Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I have quizzed friends on the Ontario party leaders multiple times recently, friends who are politically active too. A few remember Merit Stiles though mostly not, and none other them EVER remembered Crombie. 010 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Yeah it has to be that they’re trying to big up some light bruising right? Otherwise it’s such an absurd and obvious lie to fabricate from whole cloth that it doesn’t make sense to even try. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026How could this possibly be true? We’ve seen video footage of the entire incident (before and after shots fired) from dozens of different angles, the guy wasn’t even bumped. Like this is so obviously a lie it’s hard to even comprehend the attempt?? Like a child caught with the hand in the cookie jar 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Average middle American retiree trying to ID the ICE office beating her neighbours half to death and dragging their children of the home in the middle of the night:media.tenor.coma woman is smiling while holding a small camera in her hands .ALT: a woman is smiling while holding a small camera in her hands . 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026@notalawyer.bsky.social looks like you may get to revisit Eric Adams after all 000 0
Reposted by Goblim Nodelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/01/2026i don't believe in rainbow capitalism but i do think it's vitally important that sports team pride nights continue to outsell the increasingly common harry potter night 111959160 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Ottawa river baby!!! Gotta be a top 10 “river that is the reason the city exists” 150 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If moderates have proved anything it’s that they’ll absolutely refuse to ever concede in a progressive direction. The one thing a moderate will never do is not give up ground to the right or not sacrifice minorities for their own convenience. 0100 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026These people’s brains are pickled in made up “I punched the the guy who mocked the troops and everyone stood up and cheered” stories from Reddit. They are now attacking people the way they always dreamed of and are confused to find that (almost) nobody is standing up and cheering. 040 0
Reposted by Goblim NodeMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026anyway i’ll leave messaging and strategy to others on this topic, my main point is that the most important political project right now is replacing as many incumbent dems as possible and striking the fear of god into those that remain 632340 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I imagine it’s a bit like a baker discovering that they’re gluten intolerant. Your identity is rejecting you, whether you like it or not, and the only path to adaptation is hateful. 062 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The problem for your average sitting Democrat and their leadership is that they fundamentally agree with immigration enforcement through violence. Like they just kind of fuck with it, in their heart and soul. So they don’t know how to respond to that apparatus being turned on people like them. 1152 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Somebody get this president a globe please, with bright colours and big text 😭 010 0
Reposted by Goblim NodeAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/01/2026At least three Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Gaza aje.news/fjy4k3 69469 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Embarrassing to admit but Canada might not, our current government is terrified of collapsing our economy by loosing American ties too quickly. If push came to shove, I think we would not have a backbone. 071 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I guess Baffin and Ellesmere Island are next 😭 130 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026If he could truly absorb the information…yeah maybe honestly. 060 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I guess that’s not strictly true, they also cherry pick moments of history before Regan to eye with suspicion. Suffrage and civil rights for example are viewed out of context with a bitterness that says “maybe this already went too far” 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The only guiding principles are a fear of change and reverence for hierarchy. It’s a hilarious combo sometimes because these people never want to return to high corporate taxes, anti-trust, and New Deal social programs. For them, history starts with Regan. Everything since is scary. 110 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Credit where it’s due I guess, reactionaries have realized the binary political spectrum is sort of nonsense and begun to just fully play jump rope with it. Nothing means anything, every term is subjective and can be applied to any behaviour. Context is dead and Bari Weiss killed it. 110 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Yeah if you look at the record it’s BEEN the cover story for at least a year now. Cowards. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Looked at a list of ICE involved shootings for the last year yesterday and I think more than half used this same justification. It seems to be the training, to place yourself in a position to plausibly claim “self defence from car”. But of course eventually they get lazy with even that. 010 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026So you’re finally admitting that Tim Onion of The Onion is a billionaire eh? I knew he was making bank of taking all those Soros Bucks (an infinite well of magic money that leftwing people get wherever that do or say anything) 010 0
Reposted by Goblim NodeTim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The World Cup should not be held in the United States. 645140972516 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026They should make a Jurassic park movie/series that is just the park actually operating and the dinosaurs not escaping. I’d love to see a workplace comedy set in an operating Jurassic Park. Hell even a “westworld but its Jurassic park” would be cool, a thriller drama where secrets and machinations. 130 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I never used floppy disks for their intended purpose, but I throw the ones that were still kicking around at my sibling. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026@themountaingoats.bsky.social new album cover? 010 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026200 thousand people agreeing that someone should have chosen crack over their baby is frankly hilarious. Incomprehensible numbers. 1903 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026If not sarcastic (or even so): I couldn’t find any first hand videos as Google is flooded with coverage of the recent ICE shooting right now. I did however find this local news coverage from shortly after the incident. Considering it happened at a bus stop there is likely witness video out thereyoutube.comMan shot by ICE agent disputes claim that he tried to assault officersYouTube video by ABC7 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026If that is meant to be a sarcastic dig, then you’re moving goal posts. The question is not “does something get media coverage because it is witnessed” but rather “do witnesses get heard and videos seen if the crime doesn’t happen to a white person”. 100 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026But ICE has shot (and killed) many people, and it wasn’t a story like this. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Just for the commenter’s reference, Jade is objectively correct. Here is a list of ICE shootings since Trump took office last year. Some fatalities here, and often in very similar circumstances to Renee’s. We did not have a mass media coverage of any of these to this scale. It feels pretty clear.newsweek.com 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Take the case of citizen Carlos Jimenez. He was shot in a traffic stop just like Renee. He was not the target of investigation, just trying to pass by. He fortunately survived the bullet that struck him in the shoulder, but his survival was down to a matter of inches. We have not heard his story. 131 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Whether it is uncomfortable or not the truth of the matter is that if you break down the differences between these shootings and the shooting of Renee good, almost the only consistent difference is that these people where non-white as far as we know. I am sorry, it sucks but it is true. 131 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026My friend, here is an article going through ICE shootings since Trump took office last year (and trust me they happened before him). You’ll notice a number of these people died, and a majority of them took place in EXTREMELY similar circumstances to Renee. Traffic stop, mid day, shot in a car.newsweek.com 141 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Yeah exactly! This is simply undeniable, and I think that’s the point being made. It’s simply true that the masses care more about the white woman. And they should care! But it’s also true that there were others who did not get this outpouring of grief and support. It’s just a fact. 010 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I think it needs to be said that “mad since Trump” is not nearly to the origin of the problem. Not to you or anyone specifically (I’m sure you’re aware and just using that time marker to make the point) but ICE killed people under Biden and Obama too, just as they also caged kids under the Dems. 110 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026💯yeah for sure. It feels tasteless to say, because this IS a tragedy, but it’s so so sooooo far from the first person ICE has shot and killed in cold blood on US soil. I imagine some members of ICE are genuinely confused as to why it’s suddenly a big deal, when they’ve been doing it for years. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Anyway, all that to say I think we see the result of this lack of leadership here. The Dems have no single voice, and no undergirding ideology to keep all their separate voices on message. So instead it feels like Trump just keeps getting away with it with only sporadic, weak protests from the Dems. 000 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Dems live or die by whoever ends up on the ballot, and outside of the election cycle they have nothing to offer. If they find a good candidate they win, if they don’t they loose. Republicans have been winning despite their candidates in many ways, because they have a focused political engine. 100 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Republicans learned how to have a platform that they can drop any idiot on top of to be competitive. Trump was a godsend for them because they found a leader who was both charismatic and essentially on platform, but honestly almost any republican could have beat Clinton. 110 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026A charismatic leader CAN be replaced by well organized, decentralized grass roots populist politics! But the Dems can’t seem to do that, and they have no one respected leader to stand up and say “we believe in x, and we will do y with power”. It’s something they’ve never really figured out. 100 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I think it makes it hard to get a message across if you’re not clear on your ideology in the first place, which the modern dems certainly aren’t. They have no figure head, but they also have no People’s Voice. They have no populist message. You need at least one. 100 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026In the American system a failed presidential candidate is just nobody. They can’t continue the fight until the next election cycle. Sure there’s party leadership, but Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t become president if the Dems win next election so the average person rightly views the party as headless. 110 0
Goblim Node @isometricman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026One thing the American political system really suffers from is a lack of opposition leadership. In other systems like the Canadian parliamentary system the parties have leaders, and if the party wins an election that leader becomes the prime minister. But the parties who loose still have a leader! 100 0
