TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Leftists: "Ve are the most dangerous force in zee political sphere! Kneel before Stalin!" Leftists: "Vy for you blame us for consequences of our flexing our power? Counterrevolutionary lackeys of the rootless cosmopolitans!" 011
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean at the end of the day there's a real argument George Bush was a nastily effective campaigner and the only one his sordid little family produced, sure. But that's more Bush being more dangerous than people think and less Gore sucking. Republicans do exist, buddy. 131
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In the real world Gore did fight it for a month, then the SCOTUS did judicial Calvinball for the first term on a partisan basis. I realize y'all don't want to own that Nader made Bush and all his consequences a thing. I wouldn't want to either, but reality is what it is even when you hate it. 021
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The US's most morally impressive victories in the 20th century were without a shadow of a doubt Imperial Japan, Imperial Germany, and the Third Reich (with the USSR at least somewhat being an assisted suicide). For that matter, Ba'athist Iraq is also missing from the list. 192
Reposted by TheLightdancerMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration 3433321055
Reposted by TheLightdancerWill @thealpacalypse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026one must never believe their own bullshit its absolutely critical to maintain a fear of showing your ass lest you become immune to criticism there's no shame in being wrong, there's shame in refusing to learn! 1255
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People will appeal to say, the Vietnam War as proof of success. If they were willing to die to the tens of thousands every year for 25 years and see everything they had bombed to rubble they too could 'succeed.' But uh, good luck with that. 121
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Depending on how you look at it you can argue this is correct and that Israel's existence was secured by the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-9 gutting their military power right before WWII ultimately supercharged the Yishuv. 110
Reposted by TheLightdancerZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Absolutely insane, & I'm saying this as someone who has zero sympathy for Pike. They're not even giving *reasons* for blowing up a lower court's one & only chance to decide an important justiciable question because they want to execute ppl as fast as humanly possible. Legit courts aren't like this! 69222
Reposted by TheLightdancerciel & the firmament girls @konkondragon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Rwanda is such a clear example of the way this can just continue to escalate in alternating cycles of revenge 0183
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Unfortunately true, they may know at best some of the spillover from the Rwandan Genocide but the rest of it? No. And even then the two or three factions not counting Cony's Lord's Resistance Army make things still more convoluted. 111
Reposted by TheLightdancerMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...democracydocket.com🚨 United States of America v. RaffenspergerLearn more. 326135383529
Reposted by TheLightdancerDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Iran: "America has so many prisoners (complimentary)" 4408
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same thing with Reagan and *his* one phone call, which did nothing to stop or slow down Ariel Sharon evolving from his Unit 101 days to 'gee I didn't know nuffin' about what my pet Nazis did to those two camps, how is that my fault.' 031
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Places other than the US [and sometimes Russia and China] have agency" continues to be something vanishingly few people either in the US or outside of it understand. This isn't how the Cold War worked, it's certainly not how things work now. 412317
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nothing makes the pro-Palestine crowd foam at the mouth like 'you should care about Black people as much as you do your glorious Palestinian nation.' They start burning crosses and wearing pointy hoods *real* fast 100
Reposted by TheLightdancerMajestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey look! Let’s shit on democrats for *checks notes* doing the right thing. 07532
Reposted by TheLightdancerae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026whenever you read a story about hegseth, remember that it was reported last year that his office has giant pictures of his wife in a pink dress staring down at him like Big Brother Is Watching posters from 1984 7889
Reposted by TheLightdancerPaweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan. So it begins. #Niger 48217
Reposted by TheLightdancerStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Unironically, the best thought-out retort to this BS. You can’t debate them. They think it’s funny when you bring out facts and figures and laws and then they just blow you a raspberry and say “nuh-uh.” They exhaust you until you give up and then claim victory. Fuck these goons. 735742
Reposted by TheLightdancerKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up 201465200
Reposted by TheLightdancerThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026This. Doomerism helps your enemies. It just makes people fatigued and demoralized. It creates a "boy who cried wolf" situation that causes problems when an actual fucking wolf shows up. 1326
Reposted by TheLightdancerMalena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was a terrorist attack on a plane headed to Tel Aviv from Dubai. There are more images & videos, but they're pretty gruesome and terrifying. Thankfully, there were some brave people on board to avert the disaster. 57928
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Honestly the really damning part is so many people who made Gaza a substitute for their lack of a personality are quite gleeful that Black children are dying of AIDS because they are, after all, not Palestinians. 341
Reposted by TheLightdancerWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443796894
Reposted by TheLightdancerZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Which makes me wonder to what extent the SCOTUS Republicans are just doing a more genteel version of Trump's core fuckup: they think they are now our Guardian Council and have no idea how to actually build legitimacy for authoritarian rule, ignorantly leaping off a bridge thinking they can fly. 731829
