Reposted by Engdawg69Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 4hGetting mad at Joyce Cato Oates for being a snob after cheering all her epic burns is a different form of being a member of the Leopards Eating Faces party. You can’t contain that heat, you can only hope to avoid its gaze. 849133
Reposted by Engdawg69William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever 1228124
Reposted by Engdawg69Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man. 111283187
Reposted by Engdawg69ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the ideal for marx and a lot of other thinkers was a utopian notion of a “machije in the garden” that would automate all grime labor and leave people to bask under a bountiful surplus. later expanded recently into Fully Automated Luxury Communism. I don’t think that is going to happen soon 6809
Reposted by Engdawg69John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah a lot of comments about "I want Batman to be about municipal policy" just comes down to, frankly, people who are too lazy to read non-fiction books about municipal policy 1527430
Reposted by Engdawg69John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So you want Bruce Wayne. That's - That's Bruce Wayne. Textually. 1330332
Reposted by Engdawg69BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I would like media that only ever reinforces my ideological perceptions in the most tediously didactic way possible rather than seeking to either entertain or challenge me, and will pass this off as insightful criticism. 637938
Reposted by Engdawg69ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i broadly agree with the thesis, but not the way that WBF argued it 118742
Reposted by Engdawg69Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion) 20607100
Reposted by Engdawg69rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue 211467157
Reposted by Engdawg69Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'll admit, part of why I'm so skeptical of the emerging realignment thesis of this election is that it just seems so *random* that it would happen NOW, after ten years of Trump being a remarkably consistent public figure and ten years of remarkably consistent political trends. 10859727
Reposted by Engdawg69Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/09/2026There should not be 88 different cities in Los Angeles county. Abolish Beverly Hills. 2326328
Reposted by Engdawg69William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated. 461129136
Reposted by Engdawg69rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true 2260295
Reposted by Engdawg69Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026TBH I think nuclear power is a climate solution. 2434625
Reposted by Engdawg69Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/09/2026lmfao what do you even say to this 3327710
Reposted by Engdawg69Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Imagine making this argument while spending your time on social media instead of spinning wool or mending something, like you'd have been doing prior to labor saving devices 1337268
Reposted by Engdawg69"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷♂️ 271027184
Reposted by Engdawg69"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The thing about actual Roman damnationes memoriarum is that they didn't really obliterate all memory of a bad emperor. None of our sources are afraid to talk about these figures. It wasn't truly about forgetting the guy, but about abolishing his (positive) public commemoration. 151133189
Reposted by Engdawg69PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Read Chapter 27, "The Sad Irons," of Robert Caro's THE PATH TO POWER (1983), and you will never ask this question again. 3152
Reposted by Engdawg69BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026man I admire anyone who has the bravery to write about parenting and *especially* about their own failures in parenting, because there is no topic on which people are more stridently self-righteous and judgemental 2393554
Reposted by Engdawg69Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It is genuinely baffling how Western Marxist historiography just refuses to grapple with the fact that the victims of communist dictatorships were often other communists within their own borders 617328
Reposted by Engdawg69Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hasan Piker is an idiot and a provocateur with a pretty loose grasp of history, but I am finding the endless cycles of performative outrage at not unconditionally endorsing Eisenhower's foreign policy to be wearing thin. 58899104
Reposted by Engdawg69Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So that's the thing. I grew up Mormon. And there are ~progressive poly folks~ who insist "Oh but haha we're not doing it BAD like those crazy Mormons did, we're GOOD people!" and then merrily describe doing shit that "oppressed Mormon sister wives in the 1860s" 100% would not have put up with. 758989
Reposted by Engdawg69Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comTrue Imperial Japan ExperienceTrue Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi... 361149301
Reposted by Engdawg69William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026(half paying attention to various separate discourses but still wanting to participate): I don't think the Qing empire was a sex cult 231024145
