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Reposted by Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱
This is humiliatingly weak and pathetic.

The dominant national ethos has become one of weak insecurity. It’s like if Frank Burns was a white nationalist.
Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
www.sfgate.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military.

Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
just grievances all the way down
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Ashlii Babbitt is Horst Wessel
You can’t exaggerate how authoritarian the GOP is:

‘The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as “insurrectionists” and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump—
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Newsnight, The Moral Maze, and How The Light Gets In all invited this guy on as a public intellectual. Why is gatekeeping and its enforcement of basic intellectual and ethical standards so fundamentally broken? Such signals and norms matter.
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”

A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:

“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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the weekend after 1/6 literally no republicans wanted to appear on tv to face questions about it and their friends in the media politely agreed never to scare them again
January 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Bolsonaro has been hospitalized again after a piano fell on his head and all his teeth got replaced with piano keys. They’re saying at least six surgeries to get him in tune.
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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i love how like the Reason crowd find this depressing despite the fact that even the Manhattan Institute polls finding that most young Republicans hold genuinely reprehensible beliefs
You gotta get those numbers up; those are rookie numbers in this racket
January 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Five years ago this afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence and his entourage—including a female Coast Guard aide carrying his identical backup nuclear “Football”— hastily evacuated his ceremonial Senate office as the violent mob got within about 40 feet of him while storming the Senate chamber.
Impeachment: Security Footage Shows Mike Pence Evacuate Senate Amid Capitol Riot
YouTube video by Bloomberg News
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Nothing has changed: he is still looking up at Donald Trump with obsequious awe.
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging—

Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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"Other people have nice things that I want, and if I can't have them then I'll just break everything"
just grievances all the way down
January 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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We have an authoritarian party in this country now.
Will "non-interventionist" MAGA go along? Yup.

A new WaPo poll finds only 40% overall approve of the Maduro capture and only 37% say this was appropriate without Congress.

But 80% of Trump voters support the capture and 78% are fine with not going to Congress. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Soft handed do nothings who engage in vice signalling to think of themselves as strong, masculine, and ruthless. See also the almost sexual obsession with the death penalty.
This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
Some truly demonic stuff online
January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
hahahaha fuck you farmers
"Wisconsin farmers worry that Trump farm aid won't be enough" www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
"Some farmers may be looking at a very tough decision: whether they can afford to keep their farm going."
January 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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The whole world is burning because of a dozen dudes with untreated daddy issues.
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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“People forget the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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i understand how galling it is for americans to be offended at foreigners threatened with US military force, but one problem is that if you live in a US city you are being openly threatened with US military occupation on a day to day basis and every organ of the US government delcares you an enemy
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Look, Merrick Garland was a little birthday boy getting his wish to have a job in the upper echelons of the federal legal system, you can’t have actually expected him to do actual work, right
We were supposed to put these monsters in prison or exile them from any position of power and clout. Instead we gave them immunity, a pardon pen, a gigantic military, $Trillion budget, secret police forces (plural), media clout and the most nuclear weapons on Earth.
Some truly demonic stuff online
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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i feel like "jewish consigliere to nazis" is basically a description of greenwald's entire career
Glenn Greenwald says Nick Fuentes' authenticity makes it easy for critics to "demonize and attack you by taking these quotes that can sound not just very racist, but very almost Nazi-like and kind of an extermination rhetoric." Um, yea. People who use Nazi-like rhetoric tend to get labeled a Nazi.
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Some truly demonic stuff online
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM