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Charter cities business model in a nutshell
I will be governing your country remotely via shitposting and late night threats on social media. If you don’t do what I say, I will blockade, bomb and eventually starve you. This is called freedom
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Charter cities business model in a nutshell
“[fascism] makes it so much easier to push aside all ethical demands”
From its basis in fantasy (termed “myth”) as virtue: people will be valuated independently of real action or outcome, relying on inclusion in a mythic essential category. Not only ethics cast aside; fact, integrity, and rigor too.
From its basis in fantasy (termed “myth”) as virtue: people will be valuated independently of real action or outcome, relying on inclusion in a mythic essential category. Not only ethics cast aside; fact, integrity, and rigor too.
"Fascists strive impotently for a bigness the shrunken aspirations of their soul can never reach. Fascism is the banal dream of tiny men and deserves its place in the sewage of history."
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social on fascism's hatred of left, relevant now:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...
Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social on fascism's hatred of left, relevant now:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...
Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First
Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
“[fascism] makes it so much easier to push aside all ethical demands”
From its basis in fantasy (termed “myth”) as virtue: people will be valuated independently of real action or outcome, relying on inclusion in a mythic essential category. Not only ethics cast aside; fact, integrity, and rigor too.
From its basis in fantasy (termed “myth”) as virtue: people will be valuated independently of real action or outcome, relying on inclusion in a mythic essential category. Not only ethics cast aside; fact, integrity, and rigor too.
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Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This is the aftermath in one area
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
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How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.
January 4, 2026 at 3:27 AM
How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.
Normative for people who make particular choices on how to live, and should be condemned.
I have definitely learned these same lessons. Some very loud voices in my life have proven not to give one wet shit about their alleged principles, and I have had to really accept that this is normative human behavior
Woof 😂
I learned that many people who follow politics take their party affiliation more seriously than their marriage vows, and will embrace anything if their side "wins" even if it requires abandoning prior supposedly-sincere beliefs
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I learned that many people who follow politics take their party affiliation more seriously than their marriage vows, and will embrace anything if their side "wins" even if it requires abandoning prior supposedly-sincere beliefs
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bsky.app/profile/jims...
January 4, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Normative for people who make particular choices on how to live, and should be condemned.
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I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up
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Guys I'm not being funny but hug a loved one and tell them something true from the very heart and pray only to Gods that you believe in and do not lie when it would be easier to because that is the last thing that separates you from these degenerate animals, Trump and Vance
January 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Guys I'm not being funny but hug a loved one and tell them something true from the very heart and pray only to Gods that you believe in and do not lie when it would be easier to because that is the last thing that separates you from these degenerate animals, Trump and Vance
Looks like I picked the wrong year to quit sniffing glue
January 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Looks like I picked the wrong year to quit sniffing glue
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Not that crazy IMO
➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office
➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators
Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result
➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office
➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators
Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result
News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.
January 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Not that crazy IMO
➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office
➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators
Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result
➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office
➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators
Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result
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The older actions were in international rules-based order, which had some standards albeit prone to abuse. This ignores all of that, with a heap of contempt to boot.
This returns to norms of pre-WW1 imperialism. If some think that was no worse than the postwar era… I guess we’ll find out!
This returns to norms of pre-WW1 imperialism. If some think that was no worse than the postwar era… I guess we’ll find out!
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The older actions were in international rules-based order, which had some standards albeit prone to abuse. This ignores all of that, with a heap of contempt to boot.
This returns to norms of pre-WW1 imperialism. If some think that was no worse than the postwar era… I guess we’ll find out!
This returns to norms of pre-WW1 imperialism. If some think that was no worse than the postwar era… I guess we’ll find out!
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Tragic conundrum is accumulated/concentrated wealth is inherently right-wing. These long-game plans require robust & centralized funding & there is no equivalence on ‘the left’.
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Tragic conundrum is accumulated/concentrated wealth is inherently right-wing. These long-game plans require robust & centralized funding & there is no equivalence on ‘the left’.
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Completely agree. Always pull these threads back to the Reagan Administration and Bush I.
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Completely agree. Always pull these threads back to the Reagan Administration and Bush I.
Corporate media are collaborators
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Corporate media are collaborators
Government for shitposters, by shitposters
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Government for shitposters, by shitposters
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The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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The best argument against imperialism in all its forms actually requires reading exactly zero Lenin, requires exactly zero ideologically doctrinaire Marxian thought. It is simply the principle you were supposed to be taught as a child: not everything is my business. Other people's shit is not mine.
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The best argument against imperialism in all its forms actually requires reading exactly zero Lenin, requires exactly zero ideologically doctrinaire Marxian thought. It is simply the principle you were supposed to be taught as a child: not everything is my business. Other people's shit is not mine.
I just can’t believe the FIFA Peace Prize winner would marvel and delight at civilian casualties like this
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I just can’t believe the FIFA Peace Prize winner would marvel and delight at civilian casualties like this
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Your neighbours are deeply, deeply stupid; mired in a cacophony of deranged inner voices, they don't even sense the reality that sustains them. <- a hurdle
January 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Your neighbours are deeply, deeply stupid; mired in a cacophony of deranged inner voices, they don't even sense the reality that sustains them. <- a hurdle
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hey maybe there are some consequences that should have been thought through to the claim that US law applies worldwide to everyone and we have the right to enforce it with our military at our president’s whim
The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.
January 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
hey maybe there are some consequences that should have been thought through to the claim that US law applies worldwide to everyone and we have the right to enforce it with our military at our president’s whim
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okay so what are you going to do about the Secretaries of State and Defense committing felony perjury before Congress
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
okay so what are you going to do about the Secretaries of State and Defense committing felony perjury before Congress
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.