My new next door neighbor is AirBnB and let me tell you how much I hate it

a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work

Not just with socialism. This was the response to the civil rights movement of the 60s/70s, to the environmentalism of the 80s/90s, and to the anti-war movement of the 00s/10s.

Every progressive position is pillared as unworkable, overly expensive, and jobs-killing.

Meanwhile, we sink $1T/year into chat bots that spam your Twitter feed with racist porn and armies of tweaked out sheriffs deputies to crash their cars into anyone they consider illegally brown

No no no. In socialist countries, the Big Government is in control. There’s no freedom. Everyone lives in fear. You don’t even own your own toothbrush.

Anyone who supports socialism is a Tankie who just wants to kill rich white people for fun and doesn’t understand how awful their lives will be afterwards.

Folks can’t remember Bush Jr at all, much less Clinton, Bush Sr or Reagan. They can barely remember Obama, except through a haze of nostalgia.

What’s notable about Trump isn’t his fascism - plenty of presidents have been openly fascist. What’s notable is how many middle class white people are getting sucked up into the current dragnet.

Things are working great and you people need to quit complaining

That’s not negotiation! That’s not deal making!

It is. Just not in your interest. Might be worth asking what Trump thinks he’s getting out of it. Did someone at a Russian bank just pick up another $50M in Trumpcoin recently? How will a brokered peace enrich Trump’s family and friends?

The US isn’t Ukraine and Trump isn’t capitulating to an enemy, he’s carving up Ukrainian territory alongside an erstwhile ally. He’s making deals, he’s just not on your side of the board.

He was coaching them on how to convince YOU, Mr. Trump, on how to manipulate YOU

He’s an agent of the Trump administration selling a deal brokered by Russia to his boss, presumably by promising the kind of quid pro quo Trump would endorse.

What’s notable is how sloppy and slapdash the dealmaking was for the benefit of the public at-large. Trump’s team might have gotten out cleaner if the authors of the deal hadn’t just chucked it through Babblefish to get an English translation.

I wish it did. Unfortunately, conservatives seem to rule our world far more often than not.

Ever hear of an atheist needing an exorcism

You joke, but…

Demon Spirits – The Real Root of Addiction

Growing up in the 80s/90s, I 100% heard about how everything from Heavy Metal music to D&D to Voting for Michael Dukakis caused the godless heathens to become possessed and driven to deplorable acts. Exorcisms are for people with insider access to high ranking church officials. The folks living outside of the fence - the migrants, the hippies, the drug users, the fornicators and exotic dancers, the non-believers - why do you think they have all that crime and disease and misery?

They’ve fallen out of God’s love and light. They’re all tortured souls, possessed by any number of evils.

Barely on the cusp of calling it “Fake News”

Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.

If I’m not allowed to blame Putler for this, why should I even consider it a problem?

Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl

Oh boy, excited to hear his opinions on Israel-Palestine.

The War Israel Was Ready to Fight: The strategy that led to the October 7 disaster is the same one fueling Israel’s current successes.

Yee-haw!

finger snaps heard over jazz music

Some beautiful new art on a very old joke.

A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

Shrug

The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.

Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.

They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems.

That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.

Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.

Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.

Sure, that’s a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don’t yank the entry because they don’t recognize the archived source as a valid citation.

It isn’t a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.

40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.

Damn, that’s wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?

flips open history book

Omg, you’re a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!

Here, enjoy this stew.

I still have my dad’s 1957 edition sitting on my childhood bedroom shelf.

It is genuinely kind of wild to read through that thing, in light of modern history.

Guilty as charged 😈

he’s Cuban

Some people will tell you that Communism made Cuba a better place. But I suspect a big part of it was all the worst fuckers on the island moving to Florida.