…anyway…bear with me…I know this stuff isn’t getting better
Impossible to describe what a raw nerve the rapid response channels are when you’re NOT on patrol. ICE sighted everywhere, all over the neighborhood. Silence and then swarming.This is not an immigration agency, it is not a law-enforcement agency. It is a state-sponsored terror agency.
Whenever Deform complain about politicians doing Britain down remind them of the time Farage went to the US to ask for increased tariffs on the UK and somehow got away with it not destroying his career.
…if I’m reading things right…starmer isn’t even going to davos
For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a"full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum."So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?
…so…leaving aside the possibility that nigel doesn’t want to make the fuck up donnie dotard did & actually be the guy whose fault shit is formally instead of functionally…bunch of sobering remarks to be found from people who are willing to remind you to remind yourself that things could indeed be worse
To put things into context, imagine if Farage was PM at this moment.Which is exactly why Farage is so dangerous.
…at the rate they’re going reform might just give up the pretence & merge with the tories so all the defections would be moot & the telegraph would probably just announce that he already was prime minister…but…fuck if maybe plato didn’t have a point about people who want some jobs being the last people a sane society would let get near those
Nadhim Zahawi, 2015: I would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel FarageNadhim Zahawi, 2026: Britain needs Nigel Farage as prime minister…
…yeah…so…maybe the name is distinctive enough you vaguely remember that he used to be a tory somebody…boris made him chancellor for a few months but then there was a whole leadership challenge & by the time the dust settled he was out of the cabinet but he got to be the party chairman for a bit…also
…he was the chancellor that made it look like rishi pays his taxes…&…he’s not the only tory reform have picked up…bit of a run on those…like…jenrick…& the one whose name I still haven’t bothered to learn who just wants to keep his gig repping a bunch of bigots & would clearly do it draped in any flag that seemed convenient
Andrew “National Anthem” Rosindell has turned his coat and joined Reform. Most famous for campaigning to get BBC Radio to play the National Anthem at the end of the days broadcast, even tho BBC Radio 4 has always played the National Anthem and still does to this day…
…but it has birthed an intriguing suggestion that people might be sick of that shite & considering instituting a tripwire deal where swapping party allegiance is the same as quitting & you get a do-over by-election to see if it was a smart move by a weather vane or an admission to having run on false pretences & making your selection invalid because that’s a form of electoral fraud…which…could be interesting if it goes anywhere
Why is losing ice from land a major problem for people living near the ocean? Using a miniature beach to demonstrate one of the many impacts of going past #planetaryboundaries, the Planetary Boundaries Science lab asks "Is sea level rise worse than you think?"👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ao…
…but…holy shit, y’all…I don’t want to alarm you…but…BBC radio 4 is arguably about as close as you can get to the voice of the establishment filtered through the class version of middle england…back in the day when the only other service was the world service it was the home service the way some people still talk about the home counties…so…this isn’t scientific or anything
Investors Put More Than $55 Billion Behind Space Startups Last Year
…but…there’s been a thing on that world service for at least the last few years that goes by “the global story: where the world meets america”…& there’s a thing on the home service one that goes by “americast”…& the other day they re-upped an episode as a crosspost-deal presented in the americast “feed” as “introducing the global story”…& went with the one “from monroe doctrine to donroe doctrine”…same week they found a slot for a 5-part doctrine-an-episode run through of a brief history of “US foreign policy in 5 doctrines” with so far just the monroe one available…given those are all “we find ourselves newly engaged in a sphere of influence dominate-or-be-dominated world”…as though even the largely-presumed-to-be-educated-&-some-value-of-informed audience couldn’t handle the idea that if you look at the thing through that lens it never gets to be anything else & the shift in forced perspective is because of the weight given to that blinkered view with a fun twist that can’t see soft power mechanics as inherently of value over overt self-harm in a “great powers” sense of playing a winning hand so everyone loses passing for divine genius in the minds of people in insanely important points of some super significant decision making processes
Everyone is 12 theory of American politics remains strong.Furthermore, Minnesota is Canada.
…but…”lawmakers” openly advocating for a straightforwardly illegal form of retribution to be meted out by the unlawful arms of criminal enforcement as revenge for something the man who fully lacks comprehension of what doxxing is & why it isn’t legal…or the thing you can do with just the publicly available name & face of a public servant of the sort all those fuckups are claiming to be being while they’re out there breaking laws of god & man with seeming impunity…is…apparently…par for our course
…so…I think maybe it was mandelson I heard trotted out to trot it out…the line was very “oh, well he has a point about greenland & deterring russia & china so a deal is very do-able on greenland & it’s smart to not goad him by saying anything escalatory about the tariffs because we could still get him to change his mind about those”…&…that combination does not fill me with anything that is even known by sight to enthusiasm?
Long-awaited audit reform bill scrapped by UK ministers ft.trib.al/gRuBueC
…what with the part where that doesn’t exactly *not* jibe with seeding the ground to get people to adjust to the idea of some potentially unpopular choices on the part of the party in power being presented as politically astute in a present context that has been suitably re-framed to find a moral ledge on which to perch upon that might look like high ground in forgiving light…&…like…the UK shouldn’t stop speaking to the US…that isn’t going to help…but…yet again I am reminded how even nige might be better at that gig than me because I wouldn’t take the fucking call until they put someone on the line with a functional suite of cognitive faculties who actually has a proven capacity to incorporate new information even when it isn’t welcome…accepting less when people are speaking on behalf of nations is…considerably more delusional than I am if you don’t run a bunch of convenient assumptions when you think about that…apologies to anyone that thinks some of those aren’t either or both of those things…that’s…well…chances are that’s not your fault…& it damn sure ain’t mine…but…we can probably agree that a bunch of stuff about it fully sucks
Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
…I mean…clearly the answer is no…but…the consensus appears to be we have to keep telling him he is & sort of do all the crazy shit required to sell that like it’s the fucking truman show…no small part of which turns on assholes believing they “rule the algorithm”
“Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. The author implores critics to reject structural dependencies on digital tools rather than naturalize their integration via critique/reform“ J.Pennwww.policyready.ca/policymaking…
…which…characteristically…is…some backwards-ass way of looking at that shit
Politicians & some media outlets have latched onto a narrative that recent immigrants, especially undocumented, are causing spikes in crime. Research does not support the view. In fact, immigrants might have less law enforcement contact compared to native-born Americans.
…so…while we keep re-affirming that yes…despite it being bad beyond many people’s worst imaginings…tomorrow it can get worse
Trump is simultaneously lighting the fuse and calling in the troops to “restore order,” and that’s the core obscenity of what is happening in Minnesota.
…at some point this week there might be something interesting on the telly?
Jack Smith testifies publicly on Thursday at 10am at House Judiciary CommitteeSmith has been pushing to give OPEN and PUBLIC testimony about his probe of Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results
fwiw, i think part of the reason that trump's in such a hysterical panic about greenland is because he's been told behind closed doors that this is a line he cannot cross by people who can actually enforce that.
One point I’ve been banging on about in interviews the last few weeks is that the mere threat of the use of force by the U.S. President is illegal both under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter but also the U.S. Constitution by virtue of the Take Care Clause.
…what do you suppose would happen if we stopped making all these “allowances”?
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
They are now averaging 3 dead per day. I said it the other day, but these are fuckin death camps and they are just getting started
…shit ain’t funny
A massive replica of a birthday note signed with the typed name Donald J. Trump that was part of a book for Jeffrey Epstein was placed on the National Mall, the latest installation of artwork by the group “The Secret Handshake.”
using the word “libtard” as a grown man should automatically trigger a national alert announcing that anyone who sees this guy out and about has a civic duty to give him a wet willie or atomic wedgie. dealer’s choice.
…so…started…at least I think it started…with han-inane-ia or whatever his name is trying for an attaboy & being upset people didn’t embrace that with open arms…& ganz…being pretty clear about how that last part worked
Getting into a poster war with Ganz is like the Yamato trying to attack the American fleet at Okinawa in ‘45
“Gentlemen, we’ve painted ourselves into a corner, and the only way out is to turn the intelligence-insulting up to 11”
I know I am just a mere left-liberal not a tenured pretend revolutinary, but yes I think that making it easier to cancel your gym membership is better than masked goons shooting soccer moms in the face without provocation. I think expanded healthcare funding > trying to conquer Greenland. YMMV
…so…YMMV & all
I like his writing —never paid much attention to his dunking skill. At this moment it has great uses. Maybe Twitter is the place to do it. So far, all the people he says are full of it ARE full of it. In normal times, maybe they were best ignored but in our era they need to be dunked on.
…this is part of a longer thread that goes back to the thing with the guy they dragged out in a blanket & shorts while it snowed
NEW — DHS just posted this as an apparent explanation for why they arrested an elderly US citizen with no criminal record (it's a quote post of a post about ChongLy Thao's arrest.) The implication seems to be that all Asian men look the same, and it's not their fault they mistook one for another.
…they…grew up believing they were the people for these jobs
"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
…&…like…I think that jenny might even make this point…but…”the point” of the panopticon proposition was that *because* it was functionally possible at any time for an unseen agent of enforcement to perceive anything anyone in the thing might be doing…according to the theory being espoused…they would behave…*even if there were no guards*…not “because there will be a new sort of guard who never sleeps & always watches every twitch of your eyelid even when you do”…but…some people are just hard of thinking
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid…
…if tariffs were bananas…maybe…which…you might say they are if you fuck with them the way the fuckwit fucks with those…so…ok…I’ll spot you the banana republic thing?
This is a disgusting display of everything wrong in posting
…he ain’t talking about me…but the dude did the block thing to stop that being available directly in context
You say you post political stuff with your main concern being how many likes you’re getting instead of it feeling important or true? Very cool, welcome to being the reason we’re all in this fucking mess
Why are you treating a school being terrorized like it’s a small business you’re running? these are actual people. They are the ones you should care about. Complaining about the amount of likes you got, shut the fuck up, this guy sucks my word.
That guy blocked me and good for him because I was about to screenshot his post complaining about not getting more likes and my reply where I call him a bozo and be like “what do you mean I’m getting a ton of them”
If anyone is curious
Here’s the original.
…man…doesn’t matter how many times I see this shit play out it never ceases to be at least some sort of a surprise that people really think talking this way makes you sound like you know what you’re talking about…you…expect “the internet” to tractably perform the dance of the sanctifying numbers every time you click your fingers because the clearly artificially contorted platforms reliably do those numbers for you & you think that’s because of you?
Take that, bluesky! My low-effort engagement farming is popular with pedophiles
[puts on social media manager hat] you can’t use the same content strategy on different channels just because they’re text-based. the audiences vary. you need to tailor your message to the platform if you care about this shit, which for the record you should not, because (1/2)
twitter’s metrics are bullshit and meta has a record of lying about them to advertisers, so how do you even know those numbers are accurate. anyway i could have told you that post would flop on bluesky. (2/2)
to elaborate, this content flops on bluesky because nobody on here needs a “hey. so. are right wingers hypocrites and losers? are they evil?” yes we’re all good on that, try saying something of substance
…because you got people to pay you to push a button & when you pushed the button you had before it did the thing…doesn’t mean you knew what the button did or you were the one really doing the thing…so…sure…maybe that isn’t a sustainable business model for you & that means not all the internet forums natively support your support ecosystem…but…why do these people never seem to have mastered the one about letting people think you’re an idiot instead of making it official as loudly & publicly as possible…I mean…I guess we know…but…the omens are…concerning?
The world is so broken that somehow Cow Tools are real now -Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows www.theguardian.com/science/2026…
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary taleCows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
…so…look…I have probably a couple more things that might go long on embeds before I get this out of my system today…but…they too will be past their deadline & probably just make it seem like time is playing silly buggers while the volume of freaking out seems to balloon retrospectively…sorry about that?
Cow Tools update: you can now 3D print the Cow Toolswww.thingiverse.com/thing:6904178
…next stop…the restaurant at the end of the universe…time is funny there, too…& the talking cow will walk you through the juiciest cuts before begging you to let it fulfil the very purpose of its existence as it yearns to do by popping off to get slaughtered so you can have something tasty to chew on
…ok…so…let’s see how much more than I can chew this bites off
Taking over Greenland is not a joke. Trump is sending messages to foreign leaders and making threats that will destroy the most important alliance we have. Are Republicans in Congress and Marco Rubio really ready to throw NATO away because they’re too afraid to stand up to Trump?
…there…is…if we’re going to be honest about it…more than mere correlation between people who previously were in the upper echelons & people who think we’d be *better off* if the military all got to spend all the money it took to commandeer all of the requisite parts of society to always & forever be on a full war footing…but…like…that isn’t an all or nothing bias…though it does intersect at the very least with the sort of role people like the *former* norway’s-guy-for-this saying that kind of stuff…or the french general (ret.) the other day…who are after their fashion having an arguably formal dialogue with established grammar…in which it arguably means more at greater volume that the danes actually put the chief on the ground…but…in that conversation…nigel or orban makes the same case for treating some friends as enemies you’re trying to keep closer that the tangerine man makes peddling his patented line of dope-on-a-rope…&…that sounds like a brutally cold-hearted soulless kind of a way to talk about that…but…once you loop a few loops around your thinking about the unthinkable parts & being at least as honest as you can bear to be about what negates the outcomes you most want to avoid having to countenance…but…your catch-22 pretty swiftly backs itself up between those hard places & the rock-like certainty of ignorance in a mass of panic prone people that are people…so…like the sort of oblique angle those radio 4 shows come at the readers’ digest version of a refresher course in how a bunch of stuff that seems to be coming out of nowhere gets backstopped into the requisite orthodoxies to keep the horserace on the track the bookies booked for that…or at least the nearest polymarket in this more permissive era…or whatever…you can’t always be french enough about it to see shit like @DHSgov & not go on ahead & put up a designated hitter on Xitter with the state’s imprimatur…&…not that I claim to have developed some genuinely infallible equivalent of gaydar for authenticity or something…but…increasingly…if people I interact with are even a sliver of a guide…that has become the…2FA…kinda…you can’t pull off a real version of the project of russell & his pals to reduce verbal statements to binary truth values…although…if you could…my feelings on the subject of LLMs & the potential of that genus of AI to ever live up to the name would require substantial & substantive review…but…as a sort of reflexive/defensive measure at a probably-mostly-not-all-that-consciously level…that’s become the sort of instinctive part that has a flip-side where the ones saying the shit you don’t want to credit are…in-authentic…so…if you set out on a bad faith basis as per some well-known SOPs…to “hack” that mechanism…we know that when that exploit is left un-patched it works well enough to sway a referendum & enshrine the result being questionable to third rail status for a decade or two…or to turn a presidential election if you’re “allowed” to take the piss on the campaign finance stuff even having laws about it even worse than the tories routinely do…on the basis if you even get a slap on the wrist it’ll be long after it matters & the ticket will be pocket change compared to the rate of return in the returns on the day
…but…to believe that in the year 2026 there…*aren’t*…swathes of accounts of all manner & stripe chumming the waters of the world wide web until there’s every chance that’s most of the stuff that makes it hard to spot the sharks before you’re having a jaws moment…seems…while it may be an…over-represented brand of “content” in that “ecosystem”…albeit in a way that allows for there still being more actual people talking to one another online than there are people behind the “inauthentic” stuff with its varying & variable agenda(s?e?)…perhaps…naïve…in the “just born; foolish” or “unreflecting, uncritical” sense we tend to poke not-altogether-unreasonable fun at…but…”from a certain point of view”?
natural, simple, unsophisticated, artless,[…]natural, genuine[…]innocent; unspoiled, unworked[…]not artificial[…]native[…even…]rustic[…though that might be a stretch to some to include in the next bit]innate, natural
…under better circumstances the naïfs might be the best of us when they score by virtues over vices…anyway…speaking of the sticks & stones of brute force meets ignorance in the cut & thrust of trans-time-zone “posting” & the reading of a room that’s everywhere at all the hours of the day all at the once
Here. I wrote something about madman theory and how the current administration is spiraling.othermeans.io/p/american-m…
…the same way people famously don’t…to make a forlorn bid for a historical usage of the term from a nobler era…grok…the scale of the grand canyon until they stand somewhere on…or at least near…the edge…& even then mostly can’t square the little thread down there with the shots of the shooting of the massive fucking rapids running for stretches of the river that waters a bunch of places a desert or two away at a flowrate that would blow your mind before you could say “chinatown”…by & large…a lot of brits…& other europeans…though…them less so…do that when they reluctantly absorb the latest nugget of information about the united states of “if I never heard about that place again that’d be fine with me, actually – why should I fucking care?”…because they make some category mistakes when they mistakenly think homonyms are synonyms…&/or the scale fucks them up & they mistake their perspective?
This is pure, unabashed bigotry.If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.A stain on our Congress.
…like…genuinely…even with the EU on the doorstep for a midway-point yardstick…some brits still persist in thinking a US state is like an english county…not closer to an EU state than that in more ways than not…& that sort of fucks up their whole ability to grasp how not the same the commons/lords deal of a parliament is to a tripartite system of checks & balances…no matter how many could quote all sorts of stuff about that…&…I try not to claim I do…not least since I’ve never felt like I do that I know of because my eternal question of “how in the fuck does any of this make sense if the shit in front of me is meant to get reasoned out from the shit I read when I followed the citations?” has never once that I can recall seemed to come with a satisfactory answer…but…I do try to read a respectable amount of those citations before I suggest it doesn’t look like they mean what they’d have to mean to not mean something was full of shit that way…& my mileage likely varies as much on that as the next person…providing the next person isn’t a complete *that guy*…hopefully…but…rightly or wrongly…I think however many alarms were going off for people when dotards-or-bust busted his macron texts out like they were a mic drop not a trou drop
Texts between Donald Trump, Jonas Støre, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Rutte
…for…I regret to inform you if you happened to be blissfully unaware…realsies
Good lord he's even dumber than we thought. Trump literally posting texts from world leaders (Macron, in this case) to his public Truth Social account.
libs spent days convincing themselves that Europe would stand up to Trump over Greenland, meanwhile Macron is sending him “uwu let’s keep the imperial core together, forget Greenland, and continue doing neo-colonialism, baby” texts
…so…a lot of those people…they think this is still all just more war-of-meaningless-words-without-substance par for the he’s-“in charge”-again course they’re hoping to ride out without having to look at the ICE stuff any harder than they did the ukraine stuff or god forbid the gaza business
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
…even a lot of the ones that tend to tell…among others…the likes of me…that they know better than I what any or all of that might be about…& even sometimes read the same stuff for ostensibly similar reasons
interesting article but it really whitewashes Heather Heying, who is fucking insane, by not once mentioning any of the crazy shit she believes
…well…those would still be about the least alarms that could be going off in kind of a lot of ways for kind of a lot of people…is the thing
To engage with this in good faith, if Trump etc wanted to swing the midterms they'd only have to focus on some of the seats. If you take Swing Left's 19 flip and 14 must hold, that's 33 districts.
Assuming not all locations are necessary to repress the vote at you're looking at 10-20 a district, maybe? Even if you say 20 that's 660 locations, we can up it to 700 for the sake of argument.
There is an infrastructure there for protest and intimidation from the far right. Add to that, hypothetically, the gov deploying ICE to harass people at the polls and in the area. It's not as huge a lift as 150k polling places around the country
…&…could be it says more about me…but…one way I’ve learned to roll with so I don’t ruin a convivial mealtime or whatever when it all gets dismissed out of hand is to suggest that bringing it up is a frivolous pursuit to be disdainfully shutdown as wishful thinking on the part of someone who crossed the streams between different strands of the conversation & made them feel like they might be guilty of under-reacting in a way they know they don’t want to be reconsidering shit because they have a lot of shit invested in a lot of shit predicated on it being ok to not believe some things can happen…they paid their dues…the world owes them getting to enjoy being better off than they can remember being…& besides…how bad can it be if people are still “putting up with it”…right?
Whether this will happen or some other tactic will be used, I don't know, but that's one way I could see things going down if Trump and his allies went for it.
…it’s not wish-casting…when some people do it…it’s bad-to-worse-case scenario brainstorming…& batshit nonsense must perforce be entertained if you expect to hope for the best & plan for the worst when as the poet had it the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity…&…if you *still* think it’s an indication of an insufficiency of maturity to sound like you pay attention to this shit as though it makes some sort of difference…that has to be some value of summer child so sweet even their cotton socks are due a blessing of their own
posting a joke about politics is generally a 50/50 shot between “accepted by the audience for which it was intended” and “you have been featured on the dreaded discover feed.” the Japesman’s Gambit
…but…there are a lot of those values…& they are not interchangable…&…maybe it would help if less places called their remix “the police”?
I get mad when I see this kind of stuff but what I land on is realizing that non-Americans who have not spent any time in this country really, sincerely do not understand what our Cops situation is, and it’s a thing where if we try to explain it accurately we sound like hysterical liars.
…&…it’d be fucking great if it were the next millenium bug…which…at least the person I’m thinking of I’m about 90% certain has a significant gap or two in their understanding of…&…like…it *could* be…in…some ways, at least
the other problem tough, is that early/mail-in/absentee voting is a thing. so let’s say you drive enough fear of election day voting that you drive more people to vote early or by mail-in, and that vote is heavily democratic.
now you’re suppressing GOP voters who are more likely to show up day of
there’s a reason why the GOP want trump to STFU about mail-in ballots; there was evidence that his bitching and moaning about them in 2020 actually suppressed his own vote share!
like you go through all the trouble of mobilizing the troops and invoking the Insurrection Act and making people scared to leave their homes and then WHOOPS! — all mail-in/early voting! and your base is the main people who show up and they can’t vote!
like that’s what’s happening in Minnesota, ICE is attacking all these red suburban areas and radicalizing them against him! he’s only making the blue state bluer!
They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it’s over
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o…
…but…the “why aren’t you out there bristling with AR-15s standing your ground?” thing that a lot of people born not as far from where I was as that is from the US are out on the online prod about anywhere they can spot a yank in the wild because it making them feel better is their idea of feeling like they did something about it & didn’t just lie down & take it…transparently insane as it is to even unconsciously think any of that makes a lick of sense or does anyone any discernible good…most of those people…& I say this advisedly…profoundly…do…not…understand…what…police…means…in…america…any…more…than…they…really…get…the…healthcare-but-capitialism-comes-first consequences
I’m sorry I’m not single-handedly overthrowing the government. It’s just that I don’t own any weapons and I have a “thing” about dying. I go to the protests and do my best to help others but the people “on my side” have spent my entire life giving tanks to racist cops. They made video games about it
I know I live in the Devil Nation but please understand I was just born here. My family and friends live here so I’m probably not going to leave. Also systematized class exploitation has left me with no safety net so I gotta keep going to work. Keep calling me a “USian” though I’m sure it’s helping
…this next part is the same person as the “I get mad” so…context matters but is sometimes hard to provide across a platform transition?
Everything you are doing is ineffectual posturing, you should do what I think you should be doing (brandishing a weapon at cops who will gun you down and face no consequences for it except making a million dollars online overnight)
Love to leave my children fatherless in exchange for my murderer being enshrined forever as the face of a Black Rifle Coffee signature roast
I see those YouTube videos from the UK where a drunk lad hits a bobby with a cafe chair and gets gently wrapped up on the lawn and get depressed that I’m not able to perform any mischief here without being perforated the second I take my hand out of my pocket
i love to watch that video of the guy pushing the bobbie in the water, only for another guy to pretend like he's going to help the cop and push him in the water again. feeling like charlie bucket dreaming of chocolate
“But regular cops don’t just carry guns and walk around filled with inferiority complex-fueled rage!”
…different poster…but…there are quote marks for intentional reasons
Sometimes I think about the way American society would look if cops were banned from carrying guns and accepting military-fucking-surplus equipment and were required to live in the communities they patrolledwouldn't solve everything, but it might fucking help
This site is comprehensive and suggests the figure for 2025 was over 1300. I suspect that the difference is cases where there is some hair to split about how a death is categorized. https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
for reference, France’s population is 20% that of the US
French police may be the most trigger-happy in western Europe, and kill about 10 to 15 people per year
Marseille, France’s second-largest and most violent city, averages about 30 murders per year
don't forget the part where, due to how healthcare is tied to work and you can be fired for any reason what so ever, getting too uppity means you and anyone that depends on you for healthcare can die for something as simple as being seen at a protest.
oh, sorry, i should have added "presuming your job gives you the option for healthcare and you make enough to be able to afford said healthcare".my bad for not accurately explaining to the euros who don't know how bad it can be.
When the cops kill someone here it’s barely even news. I do not think people understand that. Nothing grinds to a halt except in rare cases that are, statistically, exceptional. […] Even though there are reactionaries everywhere and the media tends to make excuses for cops in any case, in Europe it’s news when cops kill someone. It’s a thing people notice because it doesn’t happen daily. Questions are even asked, sometimes.
Here? 3 or 4 per day, who can even keep track.
in america our media treats police shootings the way other countries’ domestic media treats pedestrian deaths
…people keep throwing around the phrase “China’s century”…but…are we absolutely *sure* we ain’t in Disney’s fucking millennium?
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I totally think it’s fair for Euros to be looking down on us right now — we have more than earned it!
But I also think there’s way too much “well it wouldn’t happen here” and like, Reform is gonna win the next British election and AfD might win in Germany and Le Pen has already nearly captured France and the literal single biggest reason the right didn’t win in Canada was because Trump started talking about it like it was gonna be the 51st state and man … they’re organized and trying to win everywhere.
…I mean…mostly yes to all of that…but…it’s like “the economy”, innit?
…anyone who says they can be sure of how things will break in times to come based on things that already happened…is banking on people agreeing with them being right in sufficient numbers to pass for that being what happened…&…we are approaching some sort of all-bets-are-off event(s) horizon…like…the greenland thing is at risk of doing to the AfD what him winning did for maple-flavor-MAGA-syrup?
🇩🇪 GERMANY— Far-right AfD Leader Alice Weidel: “Double standards… We’ve heard years of whining about Putin violating international law — now those same critics are strangely quiet when Trump does what they criticized Putin for in Venezuela and Greenland.”Incalculable damage.
…&…that might even be in danger of catching on on the continent?
That both the RN of France and the AfD of Germany are backing a hard line on Greenland against Trump is terrible news for Trump.Creates a united front in Europe and dramatically cuts his influence in Europe through the far-right.
The Trump hate in Europe has become a liability to European far right parties that previously were seeking his support, his latest move trying to annex Greenland is making even his staunchest ally,German AfD distance themselves from him. The same thing is happening in Italy, France and Spain.Good
…not to mention…well…I haven’t really spotted it in anywhere reputable enough to necessarily know it to be a respectable or respected claim…but…well…it’s not gone un-noticed that when he was sending out invites & asking for the billion dollar deposit to his new “my own UN but with blackjack & underage hookers” gentleman’s club so he can get prizes for cheating at the peace-golf-championship-of-being-the-only-person-who-matters annual “oh, just let him or he’ll be insufferable” invitational…he put his boy vlad down on the guestlist in the red-carpet column…or that holding ukraine to basically *be* the line…is the more comfortable way that…buffers
Most effective way to defend Greenland? Commit to defeating Russia.
It would destroy Putin, Trump’s main ally & the idol he models himself on. Restore European self confidence & moral clarity. Cut off support to Reform, AfD and all the other septic populist parties poised to tear 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 apart…
Ultimately, it will be the multinational mission to Greenland's task to take down as many US military aircraft and sink as many US navy ships as possible before #Greenland is fully occupied by the American invaders. The end of NATO. The beginning of a hybrid war with the United States.
…& part of that is that the thing a bunch of europe has talked about in terms of a bazooka adjacent to the tariff stuff is a majority deal…so the hold outs can’t hold out against it…& collective punishment gets some pretty forceful reciprocating mechanisms coming back on it where those numbers he needs in his comfort zone can get royally fucked with…in ways the convening of the CEOs he’s pencilled in for sometime this week could…if they were honest with him in public & private in concert…wreck his whole shit about
…probably won’t…but…meloni or whoever wouldn’t vote to fuck with things like the amount of federal debt the EU holds in aggregate…on the basis he’s been known to notice a basis point when it moves against him…so…since she couldn’t stop it…now…she might vote for it anyway just to stay in the lanes she needs to
…not saying that’s the straight dope & the real score if that whistle blows…just…the things that are in contention are about as fully-explicable as an improbability based method of hyperspatial transitional displacement…heart of gold style
…& maybe it would help to draw up a pratchett-prophecy list of things with “nice” odds in the sense of *precisely* 1,000,000 to 1…since those are well known to be near certainties by the laws of narrative determinism…AKA “listen, I don’t make the rules – that’s just how it is, guv…nothing either one of us can do about, anyway”
…so…another one that’s been going around has it that kyiv deliberately employed a tactic that would be a spoiler for the rip & the upshot of that is that they (& I believe the french) will henceforth not be sharing intelligence with the US in any of its guises that they aren’t prepared to assume is henceforth available to russia verbatim
…these…may not be serious people despite all the serious offices they claim to fill…but…they do appear to be in earnest…so…anytime someone’s deity wants to claim the credit the GOP congress-critters are inexplicably frit of when it used to be the stuff of their actual fantasies…they can go on ahead & start smiting with the great vengeance & furious anger like quentin wrote the part for sam jackson…I am open to religious conversion through miraculous deliverance from apparent damnation to a room with a view set to “hellscape”?
Well, similar to here, we’ve seen it’s entirely one thing to talk about building glorious rich white person paradise and entirely another when the jack-booted thugs start shooting from the hip. Even here in the Gun Violence Zone (the very worst Sonic the Hedgehog stage, obviously) Americans are enormously pissed off about faux cops shooting a nice white lady in the street and then lying about it. And that’s a real backlash, not a “the Russian bots keep repeating the party line” astroturf affair.
And of course these power-hungry fools think they have 80% approval rating on every move so they do it, even though “acquire Greenland” polls only slightly better than “get terminal cancer.” (I always love polls like that because 3% of Democrats said they were in favor and I would just enjoy meeting those people to figure out exactly how that Frankenstein’s monster of politics happened outside a lab setting.) And if that’s enough to bury Reform or AfD or Wilders or Le Pen or Orban, then great, let Trump take down the entire operation, it’s exactly what they all deserve.
Also, to the “economics” thing, it’s why I’m annoyed at the Democrats trying to bring everything back to affordability. Yes, it’s important, yes, voters notice, yes, it can swing elections, but especially here, electeds have effectively ZERO control over that it! If you run on “prices will go down!” and they don’t, welp, we’ve already found that even Trumpers can see and remember that from their beloved! Chuck Schumer can’t lower the price of milk but he can say “We won’t fund ICE” and it’s like maybe try to do the things you can to work up to what isn’t necessarily feasible now. But instead it’s like “what about a child care credit” and it’s like fuck, man, they’re killing people in the streets, maybe do something about that?
Our local news just tried to push the narrative that if the dems try to defund ICE voters might not show up for the midterms. I had to shut it off. All the news is now just spitting out GOP bullshit.
…if I may…&…I promise I will stop before we all run out of day
Load up the 🍿🍿!~ Kemi Badenoch challenges Robert Jenrick to hold a by-election – Left Foot Forward ~https://leftfootforward.org/2026/01/kemi-badenoch-challenges-robert-jenrick-to-hold-a-by-election/
…so…anyway…if “& then there were 7” is the tipping point on the reverse agatha christie that means nigel gets to refer to that one being about ten little indians without specifying which subcontinent those might be indigenous to…& now they’re a party the way the lib dems or the SNP or Plaid Cymru Clwyd…or…sein fein…are/were parties…&…he really could do all this & not so obviously be not offering the alternative he touts himself to be as to lose both voters & momentum…that’ll be what that looks like in hindsight when people wonder how the tory party wove its way in & out of the re-branding ouroboros the way lincoln’s lot got to be MAGA…
…&…I dunno what set of the universe would call it a cancel-able offense to be thought-policed off the interwebs or whatever…but…increasingly seeing weird parallels between kemi-as-in-badenoch & kimmy-as-in-unbreakable-schmidt
…one of these days the overloaded of cognitive dissonance is going to make me so dizzy I actually fall down…but even if I hit my head I think I’ll probably make more sense to myself than it seems possible kemi makes to anyone at all…well…maybe a few people…who would love for nigel to be talking out of his arse for britain…but…kinda hoping bad things happen to & for those people…let’s be honest…& if it was the other way around they’d say I don’t count…so…seems like the swings & roundabouts come out in the wash…or…as a wash…or…maybe it’s with…like…maybe boards & running water are involved…you know…for your all-in historical re-enacting orginalist-era fusion LARP-ing ones…what’s good for the washerwoman’s good for the washed not-masses…or…whatever?
wait did he say it again then?
coz i could swear he said that ages ago…when donnie first started with the greenland shit…
i want to say several months ago at least…put my perception of the passage of time has been seriously screwy since corona….apparently time is just wierd now
European countries will financially cripple us if we go after Greenland.
I just assume we’re fucked there. As I told my mom, it would make the Great Depression look like a bad couple of weeks.
I gotta admit, I was a bit shocked last night (and comforted!) to discover that China was no longer the largest holder of US funds–and that it was Europe!
Of course, Trump’s solution for that will just be, “fine, we’re going to conquer Europe with the help of our good friends, Russia!” Now, can he execute that? Probably not, but he’ll give it the old college try.
i rather liked this comment libs spent days convincing themselves that Europe would stand up to Trump over Greenland, meanwhile Macron is sending him “uwu let’s keep the imperial core together, forget Greenland, and continue doing neo-colonialism, baby” texts
i do hate that our politicians have a special sucking up to trump voice…. but im pretty sure its just coz they’ve all figured out flattery will get you everywhere with that one..
probably worth remembering that macron is very much in favour of using the trade bazooka tho….for all that he sweet talks
I totally think it’s fair for Euros to be looking down on us right now — we have more than earned it!
But I also think there’s way too much “well it wouldn’t happen here” and like, Reform is gonna win the next British election and AfD might win in Germany and Le Pen has already nearly captured France and the literal single biggest reason the right didn’t win in Canada was because Trump started talking about it like it was gonna be the 51st state and man … they’re organized and trying to win everywhere.
…I mean…mostly yes to all of that…but…it’s like “the economy”, innit?
…anyone who says they can be sure of how things will break in times to come based on things that already happened…is banking on people agreeing with them being right in sufficient numbers to pass for that being what happened…&…we are approaching some sort of all-bets-are-off event(s) horizon…like…the greenland thing is at risk of doing to the AfD what him winning did for maple-flavor-MAGA-syrup?
…&…that might even be in danger of catching on on the continent?
…not to mention…well…I haven’t really spotted it in anywhere reputable enough to necessarily know it to be a respectable or respected claim…but…well…it’s not gone un-noticed that when he was sending out invites & asking for the billion dollar deposit to his new “my own UN but with blackjack & underage hookers” gentleman’s club so he can get prizes for cheating at the peace-golf-championship-of-being-the-only-person-who-matters annual “oh, just let him or he’ll be insufferable” invitational…he put his boy vlad down on the guestlist in the red-carpet column…or that holding ukraine to basically *be* the line…is the more comfortable way that…buffers
…& part of that is that the thing a bunch of europe has talked about in terms of a bazooka adjacent to the tariff stuff is a majority deal…so the hold outs can’t hold out against it…& collective punishment gets some pretty forceful reciprocating mechanisms coming back on it where those numbers he needs in his comfort zone can get royally fucked with…in ways the convening of the CEOs he’s pencilled in for sometime this week could…if they were honest with him in public & private in concert…wreck his whole shit about
…probably won’t…but…meloni or whoever wouldn’t vote to fuck with things like the amount of federal debt the EU holds in aggregate…on the basis he’s been known to notice a basis point when it moves against him…so…since she couldn’t stop it…now…she might vote for it anyway just to stay in the lanes she needs to
…not saying that’s the straight dope & the real score if that whistle blows…just…the things that are in contention are about as fully-explicable as an improbability based method of hyperspatial transitional displacement…heart of gold style
…& maybe it would help to draw up a pratchett-prophecy list of things with “nice” odds in the sense of *precisely* 1,000,000 to 1…since those are well known to be near certainties by the laws of narrative determinism…AKA “listen, I don’t make the rules – that’s just how it is, guv…nothing either one of us can do about, anyway”
…so…another one that’s been going around has it that kyiv deliberately employed a tactic that would be a spoiler for the rip & the upshot of that is that they (& I believe the french) will henceforth not be sharing intelligence with the US in any of its guises that they aren’t prepared to assume is henceforth available to russia verbatim
…these…may not be serious people despite all the serious offices they claim to fill…but…they do appear to be in earnest…so…anytime someone’s deity wants to claim the credit the GOP congress-critters are inexplicably frit of when it used to be the stuff of their actual fantasies…they can go on ahead & start smiting with the great vengeance & furious anger like quentin wrote the part for sam jackson…I am open to religious conversion through miraculous deliverance from apparent damnation to a room with a view set to “hellscape”?
Well, similar to here, we’ve seen it’s entirely one thing to talk about building glorious rich white person paradise and entirely another when the jack-booted thugs start shooting from the hip. Even here in the Gun Violence Zone (the very worst Sonic the Hedgehog stage, obviously) Americans are enormously pissed off about faux cops shooting a nice white lady in the street and then lying about it. And that’s a real backlash, not a “the Russian bots keep repeating the party line” astroturf affair.
And of course these power-hungry fools think they have 80% approval rating on every move so they do it, even though “acquire Greenland” polls only slightly better than “get terminal cancer.” (I always love polls like that because 3% of Democrats said they were in favor and I would just enjoy meeting those people to figure out exactly how that Frankenstein’s monster of politics happened outside a lab setting.) And if that’s enough to bury Reform or AfD or Wilders or Le Pen or Orban, then great, let Trump take down the entire operation, it’s exactly what they all deserve.
Also, to the “economics” thing, it’s why I’m annoyed at the Democrats trying to bring everything back to affordability. Yes, it’s important, yes, voters notice, yes, it can swing elections, but especially here, electeds have effectively ZERO control over that it! If you run on “prices will go down!” and they don’t, welp, we’ve already found that even Trumpers can see and remember that from their beloved! Chuck Schumer can’t lower the price of milk but he can say “We won’t fund ICE” and it’s like maybe try to do the things you can to work up to what isn’t necessarily feasible now. But instead it’s like “what about a child care credit” and it’s like fuck, man, they’re killing people in the streets, maybe do something about that?
I haven’t made it alllll the way through, yet-but my ADHD-addled brain MADE me stop to tell y’all to check out the quotes under Faith’s Bluesky post.
Because DHS talking about folks on that “This person is NOT a Nazi!” List, is….
Let’s just say *not* exactly going over the way Homan, Noem, and the others THINK it would!😆😂🤣
My faves are the comments talking about, “Proof for our future grandkids that we were on the RIGHT side of History?!? SWEEEET!!!!” ones!😉
Apparently, support for the extreme RW Euro parties are dropping the same way PP’s support did since Trump made Greenland a World Crisis Alert.
Funny how fascism sounds really fun until another nation embraces fascism and then comes after you.
Our local news just tried to push the narrative that if the dems try to defund ICE voters might not show up for the midterms. I had to shut it off. All the news is now just spitting out GOP bullshit.
…if I may…&…I promise I will stop before we all run out of day
…so…anyway…if “& then there were 7” is the tipping point on the reverse agatha christie that means nigel gets to refer to that one being about ten little indians without specifying which subcontinent those might be indigenous to…& now they’re a party the way the lib dems or the SNP or Plaid Cymru Clwyd…or…sein fein…are/were parties…&…he really could do all this & not so obviously be not offering the alternative he touts himself to be as to lose both voters & momentum…that’ll be what that looks like in hindsight when people wonder how the tory party wove its way in & out of the re-branding ouroboros the way lincoln’s lot got to be MAGA…
…&…I dunno what set of the universe would call it a cancel-able offense to be thought-policed off the interwebs or whatever…but…increasingly seeing weird parallels between kemi-as-in-badenoch & kimmy-as-in-unbreakable-schmidt
…one of these days the overloaded of cognitive dissonance is going to make me so dizzy I actually fall down…but even if I hit my head I think I’ll probably make more sense to myself than it seems possible kemi makes to anyone at all…well…maybe a few people…who would love for nigel to be talking out of his arse for britain…but…kinda hoping bad things happen to & for those people…let’s be honest…& if it was the other way around they’d say I don’t count…so…seems like the swings & roundabouts come out in the wash…or…as a wash…or…maybe it’s with…like…maybe boards & running water are involved…you know…for your all-in historical re-enacting orginalist-era fusion LARP-ing ones…what’s good for the washerwoman’s good for the washed not-masses…or…whatever?
Cruelty is always the point with these fuckers…
https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee
“Sundowning”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundowning-in-america
You know things are bad when you can get the most polite people in the world to use this kind of language…
wait did he say it again then?
coz i could swear he said that ages ago…when donnie first started with the greenland shit…
i want to say several months ago at least…put my perception of the passage of time has been seriously screwy since corona….apparently time is just wierd now
It’s beyond belief.
European countries will financially cripple us if we go after Greenland.
I just assume we’re fucked there. As I told my mom, it would make the Great Depression look like a bad couple of weeks.
I gotta admit, I was a bit shocked last night (and comforted!) to discover that China was no longer the largest holder of US funds–and that it was Europe!
We’re still tucked, of course!
But not *quite* as fucked.
Of course, Trump’s solution for that will just be, “fine, we’re going to conquer Europe with the help of our good friends, Russia!” Now, can he execute that? Probably not, but he’ll give it the old college try.
i rather liked this comment
libs spent days convincing themselves that Europe would stand up to Trump over Greenland, meanwhile Macron is sending him “uwu let’s keep the imperial core together, forget Greenland, and continue doing neo-colonialism, baby” texts
i do hate that our politicians have a special sucking up to trump voice…. but im pretty sure its just coz they’ve all figured out flattery will get you everywhere with that one..
probably worth remembering that macron is very much in favour of using the trade bazooka tho….for all that he sweet talks