Chase nerdjpg off this site and I will only become even more annoying

A lot of libs cleaning up their timelines rn

Still seeing "tankie" associated with defenses of Maduro and it's just bonkers. The tankie position would be that Maduro was insufficiently committed to spreading communism outside of Venezuela

During my time in SDS during the Bush era I put a lot of effort into educating activists about their civil rights, talking to them about how to stay within the law to avoid arrests, etcetera. These days I would probably focus on telling people when to run.

“nerdjpg, cait, thembo, some of the other ringleaders all blocked me recently-“ you wake up. The captain has just yelled for all hands on deck. it is the 21st of October, 1805. You are on the HMS Victory and Napoleon is invading England. The Battle of Trafalgar is about to begin.

I hate when people target me for harassment by blocking me

Gross, but also a straightforward application of liberal ideas about consumer activism. If you believe that individuals can always be expected to bend the market to their will then they always bear direct responsibility for everything the market does.

A few years ago I argued that the problem with media was capital ownership, not its "corporate" structure, and Glenn directly rejected this and maintained that decentralization would solve it.

If you're worried about a Trump invasion of Greenland despite NATO, you probably shouldn't take for granted that admitting Ukraine into NATO will solve the Russia problem

True posters know this is exactly backwards. The historical norm has always been that if someone takes a shot at you, you get to respond. It's only been in the last decade or so that wormy posters have tried to come up with cheap etiquette rules to prevent people from responding

The funniest thing about horseshoe theory is that the metaphor does not actually work. You cannot actually get to the right end of a horseshoe by moving to the left. You have to move towards the center

I cannot think of a single socialist who said that Trump would not launch any foreign wars, but it's comically easy to find liberals who are either triangulating on Venezeula or outright cheering it on

Genuinely the least informed, least intellectually curious, least insightful, least observant, least rigorous, least wise, least self-conscious, least thorough, and least psychologically stable blogger of our time. I don't think it's really even close

The number of overnight Venezuela experts is pretty funny but nothing will ever beat when the Nord Stream pipeline blew up and everyone suddenly became experts in deep water detonation physics

It's going to take a few generations at least for the public to build real antibodies of skepticism against this stuff, and even longer to build the kind of systems of verification that can replace it. Until then the left needs to strap-in for post-rational politics. That's over.

I love when Americans do this kind of performative self-effacement and then proceed not to do anything, proving that the sentiment they are making fun of is actually correct

Just remember: when you're at an anti-Trump rally at the Venezuelan embassy and you get surrounded by counterprotesters, never stop posting

It seems like once every few weeks Ukrainian officials and their NGO orbiters get together and ask: "What's the most damaging thing we could possibly say to completely undercut our support around the world?"

I wonder if Max still thinks that critics of militarism are "useless"

NEW: The war on Venezuela has exposed a serious problem for the antiwar left: we need to be more disciplined. www.peoplesline.org/p/discipline...

Code Pink withdrew its endorsement of the Rage Against the War Machine rally precisely because of its apologetics for Russia.

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I faced a lot of direct criticism back in 2023 for insisting that the antiwar left should not promote opportunists like Tulsi Gabbard. I wonder if Sam Husseini would still stand behind this today

Hmm I wonder who set the precedent for this

Thinking about the right-wing Democrats who were calling the left "fascists" because we were worried about Maduro and "an invasion that hasn't happened yet"

Nothing says "We must save the west" like Artemisia, ally of Persia and the bane of Athens

Simple example of this is how a lot of the "cancel culture" stuff was just about delegitimizing critics of the right by casting them as censorious bullies and calling for polite dialogue

Crashout day two, my man is spiralling

Centrists are seething and I think that's beautiful

It's not just that JD Vance follows Nazis. He follows the really niche obscure Nazis, the ones who you've never even heard of unless you're totally immersed in their culture

A small but obscenely wealthy faction of New Yorkers are threatening to leave the city if Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for mayor, wins the race. Mamdani should respond by calling for an exit tax on the rich.

First post was less than two months ago. Second post is today. From D'Souza to Brianna Wu to JD Vance, the modern GOP is overrun with pathetic opportunists who constantly stoke the forces of bigotry and then flip out when it inevitably backfires.

When capitalism wins vs. when socialism wins

A lot has changed in the last ten years. www.peoplesline.org/p/2015-2025-...

day one in mamdani’s new york

The Age of Man has ended. The Age of Sharia Communism has arrived

The context of my Mamdani joke is my longstanding and very public support for Mamdani, my longstanding and very public fondness of trolling, and the obvious improbability of those screencaps I am not going to ruin jokes with a hamfisted /SARC tag just to accomodate the paranoia of confused boomers

While Elon villifies socialists as terrorists it's worth noting the growing Twitter presence of Sovereign Citizens, a group that police have to receive special training for dealing with because they kill so many cops

Really wild generation gap in response to this. Younger people parse "smdh" as a flag for irony; more important, they see crazy screenshots that completely defy their expectations and think "this cannot be serious, it must be a joke." So they verify and confirm.

Matt's proposal literally does this! It pays whichever parent wants to provide childcare! This criticism is completely unhinged. As usual it has nothing to do with Bruenig and everything to do with liberals axe-grinding against leftists (and squishy leftists piling on).

smdh he's already gone lib

Leftists need to avoid falling into the trap of litigating whether various cases of "fraud, waste, and abuse" in the government actually happened or not. Two things are true: 1) Fraud, waste and abuse happen sometimes 2) This is just an argument for better governance, not for less governance.

* A Republican argues that the gov shouldn't offer any childcare support * Matt calls for a benefit that can be used for out-of-home childcare OR to reward unpaid childcare at home, a longstanding feminist priority * A liberal claps back at *Matt* and calls him a sexist

Logging off for the night but just wanted to say that it's been nice knowing all of you

Exactly how much influence does this man think a statehouse official representing 0.7% of Minnesota has

NEW: Today we have a solid decade of detailed demographic data on popular support for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. The story it tells is impossible to miss. www.peoplesline.org/p/2015-2025-...

Liberals on here freak out when I criticize Pritzker for dodging estate taxes but I'm telling you, if workers can't find a way to take control of international capital, we're all going to be living under the feudal rule of like a dozen family dynasties