#quislings

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

No shit. Chickens for McNuggets.

The leopard will begin biting their faces off in January.

[vaspider]

[tomorrowusa]

There's now one less fewer Russian torturer terrorizing people in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Winter came for war criminal Yevgeny Ananyevsky – likely with help from Ukraine's Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR).

Not explicitly claiming its involvement in the operation, Ukrainian intelligence has announced the elimination of Yevgeny Ananyevsky, one of the organizers of torture chambers at Berdiansk Penal Colony No. 77 in the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Collaborationist officials and law enforcement officers have become priority targets for guerrillas in contact with Ukrainian security services. The primary aim of these operations, as described in a New York Times 2022 interview with partisans, is to warn rather than kill, emphasizing the consequences of cooperation with the Russian military. Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, there have been some two scores of largely successful assassination attempts on quisling officials and collaborators within law enforcement.

The owl is the symbol of the HUR, but their official mascot should be Arya Stark.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says that on 5 May 2024, around 9:40 a.m., Ananyevsky’s Ford Kuga vehicle exploded in occupied Berdiansk. The HUR confirmed that Ananyevsky, who held an occupation position at the penal colony and was involved in torturing Ukrainian prisoners there, was eliminated as a result of the explosion. The intelligence agency reminded that there would be “fair retribution for every war crime,” underscoring Ukraine’s resolve to hold Russian forces and their collaborators accountable for abuses committed during the ongoing invasion.

Nazi war criminals are still being prosecuted this decade. Russian war criminals, including their boss Vladimir Putin, should never be able to rest easy as long as they are at large. Somebody at The Hague should put a sign on a cell that says: RESERVED FOR V. PUTIN.

EDIT: Sometimes Berdyansk is transliterated as Berdiansk.

[originalleftist]

With the NDP pulling out of their agreement with the Liberals, and polling showing Conservatives about twenty points ahead, Canada is hurtling toward a landslide Conservative majority.

And I don't think most Canadians have the slightest fucking clue how bad that would be.

But today's Cons are not yesterday's Cons, any more than today's Republicans are yesterday's Republicans. Its not as obvious because Poilieve is way less of a belligerent showman personality than Trump, and Canadian politics in general tends to be more subdued and low-key than American politics. But make no mistake: Poilievre is aligned with fascists.

He supports the Covid-denier, Russia and MAGA-supported, white supremacist-riddled "convoys" that laid siege to the country a couple years ago. He marched with conveyors immediately after Congressional testimony that Trump wanted to lead the Jan. 6th insurrectionists in person. He has dabbled in election denial conspiracy theorism aimed at the Liberals. He refused to reject an endorsement form Alex fucking Jones, one of the most infamous MAGA conspiracy theorists, a man who backed the January 6th insurrection and got a 1.1 BILLION dollar defamation judgement for claiming that the parents of children murdered in the Sandy Hook school shooting were involved in a false flag conspiracy.

And in terms of policy, he will absolutely gut trans rights if given the chance. As well as likely setting us back on addressing the Climate Crisis, because besides "culture wars" shit and love of power, the one sure thing with conservatives of any stripe is their loyalty to big business over the public good. And if another pandemic comes, he will be unable to effectively address it, because he built his political brand on supporting pandemic denialism and opposing basic public health measures.

It can happen here. Believe it. And Canada actually has probably weaker checks on a PM with a majority than the US does on the President.

I will make a prediction now: If Poilieve takes power, he will never leave power willingly. And if, God forbid, Trump also regains power, Poilieve will willingly play the Vichy France to Trump's Hitler.

So, what can you do? Well, when an election is eventually called, get involved. Campaign, volunteer, vote. BUT, that doesn't necessarily mean voting Liberal. Sure, its always the Liberals or the Cons who form the government, but there are several parties with seats in the Canadian Parliament, and like me, you may be in a riding where another party is more competitive (like the NDP, Bloc, or Greens).

So, basically, vote strategically- vote for the most electable non-fascist, non-Conservative party in your riding. Vote for whoever has the best chance of winning. Prioritize denying Poilievre a majority.

If the Cons simply don't have a chance in your riding, then vote for who you please, or for whichever party has the best chance of getting the most seats.

[krisw1979]

Victory

[serious2020]

THE U.S. ATTEMPT TO CO-OPT "SALI PIBLIK" IN HAITI

*When I wrote and posted this statement online two weeks ago, my bit.ly generated shortened links worked. Now, they don’t, so I’m reposting with the longer links. (MHK) ON 7 APRIL 2003, PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE OF HAITI demanded of France $US22Billion-the equivalent (then) of 90Million gold francs France extorted from HAITI after HAITI’S successful war of liberation (1791-1803) from…

[1929crash]

Jesus Caucus MAGAts invade Reason

Eternal vigilance is what gives treasonous infiltrators pause.

