Online liberals: *bemoan the lack of literacy among US adults* Me: 😏 Online liberals: *blame "neoliberals" before moving right along* Me: 😒

"If you want to build up cities in [under-urbanized states] that must mean you want rural areas to disappear!!!1!" Look. California is an urban state; it also has a huge agriculture industry on the land that isn't literally desert.

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One thing US liberals could do within their own belief system to try and unscrew US media behavior is let go of the idea that news objectivity is *possible*. I hear again and again from non-Trumpkins "I just want the news to be objective, and just give the facts." 1/

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*Folds research paper into a fan shape* *closes fist around the fan* *shakes fist in the general direction of Will Stancil*

I'm at the point of annoyance with the ritual recitations of the "normal" government stuff liberals want to protect from the Trumpkins. No, government - the public sector - needs to build a universal health system in the US to make it a normal country. Enough with these thin gruel lists.

When you say you want these people to face real consequences, but don't talk about how so much of the country is set up to keep generating the next sets of them...

Every time I hear it, "the people who designed our education system didn't want you to know/do..." angers me more and more. To the limited extent any education system is designed, it's piecemeal and based on a mix'n'match of ideas. MANY of which, in the US case, are *leftist*.

We need accountability on the other side of this, yes. We also need urbanization.

this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

I remain very skeptical that the situation in election 2028 will be anything other than Trump vs. the Dem. nominee Take 3, but this is the kind of evidence to the contrary that I would believe -- movement conservatism moving on. l.smartnews.com/p-6EBK5uyk/C...

I want to talk about centrists the way centrists talk about leftists.

Apropos of this, there are *a lot* of non-Americans who couldn't tell you which US political party most white Americans -- still the plurality of the country! -- support. Which in the abstract would be fine! But non-Americans often tell us how much they know about the US.

He hasn't even been in office a year.

Like, no obviously Americans don't hate suburbia. *Also*, though, this would be a far better country if they did.

American “public health” has been fully remade into the eugenics based view that the weak will die and the strong survive. This is fascism 101 and it’s the use of natural methods to enact genocide. It’s a form of auto genocide and part of MAHAs expressly murderous plan globally.

Encouragement posts going out to the parents of disabled kids! Posts that say, "I know your kids are grateful!" Someone "defiantly" asserting directly to a disabled adult that they are an ableist! Don't let them get you down, indeed... 😒

I...find ChatGPT helpful for one (1) purpose: locating specific on-screen buttons or particular keyboard keys or navigating to specific menus that I either need to know about once for a one-and-done task (and no human familiar with the system is around) or can then note the location of for gen. use

Disabled people were born on the same planet as abled people. Abled people expect, as a mere aspect of being born, that they will have access to the planet. If your "vision" means not only continuing but deepening disabled people's lack of access, your vision is segregationist.

Your politics run aground on the sheer fact that disabled people exist. It doesn't matter what those politics are or how "vehemently" you hold your positions. The sheer existence of non-abled people breaks them up into bits.

"T-shirts have come down in price since 1960, thus capitalism is vindicated and leftist political identity is discredited." And what has happened to health insurance costs in that time, hey? What has happened to retirement security? Leftism isn't built on clothes prices, not alone anyway.

What you'd want with this "gerrymandering arms race" is for there to come a stalemate and a "compromise" to lift the cap on House seats.

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

So, down with Cheney, always. Wonder if there's enough hagiography -- the mainstream US media can't help itself -- to piss off Trump, though.

Dolores Umbridge has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

Absolutely delighted to see that we’ve already raised over $33K to fight hunger in America (and MAGA’s cruelty) via the Friends of Alf team on Feeding America - please donate today! teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634

I'm beginning to sort of see why Ben Sisko thought this sport would help the wormhole aliens understand linear time.

This is literally my congresswoman, who I am two hops away from.

anyone with cash looking to help the cause—and I can't emphasize enough how badly you're needed right now—i'd seriously recommend funding @propertyofthepeople.org. we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.

That the US has so much rural territory that is both so reactionary and so politically powerful is a strategic weakness. We should talk about it like that.

The reason for most things in the US is white supremacy. Americans can't identify class status accurately? Because of white supremacy. White podbros want to "ironically" defend a white candidate for federal office who has a Nazi chest tattoo? Because of white supremacy.

I suppose I'm strange, but Trumpism actually seems internally coherent to me? Evil, obviously dangerous, and grotesque, but it isn't baffling. Rich Christian white men control things and want the country to reflect that control, which they seek to maintain. Pretty straightforward?

OK California! TURN IN YOUR BALLOTS!! Only 5 million ballots returned with a state of 22 million registered??? They come in the mail with return postage. It’s one thing on the ballot! YES ON 50

After the Game That Went to the Morning, frankly, I forgot they had to do more of them. The next day. Which is the same day. Today.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Wow.

Inspired by a convo with a student the other day: Can Trump be considered a capitalist at this point? If someone is such a supporter of tariffs, and such capricious use of them too, can they be called "a capitalist"?

The problem with the dismissiveness of "conservatism is just nostalgia for the simplicity of childhood" is that aspects of the past, and especially the pre-modern past, were indeed conceptually simpler! The world before the atomic bomb was simpler! The Cold War was simpler than the Yugoslav wars!

Like, is the idea of the Platner defenders that there really *isn't* any other left-populist potential Dem candidate in Maine?

Thinking about "Americans can only handle political binaries", and how they simply aren't polled on *so many* questions, with default assumptions of all kinds floating in the air. For instance: are tariffs "capitalist"? Is a political figure or party who really wants tariffs capitalist?

Listening in annoyance to the recent Ezra Klein interview with the scholar whose work argues, yet again, that Democrats haven't been nice enough to the rural, and if they don't start being nice, they'll be locked out of power forever, etc. This country genuinely doesn't know what urbanism *is*.

A normal candidate would be in their 40s-mid 60s and not have a Nazi-associated tattoo..... Why can't there be a normal candidate?

As somebody who now is trying to start a business from the knowledge that phonics has given me, someone who got the good luck of early teachers who didn't go along with whole language, the news that phonics is back in Calif. ~officially~ is ❤️❤️

I'm jaded as heck about movement conservatism, so "the Trumpkins have turned official government accounts into mouthpieces of trolling and screeching evil" is just ... an obvious consequence? Like, yes? Of course? Spool any trajectory out, and find the logical endpoint. That's it.

"The Electoral College is old and weird" is a bad case for ditching it. "Old" itself isn't the issue; Swiss federalism is older than the US system, but doesn't have the weirdness of the EC. The problem with the Electoral College is that 1) it's not a national popular vote 1/

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this something like support for: 1. prosecuting gop criminality 2. court reform 3. procedural agressiveness 4. end ICE 5. trans rights 6. calling this fascism + points for having taken personal risks