Ds00n
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“In the instance of mass harassment and bullying, it's not really consoling to know there's a silent majority supporting you.”
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Ds00n
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· Dec 4
You want to understand people who vote for Trump: He’s Palpatine. They’re Darth Vader.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
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Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.
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I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
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To put it bluntly: He doesn't win AS decisively as he does (twice!) without a plurality of white Boomers seeing his ascension as something like a declaration that "racism is over!"
When racism "didn't end" (white Boomers still "had to hear complaining" from POC) they felt "betrayed" and we got Trump
When racism "didn't end" (white Boomers still "had to hear complaining" from POC) they felt "betrayed" and we got Trump
January 30, 2026 at 6:58 PM
To put it bluntly: He doesn't win AS decisively as he does (twice!) without a plurality of white Boomers seeing his ascension as something like a declaration that "racism is over!"
When racism "didn't end" (white Boomers still "had to hear complaining" from POC) they felt "betrayed" and we got Trump
When racism "didn't end" (white Boomers still "had to hear complaining" from POC) they felt "betrayed" and we got Trump
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Obviously, there's an ENTIRE other substantive dimension that race brings to the table (the Black Boomer / Black Millennial experience in the U.S. was/is *very* different from the broader aka White Boomer history) but both tracks were key to how Obama arrived when he did and what it meant.
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Obviously, there's an ENTIRE other substantive dimension that race brings to the table (the Black Boomer / Black Millennial experience in the U.S. was/is *very* different from the broader aka White Boomer history) but both tracks were key to how Obama arrived when he did and what it meant.
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The Boomers were the same way. They were going to change the world and throw off the system... how did that work out?
Everyone gets old, eventually. Everyone misses something they lost, eventually. "Don't you want to be comfortable again?" Works on EVERYONE because EVERYONE feels it, somehow.
Everyone gets old, eventually. Everyone misses something they lost, eventually. "Don't you want to be comfortable again?" Works on EVERYONE because EVERYONE feels it, somehow.
January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
The Boomers were the same way. They were going to change the world and throw off the system... how did that work out?
Everyone gets old, eventually. Everyone misses something they lost, eventually. "Don't you want to be comfortable again?" Works on EVERYONE because EVERYONE feels it, somehow.
Everyone gets old, eventually. Everyone misses something they lost, eventually. "Don't you want to be comfortable again?" Works on EVERYONE because EVERYONE feels it, somehow.
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If you don't have conservative parents, you might not know that the Don Lemon church protest story has been the biggest thing on their radar for over two weeks. While everyone else has been watching murders in the streets, they've been screaming about a black man doing journalism in a church.
January 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
If you don't have conservative parents, you might not know that the Don Lemon church protest story has been the biggest thing on their radar for over two weeks. While everyone else has been watching murders in the streets, they've been screaming about a black man doing journalism in a church.
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You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
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If DeWine supports Haitians in Ohio, it’s time for him to consult his god, understand he will never be president but he can be defender of free people and America in a way most presidents will never be, and do everything in his power to keep the ravenous monsters who run his party out of his state
DeWine has been a big supporter of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield. He has provided funds for support services and housing improvements all along. He is a traditional Catholic along the lines of the current Pope and emphasizes charity. He is also from a neighboring town to Springfield.
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 AM
If DeWine supports Haitians in Ohio, it’s time for him to consult his god, understand he will never be president but he can be defender of free people and America in a way most presidents will never be, and do everything in his power to keep the ravenous monsters who run his party out of his state
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Perhaps the most infamous moment of the 2024 campaign - an open effort by Vance to demagogue Haitians - was lifted directly from a specific Nazi source, which he openly reads. Zero curiosity from our leaders about any of it. Nothing to see here, I guess.
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Perhaps the most infamous moment of the 2024 campaign - an open effort by Vance to demagogue Haitians - was lifted directly from a specific Nazi source, which he openly reads. Zero curiosity from our leaders about any of it. Nothing to see here, I guess.
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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Every time a new version of this nonsense cycles through I remember:
The original "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN" was a true story about a husband/wife team of professional efficiency experts who tried to manage their actual 12-child family this way and the father dropped dead of a heart attack at 55.
The original "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN" was a true story about a husband/wife team of professional efficiency experts who tried to manage their actual 12-child family this way and the father dropped dead of a heart attack at 55.
January 29, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Every time a new version of this nonsense cycles through I remember:
The original "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN" was a true story about a husband/wife team of professional efficiency experts who tried to manage their actual 12-child family this way and the father dropped dead of a heart attack at 55.
The original "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN" was a true story about a husband/wife team of professional efficiency experts who tried to manage their actual 12-child family this way and the father dropped dead of a heart attack at 55.
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You have to understand that my concerted attacks solely on Democrats are justified by my being mad about what Republicans are doing.
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 PM
You have to understand that my concerted attacks solely on Democrats are justified by my being mad about what Republicans are doing.
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People got annoyed at me for saying it, but I posit that the first manifestation of a Millennial "answer to Reaganism" (nostalgia as politics) you can observe r/n is probably the Mamdani campaign: It's not EXPLICIT, but an undercurrent of his pitch was "revive 90s/00s NYC but without Giulianism."
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People got annoyed at me for saying it, but I posit that the first manifestation of a Millennial "answer to Reaganism" (nostalgia as politics) you can observe r/n is probably the Mamdani campaign: It's not EXPLICIT, but an undercurrent of his pitch was "revive 90s/00s NYC but without Giulianism."
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Millennial "better America" nostalgia is a different beast altogether: Unmatched prosperity/peace as kids in the Clinton 90s, trauma-memory of 9/11 + GWOT blowing all that up, Obama as complicated savior figure, etc.
"RETVRN to better past" is going to look very different for them. Hard to predict.