You tell me! (link) The wreck of the Libertarian Party finally gets a sharp, competent personable and vote-getting candidate nominated. So what happens? The butthurt Alabama Jesus Caucus makes sure its boy Trump hogs all media coverage with his gathering of boos, catcalls, dead cats and rubber chickens. No foreign or Wallace State reporter has a clue who the real nominee is. (link) But there’s…

[originalleftist]

We effectively have two people running the United States right now: Joe Biden, and (though Donald Trump and the party that serves him) Vladimir Putin.

That is where we're at.

Normally, this whole "the entire Republican Party from Trump on down is now a willing Russian asset/actively working to regurgitate Russian disinformation to hurt Biden" thing would be a huge scandal. However, because we live in the worst timeline, I expect it will get 3-4 days of coverage max, the media will largely shrug and give the GOP a pass, and go back to writing 248402935 concern-trolling pieces about Biden's age.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Chickens for McNuggets.

[wilwheaton]

Vance has, in large part, good timing to thank for his rapid ascension. His memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” telling of his upbringing in downtrodden and depressed red, rural America, was published in June 2016 and enjoyed widespread popularity. Vance was quickly tapped as a translator of sorts, decoding the mysterious Trump supporter for the cable news set. Back then, he wasn’t so high on his future running mate. “I realize that, you know, the media has sort of asked me to be this spokesman for the white working class voter who’s voting for Trump, right,” he told Charlie Rose in October 2016. “But as somebody who doesn’t like Trump, myself, I sort of — I understand where Trump’s voters come from, but I also don’t like Trump himself and that made me realize that maybe I’m not quite part of either world totally.” He’d also mused that he might vote for Hillary Clinton to NPR, and texted a friend: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump might be a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he might be America’s Hitler.” Political expediency, though, appears to have quickly changed his calculus.

Vance Scores Vice Presidential Nod In Exchange For Total MAGA Capitulation

Presuming America survives this year and this election, there will be fascinating histories written in the next couple of decades about how and why millions of people fell in love with America’s Hitler. Maybe then, America’s ruling class will finish Reconstruction.

[t00thpasteface]

commission for @prinspersika (teaterprinsen on insta) of a retro kirk in the green wrap shirt! that thing was a LOOK okay!!! i'm a proud member of the green shirt fan club.

[originalleftist]

This is rage-inducing.

They predict Ukraine cannot win, cut aid, then sit back and gloat as Ukrainians die.

They are working for Putin, whether they realize it or not. End of story.

Mind, their gloating is a bit premature. It took Russia four months, at least 30,000 dead and 400 armoured vehicles, and the complicity of the entire Republican Party to take Avdiivka. To take one little town of (pre-war) just over 30,000 people. They are no more able to take Kyiv, or Odessa, or anything really decisive, than they were a year ago, and even Vlad's cannon fodder reserves aren't bottomless.

[vaguely-concerned]

I must admit it exhausts me a bit when people compare the interactions between the companions in da2 and veilguard and complain that the veilguard crew don't argue viciously enough or don't have enough fundamental unbridgeable ideological differences. like yeah it's almost like dragon age 2 is a game specifically about implacable human discord in all its forms and that's the theme the companions also build up under and provide a lens to look at. and perhaps. just maybe. veilguard is doing something different and also interesting thematically if you look at it for what it actually is, and its companions are playing into those themes instead (come become beside me my friend none of us have this figured out but at least we have each other along the way. you must struggle with who you are. despite the high high stakes on paper, veilguard (sometimes to its detriment, often to its advantage once you realize this is what it's doing) is really not that interested in outward conflict, between ideas or groups or individuals -- most of the real meat and potatoes is in the internal struggle of the characters with themselves and their identities, the ways they've been changed and also stay the same, it's weirdly deeply trans all the way to the depths of the narrative that way, as well as fundamentally being about trauma recovery. again, what you're ultimately fighting is not actually in the realm of elgar'nan and ghilan'nain at all, it's on the level of solas' despair and his regret over what he's done and who he's become).

tl;dr why are we pitting two bad bitches against each other etc. they're literally both pretty and I love them

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I read The Model Occupation by Madeline Bunting (an examination of the Channel Islands under Nazi rule in WW2. Big recommend), and when she was investigating the sometimes blurry line* of "just trying not to get in trouble" and "collaborator," she mentioned "quislings." Which, from context, clearly meant traitor.

But I've never heard the term. Anyway, I remembered tonight and looked it up, and the shortest version possible is that one guy in Norway was such an enormous Nazi shitfucker that his name immediately became synonymous with traitors.

Anyway, The Model Occupation is a fascinating slice of history and also I hope England is still apologizing to the Channel Islands to this day for the ways they fucking abandoned them during the Occupation. And after, in fact.

[doolallymagpie]

finally making this poll:

no stats, just vibes, pick the 'Mech this man gets cored, repeatedly, because he doesn't know any tactics other than "alpha strike" and "DFA"

for the record, all 'Mechs pictured are ones I'm interested in acquiring anyway, INFLUENCE MY DECISIONS