Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 7hWhat's perhaps more interesting is the brief period in the mid-20th century when this wasn't true, and instead the shadowy cabal was "the Chinese" (in the 1960s), "the Saudis" (70s), and "the Japanese" (80s). Probably because antisemitism was briefly put out of public view after WW2. 1141
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10hso many conservatives owe their success to the very liberal institutions they scorn 1103
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 10hThis is probably going to sound wild to Americans but ‘global warming is real’ is very much not something that needs to be mentioned every time we talk about the weather in HK because for all its faults, HKSARG actually acknowledges climate change is real 2247
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 14hTACO isn't by any means a universal rule but it's consistent enough.static.klipy.comDancing Grilled Cheese TacoAlt: Dancing Grilled Cheese Taco 000
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 17hFuck! Fuck! Fuck! They are here! Well they been here all summer, but mostly in Seattle. Now they are branching out to the suburbs! Fuck! These fuckers are kidnapping folks in my neighborhood! Good folks, hard working folks. Folks need to get organized. Seattle, you know what to do. #ICEoutofSEATTLE 35036021838
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 16hWe've fucked this up badly enough that this will go over well with the public. Got a lot of bans and angry posts at me for pointing out we had to do a better job or the public would soon be fine with this. 1284
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16hRuss Vought should be prosecuted for violating the law with impoundment after this is all over. 19550108
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 16hAs the Weimar Republic famously shows universal healthcare and a multi-party system do splendidly at preventing the rise of fas-*checks notes*static.klipy.comWillem Dafoe as Green Goblin: Oh.Alt: Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin: Oh. 232
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h"No conservative who longs for an earlier age suggests cutting themselves off from the modern world in an intentional community, as the Amish have—because that would mean accepting an inferior place in the hierarchy of power."liberalcurrents.comThe Illiberal's DilemmaIn January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and ... 522537
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 17hSo much of modern politics everywhere seems to be voters angry that tradeoffs are real. 1658
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 20hThe 2001 crisis between Pakistan, the US, the Taliban and al-Qaeda had a lot of moving parts, but one of the most important was that Mullah Omar had never set foot outside his own backyard in his life. 0124
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 17hEspecially important point that he both received the lion's share of aid and then wrecked every part of his career and rather more of Kabul than the USSR did in a decade in a dogfight with Massoud in the 1990s. One of the most important figures in recent Afghan history, and yet... 020
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 18hNor was this a uniquely Nazi affair, similar mass murder campaigns took place in WW1 with the Austro-Hungarian killing of Serbs and Montenegrins, German atrocities in Belgium and France, German cultural genocide in Eastern Europe, and Russian mass murder of Germans in East Prussia. 072
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 18hThe early 20th century is a blood-soaked rebuttal to this. There were at least four intra-European genocides in 1941-1945 alone (Nazi genocide of Poles, Nazi genocide in the USSR, Eastern Galicia, and Croat genocide of Serbs) and that's leaving aside anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim mass murder. 3125
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 17hTBH when Al-Qaeda provided his budget and one in three of his fighters in the field he had a financial stake in refusing to believe Al-Qaeda did 9/11 no matter how much evidence was provided him. He also sincerely believed Taliban fighters could win a straight up conventional fight with the US. 070
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 17hWrapped up the first of four library books, the other one is on the Hundred Days, then Ira Lapidus's History of the Islamic World and one on the Muslim view of the Crusades. This one is an excellent 9/10 history of the end of World War I as *World* War I. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...goodreads.comVictory 1918: The definitive history of the end of the …Almost a century after the battles of the First World W… 120
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18hit's relieving the GW, just like the Makin Island is relieving the Boxer, just like all of these are rotational swapouts and not additive how are you all still falling for this 8 months in, this is jangling keys toddler levels of attempted misdirection from some of the dumbest admin members and yet 820729
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 18hOver on X, the everything app, claims that Ireland has descended into "full-blown civil war", with people engaged in open warfare about migration and claims about the "New Irish Republican Army", mostly with old/unrelated videos/images. Absolute brain worms. 1824258
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 17hWell the Saudi oil industry is doomed. 000
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 17hThey're feeling confident they can protect hundreds of miles of undefended pipeline. 1302