"RETVRN to better past" is going to look very different for them. Hard to predict.
January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Millennial "better America" nostalgia is a different beast altogether: Unmatched prosperity/peace as kids in the Clinton 90s, trauma-memory of 9/11 + GWOT blowing all that up, Obama as complicated savior figure, etc.
"RETVRN to better past" is going to look very different for them. Hard to predict.
"RETVRN to better past" is going to look very different for them. Hard to predict.
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...under Eisenhower/Truman's muscular post-WWII Americanism and collectively built a trauma-memory at imagining what they were denied when JFK's Camelot was taken from them; these two modes expressed themselves fully through Reagan (Hollywood Glam but conservative) then Clinton (Liberal Empire)...
January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
...under Eisenhower/Truman's muscular post-WWII Americanism and collectively built a trauma-memory at imagining what they were denied when JFK's Camelot was taken from them; these two modes expressed themselves fully through Reagan (Hollywood Glam but conservative) then Clinton (Liberal Empire)...
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...as a measure for GOP Presidents go circumvent the assumption of permanent Democrat overpower in the Representative Branch. Dems in specific states wielded enormous power in the Reagan Era - the tricky issue was A LOT of what we remember as "Reagan policy" in the 80s was widely bipartisan popular
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
...as a measure for GOP Presidents go circumvent the assumption of permanent Democrat overpower in the Representative Branch. Dems in specific states wielded enormous power in the Reagan Era - the tricky issue was A LOT of what we remember as "Reagan policy" in the 80s was widely bipartisan popular
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Democrats DIDN'T "die" in the 80s, is the thing - Democrats held the House for most of his Presidency and the Senate for half of his last term. A divided or Dem-majority Congress was the U.S. Govt norm from 1954-94, it's the whole reason right-wing legal goons invented "Unitary Exec Theory"...
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Democrats DIDN'T "die" in the 80s, is the thing - Democrats held the House for most of his Presidency and the Senate for half of his last term. A divided or Dem-majority Congress was the U.S. Govt norm from 1954-94, it's the whole reason right-wing legal goons invented "Unitary Exec Theory"...
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History "rhyming in perfect irony" for a Millennial Reagan would be President Newsom, i.e. a California Governor whose major pitch is being a culture-warrior against the other side and a callback to his own party's glory days ("BILL CLINTON LIVES!!!")
*to be clear, I do not see this as ideal 🤷♂️
*to be clear, I do not see this as ideal 🤷♂️
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
History "rhyming in perfect irony" for a Millennial Reagan would be President Newsom, i.e. a California Governor whose major pitch is being a culture-warrior against the other side and a callback to his own party's glory days ("BILL CLINTON LIVES!!!")
*to be clear, I do not see this as ideal 🤷♂️
*to be clear, I do not see this as ideal 🤷♂️
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Apple lands "MISTBORN" and ...the rest of all that 😅 Look, there's A LOT, go down to the Game Shop and ask the guys there, point is this is a BIG DEAL 👀
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV (Exclusive)
It's an unprecedented deal for the author, whose 'Mistborn' series and 'The Stormlight Archive' are being eyed for film and television adaptation, respectively.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Apple lands "MISTBORN" and ...the rest of all that 😅 Look, there's A LOT, go down to the Game Shop and ask the guys there, point is this is a BIG DEAL 👀
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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This is why I don't use this term as a critic. No "elevated horror." No "elevated SF." It's like you think someone's slumming it to deign to work in such a trashy genre.
Engage with the genre you're writing fully. That's all the "elevation" you need.
Engage with the genre you're writing fully. That's all the "elevation" you need.
"it's elevated science fiction" ARGH. Here's an idea--just do good science fiction? The baseline assumption is all sff is "bad" or "for kids" "unsophisticated." No, there's good sff & bad sff, just do a good one? Why do we assume certain protags in modern day settings = automatically probably OK??
January 29, 2026 at 12:05 AM
This is why I don't use this term as a critic. No "elevated horror." No "elevated SF." It's like you think someone's slumming it to deign to work in such a trashy genre.
Engage with the genre you're writing fully. That's all the "elevation" you need.
Engage with the genre you're writing fully. That's all the "elevation" you need.
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ICE needs to be DISMANTLED NOW. Unconditionally. Not “Reigned In” (Sorry Tina Smith), not Reformed. ICE is an agency that is operating outside the law and murdering people. ICE is not redeemable. Alex & Renee deserve Justice. END ICE.
January 28, 2026 at 10:58 PM
ICE needs to be DISMANTLED NOW. Unconditionally. Not “Reigned In” (Sorry Tina Smith), not Reformed. ICE is an agency that is operating outside the law and murdering people. ICE is not redeemable. Alex & Renee deserve Justice. END ICE.
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rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
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Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
A billionaire bought a legacy institution and immediately took it to hell… because that’s what they do
From Paul Farhi at the other site. Former media reporter there.
January 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
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This is a pet peeve for me, but I do get the anger about “why isn’t the media doing this or that.” It has either been captured by ghouls or is gone. I am begging people to let go of the idea of news industry or media you had when you were younger. let’s all adapt pls: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...
On the firing of Alan Sepinwall, the scary place we're in, and attempting to de-stupid the media
The past decade or two has not been a good one for members of the media. And it keeps getting worse on a lot of fronts. Cultural coverage in particular has been stomped pretty thoroughly, in dribs and...
www.moryan.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This is a pet peeve for me, but I do get the anger about “why isn’t the media doing this or that.” It has either been captured by ghouls or is gone. I am begging people to let go of the idea of news industry or media you had when you were younger. let’s all adapt pls: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...
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The lesson here is to never listen to "fans."
January 28, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The lesson here is to never listen to "fans."