björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 29/09/2026I really can't figure out any other rational explanation for why the reform movement moved the way they did; how anti-zionism could survive 1945 but not 1967 130
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 29/09/2026The Pittsburgh Platform was objectively a political movement to turn Judaism as a religious practice into a means to socially reproduce communists, which is why the Jewish bourgeoisie suppressed it once the black liberation movement started looking like it'd go communist 150
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 29/09/2026some dumbass Ashkenazi thought to himself, “Wir waren Könige,” and dropped this steaming turd of ethnogenesis that is Zionism that nobody can seem to flush 000
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Simpsons: Prove Me Wrong, KidsAlt: The Simpsons: Prove Me Wrong, Kids 030
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 29/09/2026The belief that an officers’ coup will untangle the gordian knot of constitutional paralysis that has gotten us where we are today is to believe in the clean pentagon myth 150
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 27/09/2026not to give the founders too much credit, but they did hit on the idea that “the way to stop the government from using the army to kill people is to not give it one” 030
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 27/09/2026not to have to spell it out, but when the most free speech absolutist justice ever is like “well, if they declared war, maybe,” we’d all be in jail for posting if they bothered to declare any of these wars they’ve been fighting. but they didn’t, and you’re still complaining! 110
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 27/09/2026we haven’t had a declared war for so long people forget what it means for free speech, but here’s Justice Douglas in Brandenburg v. Ohio: 110
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 27/09/2026I don’t know why people complain that Congress hasn’t declared war but we keep going to war. That’s good! It means it’s impossible to commit treason because we don’t have any enemies. Can’t commit sedition either. 1100
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 24/09/2026static.klipy.comLes Lye You Cant Do That On TelevisionAlt: Les Lye You Cant Do That On Television 000
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 24/09/2026trump voters explicitly saw themselves as needing to make america great again and rejected clinton's "your lives are great and I will keep it that way" message 0191
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 23/09/2026the labor aristocracy thesis is specifically that were it to come to it, Americans would wholeheartedly favor destroying the whole world before giving up household refrigeration. in effect, this is actually existing climate politics 030
Reposted by björk 182Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Concocting a theory that Republicans are going to Save The World Actually by repeatedly tripping over their dicks until it’s prohibitively expensive to do anything but lower our collective carbon footprints. 1024546
Reposted by björk 182Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Quitting your job to save money to go on vacation 2224
Reposted by björk 182tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 443182752
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 21/09/2026i am altering the user agreement. pray i don't alter it any further 0161
Reposted by björk 182Neil Pajamas @agrippanothing.bsky.social · 20/09/202624.5 in die Linke, 16.0 in die Stinke 281
Reposted by björk 182Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026look in seriousness the fact she responded (and with “no it isn’t”, lol) to a bluesky (not her main social media) thread from someone with ~10k followers is such a hit dog hollering moment that it lends gyges significant credibility imo bsky.app/profile/aell... 2871259
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 14/09/2026only with the advent of the automobile could all financial responsibility for maintenance be foisted upon the end user 020
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 14/09/2026although the rail barons enjoyed their position at the top of a social hierarchy by dint of their control over the means of transportation and commerce, rail infrastructure nevertheless leaves the system on the bag for the bulk of maintenance and upkeep. 130
Reposted by björk 182Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I know that the United States elected Trump twice, one time even sort of on purpose, but I'll still pick Brexit as the most eyes-wide-open act of willful national self-destruction in my lifetime. 2963091
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 13/09/2026they owned the encomienda grant? what do you think the high interest you referred to was lent against? failing businesses are businesses 100
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 13/09/2026absolutely not: petit bourgeois property owners are not proletariat 100
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 13/09/2026as distinct from simple commodity production or agricultural rents, the system of wage labor does not begin in earnest until the industrial revolution when the productive forces would finally develop for wages alone to be sufficient to reproduce labor 100
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 13/09/2026well, century. white supremacy developed in the mid-17th century to stop black slaves who converted to christianity from being freed capitalism (not the existence of capital, but the extraction of surplus value) developed about with the creation of the proletariat in the late 18th century 100
Reposted by björk 182Edward @edwardodell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” Gm 67911
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/09/2026it’s always funny when people spell it “milk toast” instead of “milquetoast,” which means “milk toast” 0121
Reposted by björk 182Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe the century of bloodthirsty anticommunism this guy reveled in, as per the article's description of his motives for emigrating to the US in the first place, could have had something to do with the people who eventually killed him. 0656
Reposted by björk 182Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Now this is a perfect 9/11 story: of romance and heroism starring a Rhodesian mercenary, one of the worst kinds of people the 20th century produced, and the article just... glides past the fact he was passionately for the same flag as Dylann Roof. Now that's America. 412726
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/09/2026kinda weird how al qaeda did 9/11 for the same reason the us government has been covering for saudi arabia helping al qaeda do 9/11 080
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/09/2026well ok the matt groening - jeffrey epstein - israeli intelligence thing but that's tenuous 010
björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/09/2026is reenacting the khlav kalash bit at the 9/11 memorial in bad taste? i mean it's not the simpsons' fault that 9/11 happened 180
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Named after Caspar Milquetoast, a character from the comic strip The Timid Soul, created by American cartoonist Harold Tucker Webster (1885-1952) and first published in 1924; the character was named after the American dish milk toast ("a food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk"),'" from milque (pseudo-Gallicism derived from English milk) + toast.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5gbeses23nu5whpu55ytzgz/bafkreibifrnqyoae4yrhvoqaeig63dsuujjd5xdki7y6y2axgjscjmizue)
