Wilmer Rojas-Buendía

I like it better in the Good Place: @thelastbuendia.bsky.social
Occasionally, I also write stuff.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane this woman was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Literally how it’s going‼️

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

@adeferr Serán los “influencers”, “periodistas” y “políticos” que aún se creen mantuanos y todavía piensan que se puede "mejorar la raza".

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

Well, at least late-night comedians give us something to laugh about. They know how to turn political tragedy into farce.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

5/ There is an entire "rage machine" shaping perceptions — not just Fox News, but a social media ecosystem that turns divisive, harmful content into cash. Until that changes, no amount of messaging from the Dems will reach the captive audience ensnared by the algorithm’s grip.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

1/ Nichols is right. The Democrats making messaging errors is so common it’s par for the course. And yes, voters they fail to reach often have a view of reality shaped by the “right-wing rage machine.” But it’s even worse than that. 🧵

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

4/ X, under Elon Musk, is Exhibit A. His own posts amplify falsehoods, and X Premium encourages users to spread controversy for profit. Fact-checking efforts are gutted, and disinformation thrives. Misinformation is no accident; it’s baked into the business model.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

I'd like to see a mission to Mars. Why? Space exploration is awesome.

Also, I think it idiotic to suppose you can save humanity by sending a sample of the species to a planet fundamentally hostile to life as we know it.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Bill Maher: "The point is, you can't live on Mars... How badly would we to ratfuck Earth before it was worse than a place that's 200 below zero, with no air, no water."

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Preach it."

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

Trump is an adjudicated rapist. For him, nominating four men accused of "sexual impropriety" isn't necessarily about malice. It's about seeing sexual abuse as irrelevant—or worse, unimportant—when deciding who holds power.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”: https://t.co/TAKl5Qs5U6

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”: https://t.co/TAKl5Qs5U6

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

@Smartwoman2019 Tearing down the media would be suicidal right now. Let’s not do the right-wing’s work for them. Imagine trying to hold this government to account without the large media institutions- they have the resources to withstand government abuse while independent journalists don’t.

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

1. It takes time for things to stick properly, so please bear with me while I say again that Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of things she said. She lost because of things Donald Trump said she said.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump could nominate a roadkill squirrel for Secretary of State and Hawley would vote for it.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

Trump is not a puppeteer. He's a puppet tethered to other puppets who all move impelled by how much they tickle each other's bloated sense of importance.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

I'm thinking about this again. The Bro Oligarchy really — like really, really — wants a town square where you have to put up with neo-Nazi rallies, whether you want to or not.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

They want a "town square" that's a marketplace of ideas — as long as they control the marketplace.

[Wilmer Rojas-Buendía @WRBUENDIA]

"Trump was a comorbidity" sounds like an accurate diagnosis of what is ailing American Democracy.