i dreamt a dream,
@adistantdream.bsky.social
cynicism delenda est
yeah but like, mao
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
yeah but like, mao
All conflict works this way. If you take casualties attacking that hill will it cause you to win the war? You might lose. Then those soldiers will have died for nothing.
If you refuse to take such risks, however, you are likely to lose every war.
If you refuse to take such risks, however, you are likely to lose every war.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
All conflict works this way. If you take casualties attacking that hill will it cause you to win the war? You might lose. Then those soldiers will have died for nothing.
If you refuse to take such risks, however, you are likely to lose every war.
If you refuse to take such risks, however, you are likely to lose every war.
it's how it works on bluesky and while bluesky is not real life it's not clear whether real life is smarter or dumber
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
it's how it works on bluesky and while bluesky is not real life it's not clear whether real life is smarter or dumber
The regrettable error was eighteen years ago. Keeping the Nazi tattoo for sixteen years is a deliberate choice. Lying about not knowing what it was and gaslighting people about it is utterly disqualifying. Literal DARVO shit.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The regrettable error was eighteen years ago. Keeping the Nazi tattoo for sixteen years is a deliberate choice. Lying about not knowing what it was and gaslighting people about it is utterly disqualifying. Literal DARVO shit.
Is it a larger or smaller number than 600,000 and counting?
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Is it a larger or smaller number than 600,000 and counting?
there's no way that the ten ratfuckers simply care more about SNAP than everyone else. it could be a lot of things but it's absolutely not that.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
there's no way that the ten ratfuckers simply care more about SNAP than everyone else. it could be a lot of things but it's absolutely not that.
schumer sounds perfectly fine here? it's ten senate democrats who are ratfucking everyone else.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
schumer sounds perfectly fine here? it's ten senate democrats who are ratfucking everyone else.
The political calculations overwhelmingly dwarf any nonpolitical costs. If 10,000 people starved to death to give Democrats a win in 2024 it would have saved a million lives.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The political calculations overwhelmingly dwarf any nonpolitical costs. If 10,000 people starved to death to give Democrats a win in 2024 it would have saved a million lives.
there's also savings
if you are sophisticated and your savings were in stocks you're fine, if you're a rube who had it in a savings account you're completely SOL
if you are sophisticated and your savings were in stocks you're fine, if you're a rube who had it in a savings account you're completely SOL
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
there's also savings
if you are sophisticated and your savings were in stocks you're fine, if you're a rube who had it in a savings account you're completely SOL
if you are sophisticated and your savings were in stocks you're fine, if you're a rube who had it in a savings account you're completely SOL
the economy is good when your bank account is big and the economy is bad when your bank account is small
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
the economy is good when your bank account is big and the economy is bad when your bank account is small
these guys are going to negatively polarize me into becoming schumer's strongest soldier
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
these guys are going to negatively polarize me into becoming schumer's strongest soldier
some rich parents send their kids on expeditionary work to see how the other half lives
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
some rich parents send their kids on expeditionary work to see how the other half lives
Sure, you don't need Jared Golden in the middle of the largest electoral backlash since Hoover, but thermostatic backlash will still be around in ten years and you might need him then.
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Sure, you don't need Jared Golden in the middle of the largest electoral backlash since Hoover, but thermostatic backlash will still be around in ten years and you might need him then.
is the DSA still bad on ukraine or did they fix that
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
is the DSA still bad on ukraine or did they fix that
sure, but that's not the critique that was made, which was that the show was bad because leslie was a neoliberal shill
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
sure, but that's not the critique that was made, which was that the show was bad because leslie was a neoliberal shill
Transphobia was salient because when the people don't have any real problems they can grouse about cultural ones.
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Transphobia was salient because when the people don't have any real problems they can grouse about cultural ones.
You can't enforce this discipline on every voter left of center or Evelyn Normielib but asking elected officials running on your party line to do it is not exactly a heroic ask.
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You can't enforce this discipline on every voter left of center or Evelyn Normielib but asking elected officials running on your party line to do it is not exactly a heroic ask.
Yeah, well, that's how war works. It doesn't matter if you can liberate another town if the enemy is chewing up your supply lines because you lose that and it will all have been for nothing.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Yeah, well, that's how war works. It doesn't matter if you can liberate another town if the enemy is chewing up your supply lines because you lose that and it will all have been for nothing.
And are these experts in the room with us now?
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And are these experts in the room with us now?
sometimes people really do suck even if they happen to be jews
i think we can all agree that netanyahu has made decisions that have significantly contributed to rising antisemitism in the last two years
i think we can all agree that netanyahu has made decisions that have significantly contributed to rising antisemitism in the last two years
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
sometimes people really do suck even if they happen to be jews
i think we can all agree that netanyahu has made decisions that have significantly contributed to rising antisemitism in the last two years
i think we can all agree that netanyahu has made decisions that have significantly contributed to rising antisemitism in the last two years