Bluesky Öyster Cult
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But we can't turn back! Fear is their greatest defense. I doubt if the actual security there is any greater than it was on Aquilae or Sullust, and what there is is most likely directed towards a large-scale assault.
If the mainstream media described what Democrats actually do, it would demonstrate that Republicans have been lying about the Dems shamelessly. And we can't acknowledge that truth. It would mean that the party of white men is full of it. And so it goes.
The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If the mainstream media described what Democrats actually do, it would demonstrate that Republicans have been lying about the Dems shamelessly. And we can't acknowledge that truth. It would mean that the party of white men is full of it. And so it goes.
Davis's post is a wonderful, delicious casserole of bigotry. I'm in awe in how it casually slides from classism to racism against black people to racism against immigrants. And with a hint of eugenics ("Stop reproducing")! Close down X, folks, we have our winner.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Davis's post is a wonderful, delicious casserole of bigotry. I'm in awe in how it casually slides from classism to racism against black people to racism against immigrants. And with a hint of eugenics ("Stop reproducing")! Close down X, folks, we have our winner.
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This is not a Kavanaugh stop. This is a Roberts murder.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is not a Kavanaugh stop. This is a Roberts murder.
This is a good essay. Also, ten points to Will Stancil's the-Internet-has-cooked-our-brains idea.
All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is a good essay. Also, ten points to Will Stancil's the-Internet-has-cooked-our-brains idea.
No Kings in Hammond, La. (pop. 23,400)
October 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
No Kings in Hammond, La. (pop. 23,400)
Women don't like the vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Women don't like the vehicle
Fascists are going from talking about useless eaters to talking about useless breathers.
The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh
October 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fascists are going from talking about useless eaters to talking about useless breathers.
This is great. Mutual assistance is what government is, after all. Give people a concrete demonstration of what progressives are fighting for.
We need clear communication with the people.
And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should.
It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.
And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should.
It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is great. Mutual assistance is what government is, after all. Give people a concrete demonstration of what progressives are fighting for.
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Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!
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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
I'm trying out a new mnemonic:
If your Ezra be Levin, you're in commentary heaven;
If your Ezra be Klein, you're a long way from fine.
Thoughts?
If your Ezra be Levin, you're in commentary heaven;
If your Ezra be Klein, you're a long way from fine.
Thoughts?
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'm trying out a new mnemonic:
If your Ezra be Levin, you're in commentary heaven;
If your Ezra be Klein, you're a long way from fine.
Thoughts?
If your Ezra be Levin, you're in commentary heaven;
If your Ezra be Klein, you're a long way from fine.
Thoughts?
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RHETORICAL COMMENT ONLY:
Show me a guy who has decided to cut off his dick so he can get a trophy…and I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t exist.
Show me a guy who has decided to cut off his dick so he can get a trophy…and I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t exist.
April 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
RHETORICAL COMMENT ONLY:
Show me a guy who has decided to cut off his dick so he can get a trophy…and I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t exist.
Show me a guy who has decided to cut off his dick so he can get a trophy…and I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t exist.
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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Y'all know this is a win, right? Why aren't liberals and leftists strutting about and beating their chests over kicking Trump's ass like this?
That's the trouble with the left (broadly speaking). They never revel in their victories or act like winners. So no one thinks of them as winners.
That's the trouble with the left (broadly speaking). They never revel in their victories or act like winners. So no one thinks of them as winners.
So....
1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz"
2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump.
3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order.
4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz"
2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump.
3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order.
4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
August 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Y'all know this is a win, right? Why aren't liberals and leftists strutting about and beating their chests over kicking Trump's ass like this?
That's the trouble with the left (broadly speaking). They never revel in their victories or act like winners. So no one thinks of them as winners.
That's the trouble with the left (broadly speaking). They never revel in their victories or act like winners. So no one thinks of them as winners.
Also: I see De Chirico, I like.
August 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Also: I see De Chirico, I like.
I'm a simple man. I see Hopper, I like.
August 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I'm a simple man. I see Hopper, I like.
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CNN says the Epstein story is dead based on google searches dropping, as if people need to continually search for the same information, so in order to keep it as a top story OUR job is to type "Epstein files" into google once a day every day.. do it now!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
CNN says the Epstein story is dead based on google searches dropping, as if people need to continually search for the same information, so in order to keep it as a top story OUR job is to type "Epstein files" into google once a day every day.. do it now!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Very interesting thread.
Cosmopolitan values are great, but they necessarily have to form a superstructure that establishes meta-norms that allow coexistence including dispute resolution in a way that's egalitarian to groups with varying degrees and kinds of particularist values, or it's just top-down imperial assimilation
July 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Very interesting thread.
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Fascism is a cult that needs victims. It gives adherents permission to indulge in the psychic reward of hurting the socially subordinate, but it needs someone to play the role of socially subordinate. So it feasts on one group after another: immigrants, trans people, Muslims.
July 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Fascism is a cult that needs victims. It gives adherents permission to indulge in the psychic reward of hurting the socially subordinate, but it needs someone to play the role of socially subordinate. So it feasts on one group after another: immigrants, trans people, Muslims.
Bingo. We'd rather identify guilty individuals than look at systemic corruption.
The fact the mainstream media has allowed this to be about ‘clients’ rather than
1) rape of underage girls
2) money laundering
3) the intersection of corruption, tax evasion, tax avoidance, offshore finance, Organized Crime & the Intelligence Community.
Is more damning imo. This is being buried.
1) rape of underage girls
2) money laundering
3) the intersection of corruption, tax evasion, tax avoidance, offshore finance, Organized Crime & the Intelligence Community.
Is more damning imo. This is being buried.
July 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bingo. We'd rather identify guilty individuals than look at systemic corruption.
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Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp.
It should be called Alligator Auschwitz.
It should be called Alligator Auschwitz.
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp.
It should be called Alligator Auschwitz.
It should be called Alligator Auschwitz.
separated at birth
June 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
separated at birth
This is probably bullshit, but why take chances?
June 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is probably bullshit, but why take chances?
This skeet links to an article that makes a convincing case that progressives need to embark on large-scale propaganda campaign to counter the propaganda of the right. The obvious problem with this idea, though, is that such a campaign would require a lot of money. There are a handful of /1
It seems most ppl want to think that our immersion in lies is something that just happened naturally, w/o anyone engineering it. But that's not the case. And thinking it happened naturally just keeps us from solving the real problem. Bc ppl are in denial about it.
upine.medium.com/time-to-solv...
upine.medium.com/time-to-solv...
Time to Solve Our Propaganda Problems like the Military Does
A large percentage of our nation’s voters are immersed in Right Wing propaganda. What’s the solution? We should
upine.medium.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This skeet links to an article that makes a convincing case that progressives need to embark on large-scale propaganda campaign to counter the propaganda of the right. The obvious problem with this idea, though, is that such a campaign would require a lot of money. There are a handful of /1