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most relatable thing the USSR did was broadcasting that they were doing fine while in reality it was collapsing internally. the spirit of '91 endures,,,,

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this is so unfathomably, inhumanly cruel and the world just keeps letting Israel get away with treating human beings this way, over and over

@woodsoffin a post-suburbanization FDR, I'm sitting with this 🙂‍↕️

I don't want FDR! And the material and economic conditions of the modern day are radically different from FDR's era. The United States absurd prosperity after world war 2 is not replicable, it was the luckiest shit in the world for the US, AOC isn't set up for Ws the way FDR was

we need a liberal rob schneider

the japanese reaction to sanae takaichi turning herself into the baby bop to trump's barney the dinosaur gave me whiplash to a time where there was still societal concern over the concept of dignity

"So, like, is war difficult?" "It's a 24-hour commitment. You have to devote yourself to it fully." "Wow, yeah...I feel like that's true of a lot of things in life." "Bingo." *notices own shoes* "Do you think it's easier to be into feet now than 10 years ago?" "I do, yes."

@MattLech two be or not tubi

Two be both-sidesing antisemitism and conflating it with antizionism in 2026, when over half of GOP men under 50 are actual holocaust deniers, per the Manhattan Institute, is pathological. I dont even feel theres thought enough behind it to qualify it as cynical anymore.

The idea Platner, Mamdani or Twitch streamer Hasan Piker are antisemitic is horseshit

Watch👇

Appears to be a video of ICE killing a man on the street.

Venezuela killed the US. Or rather, it revealed it was already dead. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of 41 times (revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-states-…). What is unprecedented however is the brazenness, the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention. Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would “go to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country." (npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s…). Stunningly, the US isn’t even insisting on regime change. They’re quite happy for the Chavista government to stay in place under acting president Delcy Rodríguez as long as she “does what we want,” (said Trump: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/04/pol…), vowing to bomb the country again if she didn’t. In other words, there is absolutely zero pretense there: submission to the U.S.’s will is the only variable that matters. Never before in its entire history has the U.S. been so nakedly… bad. This might sound almost trivial. “So what if they admit they’re bad, at least they’re not hypocritical about it anymore,” you might tell yourself. Some might even find that refreshing in its honesty. Quite the contrary. The story a nation tells itself is not trivial - it is everything. We, human beings, for better or worse, are structured by mythology and self-deception. Think about yourself, what drives your own behavior? You have, doubtlessly, ideals you want to live up to. If you have kids you have ideals of what a good parent ought to be. If you have a spouse you have ideals of what fidelity and partnership mean. If you have a job you have some conception of integrity. You probably fall short - we all do - but the ideals still structure your behavior. They give you something to reach for, they provide the terms in which you can be criticized - including by your own internal dialogue. They make it possible for you to do better tomorrow. The hypocrisy - the gap between ideal and reality - is not the problem. It's the proof that the ideal still has a hold on you, that you can still be called back to it. As the saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. Now imagine you renounce all this. Imagine you stop being a hypocrite in the sense that you abandon your ideals entirely, that you start owning up to your worst self and become comfortable with your vices. You cheat on your spouse and stop pretending it bothers you. You neglect your children and make peace with it. Have you thus become “refreshingly honest”? Maybe. But you’ve also died inside. You’ve become something deeply broken - beyond shame, beyond appeal. You’ve lost the internal architecture that makes moral life possible. The little light that said “this is not who I want to be” is extinguished. That is what the United States just did. The consequences of this are, frankly, terrifying. What happens when a nation stops telling itself it should be good? This is precisely what I try to answer in my latest article: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

What’s particularly ridiculous about the flagrant American lie that President Maduro is some sort of drugs kingpin is that the US openly ran Afghanistan as a heroin colony for 20 years. The country under US puppet rule supplied 90% of the world’s heroin and the US-backed rulers all took their cut. After the Taliban ejected the occupiers, poppy production stopped virtually overnight. As always imperial propaganda is pure projection.

The Trump admin falsely claimed for months that Venezuela's President Maduro leads a group called the "Cartel de los Soles" (Cartel of the Suns), which does NOT exist. The US Justice department has now quietly dropped this lie, implicitly admitting it was a fabrication. The entire US war is based on lies. It never had anything to do with drugs. Venezuela's role in the global cocaine trade is small and insignificant, and it has absolutely nothing to do with fentanyl (which is actually responsible for many drug-related deaths in the US, unlike cocaine). The Trump admin's repeated invocation of the fake "Cartel de los Soles" was its version of the WMD lie used by George W. Bush to try to justify his illegal invasion of Iraq. Both US wars were colonial wars of aggression and pillage, based on lies.

How humiliating for OU and society in general

the forrest gump of the war on terror

IMO, the Tea Party example is the most illustrative here. They wanted candidates who represented real right wing voters. They got them. It changed the map but also meant that they lost a ton of winnable races by running people like Roy Moore, Christine O’Donnell, and, yes, Trump.

@jjellisart at best

You wanna live in a big house with columns like in Gladiator? Of course you do, you’re twelve.

i knew by age 4. when teachers would ask me in school what i wanted to be when i grew up i couldn’t answer the question because all i had ever wanted to be was a girl. im so tired.