Nute Year, Nute You
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Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
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🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at exactly 11:38:48 PM then Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray will say “Ah, Victory” at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.
Someone got very angry at me on here yesterday for suggesting most Americans have no idea who Maduro is and insisted it was ‘cope’. For the record like 33% even say they have any opinion of him when asked, which almost certainly overstates it as people don’t want to say they don’t know
now that President Trump, former host of celebrity apprentice, has finally brought the coward dictator to justice, I think i can confidently say most Americans will weep with gratitude and joy, responding to the pollsters with common, joyful phrases such as “who is Maduro” and “wait you did what”
January 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Someone got very angry at me on here yesterday for suggesting most Americans have no idea who Maduro is and insisted it was ‘cope’. For the record like 33% even say they have any opinion of him when asked, which almost certainly overstates it as people don’t want to say they don’t know
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Younger Palaiologan MFs will really be like "you believe in submitting to Ottoman suzerainty? That pales in effectiveness compared to my strategy, which is driving back the Turks by force of arms" and then not drive the Turks back by force of arms.
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Younger Palaiologan MFs will really be like "you believe in submitting to Ottoman suzerainty? That pales in effectiveness compared to my strategy, which is driving back the Turks by force of arms" and then not drive the Turks back by force of arms.
Not sure if this is ‘encouraging’ exactly but it’s actually remarkable to go back and read contemporary commentary in say the 1970s UK and see just how much everyone then was obsessed with the idea that Britain* would be in a civil war any day now then too.
*as opposed to the one in NI…
*as opposed to the one in NI…
You do get the impression that some of the people 'warning' of civil war, actually desire one huh
Good article this. Racism really is the reverse of a performance-enhancing drug, the mad, stupid shit it leads people to believe in and to do:
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Not sure if this is ‘encouraging’ exactly but it’s actually remarkable to go back and read contemporary commentary in say the 1970s UK and see just how much everyone then was obsessed with the idea that Britain* would be in a civil war any day now then too.
*as opposed to the one in NI…
*as opposed to the one in NI…
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Glem is a prime example of someone who decided that nothing dovish Biden did mattered so long as Biden was still marginally dedicated to containing Russian expansionism - either a very strange priority indeed or a blindingly obvious one, depending
Tankies and fascists often like to unite and have each other’s backs.
Glenn Greenwald promoting Trump and lying about him being anti-war in 2023 and 2024 is a great example of this
Glenn Greenwald promoting Trump and lying about him being anti-war in 2023 and 2024 is a great example of this
January 4, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Glem is a prime example of someone who decided that nothing dovish Biden did mattered so long as Biden was still marginally dedicated to containing Russian expansionism - either a very strange priority indeed or a blindingly obvious one, depending
Pitching a new interactive experience where you too can replicate the feeling of the 1994 thriller ‘Speed’ by going on a car ride with my baby, who immediately begins whining and complaining at the slightest deceleration and breaks into tears if the car stops at all, even momentarily at a red light
January 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Pitching a new interactive experience where you too can replicate the feeling of the 1994 thriller ‘Speed’ by going on a car ride with my baby, who immediately begins whining and complaining at the slightest deceleration and breaks into tears if the car stops at all, even momentarily at a red light
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The mentions under Ken Martins statement aree full of ppl both deriding him for not calling for impeachment as well as ppl deriding him for sending out "yet another strongly worded letter" & this site really needs to decide whether it likes or dislikes performative actions w/o material consequence
lot of wrong-rocking happening right now
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The mentions under Ken Martins statement aree full of ppl both deriding him for not calling for impeachment as well as ppl deriding him for sending out "yet another strongly worded letter" & this site really needs to decide whether it likes or dislikes performative actions w/o material consequence
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anyway Trump has for whatever reason decided not to back the opposition in Venezuela, probably because he doesn't want to back a loser and doesn't want to commit to continued military action, which means that "Maduro sucks but WTF" is a free space for Dems.
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
anyway Trump has for whatever reason decided not to back the opposition in Venezuela, probably because he doesn't want to back a loser and doesn't want to commit to continued military action, which means that "Maduro sucks but WTF" is a free space for Dems.
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Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!
January 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!
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Honestly the thing I find most nightmarish about all this is that the Trump admin seems to have absolutely zero idea how the transition is going to work at all. This is a country of almost 30m.
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Honestly the thing I find most nightmarish about all this is that the Trump admin seems to have absolutely zero idea how the transition is going to work at all. This is a country of almost 30m.
I consider this The Nute Dawn experience, serious political discussion mixed with Star Wars shitposting, just need a lament for the Mets and an arch but undeniably true remark about The Wrecker Brown to complete the set
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I consider this The Nute Dawn experience, serious political discussion mixed with Star Wars shitposting, just need a lament for the Mets and an arch but undeniably true remark about The Wrecker Brown to complete the set
Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!
January 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!
One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter
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This but for different reasons now
January 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This but for different reasons now
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Dick Cheney would be loving this
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Dick Cheney would be loving this
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Not the actions I'd expect from the winner of the Fifa Global Peace Prize, tbh.
January 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Not the actions I'd expect from the winner of the Fifa Global Peace Prize, tbh.
I realise this sounds snobby but the thing that gets me most about Weiss isn't even the ideological side, it's just that she is so fucking obviously unqualified! These people endlessly whine about DEI and meritocracy and then given a whiff of power, they install people with *zero* expertise
January 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I realise this sounds snobby but the thing that gets me most about Weiss isn't even the ideological side, it's just that she is so fucking obviously unqualified! These people endlessly whine about DEI and meritocracy and then given a whiff of power, they install people with *zero* expertise
Leftists love to complain about Democrats “getting more right wing” but the single most damaging and regressive policy shift within the party over the last decade was becoming warm to anti-trade crank horseshit
If the last ten years have taught us anything, it’s the potency and danger of cranks with crank views managing to catch the rising tide of a broader sentiment and use it to spread their horseshit to a far wider audience
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Leftists love to complain about Democrats “getting more right wing” but the single most damaging and regressive policy shift within the party over the last decade was becoming warm to anti-trade crank horseshit
Then: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Now: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Now: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Quote this with your favourite game from 2001 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Then: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Now: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Now: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Absolutely yes to Tucker, no questions asked
Where things stand with top 6 free agents
Tatsuya Imai became the first free agent to secure a deal in 2026, but there are some high-profile names still out there to be had.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Absolutely yes to Tucker, no questions asked
Wow. Big Arsenal win over a direct rival AND City drop points? May as well book the parade now
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Wow. Big Arsenal win over a direct rival AND City drop points? May as well book the parade now
I have kind of the opposite take which is that many of his signature policies are fairly bad ideas but also obviously won’t happen so there’s no political risk there, like the free buses. Almost all of his agenda will require the gov / legislature
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I have kind of the opposite take which is that many of his signature policies are fairly bad ideas but also obviously won’t happen so there’s no political risk there, like the free buses. Almost all of his agenda will require the gov / legislature