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rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Images you can hear if you're cool enough

rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Highly recommend One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

spineless, the chanting, with not quite enough conviction, of four more years, four more years, as the bodies pile up outside one's door.

It's difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American believes or supports or opposes, but what one liberal is, at all times, not what one does or is seen to be. From this outcome, everything is reverse-engineered. Being seen as someone who believes in justice-not the messy, fraught work of achieving it is the starting point of any conversation on justice. Saying the right slogans supersedes whatever it is those slogans are supposed to oblige. It makes sense-when there are no real personal stakes, when the missiles are landing on someone far away, being seen as good is good enough.

But there were always going to be consequences. The fascists whose ranks exert such outsize influence on Republican politics have come to understand that the veneer of liberalism is a deeply vulnerable thing. Its perfunctory concern with rhetorical evenhandedness gives even the most obviously bad-faith allegation influence.

The result is an endless stream of distractions, fantastical claims, and charges on which, in the name of fairness, countless ink is spilled, debates had. Again, what matters is not the damage done

when such nonsense is given oxygen, but the idea of being a person who gives all ideas a fair shake.

Beyond the stream of distractions, there is a much more existential vulnerability. Whatever derangement currently occupies conservative American politics is, at least, something of very real consequence: the minority groups they want to legislate out of every facet of society, the books they want to ban, the mechanisms of democracy they want to subvert-none of it is hypothetical. But if inoffensive centrism is seen to be concerned with these things only in as far as it reflects on the centrist's self-image, if the Hillary Clintons of the world can muster great outrage at the fortunes of the Barbie movie at the Oscars but nothing at population-wide military murder sprees, then every Republican will always be able to say, truthfully: At least there's no contradiction between what I am, what I claim concerns me, and what I plan to do.

This is the crux of it, the unavoidable reckoning. Every morning countless well-paid, well-educated foot soldiers in the employ of the Democratic Party wake up and decide on the day's talking points. Every morning a small army of spokespeople step to the lecterns and deliver statements about how much the president cares for innocent lives, or the immense effort the United States makes to minimize unnecessary suffering,

or whatever it is that needs to be said that day so as to launder the evil done between the last press conference and this one. A growing number of people ask a different question; the world asks a different question. The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing.

rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This becomes less of a bit and more of a guiding reality every day

rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today was the day Zohran truly became Mayor

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rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another talentless stoopid cunt

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rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A stupid fucking cunt

rustingcohle.bsky.social @rustingcohle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Rust supporting a grieving mother with invaluable advice.