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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there is no leftist literature as embarrassing as the "anticorruption is bourgeois and you have to understand that the politics of the working class are inherently patrimonial" literature which followed Lavo Jato and PT's total failure to do literally anything to reform.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

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Engdawg69 @jaybirdeo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tbf I play kaiserreich almost exclusively because I know the actual ww2 history and the main game is extremely boring to me. Have you thought about playing a campaign in that mod and seeing how their version of history is different?

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Engdawg69 @jaybirdeo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I pretty much only play the kaiserreivh mod because it solves some of this for me.

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Engdawg69 @jaybirdeo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Should try City Skylines also!

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Engdawg69 @jaybirdeo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

History of science fiction? It also does make some assumptions about how the further of space combat will occur.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026

Getting 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.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I 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

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Engdawg69 @jaybirdeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean it’s the same reason most villains are Japanese in my hero academia, write in your own country!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always 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.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the 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

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah 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

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you want Bruce Wayne. That's - That's Bruce Wayne. Textually.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I 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.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i broadly agree with the thesis, but not the way that WBF argued it

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if 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)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'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.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/09/2026

There should not be 88 different cities in Los Angeles county. Abolish Beverly Hills.

Map of incorporated cities in LA county.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TBH I think nuclear power is a climate solution.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lmfao what do you even say to this

crazy ami doing a spouse-esque "just so proud of my SO" post about dort and his role in stu's "make Colonels do an hour long CPX and a written test to get stars" idiocy

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine 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

No technological advancement produced less labor, because, despite the marketing, they were never intended to. They were meant to increase productivity for Capital; no produce leisure for workers.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decades 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. 🤷‍♂️

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The 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.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Read Chapter 27, "The Sad Irons," of Robert Caro's THE PATH TO POWER (1983), and you will never ask this question again.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

man 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

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It 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

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hasan 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.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So 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.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely 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...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True 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...

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William 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

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a man who definitely delivered these remarks two days ago:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

We 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...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How 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…

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026

there'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

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are four classes in the United States: the oligarchy and its handmaidens, the professional administrative class, the lumpenbourgeoisie, and the post-proletariat.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Putting 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.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I 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.

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domi @domi.zip · 09/09/2026

imagine 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

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i'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?!"

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