Wannabe Apparatchik
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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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A friend of mine has an ancestor who was a Chinese diplomat to France and England and he set up a whole "western room" when he got back filled with such exotic things as a pool table; and I just love the universal human experience of going "holy shit the other side of the world is SO EXOTIC!"
People always blathering about English shows appropriating culture, like making it mystical/magical. Have clearly never watched any anime. Full of appropriation of Christian religious imagery or German/French space feudalism.
February 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
A friend of mine has an ancestor who was a Chinese diplomat to France and England and he set up a whole "western room" when he got back filled with such exotic things as a pool table; and I just love the universal human experience of going "holy shit the other side of the world is SO EXOTIC!"
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one of my biggest aggravations about anticapitalists is how few of them have an actual coherent framework of what capitalism actually is
February 18, 2026 at 5:38 AM
one of my biggest aggravations about anticapitalists is how few of them have an actual coherent framework of what capitalism actually is
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incredible how many anticapitalists' anticapitalism consists of not even believing capitalism exists
seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 AM
incredible how many anticapitalists' anticapitalism consists of not even believing capitalism exists
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As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.
Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.
Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.
Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings
The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.
www.stripes.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM
As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.
Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.
Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.
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ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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It’s true that the obligations imposed by VBNMW fall most heavily on the left - they are a minority of the coalition - but the principle applies to left and center, equally, and it’s especially ridiculous when moderates, who stand to gain the most, fail to live up to it
February 18, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It’s true that the obligations imposed by VBNMW fall most heavily on the left - they are a minority of the coalition - but the principle applies to left and center, equally, and it’s especially ridiculous when moderates, who stand to gain the most, fail to live up to it
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They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.
Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, claims that evidence suggests a correlation between undergoing Trans Medical Care and acts of violence.
He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.
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eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
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Stable liberal social democracy is good for business, more and more people are saying it.
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
February 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Stable liberal social democracy is good for business, more and more people are saying it.
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The tent is getting way too big
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The tent is getting way too big
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Modern Family reboot with a hot trans cousin would probably fix everything tbh
I am convinced that the right NBC dramedy would more or less solve the trans sports issue, if you actually talk to people who flipped their views on gay rights in the 2000s a disturbingly high percentage will mention Ellen or Queer Eye
This is similar to where gay rights were in the early 90s! Which isn’t great but we actually can move the needle on this
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Modern Family reboot with a hot trans cousin would probably fix everything tbh
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i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"
Look, I post a lot about video games, but if you sound like this you should really take a beat and assess whether you're burning your best energy on the right thing.
February 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"
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Look, I post a lot about video games, but if you sound like this you should really take a beat and assess whether you're burning your best energy on the right thing.
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Look, I post a lot about video games, but if you sound like this you should really take a beat and assess whether you're burning your best energy on the right thing.
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Also, just gonna put this out there - handwaving measurable factors like tariffs and component scarcity while pointing to amorphous "corporate greed" is a chud move. If you're an adult and you're doing that, you're performing conservative "apolitical" tiktok schtick.
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Also, just gonna put this out there - handwaving measurable factors like tariffs and component scarcity while pointing to amorphous "corporate greed" is a chud move. If you're an adult and you're doing that, you're performing conservative "apolitical" tiktok schtick.
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Militarize the border and RIF all these people, more and more are saying.
I really hope someone in dem policy circles is coming up with a plan for ICE and CBP doing what police departments have done when there’s a DA they don’t like: quiet quit and half ass the actually legit parts of the job and loudly tell friendly media that they can’t do their jobs, Because of Woke
One thing that's important to realize now is that, even in a scenario where Dems sweep to a crushing trifecta in 2028, Republicans will use their control of the courts to attempt to continue, as much as they can, to run executive agencies in exile, with DHS/ICE under Biden as the model
February 17, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Militarize the border and RIF all these people, more and more are saying.