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Eh.....not really, it tells you about a niche group of Jews in Judea. The vast bulk of Jews *outside* Judea, nine in ten of the Jews of that time, had a considerably wider range of views. More than a few Jews of 2,000 years ago spoke and prayed in Greek and couldn't read Hebrew to save their lives. 100
Reposted by TheLightdancerMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is one of the most interesting things about ‘western Civ’ (going at least as far as Baghdad in fact) frankly - this tension never completely goes away 5545
Reposted by TheLightdancerRomeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I like this poster, but christ does it fucking bother me that, in the year 2026, leftists are still unable to call the systemic destruction of Ukrainian life, language, and culture as a genocide. 816530
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comRobert Barone Says Sadly, YesAlt: Robert Barone Says Sadly, Yes 000
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Honestly looking at how people in Israel went so hard after Golda Meir for far, far less in something rather more excusable and less directly her fault than it was the IDF high command's in the lesser level and Egypt getting its shit together for a change in the greater one.... 110
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026TBH the reason every post that points this out gets a chorus of hit dogs howling is that the smarter Leftists are fully aware that every drop of blood shed by US soldiers in the War on Terror and from everywhere else to is on the hands of the people who handed Gore the election. 111
Reposted by TheLightdancerTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It actually must be infuriating to /actually/ be a Sudan expert because the way people mention it is so obviously tokenistic and disinterested in learning more. 26710
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Nonviolent offenders" is a fascinating category of criminal, because it includes everyone from drug offenders (who basically everyone agrees shouldn't be locked up) to drunk drivers to burglars. 251
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is also the Iran-Iraq War. It's why uninformed Americans like making it into a "the US supplied Saddam" morality tale when the actual war was a slugfest between a Soviet client state that got in over its head and the reigning regional power that had just lost all of its arms contracts. 1267
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At most the Soviet-Afghan War showcased that it was poorly suited to a protracted war that exposed the perennial weakness of every version of a Russian army at small unit operations requiring flexibility rather than top-down rigidity. 120
Reposted by TheLightdancer"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man, you have to be just...really racist...not to come away from spending basically any time at all at an American university with a nearly boundless faith in the power of American assimilation. All sorts of students whose ancestors came from all over, utterly and completely American, all the way. 1050767
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Especially ironic, too, that they tend to focus with a keen navel gaze on Cold War US barbarism in Central America and forgetting the Banana Wars and some of the heavier-handed ironies in WWII, like just *how* the Marines were so good at amphibious operations as they were. 230
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And while it tends towards "Atrocity Olympics" to compare, the numbers here are objectively horrifying. The Shah's security organs killed around 3,000 people during his reign. Pinochet's government, around the same. The Dirty War disappeared 20,000. The Derg meanwhile ended roughly 500,000 lives. 1173
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And the irony is that this also leads to understating realities like the forgotten nuclear war flashpoint with the Sino-Soviet border war and the Third Indochina War. Asking people used to black and white morality how to parse the *Third* Indochina War is an extremely interesting case. 130
Reposted by TheLightdancerCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bevins systematically nullifies all of this and pretends that the US had a master plan from 1965 to the 1980s that it carried out, and that rightist governments across the globe were simply puppets dancing to Langley's tune. 1202
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Both the US and the USSR were regularly tripped up by the seemingly obvious discovery that allies, or even satellite states, were made of people with minds of their own and the willingness to act upon having them. It's one of the more tragicomic aspects with historical distance. 061
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wrapped up this book and rereading it for the first time since 2011, when it was brand new. Book is a classic that measures up still in 2026. 9/10 www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...goodreads.comDancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the C…At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of … 110
Reposted by TheLightdancerJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good case from @dickpolman.bsky.social that this man’s selfish short-sightedness set us on path to where we are today. Excruciating insights on the wreckage of a legacy. dickpolman.substack.com/p/ralph-nade...dickpolman.substack.comRalph Nader is still a pariah. He deserves to be.Tilting the ‘00 race to Bush was his original sin. We’re still suffering the consequences. 23953497
Reposted by TheLightdancerBrad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025You hate Nader for spoiling the 2000 election. I hate Nader for destroying state capacity and empowering NIMBYism. 528230
TheLightdancer @thelightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026See before the most recent shifts it was possible to assume this was all just downstream of wealth but it's now global, and in places where women have no rights to speak of to protect against all manner of evils. The older explanations were....incomplete, shall we say? 031
Reposted by TheLightdancerWiener King @wienerking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also we're not the lone country staring down inverted age demographics, "immigration" as a long term solution requires there to be enough immigrants to fill your critical job roles which the way things are trending globally I wouldn't count on it. 194
