I posted this again as a QT just to say again that these fucking Democrats simply do not understand the political system at all. They do not want to understand it. Obviously there is shit you can do as a minority in government. This is preposterous.

The Republicans basically destroyed any chance Obama had of leaving a legislative legacy. Mitch McConnell is one of the most successful legislators in American history and had the minority in the Senate for all of Obama's first term, House for half. You really don't know what you're talking about.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: *loudest sigh ever conceived of* oKAY FINE.... FINE! urallowedtovoteformamdani see I said it get off my BACK

If you're mad that I'm right: I'm sorry. I'm sorry to you.

Yeah, I agree, people should give me money to do shit so that I can do it.

I think there was a time when people would have considered the Rock but that was like five years ago. Really dumb grasping from Matty Glace and Cuban, who just do not want to consider any of the people currently trying to "disrupt the existing coalition"

Goddamn man. I just saw a guy's video get killed so bad he had to release another one on the same day. That's rough bro.

I put a PVC pipe in my chair to keep it upright and it's working but now I have this irrational fear of my weight somehow crushing its way through the chair, sending the pipe through my body and eviscerating me like a Mortal Kombat fatality

We need a new ideology. We don't need to reject communism or anarchism, but we can't keep relying on the old writings of old writers. America is different than those places and now is different than those times. The ideological work is not done. If you are a knowledge worker, get to *work*.

To begin with, every decision that Clarence Thomas has been in majority on should be subject to possible immediate nullification. "Why are you picking on Thomas?" He's the one who's still alive from the Scalia days.

We need a new ideology. We don't need to reject communism or anarchism, but we can't keep relying on the old writings of old writers. America is different than those places and now is different than those times. The ideological work is not done. If you are a knowledge worker, get to *work*.

Somebody should give me the ball. I'm perfectly happy to fall in line with someone but until I see the person who can actually point this stuff out and is willing to do something about it (if they had the ball), I must simply ask to have the ball myself.

Again, one of the big reasons that I can't get that excited about AOC is that she has zero ground game in a national political sense. No Democrat is highlighting these issues but they all think they're gonna be in a position to win anything in the coming years. They're all idiots.

I'll probably restart my discord in a few days. I'm still bad at organizing so it's gonna be dead, you can count on that.

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It's not getting better. Some people are looking down the barrel and realizing that it is not getting better, and it might not turn around fast enough for it to matter.

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

Like I'm SORRY okay. I'm sorry that we were right and you were wrong. I'm sorry that trans people are not going to cause the end of civilization. I'm sorry that distributing wealth is the right thing to do. I'm sorry. I'm sorry! But can you PLEASE just GROW UP and DO THE DAMN THING ALREADY.

YOU JUST GOTTA DO IT MAN. YOU CANNOT HATE YOURSELVES THIS MUCH. YOU CANNOT HATE YOUR GAY CHILDREN AND BLACK NEIGHBORS THIS MUCH. YOU GOTTA DO IT.

SMMBK

And SMMBK

Dammit, stayed up too long to justify going back to sleep

I really gotta actually track down this I Decline stuff so that I can use the pinned tweet.

As an aside, if you are reading any of my stuff, you legally have to tell me. I'm doing my best but it is lonely work.

I know that I have not been doing anything on the blog lately, but that's because I have been doing a frankly irresponsible amount of worldbuilding because I need it in order to write this story; there's a war that kept not feeling right so I had to go back and model it out, create backstory, etc.

This country is fucked. I hope it's not what I think but it is all I can think.

One thing that ends up being really annoying for me in Obsidian is that you have to leave an empty line before you start a table, it fucks my formatting up.

A while back I was joking about Simon Whistler's Warfronts being propaganda cause it seemed like it was gonna give the west-friendly spin of everything but after seeing his new "Russia's gonna rig elections" video, I wouldn't be surprised if he is directly paid to do pro-NATO agitprop at this point

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

I'm going to make it my mission to destroy all posts suggesting "the hose clamp trick" will help save your chair for longer than 30 minutes

Pritzker and Newsom et. al. are building early campaigns so they can do what, preside over a Congress that's been gerrymandered out of their control for a generation, with a federal court system seeded with unreconstructed racists, & sheriffs throughout the country ready to attack their supporters?

This really feels like the kind of thing that Democrats should be paying attention to if they are thinking about being competitive in 2026. Also, to everyone preparing for 2028: if you get blown out in 2026, there will not be a 2028 election that has any meaning.

Since this was deleted yesterday, I'm reposting because fuck you BlueSky for deleting it in the first place. Aseel just wanted us to remember her cat.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Eslam. It’s Eslam’s 34th birthday today. She worked in a hair salon before this started. Her husband had immigrated and since the war she has lost contact with him and is on her own with her three children Islam, 8, Yahya, 5 and Mohammed, 4.

It's so helpful that Netanyahu repeatedly stresses "You actually can't fix it just by removing me. All of Israel agrees that we wanna do this." Okay so you aren't allowed to have a state because no Israeli can manage it. That should be the logical conclusion of Netanyahu's statements.

This isn't the entire thing, but we really individually need to resist this whole "lol academics get rekt u think u know everything" type shit that people do. I hate it when people who should know better do this. Do you know better? Prove it, even a little. Even sometimes. Listen to people who study

Schumer and his mob are partially (only partially) deluded by the idea that they will be the only option if Trump is out. I think if you put Schumer anywhere near real power there might be a literal uprising.

The fact that the big meeting of the generals isn't going to end with a group stomping of the SecDef is proof that everyone who attends is unfit for their position

I think it rules that nobody around Trump cares enough to give him decent makeup. Why is there never any of the goop on like the corners of his face?

Saw a post where someone was like "fake, if that had really hit him in the nuts this guy would be screaming for like 30 minutes to an hour" no he wouldn't. That's not true. Getting hit in the balls hurts a lot but you *can* still do stuff, like it sucks but you can tough it out.

2000: "Charlie bit my finger!" is a reference to a viral internet video 2030: "Charlie bit my finger!" is a battle cry used by the Waffen Proud Boys engaging in the Battle of Trenton Outlet Mall

YOU JUST GOTTA DO IT MAN. YOU CANNOT HATE YOURSELVES THIS MUCH. YOU CANNOT HATE YOUR GAY CHILDREN AND BLACK NEIGHBORS THIS MUCH. YOU GOTTA DO IT.

Did a law get changed recently? I always felt like there was a cut-off for spam calls, like at around 7 o'clock I didn't get them anymore.

"Why don't you care about the Republicans?" If you get up on stage and say "I don't want peace! I want problems always!", why am I gonna start lobbying you for peace? It's the people who say "I want peace" until we support them, then when they're up there they go "Hmmm maybe war?", that's the issue

The only reason that any of this is happening in the United States is that the Democratic Party has refused to do its job since the 1980s.

Reminder that the biggest obstacle to progress in our society isn’t the right-wing buffoons, it’s centrists. It’s always the fucking centrists.

Pompey talking about "how happy to be a slave". Remember they gutted him before he got to shore. Remember they cut off his head.

I'm not going to quote tweet it but think about this: Habsburg kid, still around. Mussolini kid, still around. Romanov kid................

I feel like I would be okay with a chair that had some kind of mechanical ratcheting system as long as it didn't eventually sink like a gas lift does. Did I plan to have an extra gas lift in case this happened, yes. Did I execute that plan, no.

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