the last time we ever elect one of them President.
Oh, you're afraid of your kids being sent to an internment camp run by a dictator where they'll lose all their human rights? That shit is weaksauce, *I'm* afraid my kids will be forced to look at and maybe even interact with black people.
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh, you're afraid of your kids being sent to an internment camp run by a dictator where they'll lose all their human rights? That shit is weaksauce, *I'm* afraid my kids will be forced to look at and maybe even interact with black people.
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if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.
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yeah try questioning Hillary in front of Congress, that worked out so well the last two times
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
yeah try questioning Hillary in front of Congress, that worked out so well the last two times
So about that whole gerontocracy thing
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So about that whole gerontocracy thing
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its gonna be so funny if libs visibly jettison Clinton, gates, summers, etc and the left clings to Chomsky tbh. Not beating the allergic to power allegations
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
its gonna be so funny if libs visibly jettison Clinton, gates, summers, etc and the left clings to Chomsky tbh. Not beating the allergic to power allegations
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Personally, I think the Srebrenica genocide denial was a compelling enough reason that the left ought to have disavowed Chomsky decades ago, but this is just embarrassing.
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Personally, I think the Srebrenica genocide denial was a compelling enough reason that the left ought to have disavowed Chomsky decades ago, but this is just embarrassing.
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Being politically correct is a universal solvent that dissolves your other moral impurities
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Being politically correct is a universal solvent that dissolves your other moral impurities
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.