Raoul Django

Dear Americans, Your President is a Pedophile

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A firefly spends up to two years underground as a larva, hunting slugs in the dirt. Then it crawls out, grows wings, and gets maybe three weeks as the glowing thing you remember from childhood. Three weeks to find a mate and reproduce. Then it's dead. So when the tweet says "some scientist" warned we're the last generation to see them, that's real. A Belgian firefly researcher named Raphaël De Cock said it, and the clip blew up on TikTok. But I dug into the actual science, and the picture is weirder than the headline. We know of about 2,200 firefly species worldwide. Scientists have studied fewer than 150 of them. That's less than 7%. Of the ones they looked at, about 14% are at risk of extinction. And here's the part that got me: we know so little about more than half the species we've found that scientists can't even tell if they're dying off. If those mystery species are disappearing at the same rate, 1 in 3 North American fireflies could be in trouble. We might be losing species nobody's even properly named yet. A major 2024 study by Penn State, the University of Kentucky, and Bucknell examined 24,000 citizen surveys across the eastern U.S. The number one thing killing fireflies turned out to be weather and climate shifts. Their larvae need wet soil to survive those two years underground. Too dry, they die. Too flooded, they drown. The second biggest killer: artificial light. Night skies are getting about 10% brighter every year. A quarter of Earth's land is now lit up at night. And fireflies talk to each other with light. Their whole mating system runs on flashing patterns in the dark. Flood that with streetlights and porch lights, and the signal disappears. This isn't abstract. In Hong Kong, one firefly species lived along 1.8 kilometers of a single hiking trail. Street lamps went up in 2018 and 2019. The population is gone. Critically Endangered now. In Delaware, the Bethany Beach firefly exists in a few tiny salt marshes, and coastal construction is eating them up. But your common backyard lightning bug, the one called Photinus pyralis, is fine. Ben Pfeiffer, who runs Firefly Conservation and Research, said it straight: "We won't be the last generation to see fireflies." What's actually vanishing is the variety. The weird ones. The specialists. They get replaced by the one tough generalist that can survive anywhere. One last thing that stuck with me. A firefly turns chemical energy into light at about 41% efficiency, with almost zero heat lost. Our best LEDs just recently hit about 40%. We spent decades of engineering to match what a beetle worked out 100 million years ago. And we're blinding them with the lights we built to copy them.

Hey Elon, suspend my account you porpoise-looking nihilistic oligarch douchebag. You absolutely ruined this website and then spent $275 million to elect a man you knew to be in the Epstein files.

White Americans love describing Nazis as the worst, but Nazis were inspired by America’s persecution of Indigenous and Black people

The fact that the Epstein class was revealed to have killed, raped, and eaten children and babies and it DIDN’T stop the world dead in it’s tracks and create a sense of urgency to remove the current administration is beyond me.

Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process: Vietnam did not win because of luck. Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes. Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support. Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were. Better strategists. Better at understanding the terrain. Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering. Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch. Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool. Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general. He had no formal military training. He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things. He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand: This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue. Not firepower. Will. And he was right. He was right about the French. He was right about the Americans. The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country. That is not an accident of history. That is not a mistake or a miscalculation. That is what happens when you underestimate people. When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you. When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability. America's arrogance cost it Vietnam. That arrogance has never been honestly examined. It has never been corrected. Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.

These Israeli settlers need to be melted. They are nothing but neofascist terrorists.

I hope he lives forever, I can't imagine anything more humiliating for him than to watch in realtime how his supposed "legacy" is torn apart and seen as nothing more than a history making grift

Which song should I listen to immediately after getting the news that the Flatulent Fuhrer has died & gone to the Trump Tower in Hell? A. Beautiful Day by U2 B. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen C. Celebrate by Kool & the Gang D. I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas

This scene from “Don’t Look Up” pretty much sums up where we are right now…

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I don't want to be one of those people who wastes their time criticizing "hypocrisy" in foreign policy, but holy fucking shit, dude. Jesus Christ. My God. I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran. I don't enjoy holding this position. It goes against every natural human impulse inside me. But Israel, by its nature, has made it the only responsible position to hold. History has clearly established that the world was wrong to give Israel sympathy for October 7. The correct and moral thing to have done would have been for everyone to say "That's what you get for being a murderous apartheid state," and then sanction Israel into the Stone Age until they dismantled their abusive ethnonationalist regime. That would have been the right position for the world to take. And that's how we need to be with Israel going forward. No sympathy. No support. We've got to treat them the same way you'd treat a malignant narcissist who solicits sympathy and then weaponizes it at every opportunity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible. It's just not safe.

Robert Mueller is dead. And the President of the United States has announced that he is, quote, glad. Now. I want you to sit with something for a moment. Jeffrey Epstein, the man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation for the entertainment of the ultra-wealthy, looked at Donald Trump and wrote the following words to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in 2017: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” The man who ran the pervert express to crime island looked at Trump and thought: that bloke is worse than me. And today, that same Donald Trump looked at the death of a decorated Vietnam veteran and former FBI director and typed “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” Then signed his name to it. Then posted it. Publicly. At 1:26 in the afternoon. There are war criminals who’ve managed more dignity at a press conference. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

“Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists.” - American comedian George Carlin, back in 1990

@DougBenson Firewalker is only good because of Lou Gossett Jr, now HE'S a legend

Every Chuck Norris movie was bad and his acting was always bad, too, right?

If you took all the undocumented people that have illegally voted since 1988, and multiplied it by all of transgender athletes that played in any college sport in the year 2025, your total would still be 37,720 less than the amount of times Trump was mentioned in the Epstein files. Sources: Trans athletes: thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq… Undocumented voter fraud: americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/myths-abo…

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