crazy how all these western governments keep randomly falling into the hands of white supremacists who want to create ethnostates. like that's really crazy huh i wonder if there's any reason that keeps happening

Bluesky is where all the people who clock fascists went

Me when I learn for the first time that other people process words and concepts differently than me and also that I'm on a social media website

i can't stress enough that dems understand power perfectly and the disconnect comes from the widespread and increasingly unjustifiable belief that these two parties are seperate rival teams, rather than the offensive and defensive squads of a single one.

This is such a perfect preview of when Newsom runs. Dude is gonna run a perfect Trump '16 or even Trump '20 platform and they'll still treat you like you're a monster for refusing to support him

No workers to be found so the oligarchs had to create a servant class they DONT have to pay, wall-E would join us if he could!

If your choice is between 100 percent Hitler, 99 percent Hitler, qnd a teacher it’s vitally important to vote for 99 percent Hitler so the guys who would vote for 100 percent Hitler will vote for him too

if it was a hammer and sickle instead these vichy fucks would be supporting collins with their whole chest

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EGGS. THERE WERE NEVER SUCH THINGS AS EGGS. YOU ARE NOW A 40% SURCHARGE. IF YOU HAVE A NAME YOU MAY NOT VOTE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A NAME YOU MUST VOTE FOR EGGS. THE METAPHYSICAL CONCEPT OF VOTING IS NOW YOUR SENATOR. YOUR SENATOR EATS SURCHARGES. YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN.

people say the tattoos should've been disqualifying, among a bunch of other things, and they're right. it's a Wonder why it was not disqualifying for the fucking dem senate leader, but a much cleaner muslim candidate in his own stomping grounds got much, much more heat from him and his coalition

if you fasten or sew the edges of a jean vest together with one twist to form a Möbius strip, that is known as an infinite jest

The interfering with elections we were promised they couldn’t do. I think the key lesson here, by the way, is that they very clearly *will try*. Turns out institutions are not self reinforcing!

“today’s supreme court decision is devastating. luckily, we can do nothing, we will do nothing, and have nothing to offer you. eat shit!”

Accountability -- I don't even mean *sufficient* accountability, I mean *any* accountability -- pushes against every political instinct & power in this country, elites & public alike. It's a very, very heavy boulder at the base of a very, very steep hill. Gonna take *lots* of pushing.

You might be thinking, "everyone's furious, everyone will want accountability," but no, I promise, all those dipshit disconnected voters (like you saw in NYT recently) will, upon the election of a Dem, *immediately* revert to "I don't like all the fighting, let's move forward." Including most Dems!

Or, perhaps a more constructive way to say it: those of you who want & expect accountability need to internalize that you are fighting against virtually every macro force in US politics & culture, including the leaders & most members of your own party.

"We're definitely going to hold the Republicans accountable this time! ... oops no we aren't." Those of us old enough to have lived through several cycles of this, large & small, are going to need serious convincing that this time will be different.

Man, I read more and more posts on social media sites about how the Dems need to reform the court, impeach people, hold people accountable, completely rebuild institutions, implement universal healthcare, etc. etc. ... and then I look around at the actual elected leaders of the party ...

its very jarring how many people think that the us system is self-correcting. even people who think trump has gone too far, they simply believe that if it gets out of whack, things just... fix themselves.

I really wish anyone cared or at minimum could perceive the systemic damage the DNC does by blacklisting primary challengers People wonder where our true left politicians are. That's where. Blacklisted from politics forever.

Hopefully we can now have a proper conversation about a Second Republic instead of imagining we can save this one with One Weird Trick

We just have to get back to Normal*! *the same hypercapitalist conditions that invariably and inevitably gave us Trump and will continue producing even worse versions, with occasional 4 year "breaks" under tepid Dem stewardship.

It's been years now and nobody's been able to solve the two major problems: 1) They can't make it stop creating answers from whole cloth 2) They can't make it stop giving wrong answers even when the data provided it accurate. Those problems can't be fixed.

seems like a great technology to build literally everything on

Internet so fucking broken, should be greatest library in human history & it’s desecrated. Reminded I was at a musician’s first ever show in NYC only 15 years ago & can’t find any way to search it. Music sites covered it, all dead links. Can’t search google by year anymore. AI has rotted results.

If you watch every single law that matters get broken and then say "of course not" when someone asks if you plan to hold people accountable, you're in favor of the law breaking in every way that matters. You are sanctioning illegality every bit as much as a cop on the take who looks the other way.

Maybe it's not fair given that Trump is the one on a berzerker spree of illegality, but by saying shit like this Jeffries is sanctioning lawlessness and stands every bit as responsible for the functional end of our constitutional republic as the Republicans. bsky.app/profile/suri...

it's genuinely really funny to me that there's been would-be assassins and walmart firebombers that have been far-right, centre-right, some kind of incomprehensible centrist median voter, liberal, & left-liberal. but despite the constant fearmongering the leftists have not done this

YES!! It works EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. This is how we make a society thrive and excel. Love this excerpt.

you certainly don't hear it when bombs paid for by your tax dollars fall upon children in the middle east

you don't hear it when someone starves to death in prison

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

one has to publicly support increasingly unreasonable propositions in order to be considered reasonable and i think that's kind of a fucking problem

They’re doing a full court press in mainstream media about a wave of violent communists led by a Turkish himbo, when IRL every US communist is like “I love to read books and help my neighbors! 😌”meanwhile liberals who professionally misunderstand things for a living have shooters capping feds

Holy shit

Politics is violence. It's the rich killing the working class. The problem is now the social contract in America has broken and we have a fascist as president.

Famously the first time American politics failed was from 1765-1783

a lot of liberals will pretend to understand that 'ten people sitting at a table with a nazi means you have eleven nazis' thing until the moment a journalist they follow online literally sits down at a table with a bunch of nazis for a fancy party and suddenly it's too complicated to judge.

“Political violence” is a nearly meaningless phrase in an era where grave harm is so routinely caused by political institutions that it doesn’t trigger an ounce of introspection

the 2 permissible things: 1. work at the new york times 2. go to nazi gala the 2 impermissible things: 1. say america kinda stinks 2. take a apple from kroger

I have a theory-- just a theory-- that a lot of BlueMAGA type folks *have* to imagine that the Trump administration is diabolically clever and playing some sort of 4D chess. It's just too hard for them to stomach the idea that in 2024 Dems lost the popular vote to incompetents

No seriously, we need kids understanding that how they think & what they generate when they think are products & embodiments of cultures (stop it); that people like Newton, Descartes, Archimedes, Curie, Lamar, &c, didn't get hit w/ bolts from the blue— they were swimming in & shaped by their milieus

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

People are gonna hate me saying this but the only efficacious solution to the problem of AI-written essays in schools is to redesign school as an appealing enough undertaking for students that it ceases to require the underlying threat of state violence to get them to attend of their own volition

People ask what the new strategy of trans liberation must be. Here is what I think We build our own institutions, and in doing so we build socialism We can’t run off into the woods because we need medical access They are killing us through neglect, so in the absence we build our own solutions

"Only the Dems can save us" the democrats knew about this the entire time and were going to fund it

When I think of my future now, I see myself and my friends dying in camps When I think of my art, I wonder how much will survive once Im gone When I think of my words, I wonder if only the trees will remember how I told them hello When I think of my love, I will know it wasn’t enough to keep us safe

Too many americans still don't understand the long term impact of this administration. Everything isn't just gonna "go back to normal" if dems win the next presidential election The entire world isnt only judging this administration, they're judging the entire political system for not stopping it