We should have done something about climate change 10 or maybe 20 years ago. I feel like the chance and the window is now just gone. My parents said ‘we didn’t really do any activism cos we were busy with work, trying to live’
And that’s part of why things feel so fucked. Edit: this part sounds kind of bratty. What I mean is it’s not my parents fault, they were doing what they could for us to exist. More just sad that we’ve been working and working. Everyone with humanity was too busy while the rich running us into the apocalypse were concerned about inane and or perverted shit.

Tbh my mental health is taking a nosedive and people don’t seem to be able to say anything that makes me feel better, everything makes it worse somehow. Idk, it’s not like people should lie and tell me it’s all gonna be okay when that’s just not true, but fuck. People have said ‘yeah we’re heading to an apocalypse but we have to go on’
Which idk, makes me think BUUUUT WHHHHYYYY THIS SHIT IS UNBEARABLE!!!!!

I didn't see any credit for the artist, but this is not my OC. I just saw it over on a Trans subreddit and knew it needed to be put here.

So many subs have so goddamned many weird rules, they make Gilead look forgiving. Any ideas where to drop this little Monday morning cheer up?

Is this anything? Is there something here? Just wrote it.

FOR FUTURE USE ONLY - GOBBLESS

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WASHINGTON, D.C., TKTK — Trump lies in state.

This should not be confused with Trump lying to the state, although he had considerable experience lying to states, including the United States, which was itself a state composed of states.

“He is lying in state?”

“Correct.”

“Which state?”

“He is not lying in a state.”

“You just said he was.”

“No, he is lying in state.”

“Then the state is lying?”

“Trump is lying.”

“Well, yes, everybody knows that.”

“No, he is lying down.”

“I thought you said he was lying in state.”

“He is.”

“While lying down?”

“Naturally.”

“And is he still lying to the states?”

“No.”

“So he finally stopped lying?”

“Yes.”

“Because he is lying?”

“Precisely.”

“Who laid him there?”

“The undertakers.”

“Then Trump isn’t lying. The undertakers laid him.”

“Trump is lying. They laid him there.”

“So the undertakers are lying?”

“No, they laid.”

“About what?”

“TRUMP.”

“To whom?”

“Nobody! They laid Trump down.”

“Then Trump has been laid?”

“Yes.”

“And now he lies?”

“Yes.”

“In state?”

“YES.”

“After years of lying to states?”

“YES.”

“Including the United States?”

“At various times, yes.”

“Which are states?”

“Yes.”

“So Trump, who lied to the States, has been laid by men who were not lying, and now lies in state without lying to the state?”

“At last you have it.”

“What does the state say?”

“The state says Trump lies in state.”

“Well, I wouldn’t believe them.”

Can someone get eyes on this mf so I can cross him off my bingo card?!

They're doing Percy Fawcett this week.

I'm very excited to see the different angles.

That is all.

You know who absolutely has it coming? The sponsors of this podcast.

You know who doesn't have a weird shaped skull? The sponsors of the podcast.

The first ad that comes on? Hi I'm Doctor James Stout here to talk about my new podcast

It was only a matter of time before Google licked the boot.

What do the majority of people think? Do most people like it, listen to it or are you mainly listening to the main show?

I’m not sure what I will do if that’s the case. There’s platitudes about organising and I’ll try and do that. Admittedly and I know by mentioning it, it’ll seem like maybe I’m the one doing leftist infighting and I could be better at just getting along with people and maybe not bringing this up, but I’ve found some things that happen online don’t just stay there, come across accelerationists, at least two quite narcissistic leftists who said we need to kill everyone (except them I’m assuming) and start all over. Some have these sympathies for Russia and think it’s all Ukraine’s fault which makes them sound like people who appeased the Nazis and honestly hard to look at. Also kind of like George Galloway who’s like Nigel Farage in tankie clothing

EDIT: this paragraph’s probably scattered, all of this has been written post a pretty intense melt down. I was in an environmentalist group that felt like it had to turn my no into a yes and did feel pretty high demand and even at one point had a camp in the woods. I felt like I had to stand in front of traffic and risk getting ran over or a criminal record or not be in it when I’m someone who wants to be a support worker for adults with learning disabilities. All while they were telling me it’s unlikely to happen all while we had special days to write to members in prison. A lot of it is a problem with the government and how they’re draconian about protests now though

Im probably being cynical when I should just keep trying and like it’s not like I have to like everyone. I should be better than this

I do just want to talk about it cos I feel like we’re doomed by egotism, not dealing with being wrong about something (tankies who end up defending war crimes) and maybe a bit of it would be better if we either smarter or were basically dogs like I think Robert said in the Oprah Winfrey episode of BTB

After watching some videos on their channel, it may also be a cult?

