broken bokonon
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Like most things in my life, this has been a huge mistake
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First as Tragedy And Then As Farce: Marx On Ordinary People and The Royal Tenenbaums
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
First as Tragedy And Then As Farce: Marx On Ordinary People and The Royal Tenenbaums
I feel like I'm finally starting to get the hang of this Gaggia Classic.
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel like I'm finally starting to get the hang of this Gaggia Classic.
I feel like there’s an important elision happening right here, and it’s every rung of the ladder that leads up Fascism tower.
Fascism is as much a methodology as it is a destination.
Fascism is as much a methodology as it is a destination.
1. If America were fascist right now, I would not be posting here. Neither would you.
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I feel like there’s an important elision happening right here, and it’s every rung of the ladder that leads up Fascism tower.
Fascism is as much a methodology as it is a destination.
Fascism is as much a methodology as it is a destination.
The correct reaction to MTG is schadenfreude, not valorization.
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The correct reaction to MTG is schadenfreude, not valorization.
Being the front runner in 2025 is not worth very much, tbh.
J-MART, on Newsom:
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Being the front runner in 2025 is not worth very much, tbh.
Politics is about both addition and subtraction. What are you even doing here?
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Politics is about both addition and subtraction. What are you even doing here?
There are more white republicans in CA than AL
White Republicans rule because they ain't possums, they're mostly the descendents of Confederates and vote en masse for the GQP votehub.com/2024-map/
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
There are more white republicans in CA than AL
@jamellebouie.net posted some mashups on insta, so I thought I’d remind everyone of one of, if not *the* best, mashups of all time.
Adele Vs Eurythmics - 'Rolling In Sweet Dreams' by @DAFTBEATLES - www.daftbeatles.com
YouTube video by DAFT BEATLES MASHUPS
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November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@jamellebouie.net posted some mashups on insta, so I thought I’d remind everyone of one of, if not *the* best, mashups of all time.
The only people who think the 90s were better were too young to remember them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The only people who think the 90s were better were too young to remember them.
QTing to break the chain, since the guy I replied to seems to be taking things personally.
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I think it's simply an artifact of rancid evangelicalism. As a matter of fact, I believe there was a significant rise in American Catholic observance in the years following Kennedy's presidency.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
QTing to break the chain, since the guy I replied to seems to be taking things personally.
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
"Follow up question, Dr. Krauss, does the Bernoli principle explain how Jeffrey Epstein's plane could fly?"
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Follow up question, Dr. Krauss, does the Bernoli principle explain how Jeffrey Epstein's plane could fly?"
Illegal Immigrants? Don't you mean Future Americans?
This is also why semantics are important in politics and the idea they should be dismissed as immaterial is at best wrongheaded imo
Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Illegal Immigrants? Don't you mean Future Americans?
Reposted by broken bokonon
'without a border you don't have a country' has always been a lie. The truth is that you don't have a free people without migration.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
'without a border you don't have a country' has always been a lie. The truth is that you don't have a free people without migration.
but her emails, everybody
what about her emails
what about her emails
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
but her emails, everybody
what about her emails
what about her emails
"Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, apologized for not knowing anything and fucking up the most basic expectations of his position."
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, faced blowback after defending Tucker Carlson's interview with a white nationalist. He later apologized and said he erred out of ignorance, because he did not keep up with the news and had simply read an aide’s script.
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, apologized for not knowing anything and fucking up the most basic expectations of his position."
Even better if they’re southerners who fought for the union cause
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Saying it while posting Union generals ought to get the right message across IMO, unironically
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Even better if they’re southerners who fought for the union cause
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
I think the question "is Trump a good politician?" is genuinely a complicated one. He is extremely good at running for office in the United States as is, slotting into deep-rooted material and cultural dysfunctions that other politicians who are less sociopathic were loath to prod so directly.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?