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fundamentally you do not want to give radical militants a cause to rally behind

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i don't think this is a wise decision and i think the Pentagon's own experts on preventing violent extremism would agree

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 8h

so, just to track this you're taking a male character from a notoriously transphobic author, presenting them as a woman, getting publicly horny about them, & then claiming this somehow refutes social liberalism?

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13h

This plays into one of my other perennial fascinations, which is that "a period of European predominance in Africa" is basically predetermined by the 18th century, but the total colonization/conquest/partition of the continent is a *very* late development with a lot of contingent factors.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10h

The history of 19th century imperialism is so insane what do you MEAN there was a Jewish-Tahitian-Scottish commercial dynasty married into the Tahitian royal family, got namechecked by Herman Melville, and ruled Easter Island as their own private fiefdom for a decade???

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The Jewish King of Easter Island

The Salmon family of Tahiti, c. 1880. From left to right, top: Tati, Ariipaea, and Narii Salmon. From left to right, bottom: Arii Taimai, Moetia, Marau and Manihinihi. “Therefore, such as it …

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Somewhere out there @charltoncussans.bsky.social is pulling an RAF flight suit out of his closet and setting off to find the nearest Vulcan bomber

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again I offer a hearty “what the fuck are you doing, moron?” to Jared Polis, who commuted her sentence the last time she pulled this shit

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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the creole revolutions of latin america immediately birthed people who were like "but what if we were racist and shitty as the spaniards/portuguese though"

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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

well this idea IS fairly old in mexican history: see "la raza cosmica"

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M @ltbucket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also as far as I can tell the civilization-State stuff is an attempt to naturalize spheres of influence and exemption from liberal univeralism, largely contingent on the continued performance of these "civilization-States" (Chinese growth pretty much) rather than any veritable timeless criteria.

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M @ltbucket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How can you sephiroth post like this when Mexico doesn't even have the monopoly on legitimate physical violence within its own claimed territories.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thus India's borders are those of the Raj, up to and including all of Southeast Asia and the entire Persian Gulf. China's borders include every blade of grass stepped on by Sun Wukong in *Journey to the West*, including the ones that are further away from Chang'an than the circumference of the Earth

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This of course does not depend on prior ethnic, linguistic, religious, or cultural borders, but solely on a map the current leadership looked at in an atlas when they were 14 years old and thought made them look big and cool and impressive.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's perfectly simple. A civilization-state is any country that used to have an empire at least 1,000 years old plunked unevenly in the rough area of its current international borders. Also, its TRUE and NATURAL borders are the aggregate of the largest historical sizes of all previous empires.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At a certain point you gotta be willing to just say these are basically crazy people that nothing you can do will make happy, man. Like I’m sorry but if you’re protesting Mamdani over this people should just ignore you.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 17h

I can fully get behind a "Throw Tina Peters ass back in prison" election platform

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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 15h

See? Y'all are too worried about polls, you gotta be more worried about omens like this.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15h

I broke down the current state of the mid terms, the incessant Texas anti-trans ads, and where I'm finding a little bit of hope in all this in my latest video: youtu.be/5AuxDNCVpo8

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You Can't Escape Football's Anti-Trans Ads. I Found Their Source

YouTube video by Katelyn Burns

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"why did Mayor Hamasdani say this????" because time is linear and these things are connected in the same way the war on terror is a part of discussing 9/11. further questions will be redirected to the post below:

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I can't believe Genocide 'Zoh is parroting this false flag >:(((" you are a xitter Nazi and i'm going to treat this with precisely the amount of good faith it deserves

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Murder: It's Bad

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

atrocities are bad and you shouldn't do them yes, that includes 10/7 ....yes, that also includes hunting Gazan civilians for sport in response to the first atrocity this is why they are called atrocities, they are very atrocious overall. like and subscribe for more highly controversial opinions

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Blitz the Goddamn Dragon @blitzthedragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I notice the people who use that "scratch a liberal, a fascist will bleed" quote spend an awful lot of time at the fascist hangout, just saying.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17h

This looks like he's holding a press conference to deny paternity in a Daily Wire reboot of the Mamma Mia franchise.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 17h

plus this is the same argument from the other side- all palestinians are not terrorists! especially children! i honestly do not know how this will ever be resolved peacefully. the worst actors control it and the people suffer

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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social · 17h

As someone else pointed out, this is just Itamar Ben-Gvir Thought with the proper nouns changed

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 17h

This shit sucks and boils down to wanting blood for the blood god. Guessing they cheered on the attempted mass murder on the plane last week too.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17h

People will do anything to avoid recognising the absolute, generic, global, era-spanning futility of "I will not negotiate with my enemies, only destroy them". Sure, there are a handful of cases of mass-scale debellation in history, but usually at the cost of millions of lives.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

Putting aside that having once served in a military does not make someone a morally or legally valid target, they killed children. This position is no different than some justifications that some defenders of Israel’s genocide provide (eg every Palestinian is a potential Hamas fighter).

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 17h

He also ran to be mayor of New York and has an obligation to represent all New Yorkers but very little power to liberate Palestine.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 17h

Let me just say that the US does not have anything like the public pension problems France does. We are very much in the "tweak" zone to achieve long-term stability. They...yeah I dunno what they are gonna do. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

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What’s the Matter With France?

Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save?

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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 23h

This is also why a criminal justice system that prioritizes, y'know, *justice* over vengeance is important, because vengeance is very irrational and all too final, and often doesn't mind scapegoats long as the *feeling* of vengeance is appeased.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

"social contagion" is another case of an academic idea that may have had some validity in a narrow sphere that has now become utterly useless

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 17h

Also, the flawed Athenian democracy literally fell because a bunch of xenophobic dipshits insisted on unrestrained power for their homeland and had contempt for and felt free to abuse allied states. All while facing the challenge of another, even more authoritarian power.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17h

the "seize ballots" part I would put in the category of "should take seriously, because that actually could happen and they've scandalously dry - run versions of that already" zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...

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Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections

Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18h

i do feel like trump saying he doesnt care if they nuke california is somthing i've heard expressed in spirit by basically every republican ive spoken with for any length of time. california and new york arent america is just a stated and unstated background belief my entire life

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 08/10/2026

I should note that in many mainline churches this would be enough to get you chewed out if an employee, if not outright fired.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States was in groupchats with teenagers when he was a sitting US Senator and the political media has completely ignored this

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17h

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide

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John @lexaproluthor.bsky.social · 17h

If there's one lesson to take from Hegseth Thought, it's that just because these jabronis are too incompetent to get away with a scheme doesn't mean they're not deranged enough to try.

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Sean @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 17h

Deep down, they still think inciting something that allows them to do the Insurrection Act will be the thing that allows them power forever rather than the reality that it will lead them to a short drop with a quick stop. Also, man Jared Polis sucks

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 23h

Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there is a point at which fringe elements become large enough to be considered seriously but "200-500 in a city of 8.8m" is uh. well below that threshold. and again, rhetorically equivalent to pointing to a literal handful of twt lunatics and pretending they're a meaningful interest group.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

but yeah the protest and criticism in general are obviously cosplay. my heart is really heavy on 10/7 bc i think if the left had gotten its shit together maybe 15 years earlier we could've saved a lot of lives so when i see ppl do this shit i'm just like lol. lmao. redacted yourselves immediately

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 08/10/2026

I mean I think the crit is still valid! Its all in who its applied to.

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