"how can you be mad at me for something i did in the PAST"

Absolutely unbelievable story - Meta is building fossil-fuelled data centres inside **huge tents**?? An absolutely perfect demonstration of the desperation, impatience and thoughtlessness of this fossil-fuel hungry energy waste boom.

What’s despiriting about the Platner stuff, aside from the overt misogyny of it all, is how it shows that America has a very long road to beat back the cultural forces of fascism regardless of who takes the Senate, and this is far from being only a conservative or religious fundamentalist issue.

calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

I'll be a bit scarce here this weekend because of this. I need to take a break from the doomscrolling and ground myself in things that make me happy. I am experiencing a lot of C-PTSD stuff because of this and I need to take care of myself.

Every time I see “well he’s still better than Collins” I hear “well domestic abuse isn’t disqualifying”.

The correct position re: Platner is to call on him to step down and to keep doing so through the summer if he refuses. That should be the position of the Democratic Party. All the hem hawing over why anyone should still vote for him is granting a permission structure for him to stay in the race.

Someone on LinkedIn just pointed this garbage out to me. She was looking up the idiom to see if it was the one she was thinking of…

a huge part of Democrats 2018 win was suburban women who had been legacy Republican voters disgusted by Trump and his sexism wins in 2026 will rely on suburban and exurban college educated women, as well as in key races (Georgia, NC, Texas) high turnout from black voters Platner Is a problem.

When we say "why isn't the media covering this" it's not because the media literally isn't covering it, it's because people know what full court press coverage looks like from recent stories like Biden's fitness and it's VERY TELLING that certain equivalent stories don't get the same scrutiny.

This right here is what I fear most with Platner: if he becomes a candidate for the general, get ready for a lot of people to justify "boys will be boys" language, victim blame, and so much more. And get ready for peer pressure to go along with it, to co-sign. (I won't, fuck this.)

The number of people debasing themselves for a chronic fuckup overboiled potato of a man is just absurd. You're doing this to chase a parasocial relationship with *him*?

needs to be said that trump is drawn to the saudi/petrostate model of social wealth funds as a vehicle for fraud and patronage and not the nordic model of collective ownership

The "AI" corpos might initially pretend to object, but they'll love this as a chance to become Too Big To Fail and to have the state have a compelling fiscal interest in getting away with whatever they want

Yes. But also, hear me out: CK3, but Inner Sphere

One problem we should talk about someday is that everything someone sees online now just goes to confirm their priors Are you a leftist Platner supporter and you see someone criticizing him? That critic must be a shit lib Are you a BNMW lib who hates Susan Collins? That critic is a dirtbag leftist

kind of useful, actually, without his lunatic excursions I would find the other claims more plausible than I do now. (I'm not saying everything in the book is false, just that I have zero trust in the author and would want to see stuff backed up.)

The point is that we don't litigate the legitimacy of survivor stories based on the criteria of "do I like the dude accused or not," jackass

"that didn't happen, but if it did, who cares, plus: it would mean he's a real man" you do not get to have all three, champ

The "let's turn the misogyny up to 11" turn in the Platner discourse is not convincing me I was wrong to question his personal journey or his judgment or his naziphilia or his lack of qualifications.

Fascism may start in one place in the body politic but it has a tendency to spread.

A lot of people certainly seem relieved—liberated, even—to no longer have to pretend to care about violence against women.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

If I have to block this entire website I will

not terribly surprising that a guy who worked for russell brand would be contemptuous of HR and women generally

real trenchant political observation, open and abject contempt for the literal base of the party seems like a winning move

on a hunch I did a search for Ukraine and well, "the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych had been overthrown in a coup" and the US is "losing a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine that was as pointless as it was bloody."

reading Seth Harp's FORT BRAGG CARTEL and there are, hmm, an awful lot of highly sketchy claims in here, to say the least. Shows every sign, ironically, of having listened to too much bullshit from the very special forces guys he's trying to expose.

Oh christ, well there's one book off my to-read pile (Foer Bragg Cartel)

also as a marine Platner absolutely learned that you are responsible for your weapon at all times and you do not “leave it lying around” if an instructor sees your rifle without your eyes on it during MCT they will take it and the process of retrieving it from them will be humiliating

men comprehend why it unsettles women when the man in their life who is statistically more likely to murder them than anyone else intentionally makes sure they see his weapons every time they come over challenge

i'm sorry men being forced to answer for themselves is so painful. you know what's more painful? the level of intimate partner violence in this country. the baseline disrespect and humiliation that women are forced to take in order to survive.

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

Yeah this is not helping my visceral emotional flashbacks to being an Evangelical in 2016

assaulting a woman is a minor vice, scolding a man is unforgivable

What's really wild is that the Pod Save Boys at this very same time all copped to being buddies with Tucker, and I wouldn't sling around an accusation, these are all guys that worked in democratic politics, but I can't help but notice they're all white. White white white.

The worst part is how useable and efficient software is being replaced with LLM shit that does the job far worse with greater resource consumption. Even basic text input/editing sucks now. Literally everything is getting worse because tech corpos demand cramming LLMs into everything. Maddening.

"but you use spellcheck, that's AI" Truly the label "AI" means nothing anymore.

To me, it’s the use of “bitch” that’s telling. If this is all a big smear, that would be terrible. But frankly, it’s believable in part because of how it comports with his past behavior. And the allegations are not fantastical. But Kulinski’s response is dripping with the misogyny I’ve discussed.

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

Again you are not actually allowed to shove ladies in closets and hold them there no matter how many times you invoke 'the Democratic HR class'

I love that the woman being a republican operative is somehow discrediting for her and the fact that Platner was dating a right wing operative is not at all discrediting for him

"The more you resist Platner, the more glee we'll have forcing him anyway" the rhetoric and tone here is all too depressingly familiar

Platner winning would be the "natural order" reasserting itself and these guys keep entrenching as the allegations get *more* gendered because patriarchy is the most important part of the "natural order" reasserting itself

A lot of people really want this to break down on a left/moderate or old/young axis but it really doesn't, it's ultimately a cosmopolitan/herrenvolk one because the people most aggressively defending him are doing so from the implied understanding that the "soul of America" emanates from white men

A weird thing here is voters saying "Yeah, I believe that the allegations are true, and that Platner is lying when he denies them. But what are ya gonna do?"

They're just bad people