The Pod Boys are lefties and moving further left by the day. They are ALSO contrarian white boys. And the overlap in those two groups is...considerable.

This is an urban policy issue for sure but I feel like it cuts into a broader cultural problem: This country cannot admit to itself that people in their 70’s have a rapidly declining intellectual capacity and this will create all kinds of issues as our society ages.

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly. Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

lmao It sucks so much she wasn’t our president.

@seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social besides collecting discounted physical media an other hobby i have is feeling good that my apartment building is high trusrt enough that when i accidentally leave my switch lite in the gym it gets put in the lost and found

@snowden.st i feel that too much time looking behind the aspirational facade of america does more harm then good, and reminds me of what happens to cosmic horror characters

cynical pessimists are so BORING, man. grow up, you adolescent dorks.

Journalists at elite media outlets love circling the wagons every time their power and legitimacy is threatened

I'm fully on board with eliminating zoning distinctions between residential and retail. I would *kill* to live next to a pub or coffee shop.

Not to be an asshole but the person who posted this clearly did not read — or, honestly, even click! — on the piece they shared because it is VERY EXPLICITLY about declining teen pregnancy

If I were the No New Wars President, I would simply not launch a new war and then repeatedly tell the public to expect lots of Americans to die in it

semiregular reminder that the very worst collection of people in your town are all the business owners who are members of the Chamber of Commerce. like, this is a universal truth for ALL of America: your local Chamber is always the closest gravitational center of awfulness, wherever you live.

Liberals are winning labor-saving technical change in the national divorce.

uhhh, this is a thing people have proposed??

It also doesn't help that the current DoD leadership vehemently detests the common knowledge that modern warfare is fought primarily in Microsoft Excel

that stuff was fun

Ahh, I love everything about this article from November 1999...Real journalism, folks!

Difficult not to just pour another drink, sit back to watch it all kick off, and mutter "Let them fight."

this is funny

folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people

Congrats to Salman Rushdie on outliving a second Supreme Leader www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...

I believe that rich men confuse "working class" with whatever one would call homeless and disabled people, because that's the only context in which they see/notice poor people. In Platner's case, he probably also met quite a few poor people when he was working as a mercenary.

get weirder 🫵

And THAT would be why everyone who owned stock in Netflix was HAPPY that they walked away from this. "Buying Warner Bros" is the media business version of "invading Afghanistan," and David Ellison is no Alexander.

I do think that much of the Woke 1 discourse took the form of something like this

@resnikoff.bsky.social also related to The Liberal Reimagination, trader joe's isn't unionized and most grocery stores are

pro email? is there toothpaste out there that's anti email? like do not message me (do message me though, i love talking to people)

Non-white progressives’ def. of the “working class” involves service workers, farm laborers, all the unseen millions who scrape for pennies while getting spit on for speaking English as a second language if at all White progressives’ def. of the “working class” is a goateed white dood in a Ram 1500

This exact same ethno-geographic discrepancy is what separates AOC’s understanding of the “working class” from that of Bernie Sanders

Zohran Mamdani is a Ugandan-Indian Muslim immigrant whose home is New York City His definition of what constitutes the “working class” is accordingly not even in the same dictionary as that adhered to by a gringo country boy

HE DENOUNCED IT BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER VICIOUS ENOUGH, PUT THAT IN YOUR FUCKING HEADLINE

Reflecting on this and the fact that the UK is actually very good at economic and social outcomes for immigrants… What if we built our immigration policy around the fact we’re GOOD at this stuff? And used the lessons of what has worked well to talk about national identity, welcome and integration?

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

'there is a demon that lives underneath Downing Street and possesses every Home Secretary' remains a pretty strong theory tbh

This leaves out the part where Democrats tell everyone this is gonna happen but the country ignores them for reasons they cannot articulate.

It’s genuine stupidity or, I dunno, a bizarre level of ‘Guys Obsessed With Podcasts As The Only Form Of Media’ to somehow think “Go On All The Antisemitic Conspiracy Podcasts You Can” is somehow a net vote winner as opposed to teeing up opponents to drown you in paid media portraying you as a nut.

I always thought the Pod Save America guys were mediocrities who - like a lot of mediocrities - clung to Obama's coattails, but now I think they're fucking idiots.

this is why I say we don’t hate the press enough

That is so true, very well said. *scrolls one post* Wait this is a DEFENSE?

Matt Stoller basically makes this explicit

A sizable portion of internet leftist dogma was wholly hallucinated. I’ll give her credit in that she didn’t get defensive when called out on it, but a lot of people gaslit themselves about who Bernie is and who the Democrats are.

"Left wing populism" in a US context literally just means smallholder interest politics lmfao.

been on this for awhile but its neat to see actual journalists just come out and say “we are epistemic nihilists who’s greatest aspiration is to propagate the ideas of the powerful”

"the newspaper should be publishing things that the editors don't believe are true so that you can read them and come to believe them." why is that a public service. why do you think that is laudable.

It’s a fools errand to try and rationalize any of planning’s rules that block density. Its to “environmentally fragile” to build a sixplex on a ‘steel slope’ but we built giant highrises downtown on steeper slopes in the 1980s.

The "this is just a distraction!" thought-terminating brainworm is one of the most infuriating holdovers from Trump's first term. Nothing is a distraction; they're not that disciplined or clever. Everything is important; their one strategy is to DDOS democracy and its mechanisms of accountability.

I think this is actually a more evil perspective than “we’re just here to sell copies”

Part of what makes this so bad - with the NYT - is that media concentration, local news elimination, the financial juggernaut that is the Times, the reverence in which it is held as the paper of record, make its long term patterns of choices so important politically in a way no other news org can