Matthew Cole
@mryashin.bsky.social
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I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
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i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
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An underappreciated aspect is that many people *want* to go through life with clearly-defined roles for everything. Much less anxiety-inducing than making choices and running the risk of ridicule.
Liberal individualism is one of the best things to ever happen, but some people feel it as a burden.
Liberal individualism is one of the best things to ever happen, but some people feel it as a burden.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
An underappreciated aspect is that many people *want* to go through life with clearly-defined roles for everything. Much less anxiety-inducing than making choices and running the risk of ridicule.
Liberal individualism is one of the best things to ever happen, but some people feel it as a burden.
Liberal individualism is one of the best things to ever happen, but some people feel it as a burden.
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Kent CCC are organising a fundraiser to support former England and Kent batter Susie Wilson-Rowe, who is battling a rare form of lung cancer. We've chipped in - if you can, please do too.
Donate to Support Susie's Battle with Cancer, organized by Kent Cricket
Former Kent Women’s and International cricketer Susie Wilson-Rowe has sadly been diagn… Kent Cricket needs your support for Support Susie's Battle with Cancer
www.gofundme.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Kent CCC are organising a fundraiser to support former England and Kent batter Susie Wilson-Rowe, who is battling a rare form of lung cancer. We've chipped in - if you can, please do too.
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Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.
However, it's a very good sign of what we'll be able to do when he actually attempts to overtly rule by force.
The 3.5% "rule" also applies to consistent, constant protesting. Not one off events imho.
So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin.
We are certainly not there yet.
So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin.
We are certainly not there yet.
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game
October 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game
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All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
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It's fascinating how there are still replies on this, and indeed on every post about the decline of the Tories, with people on the left and centre-left people going 'good'. Honestly, I don't know how big of a warning sign you need that the death of the Tory party is bad for your politics!
Removing her will be an act of mercy at this point. It's getting unbearable to watch her flail around.
Well, at least that's over now. (The speech. Her leadership has between one to seven months left to run.)
October 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's fascinating how there are still replies on this, and indeed on every post about the decline of the Tories, with people on the left and centre-left people going 'good'. Honestly, I don't know how big of a warning sign you need that the death of the Tory party is bad for your politics!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.
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Still, at least it is a distraction from spending Yom Kippur contemplating “which of the ideologies that want us dead is behind this attack, and how will it strengthen the other ideologies that also want us dead?”
October 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Still, at least it is a distraction from spending Yom Kippur contemplating “which of the ideologies that want us dead is behind this attack, and how will it strengthen the other ideologies that also want us dead?”
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On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
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This is absolutely a huge part of it. "Hmm well I personally may not be a fan of mass deportations however I must be scrupulously fair to those who advocate them, and anyway most people are per my twitter feed, so I'm showing my great independence by writing favourably about them"
Yeah I think things like "they're being cooked on twitter to believe the public is far more RW than reality" are truer
September 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is absolutely a huge part of it. "Hmm well I personally may not be a fan of mass deportations however I must be scrupulously fair to those who advocate them, and anyway most people are per my twitter feed, so I'm showing my great independence by writing favourably about them"
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i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
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Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
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Fox News host chats about how to kill the homeless.
I must've been radicalised on this platform to think this is not good.
I must've been radicalised on this platform to think this is not good.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fox News host chats about how to kill the homeless.
I must've been radicalised on this platform to think this is not good.
I must've been radicalised on this platform to think this is not good.
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KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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apropos of nothing --
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
apropos of nothing --
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> high profile political murder
> political turmoil risks spilling over into open civil conflict
> federal police are warn down, tattered husk of what they used to be
> only one man left for the job and he’s probably a drunk
welcome back harry dubois
> political turmoil risks spilling over into open civil conflict
> federal police are warn down, tattered husk of what they used to be
> only one man left for the job and he’s probably a drunk
welcome back harry dubois
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
> high profile political murder
> political turmoil risks spilling over into open civil conflict
> federal police are warn down, tattered husk of what they used to be
> only one man left for the job and he’s probably a drunk
welcome back harry dubois
> political turmoil risks spilling over into open civil conflict
> federal police are warn down, tattered husk of what they used to be
> only one man left for the job and he’s probably a drunk
welcome back harry dubois
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Judeo-Christianism is an ideology which people who don't like Muslims and others try to conscript Jews into being part of so they themselves seem less racist.
July 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Judeo-Christianism is an ideology which people who don't like Muslims and others try to conscript Jews into being part of so they themselves seem less racist.