Allen
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Allen
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· Sep 24
The sanewashing, the gaslighting, the pretense that Donald Trump isn’t the person he very obviously is and has always been, needed to fucking stop a long time ago. He is exactly as horrible as we all already knew he was, perhaps even worse.
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"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
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some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash
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to be fair it wasn’t difficult at all to see where this would go, you just had to take people at their word and think seriously about what they were proposing
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM
to be fair it wasn’t difficult at all to see where this would go, you just had to take people at their word and think seriously about what they were proposing
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Yes. I think replies like this show the effectiveness of Blair and Corbyn both in defining “Old Labour” as something it wasn’t. But the actual reality and failure mode of “the governments run by the Labour right before 1994” were, well, like what we have now.
Starmer is running on Old Labour government apparently?
The pro-Starmer people on here are just visibly working backwards from their own self-perception and self-regard. I Am Sensible, all my critics are not. No, you are just defending a dysfunctional Old Labour government, sorry.
January 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Yes. I think replies like this show the effectiveness of Blair and Corbyn both in defining “Old Labour” as something it wasn’t. But the actual reality and failure mode of “the governments run by the Labour right before 1994” were, well, like what we have now.
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one thing I am stridently anti-populist on is brutalism. fuck you and your gaudy ass fake columns, your QVC hog architecture. there is one correct aesthetic for government buildings, and it is brutalism.
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
one thing I am stridently anti-populist on is brutalism. fuck you and your gaudy ass fake columns, your QVC hog architecture. there is one correct aesthetic for government buildings, and it is brutalism.
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Right-wing populist parties in Europe publicly condemning Trump feels significant.
They wouldn’t have done this last year.
They wouldn’t have done this last year.
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Right-wing populist parties in Europe publicly condemning Trump feels significant.
They wouldn’t have done this last year.
They wouldn’t have done this last year.
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one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency
January 19, 2026 at 8:12 PM
one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency
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"they don't care about polls." okay. the next question to ask is, "how has this worked out for them?" and he answer is that it has led to the rapid deterioration of their political position, which erodes their ability to influence or compel other actors.
I wish part 2 was true. They don’t care about polls.
January 19, 2026 at 8:12 PM
"they don't care about polls." okay. the next question to ask is, "how has this worked out for them?" and he answer is that it has led to the rapid deterioration of their political position, which erodes their ability to influence or compel other actors.
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in which case minnesota is almost a prototypical miller operation. maximally cruel and dangerous but also haphazard and self-defeating.
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM
in which case minnesota is almost a prototypical miller operation. maximally cruel and dangerous but also haphazard and self-defeating.
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what makes him dangerous is that he is a fanatical xenophobe and white supremacist with the power of the federal government in his hands. what makes him weak is that he is utterly indifferent to public opinion or political necessities.
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM
what makes him dangerous is that he is a fanatical xenophobe and white supremacist with the power of the federal government in his hands. what makes him weak is that he is utterly indifferent to public opinion or political necessities.
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i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
The Wrath of Stephen Miller
The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM
i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
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"freeze all the meats" does sound like something Eric Adams would announce while standing next to a sentient version of the Arby's Logo
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
January 19, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"freeze all the meats" does sound like something Eric Adams would announce while standing next to a sentient version of the Arby's Logo
more like Board of POTATO
Trump has now invited the dictatorship in Belarus to join his Gaza “Board of Peace”.
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
more like Board of POTATO
A lot of misogyny is about men projecting their insecurities and self-hatred onto women, or otherwise acting creepy towards women and entitled to their attention (and bodies), and then blaming women when they, shockingly, react negatively to said behavior.
January 19, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A lot of misogyny is about men projecting their insecurities and self-hatred onto women, or otherwise acting creepy towards women and entitled to their attention (and bodies), and then blaming women when they, shockingly, react negatively to said behavior.
reading Trump’s TruthSocial’s posts he’s pretty clearly been radicalized by his own propaganda. he’s only interacting with chuds/Nazis (his administration) these days and so doesn’t have New York media and Hollywood sickos to be his foils as an asshole insult comic.
plus, he’s senile.
plus, he’s senile.
January 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
reading Trump’s TruthSocial’s posts he’s pretty clearly been radicalized by his own propaganda. he’s only interacting with chuds/Nazis (his administration) these days and so doesn’t have New York media and Hollywood sickos to be his foils as an asshole insult comic.
plus, he’s senile.
plus, he’s senile.
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this is cold as fuck
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
this is cold as fuck
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you can't actually suppress away a wave of discontent. (relatedly, i think a lot of you have no idea how large this country is and how small its various military and security forces are relative to its population)
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
you can't actually suppress away a wave of discontent. (relatedly, i think a lot of you have no idea how large this country is and how small its various military and security forces are relative to its population)
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72 hours, really.
That was such a weird few weeks when people pretended to care about Charlie Kirk.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
72 hours, really.
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That was such a weird few weeks when people pretended to care about Charlie Kirk.
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM
That was such a weird few weeks when people pretended to care about Charlie Kirk.
My scheming vizier told me Will Stancil’s feed kept driving his interns insane so I asked him how many interns he has and he said he just goes to Hillsdale and gets a new one afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s feeding young republicans to will stencil and JD Vance started crying
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been
January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been
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the only person in the poasting administration who is actually a good poaster was the president himself before his brain turned to mush
forget the nazi shit, this is elon levels of pathetic
forget the nazi shit, this is elon levels of pathetic
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
the only person in the poasting administration who is actually a good poaster was the president himself before his brain turned to mush
forget the nazi shit, this is elon levels of pathetic
forget the nazi shit, this is elon levels of pathetic
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ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating
ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating