Personal identity and political identity are not the same thing, and if Ernest Rohm and Yukio Mishima could exist so could a trans Nazi.

Militarize the border and RIF all these people, more and more are saying.

You cannot reason with people who are not connected to material reality in any meaningful way. These people hate liberals, liberalism, immigrants, people of color and queer people so much that they would bare nearly any burden both physically and economical to watch their "foes" suffer.

I am a radical statist liberal, and these things go hand in hand.

AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

...Yeah, pretty much.

I would like to see the Kremlin try and fight *just* the European NATO navies.

The left/liberal distinction is for nerds. And Democratic Voters have preferences notably to the left of their electeds.

If you poll Democratic voters the most popular figures are Obama, Harris, AOC, Sanders, and Biden, basically in that order

i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"

The fundamental thing about the Trump Administration is that they're all incredibly childish posters who think yelling and demanding things will make reality change.

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it. When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

The fundamental issue that the right-wing always thought of capitalism as a means to an end, and would much rather give up on capitalism then on their desire racial and social caste system.

The party’s future looks bright under leadership like this.

The never-ending wrongrockism is exhausting. If Biden had sent Netanyahu to the Phantom Zone and magically delivered Medicare for All and 100% forgiveness of student loans and every other leftie wish item except on trans rights, these people would claim trans rights is the reason "Democrats suck."

We’re all way too bored on this website which is why I’m bringing back (tomorrow) the real reason we’re all here: litigating strategic bombing in World War II

but something something AOC something ambiguity something something

This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan. Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan. Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Said person is named Mary Rambaran-Olm.

corrupt, but also staggeringly incompetent and catastrophically understaffed when it comes to planning and administrative capacity

The point you're making is dumb as shit and relies on assumptions of Democratic ineffectiveness, not to mention fundamentally misremembering the Biden Administration.

A "bad" DP President would be immensely better then the best RP President let alone Vance, also how many fucking people died in Trump 1? He tried to overthrow the US Government!

“One of Rubio’s most striking statements was that ‘armies do not fight for abstractions.’ The war for independence that the Continental Army fought was in defense of and on behalf of certain principles. You might even call them ‘abstractions.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/american-v...

Incredible how he can make even the passing of Jesse Jackson about himself.

AFAIK jesse Jackson never had anyone Disappeared, of course.

Senators live in a hell of their own creation, but because it privileges them individually the incentives for reform are uh tricky

People who think Gavin Newsom is 99% Hitler are unlikely to be placated by someone who is 97% Gavin Newsom. They exist in a realm of digital fantasy, unburdened by factual reality, and we need to stop pretending the solution is to chase their absurd hallucinations in circles forever.

Newsom is not a great choice. Newsom would be 1000 times better than any Republican nominee. Both things can be true. Do what you want with that analysis

The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

the president is a senile pedophile

PJ O'Rourke on Jesse Jackson's skill as an orator

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

Reverend Jesse Jackson was one of America’s greatest patriots. He spent his life summoning all of us to fulfill the promise of America and building the coalitions to make that promise real.

i do think if completely seriously the chiefest underlying theme of tolkien is a banal anti-imperialism of the extremely ordinary "fuck off and stop taking shit that's not yours" subtype

just gonna leave this here

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

My latest research, examining the failure of the 'amalgamation' schemes in colonial Africa in the 1920s and 30s, has just been published by the South African Historical Journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

They're right, it was and is.

One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.

This relies on the Democratic Party being fascism-lite, which they're not and won't be even if Newsom is nominated.

reducing everything in history and storytelling to ersatz Marxism is boring.

A throughline for so much of the American political commentariat, from left to right, is the utter and total incomprehension that American actions have consequences.

The extent to which Britian lost interest in Ireland after 1922, and the extent to which Ireland made itself as unattractive as possible to NI, cannot be overstated.

I just do not understand the idea that having to vote repeatedly is a harrowing commitment.

Why do people listening to these fucking immature man-babies? Why would you debased yourself listening to these freaks!?

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.