SopwithCamus

We should make AGI real so we can Torture it

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

“A slur involved group chat”

If the Trump regime had actually wanted to aid an uprising the time to begin strikes in support of it would have been two full months ago

Their actions toward domestic protesters occurring at that same time is revelatory as to what their disposition towards Iran’s protesters actually was

geopolitics, 2026: every nation makes the absolutely worst decision known to man

Donald Trump slowly turning every Evangelical into an idolator and every liberal into a believer in Satan is a pretty good bit.

BRB going to war in the oil producing region of the world while also declaring procedural war on green energy 😎

Not only do people want to live in towers but the more towering they are the more they will pay for the privilege

Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom.

This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

You can move everything offline, but majority of surveillance in history even if we keep to the 20th century where it entered its modern form, was offline.
And they still have all those methods. There is no silver bullet to any of this beyond trying your best with what you’re doing.

Straight up punishing prisoners who have nothing inside. Prison is a non-reformatory institution that doesn't want to better the individual, they want them punished. And keeping someone ignorant is how they are easily manipulated, a criminal record already ensures they can't get public housing…1/2

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Just fucking support local music

The State Duma passes resolution thanking President Putin for his brilliant special military operation

“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

Verhoeven was too subtle

Today in Staatsräson.

Can't help but feel a certain Schadenfreude for all the opportunists & cowards who for years stood by as Palestinians and anti-genocide voices were being cleansed from the German cultural landscape.

Your literary & film culture is over, suckers!

Are you suckers ready to freeze your asses off for Greater Israel and the Epstein Empire's right to plunder, rape and murder its way across the world?

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

If Arsenal do win the Premier League this season, they'll need to have the parade in the Cardiac Care unit because that's where everyone will be.

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, there is only one working class party, the Democratic Socialists of America, and there are only two working class newspapers, Democratic Left and the Financial Times.

Perhaps if the cause you’re primarily concerned with does not compel you to learn, investigate pr critique the complex network of alliances between various oppressed peoples in SWANA, you’re gonna start Kurdish people “Israeli”

All the homies are getting into Freud. All my homies are seeing the beauty in what he discovered and my homies want to rip that from his Oedipalized grasp, like the prisoner stealing the baton away from the guard before making their escape. All my homies know he never should have called it "id"

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

For comparison: the Japanese offshore seismic network and earthquake early warning system cost like $78 million to put and place and about $2 million a year to maintain.

So much stuff could be done if we stopped deciding we loved killing people more than literally anything else.

The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"One clause says that only the state has the right to promote “a system of symbols of Chinese civilisation”"
civilisational discourse in action: as I've been saying, it's about claiming difference internationally and erasing difference internally.