When right wingers talk about “Western Culture” they aren’t even thinking about It's Time for the Percolator and that tells me everything I need to know about them
11.03.2026 13:09
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When right wingers talk about “Western Culture” they aren’t even thinking about It's Time for the Percolator and that tells me everything I need to know about them
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
This isn’t over and the current market reaction, by reducing pressure on Trump, is only elongating the duration of the crisis and the physical disruption through the Strait of Hormuz.
So much of right wing rhetoric is simply repeating a targeted argument/claim in a mocking tone. No actual engagement. No attempt at rebuttal.
Low effort mockery of even the most obvious truth their ubiquitous response
I did, lol
Jesus Christ
ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural
Hey who’s that tolling for? That bell? Wh—why’s everyone looking at me like that?
We are going to lose a whole bunch of farms this year
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The convergence of fascist state capture with the creation in AI of an aspirational unwaged labor machine really emphasizes the underlying desire to eliminate the rest of us.
disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be
Pair this with a day 2 pick at C and it’s a smart move
Grain market triplets missing, peptide preppers, Dean “Rocket” Hall High School launch, AI zombie hordes cross Mississippi, erotic adventurism in dry bulk shipping and More!
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
We are watching decades unfold in hours.
The gulf states will never trust America for defense again. We just ruined their economies for the long term. They will become uninvestable.
They have no more missile interceptors left, Iran can hit whatever they want.
All this for what? Trump doesn’t know
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
Because they think they are playing a video game. Morally, they see no difference.
I wrote a quick thing about what actions we should be most concerned about from the Trump administration. Its jumping point is a proposed DOJ rule that would supposedly let the AG suspend some state bar investigations into DOJ agents.
No to fascism.
No to forever war.
No to occupation and genocide.
No to antisemitism and Islamophobia.
“The future needs blood. It needs human victims, butchery. Internal war, & foreign war, revolution & conquest: that is history.... Blood is the wine of strong peoples, & blood is the oil for the wheels of this great machine which fies from the past to the future.”
-Giovanni Papini
It’s that time of year!
yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)
Authoritarian parenting grooms kids for authoritarian governing.
I've been really enjoying this podcast series from Jad Abumrad about the life and music of Fela Kuti.
It's got everything: the birth of Afrobeat, his incredible revolutionary mother, post-colonial history of Nigeria, and the story of the movement he started. It's so fucking good.
world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.
Orwell taught us everything we need to know about the radical right
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse
