Jason O
@bucketsofoil.bsky.social
Less the -less in “Godless liberal.”
Striving to be kind, but not necessarily nice.
Hooked on semiotics (pejorative).
Striving to be kind, but not necessarily nice.
Hooked on semiotics (pejorative).
Pinned
Jason O
@bucketsofoil.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Actions have consequences. But for the next four years, I must strive to make *mine* the consequence of *their* actions.
I will probably fail. Often. But the moment demands that I try.
I will probably fail. Often. But the moment demands that I try.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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The kindest version of Yglesias’ hallucinatory reading of American politics would see a Democratic Party torn between LIBERAL egalitarians and liberal EGALITARIANS but that is not what we see in reality.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The kindest version of Yglesias’ hallucinatory reading of American politics would see a Democratic Party torn between LIBERAL egalitarians and liberal EGALITARIANS but that is not what we see in reality.
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America has perhaps a tradition of radical egalitarianism but at no point has that radical egalitarianism produced less liberalism. We don’t look at FDR’s administration as a time of encroaching autocracy! (Or rather, the only ones who did were and are deeply authoritarian themselves).
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
America has perhaps a tradition of radical egalitarianism but at no point has that radical egalitarianism produced less liberalism. We don’t look at FDR’s administration as a time of encroaching autocracy! (Or rather, the only ones who did were and are deeply authoritarian themselves).
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which pushes towards disunion every time it is allowed or forced—or worse, in the case of the modern Republican Party, actively sought out—to concentrate in a single political vehicle. There is one illiberalism in American history and it took its most concrete form in the Confederacy.
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
which pushes towards disunion every time it is allowed or forced—or worse, in the case of the modern Republican Party, actively sought out—to concentrate in a single political vehicle. There is one illiberalism in American history and it took its most concrete form in the Confederacy.
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A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
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made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
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It's funny that multiple NYT writers were on here yesterday spiraling out of control trying to defend the integrity of the paper and then today they publish an enormous puff piece on Olivia Nuzzi, including glamour shots. It's like the paper did it specifically to make them look bad.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's funny that multiple NYT writers were on here yesterday spiraling out of control trying to defend the integrity of the paper and then today they publish an enormous puff piece on Olivia Nuzzi, including glamour shots. It's like the paper did it specifically to make them look bad.
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Puzzling that the centrist pundits who are arguing for a "big tent" Democratic Party are the same people who spend all their time on social media attacking the left. The Venn diagram of these two groups is practically a circle.
Meanwhile, if you take Dems and subtract the left, you get 2000 and 2024
Meanwhile, if you take Dems and subtract the left, you get 2000 and 2024
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Puzzling that the centrist pundits who are arguing for a "big tent" Democratic Party are the same people who spend all their time on social media attacking the left. The Venn diagram of these two groups is practically a circle.
Meanwhile, if you take Dems and subtract the left, you get 2000 and 2024
Meanwhile, if you take Dems and subtract the left, you get 2000 and 2024
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The way I square the circle is that the journalists would like for Nuzzi to sleep with them, and that's a gross unprofessional thought, but its a gross unprofessional choice to platform her nonsense, too
the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding
what the actual fuck
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The way I square the circle is that the journalists would like for Nuzzi to sleep with them, and that's a gross unprofessional thought, but its a gross unprofessional choice to platform her nonsense, too
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look I just hope that if I'm ever at the peak of my career and my profession, and do something that is ethically insane, personally deranged, and politically grotesque, I too can call up the most powerful journalistic institution in America to write a swooning defense of me
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
look I just hope that if I'm ever at the peak of my career and my profession, and do something that is ethically insane, personally deranged, and politically grotesque, I too can call up the most powerful journalistic institution in America to write a swooning defense of me
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who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club
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capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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Tried to explain some of these emails to my very offline wife over the phone, and she was like, “Okay but you’re paraphrasing and exaggerating for effect; what do they really say?” and I’m like no, I am reading.
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Tried to explain some of these emails to my very offline wife over the phone, and she was like, “Okay but you’re paraphrasing and exaggerating for effect; what do they really say?” and I’m like no, I am reading.
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It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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Honestly the Epstein files kinda give an explanation as to why the (elite-led, because basement dwelling groypers didn't do jack shit) backlash against MeToo and "wokeness" was so intense and ultimately succesful.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Honestly the Epstein files kinda give an explanation as to why the (elite-led, because basement dwelling groypers didn't do jack shit) backlash against MeToo and "wokeness" was so intense and ultimately succesful.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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I mean honestly, it *does* explain how elite backlash against MeToo was about as intense as the reaction to 9/11.
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I mean honestly, it *does* explain how elite backlash against MeToo was about as intense as the reaction to 9/11.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.