Reposted by ben chambers 🏴the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1hit's absolutely true but the problem is that it's taken *this* for the non-sickos to finally understand the shape and color of the problem 1393
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 8hI think they're increasingly getting too dumb for coded appeals and have thrown the Atwater treadmill into reverse. 031
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 50mit is funny that people are like "ozempic proves body acceptance WRONG" yeah, ozempic really proved that some people just have unbeatable hunger signals, which invalidates the claims that changing your body is really hard, huh 1177
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 49mgood god X the Everything Antisemitism App is in vintage form, every leftist that hasn't partly decamped to bsky has absolutely cooked themselves 4508
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23mThe fact that centrists don’t believe in anything _does_ make them very programmable. You just have to figure out the interface for it, before they go back to their default of taking instructions from the right. 2456
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 10hLet’s be real they’re using “furry” as a visibly queer subculture as a stand-in for queerness at large. Their goal has been to remove queer people from public life, and they’re testing different vectors to do so. Hence the all caps “MENTALLY ILL,” which is how they want to reclassify all queers 7374192
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 2hIt isn’t talked about enough how traumatizing even “minor” racist encounters can be for the targeted party I’m thirty-two years old and still tryna process shit from when I was like 15 3638
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 2hWhen I was in college there was this frat who made being “southern gentlemen” their whole identity. Them white boys used to be at intramural b-ball games, calling the black teams the N-word, “boys”, and all type of shit . Whenever I think of it, I damn near fly into a rage like I’m still there 2577
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴altghost gestalt @pneumaticorangutan.bsky.social · 1hI think fraternities also exist in order to push rapists higher into society so that our nation and its empire are run by rapists 0342
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1hTbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 8668127
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1hI understand why people think there's something going on "behind the scenes," but it's mostly out in the open. This is how power struggles happen in an oligarchy. These guys all need each other in order to remain the small group who control the country and loot its wealth away from working people. 418941
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 1hfor Me2.0 we're gonna have to do more of a HimToostatic.klipy.comBrad Pitt in Fury: Hey, Shoot That GuyALT: Brad Pitt in Fury: Hey, Shoot That Guy 0264
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 3hBen Gvir is also a convicted terrorist. A closer analogy would be if McVeigh became a US senator 131
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7hBen-Gvir, the minister of national security, literally had a portrait of a mass shooter of Palestinians on his wall, it’s literally the equivalent a U.S. Senator having a portrait of Timothy McVeigh or Dylan Roof in his living room 417412
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 3h"Conspiracism is flourishing in America at the moment because the entire Trumpist movement represents, among other things, a complete collapse of any intellectual standards" 0546
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026maybe the worst horror of fascism is its ineffability: we are forced to witness obscenities and atrocities that outstrip our language capacity, short-circuiting our conscience and cognition; we have no mouths and we must scream, and the fascists point and laugh as we suffocate 110223
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2hthey're just training grounds for our monstrous failson future overlords, same fucking pipeline as everything else in their upbringing devaluing human life outside of the chosen few 0295
ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 1hwere all dealing with collective trauma and the clown show that inflicted it is a form of political terror life under trump is like getting raped by ronald mcdonald 030
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Jody Wallace @jodywallace.bsky.social · 7hIt's invisible emotional labor amped up to a billion. Every day. Every second. 072
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8hI’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do. 7600137
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 4hThe post-information world of the replacement of science, expertise, and institutional development with autonomized ignorance and participatory make-believe as the highest epistemic good proceeds apace. Caveat cognitor. 1147
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2hI close my eyes and imagine mashing them into paste with my fists, one by one, breaking faces until my knuckles split and my fingers break. 22117
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2hGod I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news. 3682100
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18hThe UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable. 111140318
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2hlosing my fucking mind because "old Cornell University page bragging about how 98% of men never join a frat but the most powerful people in the country are all supermajority frat members" is the most I Know Writers Who Use Subtext And They're All Cowards thing I could ever fucking think of 2283
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2hI believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 211367242
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2hthis thread is, as expected, absolutely spot on. if you don’t know what commonly happens in fraternity hazing, for just one example, you would be shocked. how many college-educated men are walking around having been both victim and perpetrator of torture, actively encouraged as “bonding.” 1214
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 5hShe was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 272319405
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4hThe core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations. 521470
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3ha lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way: 113031
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 3hI was a nuclear-grade free speech warrior back in 2000 and I was perplexed as hell by folks thinking free speech meant an entitlement to being hosted and legitimized by anyone on their own blog. Moderated comments sections aren't censorship, they're a matter of basic autonomy. 2201
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴merritt @merrittk.com · 3hwe fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone 101719274
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 4hAfter being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors. 11925210
ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 3haka cannon fodder. more young souls for the meat grinder 042
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 3hThis is what they want. To eliminate most of us so that we aren’t a threat to them in a world decimated by climate change. They are very explicit that this is their actual political goal and that they see AI (“superintelligence”) as the leading mechanism to make that happen. 2479
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 04/01/2025The Republican Party right now is a personality cult, with Trump as its focal point. Vance trying to come in after a decade of that like Hua Guofeng after Mao died will end with similar levels of success 1245
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 4hI'm honestly fine with destroying the Ivies, especially how quick many were to capitulate to Trump early on. They're rancid seeds of reaction and, evidently, rape that would deserve to be crushed under heel (i.e., either closed or seized and turned into new institutions). 0135
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 5hFascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present 322047
ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 4ha chatbot will most likely just reiterate what the doctor said but in more technical detail and with links to research you would have to lobotomize it to get the woo woo they want ai is not a stochastic parrot but the right very much wants it to be, an emotional support confirmation bias machine 231
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 222268477
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 12696502103
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5hThe root of Trump's most durable support is that he is stupid, and deep down, his most fanatical supporters know that he is. Like recognizes like. They don't like scientists, minorities, journalists, and professors being high-falutin' -- and neither does Trump. 1407
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 8hThe GOP fucking sucks, now so more than ever, and left-wing politicians should not hide their seething contempt for them. Make voters feel like their own contempt is seen and heard. 1392
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15hI know I recommend it a lot but “Walk To The End of the World” nailed these guys to a T. 0361
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6hYup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 5997138
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7hOne, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for. 551861369
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7hAnyway, the Iran conflict is probably one of the less destructive ways Trump could detonate his political power. Albeit still hugely destructive. But at least we're getting a forced green energy transition and electrification (much stronger than any politically viable federal incentive). 432323
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7hOr DOGE could have broken the federal payments system and caused govt employees and pensioners and federal contractors (including hospitals) to all go unpaid for weeks on end. Or Trump could have tripled down on tariffs and embargoes until the markets actually crashed properly. 230014
Reposted by ben chambers 🏴Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7hTrump had *lots* of other options for making himself colossally unpopular, and repeatedly TACOed right up to the edge of a disaster he couldn't back out of, each time concluding that he was untouchable because nothing too bad happened. He finally did it properly with Iran, and here we are. 645337
