talkaline.bsky.social
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Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
Nostalgia is a fundamentally fascist impulse. The left should never traffick in these tropes because when the we cannot bring the 50s back through science or magic, the far right will be offering a much more twisted version of the same vision.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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How I feel about political candidates
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Hey John any updates on this dunk
Isn't your entire theory of politics like pure online excitement with no material stakes?
The credulousness of this site towards Graham Platner is pretty hard to take.
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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It's funny to me how many people on here take it for granted that they can intuit the aesthetic, rhetorical, and policy preferences of the median American voter; my working assumption is that the voters who decide most American elections would rejoice to see me and everybody I know and love dead.
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Relatedly, I see a lot of doomers on here who don't have that dog in them and could use a Dan Lanning speech.

THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR CLICKS, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR WINS. IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, AND EVERY CUT MATTERS. WE PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SITUATION. WE BELIEVE IN OUR TECHNIQUE.
lol, here's some incredible college football content. In the hype video Oregon posted after Penn State, Dan Lanning lectures his team on broken windows theory, but it's pro-breaking windows.

"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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reader i cackled
September 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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The sequels are an anti-trilogy, TFA is about course correcting from the prequels, TLJ is about course correcting from TFA, and TROS is about course correcting from TLJ! Genuinely a baffling series of decisions
Since we’re doing Star Wars discourse, here’s my take: the sequels suck because they don’t actually try to tell a story.

The original series, both individually, and as an arc, tell a basic heroes journey story. It’s not anything particularly new, but it’s certainly a serviceable storyline to tell.
September 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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You apologize profusely for this because your countrymen did this to them and if you think you can abdicate that responsibility because "I didn't vote for him" then get ready to follow in Navalny's footsteps because that's the only valuable thing you'll be able to do
Dems should be apologizing profusely for this and promising to punish those responsible because it is the morally and politically correct thing to do

It also has no bearing on whether or not they choose to believe us or accept the apology
September 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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remember when Dems passed the overwhelmingly popular COVID stimulus bill and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER

remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER

remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
September 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"Antizionism isn't antisemitism."

That's true in a "I think it was a bit uncalled for when that F-15 dropped two thousand pounds of iron on a puppy orphanage" sense but not in a "Israelis of Moroccan ancestry opened a Moroccan restaurant because the perfidious Jew has no culture" way.
September 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I'll trust Ken's opinion on US law, but I want to point out the way these people "think":
Simply *existing* in a "space" is violent abuse.
Committing an actual act of unprovoked violent abuse is not.
September 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Germans a generation after the Reich consciously made sure to tell history the right way. The Japanese did the opposite. There’s no right side of history, history has got to be made.
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Look, I need to write the 1K+ of the lady knight charging into a besieged lair with her army for her fate to be extra erotic.
March 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM