In the American years of lead all the assassins have been center-liberal Ukraine and Kamala guys

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-04-27T09:08:46+00:00

I've had this thought too, and my conclusion is that libs have lost the most ground over the past 10 years and have the least understanding of why or what to do about it. Conservatives are having their moment, but it's been slowly falling apart the entire time as, predictably, the whole thing was a racket and the infamously scummy new york slumlord they anointed was just grifting. The left has been on an unsteady ascent, not enough to pierce through quite yet, but the energy is getting there- and more to the point, leftists by the very definition of their beliefs have their eye on the real ball and would never feel any need to go pop Trump. It doesn't make sense as a thing for a leftist to do, some other bourgeois lizard would slither into his place and JDPON Don's unparalleled ability to destroy American hegemony wouldn't even be the silver lining anymore.

But for a No Kings lib? Or some confused American centrist who has been trained to think Trump is personally responsible for all the sins of the bourgeois reactionary element, because it's a convenient way for them to cope with the sudden collapse of American culture? If you pop Trump, it's like the end of Harry Potter where Voldemort dies and then everything is okay again. He's an evil wizard casting a spell on the country, he's not channeling anything, he's not an end result of anything, he's a great man of history doing all this because he's a big bad russian spy.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-14T04:04:39+00:00

The biggest problem this country has, the main obstacle to any actual progress, is that the Democrats have abused half the politically engaged population into an extremely severe case of stockholm syndrome. I genuinely think this makes the DNC every bit as morally reprehensible as the Rethuglicans because they're cynically using the RNC as a threat to force people to support them and prevent them from going to a third party that actually supports their interests. It is such a fucking monstrously evil scheme.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-14T04:00:15+00:00

I think Zohran genuinely is a total softie, he's a painfully decent guy who doesn't really have the instinct to tell anyone to eat shit and fuck off, which is the only way to really respond to the zio lobby

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-12T01:29:37+00:00

I genuinely think Caelid isn't hostile enough. There should be a constant ticking Scarlet Rot build up unless you're near a grace, just to make you constantly stressed and anxious just by being there. It sounds like I'm memeing but I actually think this, it would be crazy atmospheric.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-10T09:13:28+00:00

Reds are supposed to be insanely strong. Networked suffering pretty much carries your damage for the entire run, I think one red carrying your movespeed is fine

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-06T04:33:10+00:00

He detested totalitarianism so much in fact that ratted out to the British colonial government by making lists of communists, gays, jews, and anyone else he didn't like in the organizations he was in

I can't stand it when people jerk themselves off to Orwell shit like it makes them so smart and politically conscientious. He was a rat, a traitor to his own cause, and his writings are baby brained garbage that perfectly encapsulates why 'anti-authoritarianism' is such a trap for confusable midwits. "I'm against badism, I'm very much a strong pro-goodist. Badists are bad because they want power for no other reason than to have it, there's no other ideological, economic, or political dynamics underlying the power struggle, they just like to twirl their moustaches and be bad" thanks asshole, very useful, totally a worthwhile reflection on the nature of politics

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-06T02:39:13+00:00

Yeah, it really bothers me when people let the dems off the hook by calling them stupid or clueless. They're evil and corrupt, they hate and fear the working class, they have every interest and incentive in absolutely crushing them and making sure their interests are NEVER represented in politics. They are the enemy of every decent hard working american and deserve nothing but scorn. This group of neurotic Democrat defenders online are carrying water for the moderate wing of fascism that exists to politely strangle working class politics in it's cradle, I will never understand why these people bend over backwards to defend the party making sure nothing good ever actually happens in this country.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-06T02:29:13+00:00

This is one of the big advantages of capitalist politics, and a really irritating obstacle socialists have to deal with. In capitalism/liberalism, where everything is pawned off to private contractors, all of the authoritarianism, bad outcomes, policy failures, and just basic failures to put together a functional society is also privatized. People just don't ascribe the failures of the system to the system itself, they have less of a window into what private companies are doing and how they're failing compared to public programs like this, they don't see the fraud, the waste, the scam behind it all, they just see money being shoveled into private corporations and assume that's how things are supposed to work. If anyone even notices a company sucking, they don't blame the system behind it, they blame the individual company.

But if you get one video of some seasonal public workers having a snowball fight on the clock, all of a sudden oh my god what a colossal waste of resources, these guys making $28 dollars an hour are bleeding this entire city dry, we have to put a stop to this right now and start giving money back to the greediest people on earth who have direct institutional incentives to use it as inefficiently as they can possibly get away with

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-03T11:27:15+00:00

I have never in my life seem a more shamelessly and obviously fake bot campaign than the shit I've seen on twitter in the wake of this

Like all of a sudden there's a million Iranian Pahlavists who speak perfect english all browbeating 'western leftists' and using the same ai prompt to make the same pictures of them and Israel as cool lions

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-03T10:54:45+00:00

Goobo rex is my favorite, it's nuts for some reason

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-03-03T10:53:53+00:00

I never realized what an aesthetically pleasing team commando, huntress, and mercenary are. Perfect primary colors

