Mariana Colín

Woke 2 is here lfg

It’s not a war you fucking idiots. It’s an exchange of violence between two polities to impose a political outcome through conflict.

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

politics really needs to be something other than a theory of other's people defective cognition.

I think there's a deep, subterranean ideological assumption that civilian causalities are the result of insufficient care, insufficient attention, or insufficient technology. They're really just a basic consequence of choosing to go to war.

it's a real achievement to develop a policy that so many macroeconomists could agree on

the only consistent funny thing about trump is how little he respects anyone in his orbit

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My friends yall are about to learn exactly how badly an Oklahoman can fuck things up. Go get em markwayne, show this country what real Okie incompetence is all about

Years ago I wrote about naive cynicism, which is the posture of being sophisticated, knowing, and worldweary often worn by those who don't actually have a firm grasp on what's going on but have surrendered to what they claim to oppose and are trying to convince others to do the same.

baudrillard was just early

C: So you killed the suitors because they were…
O: Hitting on my wife, yeah.
C: Right, I can see how that could spur some kingly rage.
O: It’s less rage than justice. Defending just rule of Ithaca.
C: Right. So when you killed the slave girls, that was also justice.
O: Well I mean hang on a second

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Trumpism presents an extreme example of the pitfalls of personalism: Personalist rule with a lazy, delusional leader at the top, a bunch of sycophants and zealots around him, and a base drifting ever deeper into fantasy land – that’s not a recipe for efficient authoritarian consolidation.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Also the lazy lampshade of the no phones preroll saying “we understand it’s ironic for us to ask you to to call an employee with your phone if someone is using their phone” sucks. I am so sorry for your poor employees who have to endure this bullshit and the complaints I’m sure are coming from it.

@alamodrafthouse.bsky.social Hey Alamo, today was my first experience with mobile ordering and it absolutely blew. No menu sucks. Not being able to alter orders sucks. No human contact sucks. Having to punch in your CC info sucks. This was a bad choice and you should change it back.

It’s actually even worse than that, because the jobs we’re actually worrying about here aren’t in healthcare, they’re in insurance 🫠

The reason they expect you to be cool and indeed excited for this is because the sick weirdos in charge of our society right now think of the fact that women are people not programs as one of the most persistent and urgent imperfections of reality

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Always remember that we also can’t have free health care or easy tax filing or cheap renewable energy because those things would take away people’s jobs

Our allies blew up hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax money for reasons that aren't clear to anyone other than an old rapist is mad no one came to his birthday party

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

like Leonardo DiCaprio or Al Pacino, he just needs to be really good for a really long time and then give a performance in which he sucks

Algorithmic thinking—the idea that anything you see must be intended for you, individually, the sole audience, leading you to misunderstand the context of practically everything.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

This was Ike as President (his first major speech, in fact), but just gonna say: Eisenhower not beating the allegations of being the United States' greatest general on this one.

Fitting that we got one verifiable Military Genius and he was the Divine Spirit of Logistics and Diplomacy guy.