Centrist Democrats are Republicans.

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

HEY MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE PROSECUTED THE AUTOCRAT WHO ORGANIZED A FAILED COUP JUST A THOUGHT

Another day with the Democrats.

Honestly primary every Dem senator then? None of them deserve this power.

Not that hard to imagine given our government's covid response.

Gonna make some '40s-style propaganda posters that say "A vote for a centrist is a vote for a republican."

WELL THIS AGED POORLY

Tim Kaine retire bitch

I do feel like this says what their end goal with this is: lose the subsidies and hope Republicans get punished for it. They got absolutely nothing for this beyond a small electoral boost. God, I feel like I'm going to be sick. Good night.

As usual, what would the Democrats do differently if they were trying to help Republicans on purpose. After 20 years of this shit I'm not sure what conclusion there is to reach other than they ARE trying to help the Republicans on purpose.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

We gotta flush every Democrat who's to the right of Sanders because they're just more polite Republicans.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

Sometimes you get through a day and you're like, wow, democracy, you know? wow. democracy. you know? wow.

Dems, try holding horrible people to account like one single time, just like as an experiment, just to see what happens.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

There are more of us than there are of them.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

“I can still smell the onions and mustard, chief.”

Which is, if you'll remember, what already happened because there were no consequences for the Trump regime the first time, and never any for the racists who've taken over law enforcement.

One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.

They Avocado Toast-ed us Millennials for years, but Gen Z is getting accused of indulgent overspending for having a pastry ONCE A WEEK???

Eyyy I finally won a commander game.

It's incredible the excuses people are making for Platner. Listen, you don't need evidence that he believes Nazi stuff. The *tattoo* is evidence. You need affirmative evidence he DOESN'T believe it. You should err on the side of not giving power to a Nazi.

Can't win your primary election to unseat an unpopular career politician? Skull issue.

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

I saw del Toro's Frankenstein and I liked that the monster looked a little more like how the book describes, with big proportions and looking a little more like he was cobbled together from lots of small bits rather than whole pieces sewn together. However, he could have been larger and weirder.

The plan is to keep harping a non-story about "pushback" without emphasizing the details so that people just remember that there was "pushback" and have a vaguely negative vibe about the dude, while forgetting that it was all completely bullshit, because this is what our media is now.

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Any relative whose relationship I couldn't readily identify as a child (like my mom's cousin or a family friend my parents had since high school) was automatically an aunt. Like this only sounds weird if you have no friends and no one in your family likes you.

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The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

Brilliant "centrists" put out website explaining how democrats can win, with the novel recommendation that they be more like republicans, an incredibly smart idea no one has ever had before and will definitely work.

Part of how you know the left-wing media is primarily focused on winning factional fights *within* the Democratic coalition is that while they all credulously reported that Project 2025 wasn't Trump policy, when it clearly was, they'll report these are Democratic policies, when they mostly are not.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Even if you're one of these dorks who's like "listen who cares if he's a Nazi if he's our Nazi," even if you think calling out a dude with a Nazi tattoo for decades is a "purity test," guy sucks at this. He's a bad candidate. It's not even the primary and he's a loser, cut him and move on.

The absolute best-case scenario is this guy is an idiot who never met a rake he couldn't step on.

I see that the new Halo remake is adding a lot of shininess and additional angles to various rocks and buildings, but if they're making random changes for no reason, they should put in some, like, chairs. Make the Forerunner ruins look like somebody alive might have actually spent time there.

My favorite thing about this whole sequence is that there is nothing actually happening at any point

I imagine this is what my mom has always thought video games were

I agree that video games are often underpriced compared to the enjoyment you get out of them, but the industry’s problems seem more related to abysmal management than consumers being unwilling to pay for good games.