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The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
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"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara
September 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara
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/3 I am no longer inclined to spend time tinkering with the machinery of bigotry. It would be trivially easy to explain under a rules-based system how SCOTUS could come out one way on race in admissions and another in race in detentions. But it's still not worth the effort or the implied respect.
September 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
/3 I am no longer inclined to spend time tinkering with the machinery of bigotry. It would be trivially easy to explain under a rules-based system how SCOTUS could come out one way on race in admissions and another in race in detentions. But it's still not worth the effort or the implied respect.
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LITERAL GOLD. Thank you for making this, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
LITERAL GOLD. Thank you for making this, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?"
"I'm looking for the obituaries."
"The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade."
"Not the one I'm looking for."
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?"
"I'm looking for the obituaries."
"The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade."
"Not the one I'm looking for."
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?"
"I'm looking for the obituaries."
"The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade."
"Not the one I'm looking for."
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says "Can I help you find something?"
"I'm looking for the obituaries."
"The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade."
"Not the one I'm looking for."
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every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
July 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
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There is nothing more terrifying and unmooring to a conservative than the affirmation of unconditional love.
Love is not scripted or scored. It is jazz and improv and the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks. Unplanned and always living.
Solidarity my hearts✊
Love is not scripted or scored. It is jazz and improv and the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks. Unplanned and always living.
Solidarity my hearts✊
June 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is nothing more terrifying and unmooring to a conservative than the affirmation of unconditional love.
Love is not scripted or scored. It is jazz and improv and the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks. Unplanned and always living.
Solidarity my hearts✊
Love is not scripted or scored. It is jazz and improv and the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks. Unplanned and always living.
Solidarity my hearts✊
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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
June 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
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Reminder:
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
April 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Reminder:
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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The root of the Biden hate from Democrats and Leftists.
People need to be honest.
People need to be honest.
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The root of the Biden hate from Democrats and Leftists.
People need to be honest.
People need to be honest.
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i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.
April 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.
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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
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It's increasingly hard to escape the conclusion that 77 million voted to get rid of democracy in the United States because our country was achieving greater equality and equity, and they didn't want that.
March 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's increasingly hard to escape the conclusion that 77 million voted to get rid of democracy in the United States because our country was achieving greater equality and equity, and they didn't want that.
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Those book fairs were lit 😍
April 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Those book fairs were lit 😍
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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed?
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
February 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed?
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
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I was going to post about this earlier — in the 1950s, “integration” was the same scapegoat for *everything* that DEI has become today. The same scapegoating was deployed even earlier for abolition, and then later for multiculturalism. Different codewords, same racism.
I was persuaded by this. “Segregationists.”
Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly.
There is no need to help evil by adopting their language.
theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
There is no need to help evil by adopting their language.
theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
January 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I was going to post about this earlier — in the 1950s, “integration” was the same scapegoat for *everything* that DEI has become today. The same scapegoating was deployed even earlier for abolition, and then later for multiculturalism. Different codewords, same racism.