TheLightdancer
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Leftists: "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!"
Leftists: "Vy for you blame us for consequences of our flexing our power? Counterrevolutionary lackeys of the rootless cosmopolitans!"
October 1, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Leftists: "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!"
Leftists: "Vy for you blame us for consequences of our flexing our power? Counterrevolutionary lackeys of the rootless cosmopolitans!"
I 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.
why does Nader have blood on his hands but not the guy in charge of a campaign with 100x his resources & the name recognition of the VP for not being able to pull the tightest of margins against a simpering chimp?
Can Dems not win elections if there are fringe candidates? Got some bad news....
Can Dems not win elections if there are fringe candidates? Got some bad news....
October 1, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I 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.
In 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.
IMO blaming Nader for a stolen election, where the aggrieved party didn't even put up a fight, is at best, misdirected anger.
I mean even if Gore had only won New Hampshire he was right next to the electoral college victory margin without it, winning it takes him over it. So.....either way Nader still is the guy who has all that blood on his hands, and his voters, too.
October 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
In 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.
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Norm Eisen is a hero.
BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks
We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing!
The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing!
The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
October 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Norm Eisen is a hero.
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The 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.
For that matter, Ba'athist Iraq is also missing from the list.
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight.
Funny, that.
Funny, that.
Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."
October 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The 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.
For that matter, Ba'athist Iraq is also missing from the list.
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The 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
September 30, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The 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
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one 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!
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!
October 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
one 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!
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!
People 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.
10/7 didn't do the trick and create a Palestinian paradise so maybe a little bit MORE terrorism is going to get it done?
Violent insurrection is one of the least effective tools for social change in history. Especially in the modern world.
Violent insurrection is one of the least effective tools for social change in history. Especially in the modern world.
September 30, 2026 at 11:39 PM
People 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.
Depending 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.
Violent insurrection is the whole reason Israel exists
September 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Depending 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.
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Absolutely 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!
Legit courts aren't like this!
SCOTUS says, without explanation, that it is fine to kill people while a legal challenge to their killing is still pending, because reasons.
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
September 30, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Absolutely 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!
Legit courts aren't like this!
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Rwanda is such a clear example of the way this can just continue to escalate in alternating cycles of revenge
September 30, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Rwanda is such a clear example of the way this can just continue to escalate in alternating cycles of revenge
Unfortunately 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.
*excluding Africans and Black diaspora*, i am fairly certain that less than 5% of the people online, left-wing or right-wing, who invoke the violence in Congo when talking about Israel, could explain even the basics of what side is fighting what side
September 30, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Unfortunately 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.
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🚨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...
DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
September 30, 2026 at 9:56 PM
🚨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...
DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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Iran: "America has so many prisoners (complimentary)"
The Iranian letter to America is a very good piece of propaganda—certainly better than anything e.g. Russia is capable of producing right now—but there’s still a few points where the mask accidentally slips
September 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Iran: "America has so many prisoners (complimentary)"
Same 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.'
I mean the whole idea here was that Biden could have stopped Israel from doing horrible things by threatening military supplies, & the fact that *he did do that* & it did not have the predicted effects is just completely ignored.
September 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Same 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.'
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"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.
This isn't how the Cold War worked, it's certainly not how things work now.
In general there is an inability to recognize that parties to the Gaza war had agency & acted on it. One of the things the Atlantic article makes clear is that Hamas kept backing out of ceasefire agreements because Sinwar believed prolonging the war would drive a wedge in the US/Israeli alliance.
A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped
September 30, 2026 at 10:30 PM
"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.
This isn't how the Cold War worked, it's certainly not how things work now.
Nothing 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
September 30, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Nothing 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
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Hey look! Let’s shit on democrats for *checks notes* doing the right thing.
September 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Hey look! Let’s shit on democrats for *checks notes* doing the right thing.
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whenever 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
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
September 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
whenever 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
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Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan.
So it begins. #Niger
So it begins. #Niger
September 30, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan.
So it begins. #Niger
So it begins. #Niger
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Unironically, 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.
You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
September 30, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Unironically, 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.
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I 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
I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up
September 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I 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
I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up
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This. 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.
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.
I 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
I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up
September 30, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This. 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.
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.
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There 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.
There are more images & videos, but they're pretty gruesome and terrifying.
Thankfully, there were some brave people on board to avert the disaster.
September 30, 2026 at 9:44 PM
There 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.
There are more images & videos, but they're pretty gruesome and terrifying.
Thankfully, there were some brave people on board to avert the disaster.
Honestly 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.
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
September 30, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Honestly 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.