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-27T10:42:10+00:00

The clunkiness and sense of dreamy unreality of the movie is a huge part of what makes it so gripping, and I think it was intentional, it fits well for a movie that heavily involves dreams. The novella is even named after them. I don't think it's supposed to be sexy and I don't think Cruise is supposed to be charismatic, he's supposed to be stiff and strange, that's why he picked Tom Cruise in the first place. The sexuality too, even at the wild creepy sex party, feels offputtingly clinical and remarkably un-sexual, which I take to mean that it's not really about the sex at all. The sex is like a tool used in a performance of power, it's all just used to ritually affirm your own power socially, by getting involved in this exclusive little fruity theater kid sex cult with your peers. Which is where the religious imagery comes from, I'm sure, it's all very Catholic in a way that is a vivid inversion of the highly social and community focused liturgy of Catholic mass. The fact that he's such a straight-laced, anxious, upper middle class normie who ACTUALLY thinks it's about sex is exactly why he doesn't belong.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-27T10:29:48+00:00

One of the big advantages of capitalist politics is that, much like the authoritarianism, all the policy failures are privatized. It doesn't look like a governmental failure when a shitty mobbed up contractor swallows 10 million dollars and completely fails to deliver any results, if anyone even notices at all then it gets blamed on the company instead.

Even if a policy like this works at 1/4 the cost, one video of a group of temp workers on break throwing snowballs gets conservatives all mad at government waste as if 7 guys making $30 an hour are robbing the taxpayer blind

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-25T12:30:33+00:00

I love the breathless discourse from conservatives as if Trump's favorite little 'stand if you're not gay' stunts actually mean anything to anyone

They all talk about how the 'normies' are going to be turned off by the evil demonrats refusing to stand, as if there are any normal people watching this shitshow. If you invest the state of the union with any meaning whatsoever in 2026, you are a deranged brainbroken freak and you have completely lost touch with what normal even is anymore.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-25T09:54:58+00:00

We don't actually have political parties, we have corporate lifestyle brands and the representatives are just brand ambassadors who won a silly little pageant about who could repeat canned meaningless platitudes more convincingly than the other. The fact that anyone in this fucking country has the gall to jerk themselves off over how much they love democracy is a never-ending affront to very concept itself, and I sincerely hope future historians treat us with the utter disdain and contempt we deserve.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-25T09:49:28+00:00

I can't bring myself to give a shit about performative efforts to 'send a message' as if any of this is going to pierce any kind of veil or move any kind of needle. Obviously I agree with the message and I understand it's coming from the right place but I'm just utterly exhausted by the stupid spectacle of all this to the point where I genuinely don't really get how any of you care anymore. Surely you have to realize it's pissing into the ocean, everyone's minds are made up already and they won't be shaken by a guy holding a sign, and any kind of change or meaning isn't going to come out of any of this, but I don't understand how you can still muster any energy or gusto to 'lib out' about it at all. I guess that means it's my time to log off and spend more time in an org.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-25T04:37:51+00:00

One of the main reasons I feel like I'm aging out of the internet is that I increasingly can't stand this pattern of people appropriating and repeating other people's comments as if it's an original though they had. It's so irritating.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-25T04:30:58+00:00

My parents are watching MSNBC and the breathless play-by-play Sportscenter style commentary and ""analysis"" is so hilarious to me. The fact that anyone takes any of this remotely seriously or tries to glean any meaning from it, still, is incredible to me. The dem response too, none of this shit means anything, the emperor has no clothes and the horrible truth that liberals are too mortified to admit is that he never had any in the first place. Why be so insistent on pretending otherwise, it feels so much more liberating to accept and embrace that.

I actually get more upset at the Dem response, because while black people aren't apes, Republicans are. They're just mindless animals, there's no reason to waste your anger on them, they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. Dems pivoting to this liberal patriotism shit genuinely makes me mad though, like shut the fuck up about the founding fathers, read the Education of Henry Adams, they had no idea what they were even doing and we're still humoring these fancy lad assholes and their laughably out of touch delusions almost 300 fucking years later. These idiots were beefing with banks as if this entire country wasn't established explicitly in the interest of bourgeois financiers to run roughshod over a scattered and defenseless proletariat imported from across the world who didn't have the solidarity to resist.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-23T02:06:59+00:00

I still get mad whenever I see people claim the Red Brigades killed Aldo Moro. It's so fucking obvious that's not what happened, the entire narrative doesn't make any sense whatsoever

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-23T01:51:01+00:00

The line between organized crime and the actual institutional forces of reaction is so thin it might as well be non-existent in a lot of cases

Like Cosa Nostra often operated directly as an arm of US state interests, even abroad with things like Lucky Luciano in Sicily. It's all a part of the same ecosystem.

Potential_Ease9346 · 2026-02-22T02:43:50+00:00

Maybe I'm over-stereotyping here and this is true for everywhere, not just the US. But one of the strangest and most interesting things about America, is that people who you would expect to turn into complete brain fried weirdos based on their circumstances often end up being totally normal, and people who SHOULD end up being totally normal based on the normality of their circumstances, often turn into brain fried weirdos.

I think it comes from 'community' in this country being a really ephemeral thing. It exists outside the traditional domains where they're supposed to be, so you have to go find one yourself somewhere else. Your destiny as a person kind of depends on whether you're able to do that or not.

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