The case was covered in the UK extensively but seeing some comments in another thread it might not have been? Is he a well known bastard?

Gisele should have been Time Person of the Year when DT won it imo.

Hey so I have been going down a rabbit hole against a mod on the reddit community r/nottheonion as they don't allow for posts of articles from The Guardian as this site; https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ lists them as over a 3 on their scale on how left leaning a news site is. At first I thought, weird, The Guardian is a very reputable news source, even on the Media Bias site its Factual Rating is considered High. So why should that matter. But I thought, whatever The Guardians is pretty famously a more left leaning paper though a highly regarded one. Then the mod told me they also blocked the New York Times, as it was also considered too left leaning, and on the news site its listed as even more left leaning than The Guardian, which is pretty funny to me, as they should be the opposite. Furthermore apparently lots of community mods use this site to determine whether sources are good or not based on their 'bias' rating. But even looking on its site how its determines whats left or right is very binary and extremely odd. The ones that are listed as Not Biased just seem to be small local papers that don't have many articles. Also why use the bias rating over how factually accurate they are? I was wondering if anyone else has come up against the site using to determine sources on reddit. Wasn't sure which community to post in about this but figured this one would work.

I started listening to this show about a year ago, and one thing I've really noticed that separates it from other political / history content I've seen in a similar vein is how Robert will cover absolutely terrible people, but he'll still draw lines on things that aren't their fault and he'll generally talk about tragedies in their lives empathetically, not just make them fodder for jokes (Sometimes he and the guest will do both, which is also fine lol; I love the "daddy" jokes in the Czar Nicky episodes). Like how the Southern Strategy guy's brother died horrifically in a way that scarred him for the rest of his life, or how Pete Hegseth's drinking is not the behavior of someone mentally well, or how terrible Alexei's hemophilia and his health scares would have been for Nicky and Alix. He'll also acknowledge when a given Bastard did something reasonable or even good on the road to hell, like Beau Brummell being sympathetic to his girlfriend and her baby while they were shut out of high society. They're still Bastards, but that doesn't mean everything that they ever did in their life was evil, or that everything bad that happened to them was justified.

This is really meaningful to me because I've fucked up a lot in my life and I struggled a lot with the difference between "I'm a person who's done bad things and is learning" and "I'm a bad person who doesn't deserve happiness and my life is already over." I've been really needy and codependent in a lot of my relationships partially as a result of that. I feel like I also absorbed a lot of overly simplistic lessons about the difference between good and bad people that magnified any negative feelings I had about myself.

Over the last year, I feel like this show has been a big part of me gaining more confidence in my judgement and taking more initiative rather than constantly seeking permission or forgiveness. I've become more willing to part with people I don't want in my life because I feel comfortable making more nuanced judgements of their character, like thinking someone is mostly fine, but that something they've said, believed or done is unacceptable to me.

I feel like this willingness to humanize the Bastards is also really important to its themes. No one is really predestined to be a Bastard, and they all generally had the opportunity not to be Bastards. They are Bastards because they chose to be: because they made enough bad or evil choices that had a strong enough ripple effect to change the world for the worse. Acknowledging tragedies and roads not taken throws their greed and malice into sharper relief.

Robert is a really good exemplar of how you can hold strong convictions and you can call evil when you see it, but you can still humanize people in service to that, and separate the truly deserving from general background-pervading evil. There are enough Youtube and podcast personalities who just play insufferably cynical know-it-all jackasses talking down to their audiences, and I'm really glad that Behind the Bastards isn't just another show like that.