Discontented Idealist 🇺🇸

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Professional Dilettante. Actual Patriot. Fuck Trump.

Survey results showing that I guessed 9 out of 16 votes correctly.
Two Asian lady beetles mating on a black wire fence. The male grabs on to the female with his front legs, then begins wiggling side-to-side.
A screenshot of the results from an online test which shows Discontented Idealist’s outlook and values most align with NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani.
A photo showing 2 finished copies of an 8-page zine. The zine summarizes the key points from Timothy Snyder’s best-selling book entitled “On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” One copy displays the front cover of the zine. The second copy is opened to show the first two pages. The zine is printed on yellow legal-sized paper (8.5 inches by 14 inches) with black ink.
A side-by-side comparison of JD Vance’s new official photo and the Chucky character from the Child’s Play movie/tv/video game franchise. Both appear creepy, evil, and deceitful.
A photo of an oak leaf on a concrete surface. The surface had been heavily treated with salt after having been cleared of snow. As the residual moisture evaporated, the salt left interesting patterns on the concrete and a heavy white outline around the leaf.
During the Capehart and Brooks segment of the PBS NewsHour on Friday, December 20, 2024, David Brooks said: “If Elon Musk can do some good, then maybe he can do some good…. If Elon Musk, some billionaire walks in, and can reform some of the rules that are impinging the way the government works, all to it. I don’t expect that to happen but what I expect is that Donald Trump has some right instincts about immigration, about reforming government, but he does not know anything about the reality of governance. And so my posture right now is, let’s let him try! He’s got some instincts that are terrible and some instincts that are not terrible. Let’s let him try. But changing the government is phenomenally hard and you have to really know what you’re doing and neither Donald Trump nor Elon Musk really knows how the game is played.” Whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean!
A piece of driftwood which resembles a whale. It is balanced on a rock on a beach at sunset.
Side-by-side photos of the Tesla Cybertruck and a plastic pill cutter showing that they are basically the same shape.
Shawn Fain: We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations so that, together, we can flex our collective muscles and strike together! #StandUpUAW #Solidarity
Photo of Kate Middleton as the Loch Ness Monster