Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out. Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.

too real lol

American scientists refuse to engage in a boycott of Israeli academia because they can't be bothered to find Oded Rechavi's shitty memes anywhere else on the internet

The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime

Absolutely spitting - the shining jewel of the US biomedical academia is built on the backs of underpaid and overworked postdocs and grad workers fighting for increasingly few professorships

The ruling class is dumb and we let them take everything we make and live lives of disgusting opulence and cruelty We need socialism immediately

naturally Krauss is in the email dump today, where he decides that because Feynman was a known sexual predator, he could be one too

The "first as tragedy, then as farce" distinction collapsed into itself a while ago so of course the most notorious sex trafficker in history typed like da share Z0ne

Do not trust AI to answer biological questions (obviously)! I was hoping to find an RG thread or similar to confirm what I assume is yes; instead, DDG gave me 2 contradictory answers to the same question posed two ways, both citing the same article that does not address the question! 🧪

We are not going to get out of bad civic health by praising people who knowingly broke civilian oversight routinely and congressional laws lol.

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

if your ideology is based on the idea that it is justifiable to prey on the weak there isn't going to be a meaningful boundary you can draw between looting from the poor and sexually exploiting kids. i don't think every conservative is a pervert but that is the logical conclusion of their beliefs

You're goddamn right I'm gonna continue sounding like a whacked out conspiracy nutjob about Platner. People who wear a Nazi insignia for decades on end do not get the benefit of the doubt, no matter how rhetorically pretty they try to make themselves afterwards. Fuck him and his Nazi bullshit.

While I mostly agree, I would say that Shapiro's *biggest* liability is that he clearly covered up one of his friends murdering his wife.

As I have said before, the broader silence on the ethnic pogrom of terror across this country is one of those things you can’t help noticing from the loudest special boy politics knowers on here.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

donald trump: i hate communism i hate communists i want to commit a global genocide against all left wing ideology Very Smart Liberals: erm G☭P much???

the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.

> pays off car after years > credit score goes down > most rational economic system ever

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

trying to avoid "told you so" in favor of "do you see where i'm coming from now"

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

This is not a line of argument you'll see about Russian academia in 2025. I won't weep for Russian academics, but it's worth observing which dissident academics are or aren't worth isolating for geopolitical ends.

if they are dissidents — a *broad and effective* academic boycott validates their political dissent giving them the ammunition to say "you genocide guys have completely ruined our international standing, in a way that directly impacts all of us" helps the political project

Millenials are buying too much avocado toast to afford housing, and here's why that's good:

not to sound like a stoner or whatever but it is really weird that this country has the military that it does. no one is going to invade us. we are not under any kind of threat at all. and it just causes us to get into nonsense around the world and now at home. really boneheaded

The most common disease of mental capacity on here which cuts across ideological preference is Bluesky users seeing a random person in their phone and assigning them the role of spokesperson for their intra-coalition opponents.

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

"Assimilated Jews Who Put Their Faction Over Their Tribe" bitch just call me a slur already

*sober, intelligent and serious SocDem voice*

I love labelers on this website

If the goal is to either 'make public servants more representative of the population', as Bouie put it, or 'level the incentives for morally agnostic actors' as matt put it, then the opportunity costs of the person you're describing are fully irrelevant to the question of who runs for office.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

There simply aren't enough bland voids of charisma with JDs running for office, due to the lack of money to be made!

a whole thread of people with zero understanding of how corruption works wanting to give people with the most power anybody has ever had more money.

bethany’s big problem in finding a place to live where a majority of people share her ignorance is that most of those people also have thoughts about her religion

again find it bizarre that national dem leaders avoid the topic of ICE even on here but have time to congratulate an unpopular former speaker on their retirement from insider trading at 85

I would get this sentiment if the mayor was making like 50k a year, but no, a person making 260k/yr in NYC is making double the median *household* income of a family of 3. The idea that doubling that would somehow disincentivize amoral strivers from running for mayor is ludicrous.

That said if we're really just talking about the Israel-Palestine conversation, I said many times in 2024 that the concept of "Jewish safety" was so thoroughly abused that actual threats to Jewish people are going to be difficult to communicate about for years to come

my thinking on hypocrisy shifted a while ago when i realized that hypocrisy was not a fault to be avoided but a weapon to be deployed whenever needed. pointing out hypocrisy is useless. mocking the hypocrite is effective - it strikes at their real desire to be admired or respected.

it's galling to live in the interstices between "lol you get what you deserve for criticizing Joe Biden" and "lol it would be funny if you got kicked to death in whatever foreign country we'd like to deport you to" - seemingly the two institutional poles of American civil discourse

This map is highly misleading. In the American electoral system, votes don't influence policy.

there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’

It's so funny that people consider Zohran radical. Like that's really funny to me. Like damn how far to the right is the average centrist man they should really examine that shit.

Zohran: is to the right of FDR, considered to be the man who "saved capitalism" by implementing New Deal reforms that benefitted workeds Centrists: this man is Joseph Stalin

If the tent includes ex-CIA then I actually don’t want the democratic socialists to be in it