Banger ngl

Also just have some moral courage. Nothing in the world is certain. Sometimes you get betrayed. You can’t orient your priorities around a pathological fear of betrayal. You have to have the self-trust that you can cope with an adversarial situation to be able to undertake bold action.

Popular front in full effect

"Advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues" Why are we just lying

I think a key aspect of the internationalist defense of democracy is integrating center right parties to emphasize that this is genuinely about democracy and it’s not just a rhetorical device for partisan advantage.

In some cases (like the US) this will mean propping up liberal conservatives. I think this is important signaling that liberalism is broad and that the far right is still outside of it.

every faction in the american left has the kpd/pci problem where they spend more time focused on winning stupid internecine feuds about stuff that happened 20 years ago than actually focusing on fascism, which they saw as a flash in the pan that'd go away on its own

I will say again: In the year 2026, I really hope the lesson that "actually, norms really do matter" has sunk in and we can all agree that celebrating and encouraging adherence to basic norms is valuable in and of itself

Some of the most powerful forces in politics are shame, mockery, ostracization. If you are not MAGA and you're considering sitting coming elections out because Dems didn't meet your exact demands, you should experience these things. You should be publicly derided as the dolt you are.

I'm sorry but the idea that any Democrat, Gavin Newsom included, would conduct Operation Metro Surge is completely deranged. It feels like you're trying to gaslight us or something.

this is probably a conservative opinion on here but basically markets are great, and you should intervene on them mostly with taxes and subsidies, occasionally by trustbusting

You are one member of a larger coalition. That coalition has a process through which it decides who will lead it. “If you don’t decide to support my guy, I will leave the coalition” is behavior that will destroy the coalition, weaken yourself, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes than participating

I can tell you what *my* theory of victory is. The fascists--and the low-info resentful voters who enable them--are getting tired of this shit, too. Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.

This site is an absolute loony bin and I can see it cooking the brains of people I know IRL

VP is a bit of a shit job and its track record of producing presidents is - barring their boss's untimely demise - kind of abysmal

And they say moderate compromise never works

No it has a lot more to do with dwarves being stereotypically low class and likeable (drink beer, kinda dumb but lovable rascals) while elves are usually high class and often explicitly elitist

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

As a Democrat who actually thinks defeating Trumpism is genuinely more important than my own personal political preferences I fully intend to vote for whomever the Democratic nominee ends up being in 2028

“We should keep doing the thing that doesn’t work, because accurately describing the problem feels uncomfortable”

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

People mentally cannot accept or grapple with a world where progressive economic policies do not magically make everyone love you

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly. And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

He went off the deep end in recent years but this honestly an incredible bit

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

this is objectively true and this discourse here will never acknowledge it I avoid this by having the stuff that matters set on autopilot+calibrating my internal "yeah whatever buy that shit" threshold to be in line with my current financial situation, and I still do dumb shit occasionally

Also well worth noting that in fact quite a lot of Americans have died to defend a multicultural economic zone. What do you think Irish immigrants mustered into the US army in the Civil War were doing? What do you think the members of 442 Regimental Combat Team - mostly Nisei - were doing?

There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

I do have to wonder what this guy’s current opinion on trans people and ICE is though

Can one of the mil writers on here write out an essay pointing out all the myriad ways this doesn't work that we can just link to every time this idea comes up

Here's the thing about forgiveness and grace- they're good. When someone has decided to go "I was wrong, I want to do good", that is *not* the time to try and kick them while they're down or demand they participate in a Struggle Session before you accept it.

She was basically perfect in a Kobayashi Maru and saved the Democratic Party from electoral catastrophe and she should be remembered fondly forever because of it.

My personal favorite in this little subgenre

no he wouldn't

And that’s the problem! Your public reputation becomes inextricably bound up with the abuse; it becomes something that defines you. Right now if you Google me you find a cartoon about me that Nazis made; if you search for me on here it’s 1000 people saying I’m the worst person alive.

NIMBYs dont even defend price controls and blame greedy landlords anymore, they just look at you like this

The people who whined when we libs pointed out how valuable it is to wave the flag and recall our aspirational national self-image in utter shambles

notice that in the video quoted here the person who said he is engaging in protest for the first time in his life says, with emotion, “that’s not who we are,” in reference to ICE terrorizing grade schoolers. think about this person every time you see someone scolding someone else for saying that

Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed. The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.

The Europeans spent two decades happily building and then re-building and then re-re-re-building bridges with Russia right up until February 24th 2022 You *want* to be friendly with large, powerful countries; if an opportunity presents itself, that same incentive emerges

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

Babe wake up the Secretary of Defense is dropping another worst policy decision anyone at the DoD has ever made in their entire lives again

I think "Hasan doesn't want his taxes raised" is an underrated explanation for his behavior

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?