Ian Foster
@ianfoster.bsky.social
Political hack (for hire), rookie screenwriter, Team USA beach handball athlete. Just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe. Views my own (he/him)
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they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
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Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
September 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
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Absolutely no proof of anything out there right now, no actual suspect, no motives, a history of the Right attacking and trying to kill one another, and I'm just swimming in accounts and conversations and threads calling for mass violence and state attacks on the Left.
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Absolutely no proof of anything out there right now, no actual suspect, no motives, a history of the Right attacking and trying to kill one another, and I'm just swimming in accounts and conversations and threads calling for mass violence and state attacks on the Left.
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yeah I think you can understand a lot of modern conservativism by them being literally too dumb to understand how power works and unable to separate actual power from the performance of it
It's because Republicans have no idea what power actually is. They only know force.
More economic integration, not less. Easier passage between the two countries, not making it harder for no reason. Doing everything you could to *avoid* heightening Canadian nationalism.
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
yeah I think you can understand a lot of modern conservativism by them being literally too dumb to understand how power works and unable to separate actual power from the performance of it
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Conservatives called it a Flight 93 election, but instead of terrorists, the pilot was just a little annoying and so they stormed the cockpit and started mashing random buttons trying to find the woke one. It'd be comical if we weren't all on the plane too.
The university thing too. There are policy levers you could pull to make academia more conservative. Instead they do dipshit Maoism looking for the “woke” switch and turn off NIH funding and manage to somehow get STEM on the same side as admin staff, a group of people many of them normally despise.
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Conservatives called it a Flight 93 election, but instead of terrorists, the pilot was just a little annoying and so they stormed the cockpit and started mashing random buttons trying to find the woke one. It'd be comical if we weren't all on the plane too.
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It’s literally just this easy to cook these frauds, crazy that our elected officials can’t figure this out
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s literally just this easy to cook these frauds, crazy that our elected officials can’t figure this out
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to recap the last 2 months:
the savvy take was that senate dems wouldn’t obstruct/delay and would vote yes on reasonable nominees in order to peel off votes for controversial ones.
the “just fight for something” take was delay, obstruct, and always vote no.
all controversial nominees confirmed
the savvy take was that senate dems wouldn’t obstruct/delay and would vote yes on reasonable nominees in order to peel off votes for controversial ones.
the “just fight for something” take was delay, obstruct, and always vote no.
all controversial nominees confirmed
March 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
to recap the last 2 months:
the savvy take was that senate dems wouldn’t obstruct/delay and would vote yes on reasonable nominees in order to peel off votes for controversial ones.
the “just fight for something” take was delay, obstruct, and always vote no.
all controversial nominees confirmed
the savvy take was that senate dems wouldn’t obstruct/delay and would vote yes on reasonable nominees in order to peel off votes for controversial ones.
the “just fight for something” take was delay, obstruct, and always vote no.
all controversial nominees confirmed
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I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism
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lifelong friendships are an example of homiestasis
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
lifelong friendships are an example of homiestasis
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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I say we beat the shit out of 2025 as soon as it shows up, just as a message to any potential future years
December 31, 2024 at 5:17 AM
I say we beat the shit out of 2025 as soon as it shows up, just as a message to any potential future years
He’s going to NJ to figure out what’s up with the drones
jj says lebron is not with the team right now and out for “personal reasons”
December 14, 2024 at 2:01 AM
He’s going to NJ to figure out what’s up with the drones
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Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
This needs to be stapled to the forehead of whoever they get to run the DNC
November 23, 2024 at 4:41 PM
This needs to be stapled to the forehead of whoever they get to run the DNC
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and the reason this is important is that politics have not stopped happening. trump is set to squander whatever goodwill he has with the voting public and this is an opportunity
incredible number of you do not seem to understand the difference between trump’s base and the marginal trump voter, i.e. “the people who gave trump the win.”
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
and the reason this is important is that politics have not stopped happening. trump is set to squander whatever goodwill he has with the voting public and this is an opportunity
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Air Bud windmill dunking on the constitutional order repeatedly and humiliatingly as the lawyers push their glasses up their nose and point out that, actually, a dog isn't allowed to play basketball
man, we're absolutely not doing another four years of lawyers credulously explaining why He Can't Do That and then watching, dumbfounded, as He Did It
November 7, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Air Bud windmill dunking on the constitutional order repeatedly and humiliatingly as the lawyers push their glasses up their nose and point out that, actually, a dog isn't allowed to play basketball
Sure, but there’s no way we’re giving the Democratic Party a pass for this right? Two things can be true at once
this is bullshit. whatever the outcome, half the country voted for out and out fascism. it’s ludicrous and exonerative to not face that the voters voted for what they want to see!
we need to figure out a way to fix it.
we need to figure out a way to fix it.
Anyone blaming voters and not the Democrats is the problem.
November 6, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Sure, but there’s no way we’re giving the Democratic Party a pass for this right? Two things can be true at once
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2016 was depressing but you could chalk it up to luck and a combination of bizarre circumstances. This is way, way, way more darker. He ran an objectively worse campaign and has an actual track record.
It's really the opposite of 2020, where something more sensible seemed to be happening (voters selecting more normal Republicans but ditching Trump). This just says truly awful things about the Amerian people, even if Harris ekes it out.
November 6, 2024 at 4:06 AM
2016 was depressing but you could chalk it up to luck and a combination of bizarre circumstances. This is way, way, way more darker. He ran an objectively worse campaign and has an actual track record.
We libbing out over here?
November 6, 2024 at 3:26 AM
We libbing out over here?