Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
@mikesenters.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen!
Byline: MSNBC
Byline: MSNBC
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Okay. Time for a thread about the Accelerationist propaganda mod for Hearts of Iron 4 and why it's bad that I don't see anyone in the field really talking about how video games and the networks around them are working to radicalize young men at an alarming rate. It urgently needs to be addressed /1
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Like I was saying. Rugpulling the expanded premium tax credits suddenly dumps a few million people out of the market and leads to shit like this as insurance cos react, which quickly becomes self perpetuating.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Like I was saying. Rugpulling the expanded premium tax credits suddenly dumps a few million people out of the market and leads to shit like this as insurance cos react, which quickly becomes self perpetuating.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
podcaster History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is Zoroastrian, a Hindu or part of the Green Party or even someone who has vampirism. You should reevaluate your podcaster privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
podcaster History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is Zoroastrian, a Hindu or part of the Green Party or even someone who has vampirism. You should reevaluate your podcaster privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Werner Sombart said in 1906 that there was no socialism in America because "Socalism wrecked on the reefs of roast beef and apple pie." Any attempt to try and take cheap meat away from Americans will NOT end well. Average American would see the rest of the world flooded than give up their burgers.
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Werner Sombart said in 1906 that there was no socialism in America because "Socalism wrecked on the reefs of roast beef and apple pie." Any attempt to try and take cheap meat away from Americans will NOT end well. Average American would see the rest of the world flooded than give up their burgers.
I'm buying this when I get paid.
Help me convince @offline.mountainherder.xyz to let me put a bumper sticker on our car, specifically this one
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I'm buying this when I get paid.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
Help me convince @offline.mountainherder.xyz to let me put a bumper sticker on our car, specifically this one
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Help me convince @offline.mountainherder.xyz to let me put a bumper sticker on our car, specifically this one
We really have been just reenacting this particular fight over and over and over again ever since the dawn of civilization and it's gotten rather annoying.
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We really have been just reenacting this particular fight over and over and over again ever since the dawn of civilization and it's gotten rather annoying.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
Where is my "World-spirit on horseback" when you need em, am I right?
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Where is my "World-spirit on horseback" when you need em, am I right?
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erin reed is a grifter and a money suck mini thread
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
erin reed is a grifter and a money suck mini thread
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
finally, we can repeal Obamacare and all it took was 8 democrats
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
finally, we can repeal Obamacare and all it took was 8 democrats
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
1) so that really was for nothing, huh
more importantly, 2) the GOP just repealed the Affordable Care Act
3) a bunch of senate dems just signed their death warrants. Schumer, Fetterman, Masto, at least - perhaps more
more importantly, 2) the GOP just repealed the Affordable Care Act
3) a bunch of senate dems just signed their death warrants. Schumer, Fetterman, Masto, at least - perhaps more
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
1) so that really was for nothing, huh
more importantly, 2) the GOP just repealed the Affordable Care Act
3) a bunch of senate dems just signed their death warrants. Schumer, Fetterman, Masto, at least - perhaps more
more importantly, 2) the GOP just repealed the Affordable Care Act
3) a bunch of senate dems just signed their death warrants. Schumer, Fetterman, Masto, at least - perhaps more
An immoveable Parliament is more obnoxious than an immoveable King.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
An immoveable Parliament is more obnoxious than an immoveable King.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
Schmittian dichotomies rule everything around me and I hate that.
little bit odd that AIPAC is clearly bad and does bad things but has turned into some kind of bogeyman for leftwingers
it's almost like no one wants to Do Politics, they just assume all their enemies are in a secret cabal that rules the party
it's almost like no one wants to Do Politics, they just assume all their enemies are in a secret cabal that rules the party
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Schmittian dichotomies rule everything around me and I hate that.
Musk has never listened to/read the Iliad if he thinks it's about "fighting for princesses". That is such a surface level, high school take of what themes and concepts the Iliad explores that it literally makes my head hurt.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Musk has never listened to/read the Iliad if he thinks it's about "fighting for princesses". That is such a surface level, high school take of what themes and concepts the Iliad explores that it literally makes my head hurt.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
>this fucking Packers and Eagles game
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
>this fucking Packers and Eagles game
The squishy Dems caved to basically get a result like this on a (promised) vote for ACA subsidies in December. Pathetic.
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The squishy Dems caved to basically get a result like this on a (promised) vote for ACA subsidies in December. Pathetic.
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he
Reposted by Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
I'm not really sure this sort of thing is going to work out right now because anything less than a brutally accurate adaptation is going to not seem trite in the face of what is currently occurring, and I don't think he's capable of that. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think so
'V for Vendetta' TV series is in the works at HBO and DC
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm not really sure this sort of thing is going to work out right now because anything less than a brutally accurate adaptation is going to not seem trite in the face of what is currently occurring, and I don't think he's capable of that. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think so
The final phase music for the Irontomb boss fight slaps.
Shatter the God’s Crown · Irontomb Boss Theme · Phase 3 (Extended) - Honkai: Star Rail 3.7 OST
YouTube video by Pom-Pom’s Workstation
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The final phase music for the Irontomb boss fight slaps.
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Reopening the government (in part) to fix air travel before the holidays only for the Orange god king to fuck it up anyways
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reopening the government (in part) to fix air travel before the holidays only for the Orange god king to fuck it up anyways
THIS IS WHAT A REAL POPULAR FRONT LOOKS LIKE
bill kristol followed me, fuck it, we're oomfies now
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
THIS IS WHAT A REAL POPULAR FRONT LOOKS LIKE