cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’ve been rewatching Battlestar Galactica and one thing I keep thinking is that Tricia Helfer would have made a great Emma Frost instead of January Jones 001
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I think there’s an ideal amount of pushback in life where someone is happiest when they get their way somewhere between 75-90% of the time. If you go beyond that, life starts to feel like playing a video game on godmode. I think this causes billionaires to go insane because no one ever tells them no 000
Reposted by @cjnev.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026it’s so funny that all i remember learning about the supreme court when i was a kid was about that brief moment in time when they did a couple of very cool things. that was an outlier. it’s a rotten institution. 1984286
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 08/06/202690s: The Matrix 00s: WALL-E 10s: The Death of Stalin 20s: I Saw the TV Glow These were really tough to choose and I had to spend awhile looking at my letterboxd 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Every time I see a headline about Ted Turner, I think they’re talking about Howard Hughes. “Didn’t that guy die a long time ago?” 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 03/05/2026When I was younger I’d probably put American Idiot by Green Day instead of one of these. I also wanted to avoid some of the hits that everyone knows such as Summertime Sadness, Royals, and Welcome to the Black Parade 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 29/04/2026It is so weird that The Social Network exists. It’s like if they tried to make a biopic about Hitler but they made it in 1937 and it ends with the Berlin Olympics. You’re nowhere close to the end of the story 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026From the day he took office in 2017, Trump was one of the 5 worst presidents in American history. However, it wasn’t until the past month that I became confident that historians will universally regard him as the #1 worst 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Between 1992-2015, the US had two center-right parties. What’s weirder than that to me is that in the UK from 1997-present, they’ve somehow had 3 center-right parties. I cannot comprehend how the Liberal Democrats exist or who votes for them 100
Reposted by @cjnev.bsky.socialDemocratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 28/02/2026NO WAR WITH IRAN! NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR, YES TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE! 🌹 Read DSA's statement on the US-Israeli attacks on Iran (1/5) 3300105
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 21/01/2026One way that our political landscape has changed is that there is no way that Nixon would have been forced from office today. Fox News would have rallied around the idea that, yes he did those crimes, but that was good actually, and 90% of Republicans would still support him 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Pet peeve: when people claim to be “boycotting” something that they had no intention of ever buying. I’ve seen both liberals and conservatives do this. It’s often a one-time purchase like a book or a ticket to a live event 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I can imagine 5-6 possible ways for the future to go, including things getting better or worse slowly or quickly, or staying about the same. One thing that makes me think that things getting better quickly is possible is looking at how quickly the Soviet Union fell, and only about 6 people died. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 16/11/2025It’s weird how many public figures come forth to say “I have a unique third way ideology that neither the left or right understand” and then you look into it and they’re just a centrist Democrat. There’s a whole party for just that 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 05/11/2025One thing that I don’t understand about Trump supporters is that they seem to be stuck in a mindset that 9/11 happened a few days ago 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 04/10/2025The decline of our civilization began with Reagan, when people claiming that the government couldn’t do any good were allowed to take over the government 010
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I have a post that I’ve been wanting to make for weeks. When I find the exact right wording, it’s going to be an all time great… 010
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 03/10/2025WRT “Tilly Norwood”: DAE remember when they tried this with Final Fantasy Spirits Within back in 2001? 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Traditional insurance (like fire or life) is betting that something rare will never happen to you. How does that match up with using “insurance” to pay for routine checkups with your doctor, dentist, etc.? 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 20/09/2025One of the problems with the health insurance model is that it doesn’t really work like insurance. Ideally, everyone should be using routine services every year. There’s no way to economically fund that using the same model as fire insurance 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Perhaps they could still go this direction, and neatly explain how in this continuity Iron Man and Dr Doom could be the same person. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Back in 2008 when I saw Iron Man in theaters, I thought the plot of the movie was going to follow the Ozzie Osbourne song. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 12/09/2025One thing that I don’t see commented on enough is that Palestine is in a completely unique situation as the only populated place that isn’t (officially) part of a UN country. Its legal status is basically like Antarctica in terms of sovereignty 010
Reposted by @cjnev.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 08/09/2025important thread. the idea of gearing an entire political party towards appealing to like 2% of voters with incoherent ideology, low engagement, in a handful of states and houses districts is both wildly myopic as a strategy and frankly offensive to democracy as a concept 1753885
Reposted by @cjnev.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 08/09/2025i keep thinking about how easily the democrats could have kept trump out. they wouldn't even have had to follow through on a few popular policies, they could have just lied, won and done nothing 391292118
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Using the Holocaust to justify the actions of Israel would be like using the fact that the Armenian genocide happened to defend any and all decisions of the present day government of Armenia 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 26/08/2025That’s one small step for man, one very, very small step for Godzilla. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 09/08/2025One of the many problem with US politics is a failure to have any litmus test for people remaining in office. When we have a generation defining mistake, the people in favor of it need to leave. It should have happened after the Iraq War, segregation, slavery, etc. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Segregationist Strom Thurmond continued to serve in Republican leadership until his death in 2003. 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 08/08/2025One of my hottest takes is that leftists that hate Gorbachev basically think that he was the same person as Boris Yeltsin, when in reality those two were enemies for effectively all of their careers 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 20/07/2025For some reason, I think about the Fermi paradox a lot these days. Perhaps intelligent life is doomed to destroy itself before it spreads out into the galaxy. I don’t know which technology (nuclear weapons, AI deepfakes, etc) is usually the culprit 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Again: The center-right voters that the Democratic Party has been trying to win over do not exist. They might have existed in the 90s, but they have all been radicalized to be pro-Trump now and will never vote for a centrist Dem again 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Many of Obama’s reforms would have been between reasonable and good if they had been implemented in the 1970s, such as the ACA or making the US mostly oil independent, but instead they came 40 years too late and wound up being regressive 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Back when Obama was elected, he made tons of promises that he didn’t keep. The Democratic Party of today doesn’t even bother lying to its base. They don’t say that they’ll do M4A or Green New Deal and then not do it. They actively don’t try to win left-leaning votes 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Kamala lost because the Democratic party spent 100% of its energy trying to win over center-right voters who turned out not to exist, while intentionally alienating the left side of their base Part of the reason they were so tonedeaf was because they went to absurd lengths to prevent an open primary 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I think that if Jimmy Carter had run for a non consecutive term in 2004 he could have won. There’s a lot of discourse about him now but I think he was at least better than anyone who came after him 010
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I still have a mental block where movies and other media that came out post lockdown don’t feel “real” to me in some way 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I don’t know what the future has in store for Syria. The fall in f the Baathists didn’t spell peace and prosperity for Iraq 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Tulsi Gabbard has one of the weirdest political arcs I’ve ever heard of. She endorsed Bernie in 2016, and Biden in 2020, after which she immediately started posting pro-Trump conspiracy theories. Now she’s going to serve a position in the Trump administration 000
cjnev.bsky.social @cjnev.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I didn’t post much on Twitter and probably won’t post often here. I generally have idiosyncratic far-left opinions 020