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 17hstatic.klipy.comInvincible: That's The Neat Part, You Don't!Alt: Invincible: That's The Neat Part, You Don't! 010
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 17hOne reason not to start a war in the Middle East is that literally every actor there is a stone cold stupid. 3274
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 18h"Who are the world's biggest grain producers" is something more people really should be aware of: 072
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️siezetheclay.bsky.social @siezetheclay.bsky.social · 19hThe constant stream of video content and photos were also frequently disinfo content. Pics of a child from Brazil or a bomb site from Syria circa 2022, pretending to be "news" from Gaza. It smelled like "scam" to me. 1181
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 19hThe near constant contradictions within the activist community were obvious, but if you called them out, you got called a war criminal. So there's a total information blackout, yet you were radicalized by a constant stream of video content? No news can get in or out, but you can Venmo someone? 210419
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 19hIt was also telling the degree to which this sort of thing proliferated way more for Gaza than it did for Ukraine, despite the massive population disparity and the complete destruction of communications infrastructure in Gaza. 613932
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 19hUNWRA literally does it themselves. 5279
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thinking about this, lmao 181
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean, I think there is as long as you are very clear that you understand it in the sense that you understand why people would be delusional enough to think that it could be anything other than evil, a clarity that is very much lacking from this post 261
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026like I understand why Al-Qaeda did 9/11. It’s because they thought that the US was the great Satan spreading homosexuality and Judaism throughout the planet in order to destroy Islam from within and bring about the reign of Dajjal. Because they’re delusional hateful monsters. That’s why they did it. 082
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Humanity is too ornery and stubborn to submit to any boot on the face forever, no matter how vicious the intent of the people who seek to wield the boot. 052
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comSupergirl Melissa BenoistAlt: Supergirl Melissa Benoist 272
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comAirplane Let Them Crash: Counter PointAlt: Airplane Let Them Crash: Counter Point 2103
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pakistan doesn’t get nearly enough shit for this 1112
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't. 8876139
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We need to establish a Congress with enough self respect that they would immediately eject any fool with the gall to do shit like this. 27219
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I will once again repeat that one of my most controversial views on this site is that Netanyahu has spent years waging personal wars to stay out of jail, that his doing this is motivated by domestic Israeli political reasons, and that he's a self-destructive moron. This view makes many people angry. 161
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it is mildly amusing when people find out Beijing is more or less a "normal state" for the most part of diplomacy 2331
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It really is an eerie thing how much the 2000 election predicted the world a quarter century later, NGL.static.klipy.comRobert Barone Says Sadly, YesAlt: Robert Barone Says Sadly, Yes 121
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9651702103
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AOC is also happy to collaborate with the MAHA 'some of these kiddos may die of viruses but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make' types, too, which is a thing these guys at least pretend to care about. 1123
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is going to be another very expensive geography lesson in 'East Africa is right next door to the MENA and when MENA sneezes East Africa catches cold', which is a thing going back to Egypt slaughtering Kushites for fun and profit. 180
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sudan equally is an exception, along with Rwanda, of being a major atrocity in Africa that occasionally does get attention and condemnation, even if US arms deals enabling the Sudan genocide for some reason it's not qwhite clear don't get the same reaction as with Gaza. 153
Reposted by Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A real 'infantry does the dying, fires does the killing' vision of warfare, which honestly...that is basically how warfare has worked since 1900. 1493
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trans rights are when we are all Under His Eye and queer people get Talibaned to death with the additional insult of dying to a Hillsong soundtrack while we're at it, to people like the trans 'activist' quoted here. 020
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/202619th Century Europeans looking at this like:static.klipy.comFranz Josef in WW1 RapAlt: Franz Josef in WW1 Rap 010
Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hey, at least that means five weeks where we can enjoy not having to wonder 'Will Republicans make the Internet illegal today.' 032