Theseus, His Sails Unfurled

I'm ... just now putting together there's a Type of Guy who thinks YIMBY is always gentrification and that gentrification is always ethnic cleansing and that ethnic cleansing is always genocide (OK several of of those are evil but they aren't all the same)

The Emperor has not been wearing clothes for quite some time

You wake up, sweating. You are in one of several battleground states in 2024. Republicans must not be allowed to win the election.

If there's any justice in academia, we're going to see dozens and dozens of "These people made Caligula look modest" tomes as cautionary tale for future generations.

Whichever historian is (ideally) writing the book about what a Cult of Personality this is, thank you in advance.

Our German exchange student told us that her lesson was "Yeah, some bad stuff happened here but AMERICA KILLED THEIR NATIVES, IT HAPPENS"

Didn't sound great! Although she was in US 8th Grade 20 years ago, so I don't know what high school would have taught or if it got better.

*taps sign* China is a real place with actual people and policies, not somewhere for you to project your feelings about the United States onto.

Photo of a vintage stuffed farmer bunny looking super goofy and happy

I AM A RESEARCH HISTORIAN

I'm coping so well with middle age; I don't know what the fuck you're all talking about. I'm golden. I have it extremely together.

Anyway, my research indicates that most of my childhood Easter Bunnies were made by a now-defunct company called Cuddle Wit.

Meanwhile, I was just a Republican because (as I told all my left-wing friends in college):

"They're all shitty, but at least Republicans say it to your face!"

Yeah I was real fuckin wrong, it turns out.

What's funny is the only GOP I ever voted for was Arlen Specter, who later also left lol

Here's to all Republicans becoming Ex-Republicans once they see all the masks come off 🍻

Wait, which part did they cast doubt on you for? For suggesting this was their goal in taking power, or for denying it was actually everyone's goal?

I guess in short: they for-real thought Woke was decreed by fiat and that they could end it the same way.

This happened all over government. I've said this somewhere before, but they genuinely thought that power shaped the culture, and not the truth, which is that the power they were mad at organically reflected the existing culture.

Maybe I'm being over congratulatory, but I can't promise I would have turned out OK if everyone had been nice to me and wanted things from me all the time, and I think that's something to respect if you did.

I hope all the kind hot people who didn't want to hang out with me back in the day are doing well, and the ones who also didn't want to, but instead of being kind wielded Hot Privilege as a cudgel, a very Not Doing Well.

Today in "Not everything a bad person likes becomes Bad (tm) by the transitive property"

LMAO ah, yes, fittingly the only Wachowski production I truly loved

Many such cases among US libertarians tbh

I think what helps is that the actors and directors are *committed as fuck* to the vision

Neither are the Zanti Misfits; they're more like ants. But I dunno, I think this screaming spider thing is just in a long tradition of "Things that were creepy and leggy all scream and have teeth because those things scare me, too, let's pile 'em on"

Hell, I like it and I honest-to-God hate One Piece. I only like this show lol

Model for the Zanti Commander from The Outer Limits

I blame The Zanti Misfits. And Shelob. But mostly the misfits.

This has to taste like hangover. I've woken up to cold coffee and leftover cold wings on so many Sundays.

I would 100% order this affront to God.

You can tell because my only IRL friends on Bluesky all unfollowed me or deleted their accounts.

We're still friends, just ... not here. None of them like it here. At least not in Politics Town.

But see, I'm Built Different (absurd and incurable Poasting)

I was once the only person in class who raised their hand in response to the question, "Who's gonna walk out of here, bury their head in the sand, and never think about politics again?"

I'm possibly only where I am because people crave opinions not vetted through What Do My Friends Expect Me To Say

I can't imagine how we get out of this besides going back hat-in-hand after Nuremberging the entire Admin and bringing receipts that they're actually in jail.

More than a few folks (rightfully) pointing out that this is down to everyone in the room now being incredibly stupid, but folks... I just don't understand how so many people could be so fucking stupid, at the same time, about this very specific thing.

That's just that two-prong dude from Battleship