Vlad Oligarchsky
@opulenceihazit.bsky.social
I am epic win.
Украине – мир, России – свободу
Украине – мир, России – свободу
The thing about building your entire ethos around impunity - literally, the impunity is the point of the whole thing - is that you've no ability to enforce discipline for anything other than disloyalty. Everything from fuckups to outright insanity must be not just tolerated, but forcefully supported
January 25, 2026 at 4:21 AM
The thing about building your entire ethos around impunity - literally, the impunity is the point of the whole thing - is that you've no ability to enforce discipline for anything other than disloyalty. Everything from fuckups to outright insanity must be not just tolerated, but forcefully supported
"Was Cheburashka A Jew" - the greatest debate in the history of the Russian Duma, blocked by Putin after 12,239 hours of heated debate,.
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Rebecca Bar-Sef on Instagram: "Was Cheburashka a Jew? The Russian Duma debated the origins of Russia's beloved, but unwanted, creature. Where did he *really* come from? #Cheburashka #RussianCartoon #R...
10K likes, 451 comments - rebecca_barsef on November 21, 2025: "Was Cheburashka a Jew? The Russian Duma debated the origins of Russia's beloved, but unwanted, creature. Where did he *really* come from...
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January 24, 2026 at 3:22 AM
"Was Cheburashka A Jew" - the greatest debate in the history of the Russian Duma, blocked by Putin after 12,239 hours of heated debate,.
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My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.
January 23, 2026 at 11:48 PM
My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
January 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Not weird at all, unfortunately. While you may not be able to terminate existing grants, etc. in ways that violate law, regulation, or policy, the Feds are under no obligation to give any institution *new* grants - and it's basically impossible to prove that the reason was anti-DEI or anything else.
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Not weird at all, unfortunately. While you may not be able to terminate existing grants, etc. in ways that violate law, regulation, or policy, the Feds are under no obligation to give any institution *new* grants - and it's basically impossible to prove that the reason was anti-DEI or anything else.
Somehow... Куклы returned
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PUPPET REGIME on Instagram: "you asked for this. we had no choice. #puppetregime"
95K likes, 2,398 comments - realpuppetregime on January 16, 2026: "you asked for this. we had no choice. #puppetregime".
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January 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Somehow... Куклы returned
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This juxtaposition is this site in a nutshell
January 22, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This juxtaposition is this site in a nutshell
The spirit of the Fung Wah Bus lives on! In Vienna, VA for some reason
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 AM
The spirit of the Fung Wah Bus lives on! In Vienna, VA for some reason
Faine highlighting a real quandary for those left of center (or legitimately libertarian) here: border restrictions are an immensely powerful & useful tool of public and foreign policy. This is, ah, in tension with the de rigueur belief in open borders, 'freedom of movement is a human right,' etc.
This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately.
The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.
The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.
90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over
January 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Faine highlighting a real quandary for those left of center (or legitimately libertarian) here: border restrictions are an immensely powerful & useful tool of public and foreign policy. This is, ah, in tension with the de rigueur belief in open borders, 'freedom of movement is a human right,' etc.
It's lit, fam
January 18, 2026 at 7:42 PM
It's lit, fam
Big Five Personality Traits Rule Everything Around Me
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Big Five Personality Traits Rule Everything Around Me
Unfortunately, the notion that 'Of course more density brings more crime, what else would you expect?' explains like 50% of NIMBYism and makes it appear entirely rational, if self-interested.
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Unfortunately, the notion that 'Of course more density brings more crime, what else would you expect?' explains like 50% of NIMBYism and makes it appear entirely rational, if self-interested.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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Pope Gregory XIII in 1582:
January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Pope Gregory XIII in 1582:
The impunity is, indeed, the point. Even moreso than cruelty, it is the animating urge of MAGA: the desire to be wantonly, flagrantly, theatrically impervious to accountability
January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The impunity is, indeed, the point. Even moreso than cruelty, it is the animating urge of MAGA: the desire to be wantonly, flagrantly, theatrically impervious to accountability
This is self-evidently correct, and Jamelle is right to say it out loud. But it is unsatisfying on its own in terms of pointing to corrective, because the Weak Parties, Strong Partisanship hypothesis shows us that the GOP is less a coherent organization than a *brand* serving as a vehicle for a...
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
January 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This is self-evidently correct, and Jamelle is right to say it out loud. But it is unsatisfying on its own in terms of pointing to corrective, because the Weak Parties, Strong Partisanship hypothesis shows us that the GOP is less a coherent organization than a *brand* serving as a vehicle for a...
The fact that "and political leadership" is relegated to a parenthetical is sorta the problem here. The level of strategic thinking among the brass varies far more than it should, but their domain of expertise is the *military* instrument of national power, even if they learn about others in school
this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The fact that "and political leadership" is relegated to a parenthetical is sorta the problem here. The level of strategic thinking among the brass varies far more than it should, but their domain of expertise is the *military* instrument of national power, even if they learn about others in school
Pretty much the entirety of military training & education is focused on jus in bello, not jus ad bellum. Which makes sense, because even jus in bello can be a lot more complicated than people think (then again, a lot of people on here think the definition of war crime is "any violence I don't like")
But they don’t know what orders are illegal and which aren’t. If everything flows from that fact, everything falls apart.
January 4, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Pretty much the entirety of military training & education is focused on jus in bello, not jus ad bellum. Which makes sense, because even jus in bello can be a lot more complicated than people think (then again, a lot of people on here think the definition of war crime is "any violence I don't like")
Bad takes are the mind-killer. Bad takes are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my bad takes. I will permit them to pass over me & through me. And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path. Where the bad takes have gone there will be nothing.
I do not wish to get in fights on the internet today but there are some takes floating around that are Not Good
January 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Bad takes are the mind-killer. Bad takes are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my bad takes. I will permit them to pass over me & through me. And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path. Where the bad takes have gone there will be nothing.
U.S. foreign policy exists in a superposition of all possible rationales. A definitive rationale is only established when a measurement, such as a Congressional reporting requirement or a lawsuit, takes place and collapses the foreign policy wave function.
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
U.S. foreign policy exists in a superposition of all possible rationales. A definitive rationale is only established when a measurement, such as a Congressional reporting requirement or a lawsuit, takes place and collapses the foreign policy wave function.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
My oath is just "Yub yub"
January 2, 2026 at 3:51 AM
My oath is just "Yub yub"
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
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Hitler's strategic calculations, 1942 [colorized]
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Hitler's strategic calculations, 1942 [colorized]
Kudos to ESPN for having the courage to air Third Eye Blind singing
"And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again"
on national TV lmao. Oral sex and crystal meth for the win
"And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again"
on national TV lmao. Oral sex and crystal meth for the win
January 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Kudos to ESPN for having the courage to air Third Eye Blind singing
"And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again"
on national TV lmao. Oral sex and crystal meth for the win
"And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again"
on national TV lmao. Oral sex and crystal meth for the win