Reposted by Engdawg69the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a man who definitely delivered these remarks two days ago: 313717
Reposted by Engdawg69Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026We can no longer look away from The Chart if we are to defeat the batshit billionaire rationalist sex cult running the American AI industry. I’m so sorry you all had to find out like this. knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/me... 1091265116
Reposted by Engdawg69William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How many cycles of “I’d like to see the stupid machine overcome *this* technical limitation…ahh well, nevertheless” do we need to be before people realize the performative scoffing just makes them look silly. Like idk if it can do this, but if you dismiss it out of hand at this point… 151919
Reposted by Engdawg69Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026there's basically zero situation where xi agrees to an ai slowdown treaty, because of the centrality of "new productive forces" to how they imagine they're going to exit their economic quagmire 315812
Reposted by Engdawg69Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are four classes in the United States: the oligarchy and its handmaidens, the professional administrative class, the lumpenbourgeoisie, and the post-proletariat. 1640170
Reposted by Engdawg69jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90youtu.beSmart Answers to Stupid Comments About SlaveryYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 541378332
Reposted by Engdawg69Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is 313343659
Reposted by Engdawg69Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Putting aside that country music is a multibillion-dollar industry centralized in a major city, it's also notable that a huge part of the domination of country music since the 2010s has been the incorporation and influence of rap and hip-hop. 517332
Reposted by Engdawg69"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I always thought this was one of the silly elements of something like a Cyberpunk2077 setting, where cyberspace was a discrete space AIs could live in, rather than, y'know, the sum of a bunch of computers running in meat-space that could be destroyed or unplugged. 2822624
Reposted by Engdawg69domi @domi.zip · 09/09/2026imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around 26535107
Reposted by Engdawg69Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026i'm gonna say one more thing about this. one other aspect of this particular knot of anti-intellectualism is innumeracy. if I told you flooding was a problem in some neighborhood and we needed to figure out how to redistribute water, you probably wouldn't say "oh you mean like a cup?!" 1474193
Reposted by Engdawg69"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So 'blockade' as a legal thing in war has specific rules. There need to be specific military-related goods as contraband (you can't contraband food or medical supplies, for instance), and you need to give ships a chance to turn around. The latter basically requires using a surface fleet. 733226
Reposted by Engdawg69William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026politics is not monocausal etc etc, but we def get a bit too clever by half trying to explain why people vote for right wing parties, especially in europe imo. 'they're against immigration so they vote for the most anti-immigrant party' explains a whole lot. 1872273
Reposted by Engdawg69George Pearkes @peark.es · 03/09/2026Cities Skylines 2 let's play creators ranked 1. @cityplannerplays.bsky.social (not close, it's wild) 2. SkillzBuildz - his Aethelburg build makes me want to move to Europe lol 3. Infrastructurist 4. Wheat Waffle 5. UrbanLoon 6713
Reposted by Engdawg69jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211153
Reposted by Engdawg69big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time 216167664233
Reposted by Engdawg69Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The other part of this is that the Democratic Party basically does not exist, and our party institutions in most states are either nepotistic grey-haired social clubs that don't win elections or grubby organized-crime syndicates. 1036453
Reposted by Engdawg69"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Unfortunately, at least in my field, we've reached a point where your academic patron cannot get you a job but they *can* blackball you in the field. Which is the worst of all possible worlds when it comes to abusive advisors. 81015121
Reposted by Engdawg69Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant. 27544931074
Reposted by Engdawg69Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026(AI actually has been used in science and medicine for decades and is incredibly good at doing things like finding cancer that can’t be seen with the human eye but that is a completely different type of AI then we’re all angry about it and we shouldn’t discuss them in the same conversations TBH) 252356492
Reposted by Engdawg69Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Oh FFS we can offer vastly more lifetime security than Gulf state shithole regimes and considerably more than a totalitarian dictatorship. 1122727
Reposted by Engdawg69Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days. 121790312