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I really hope someone in dem policy circles is coming up with a plan for ICE and CBP doing what police departments have done when there’s a DA they don’t like: quiet quit and half ass the actually legit parts of the job and loudly tell friendly media that they can’t do their jobs, Because of Woke
One thing that's important to realize now is that, even in a scenario where Dems sweep to a crushing trifecta in 2028, Republicans will use their control of the courts to attempt to continue, as much as they can, to run executive agencies in exile, with DHS/ICE under Biden as the model
February 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I really hope someone in dem policy circles is coming up with a plan for ICE and CBP doing what police departments have done when there’s a DA they don’t like: quiet quit and half ass the actually legit parts of the job and loudly tell friendly media that they can’t do their jobs, Because of Woke
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I feel like people don't really talk about this, but 99% of the trans debate is, for whatever reason, centered around trans women, not trans men, who basically don't exist in the discourse.
February 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel like people don't really talk about this, but 99% of the trans debate is, for whatever reason, centered around trans women, not trans men, who basically don't exist in the discourse.
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lowkey i find this to be one of the most viscerally upsetting things elon musk has ever done
I mean, who are you going to believe: Elon Musk, or seemingly all of the women who have been involved with him (except his mother, and please don't go down that road)...?👍
February 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
lowkey i find this to be one of the most viscerally upsetting things elon musk has ever done
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HE DID THE MEME
February 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
HE DID THE MEME
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I'm sorry but the idea that any Democrat, Gavin Newsom included, would conduct Operation Metro Surge is completely deranged. It feels like you're trying to gaslight us or something.
brother, the point people are trying to make is that "get ICE out of minneapolis" is a bar that Newsom fails to clear and his boosters are actively shaming people for trying to get him to step over it
February 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I'm sorry but the idea that any Democrat, Gavin Newsom included, would conduct Operation Metro Surge is completely deranged. It feels like you're trying to gaslight us or something.
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they also are just massively failing to understand how gender actually worked in these societies
men on the whole were not put upon by these norms! the reason "women and children first" was a rule was a decision men made because of a sense of honor! most guys on the Titanic wouldn't have argued!
men on the whole were not put upon by these norms! the reason "women and children first" was a rule was a decision men made because of a sense of honor! most guys on the Titanic wouldn't have argued!
February 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
they also are just massively failing to understand how gender actually worked in these societies
men on the whole were not put upon by these norms! the reason "women and children first" was a rule was a decision men made because of a sense of honor! most guys on the Titanic wouldn't have argued!
men on the whole were not put upon by these norms! the reason "women and children first" was a rule was a decision men made because of a sense of honor! most guys on the Titanic wouldn't have argued!
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a significant hurdle for this is the fact that the liberal media decided that the Republican framing is the correct framing and that's how we get more articles written about surgeries for minors than actual cases of surgeries for minors
trans kids should be allowed to play sports and youth transition is crucial care, but why do the American people have strong opinions about something that affects *maybe* hundreds of people?
every second you spend debating the unfair advantages of height in basketball is wasted time taking the bait
every second you spend debating the unfair advantages of height in basketball is wasted time taking the bait
February 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
a significant hurdle for this is the fact that the liberal media decided that the Republican framing is the correct framing and that's how we get more articles written about surgeries for minors than actual cases of surgeries for minors
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The archetypal D&D party is OF COURSE a righteous foe of capitalism, they understand that the correct and morally upright way to acquire wealth is to kill it and take it from its current undeserving owners.
Most of human history was not capitalist.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.
February 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The archetypal D&D party is OF COURSE a righteous foe of capitalism, they understand that the correct and morally upright way to acquire wealth is to kill it and take it from its current undeserving owners.
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Most of human history was not capitalist.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.
February 17, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Most of human history was not capitalist.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.
Many human societies, in fact, were fairly ambivalent on the idea of earning wealth through labor or entrepreneurial ingenuity to the point of changing your social station, as opposed to the honest ways of killing or being born to acquire it.