@badnamehaver.bsky.social
Pinned
not to freak anyone out or anything but I’ve been reading the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton and I think the concept of fascism as a model of government featuring a normative state and a prerogative state is potentially going to be useful for thinking about DOGE
Everyone should seriously read Anatomy, I cannot sufficiently stress the extent to which a pop-culture history channel "fascism is when you're a bad guy, politically" understanding of Fascism will not serve you in understanding the current moment
"The politically correct non-imperialist term is USian, not American" is the kind of fake take a CIA agent types into discord with tears streaming down his face
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"The politically correct non-imperialist term is USian, not American" is the kind of fake take a CIA agent types into discord with tears streaming down his face
It's already apparently impossible for a celebrity to get help no matter how publicly mentally ill they are (Kanye West, Terrence Howard), add the ideological sympathy of the entire media to that and there's a 0% chance he doesn't end up committing suicide and/or murder in the name of this delusion
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's already apparently impossible for a celebrity to get help no matter how publicly mentally ill they are (Kanye West, Terrence Howard), add the ideological sympathy of the entire media to that and there's a 0% chance he doesn't end up committing suicide and/or murder in the name of this delusion
Reposted
All this back and forth over whether this will actually hurt him or not, call me a victim of the epistemological crisis if you will but ultimately I don't feel like I or anyone else can actually predict society or politics anymore.
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
All this back and forth over whether this will actually hurt him or not, call me a victim of the epistemological crisis if you will but ultimately I don't feel like I or anyone else can actually predict society or politics anymore.
Allowing the shallow techno-optimism of billionaires to radicalise you into shallow techno-pessimism is frankly pathetic
"AGI will not and can never exist" "we will never understand human cognition" "we will never leave the solar system or even live off-earth" posts on here, man shut the fuck up
"AGI will not and can never exist" "we will never understand human cognition" "we will never leave the solar system or even live off-earth" posts on here, man shut the fuck up
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Allowing the shallow techno-optimism of billionaires to radicalise you into shallow techno-pessimism is frankly pathetic
"AGI will not and can never exist" "we will never understand human cognition" "we will never leave the solar system or even live off-earth" posts on here, man shut the fuck up
"AGI will not and can never exist" "we will never understand human cognition" "we will never leave the solar system or even live off-earth" posts on here, man shut the fuck up
Reposted
I am long past the point of being willing to give anybody any benefit of the doubt on this: my entire adult life has been varying crackdowns on immigration, none of which have stopped the far right, they're still not stopping them, at what point do idiots like this admit they've got it wrong?
This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am long past the point of being willing to give anybody any benefit of the doubt on this: my entire adult life has been varying crackdowns on immigration, none of which have stopped the far right, they're still not stopping them, at what point do idiots like this admit they've got it wrong?
This has to be the most anodyne and unsurprising pope statement to get the "woke pope based!" treatment so far
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This has to be the most anodyne and unsurprising pope statement to get the "woke pope based!" treatment so far
So it looks like popular YouTube animator cwitchy is a reactionary freak posting nazi dogwhistle shit in their cutesy videos and harassing queer people off their discord and basically no one knows or cares
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
So it looks like popular YouTube animator cwitchy is a reactionary freak posting nazi dogwhistle shit in their cutesy videos and harassing queer people off their discord and basically no one knows or cares
The "hitting translate on a Hebrew tweet" post but it's about finding a trans girl's posts about nerdskull
September 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The "hitting translate on a Hebrew tweet" post but it's about finding a trans girl's posts about nerdskull
Saying that you agree with the legal theory under which Julius Streicher was executed for publishing Der Stürmer would constitute an implied death threat against the publisher of almost every paper in this country at this point
First it was a trans shooter, then trans bullets, then a trans lover, then a trans roommate, now it was to win back the trans lover.
[Mail]
[Mail]
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Saying that you agree with the legal theory under which Julius Streicher was executed for publishing Der Stürmer would constitute an implied death threat against the publisher of almost every paper in this country at this point
Reposted
everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr
Reposted
the anti-trans movement across the english-speaking world is mostly the work of like two dozen people, tops. they're all obscenely rich asshole losers, and they're always doing the same things, regardless of place, time, or other context
Including gillick competence in the heritage paper attempting to define so called trans motivated violence as terrorism is a huge tip that some british knobhead wrote it.
Gillick isn't an American thing, it's a UK thing.
Gillick isn't an American thing, it's a UK thing.
September 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
the anti-trans movement across the english-speaking world is mostly the work of like two dozen people, tops. they're all obscenely rich asshole losers, and they're always doing the same things, regardless of place, time, or other context
Reactionary Christian politics are about to ride the coattails of insurgent fascism into the mainstream politics of the UK, a country where we once did laicism so hard Alastair Campbell had to tell Tony Blair to keep his faith in the closet if he wanted to be PM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reactionary Christian politics are about to ride the coattails of insurgent fascism into the mainstream politics of the UK, a country where we once did laicism so hard Alastair Campbell had to tell Tony Blair to keep his faith in the closet if he wanted to be PM
Reposted
Literally the only thing spurring me on rn is the knowledge that they want us to give up.
It’ll do.
It’ll do.
September 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Literally the only thing spurring me on rn is the knowledge that they want us to give up.
It’ll do.
It’ll do.
Reposted
btw when we said terfs were on the wrong side of history we were very much talking about the nazism that has now taken over the united states. the violent pogroms they are trying to incite in the wake of the charlie kirk murder.
terfs did that. they were fascism’s useful idiots.
terfs did that. they were fascism’s useful idiots.
September 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
btw when we said terfs were on the wrong side of history we were very much talking about the nazism that has now taken over the united states. the violent pogroms they are trying to incite in the wake of the charlie kirk murder.
terfs did that. they were fascism’s useful idiots.
terfs did that. they were fascism’s useful idiots.
Reposted
Gatekeeping autism exclusively those who have been diagnosed is effectively ceding control of our community to a medical profession which is at best a distant observer (and at worst openly hostile and patholigising).
September 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Gatekeeping autism exclusively those who have been diagnosed is effectively ceding control of our community to a medical profession which is at best a distant observer (and at worst openly hostile and patholigising).
Mum & dad watching TV: These two boys are so fun! And they're gay, like our son :)
Rylan Clark & Rob Rinder in India: Wow it's really cool that you're a billionaire 🤩 It's really interesting how you, a billionaire, say we should all just forget about all that nasty colonialism stuff 🤔
Wow these
Rylan Clark & Rob Rinder in India: Wow it's really cool that you're a billionaire 🤩 It's really interesting how you, a billionaire, say we should all just forget about all that nasty colonialism stuff 🤔
Wow these
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Mum & dad watching TV: These two boys are so fun! And they're gay, like our son :)
Rylan Clark & Rob Rinder in India: Wow it's really cool that you're a billionaire 🤩 It's really interesting how you, a billionaire, say we should all just forget about all that nasty colonialism stuff 🤔
Wow these
Rylan Clark & Rob Rinder in India: Wow it's really cool that you're a billionaire 🤩 It's really interesting how you, a billionaire, say we should all just forget about all that nasty colonialism stuff 🤔
Wow these
*rubbing fingers into temples* People's Liberation Army, denazify my country's print media NOW
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
*rubbing fingers into temples* People's Liberation Army, denazify my country's print media NOW
Reposted
Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany.
Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.
Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.
If folks wants to hold the WSJ accountable you can reach out here:
Reporters:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Credit: @esqueer.net
Reporters:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Credit: @esqueer.net
Hey @wsj.com, you owe us an apology. Your sloppy reporting falsely labeled the shooter as trans. You were wrong. This was lazy journalism, and our community deserves better than lies that put us at risk.
September 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany.
Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.
Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.
Reposted
EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.
September 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.
"Political violence is always wrong" is an insane and incoherent position in itself, leaving aside the fact that unless you're Amish or some other kind of religious absolute pacifist you're fucking lying when you say you believe in it
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Political violence is always wrong" is an insane and incoherent position in itself, leaving aside the fact that unless you're Amish or some other kind of religious absolute pacifist you're fucking lying when you say you believe in it
There's a song that goes
Shoot, shoot, shoot the Boer
and I just happen to find that really interesting for no legally significant reason
Shoot, shoot, shoot the Boer
and I just happen to find that really interesting for no legally significant reason
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
September 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There's a song that goes
Shoot, shoot, shoot the Boer
and I just happen to find that really interesting for no legally significant reason
Shoot, shoot, shoot the Boer
and I just happen to find that really interesting for no legally significant reason
"um, it's called Epic Trolling actually 😁😁"
- people who think a joke is when you say something in a stupid voice
- people who think a joke is when you say something in a stupid voice
So if I'm reading this right, Gavin Newsom's press office created an image (almost certainly using AI) of Gavin being prayed over by a dead racist union buster and two living fascist dipshits, and we're supposed to think that's cool and funny and clever? Good grief.
August 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"um, it's called Epic Trolling actually 😁😁"
- people who think a joke is when you say something in a stupid voice
- people who think a joke is when you say something in a stupid voice
Norman Spinrad tried to write a parody of the reactionary elements of fantasy and sci fi but accidentally wrote an alternate history that argues that Adolf Hitler was a lesser evil to what he prevented (an evil Giga Soviet Union that *successfully* genocided the jews, for some reason)
August 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Norman Spinrad tried to write a parody of the reactionary elements of fantasy and sci fi but accidentally wrote an alternate history that argues that Adolf Hitler was a lesser evil to what he prevented (an evil Giga Soviet Union that *successfully* genocided the jews, for some reason)