we’ve just capitulated to the nakedly fascist government for purely pecuniary reasons, please enjoy this trailer for an upcoming film about resisting a space tyrant

This has been Turning Points USA's end game for over 10 years. This is what the 1000s of profs on the prof watch list have been trying to tell the rest of (feckless) academia this entire time.

sure the government is black bagging immigrants and threatening to classify all trans people as terrorists but have you considered that marc andreesen's feelings were hurt when president biden didn't drop everything to take his call? and aren't those things equally bad if you really think about it

There is nothing anyone can say that will be funnier or more farcical than this image alone

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you—the State—not only run out of money, but the means or even the vision of how to generate it, and you wake up one day, and all that money, and power, and sovereignty, is in the hands of a deterritorialised capitalist force that you have no control over.

Our leaders spent four+ decades thinking the market would create perfect solutions to our problems; that the economic could supersede the political, all the while ignoring the question of power. Now, power is in the hands of private capital and big tech, and they are preparing to assert themselves.

Great* thread this *terrifying

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

at my funeral i want pyrotechnics, merch sales and my wife listed as "CEO and Chair." i want all the weirdest freaks on earth there auditioning for expanded roles at court. keep my parents and any actual friends far away please

Tesla influencers tried to automatically drive coast-to-coast -- they crashed within 60 miles

I'm surprised NBC hasn't been forced to fire this journalist yet

'Come to the UK. We're hostile to immigrants, the infrastructure is a ruin, rent is sky high (worst housing in Europe too), oh and if you're a scientist, as we claim to want, there are no jobs because the university sector is a bad year away from mass bankruptcy.' Wow. Such an attractive offer.

The politicians are now utterly reliant on media cooperation, which is the only thing they have. And the entire ten year period has been notable for all the lads shouting “Dance Monkey, Dance!” at PMs, and/our repeated rounds of hysterical all-channels terror and denunciation. And again: normal, now

a country that loved women would be horrified that so many black women are still LITERALLY ENSLAVED in rich white family homes for DECADES

Sure, but this was also the period where the press truly began to lean on the scales: first taking revenge on Cameron for allowing the Leveson Inquiry, then by bending their will to shitehouse Johnson into power, and then out again. And it’s true that the new generation just thinks that’s normal now

i wish the tradwife people understood that its a kink that theyre doing a kink

a country that loved women would not make abortion punishable by up to a year in prison

CIA's been doing this kinda shit for almost 80 years, am I supposed to act shocked or something

western secularism will say “obviously you don’t have anything like an imperishable soul that would be ridiculous!— your sex does tho”

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Ah, dang. Well, at least I will have some banh mi before it happens. Hey remember when the Rapture happened last time? Me neither.

I'm going to cancel the rapture by calling it 'the CRAPture' at the last moment

I think it's relatively important to not stoke sectarianism between diasporas but this ought to go both ways, no?

Not sure why anyone thinks the Board of Deputies of British Jews or the Jewish Leadership Council or the Council of Jewish Institutions of France or any such group ought to have a say over their government's policy of recognition of Palestine. Are our rights contingent upon Jewish consent?

remember when trump was found guilty with 37 felonies and then not a single person pushed for any kind of sentencing and everyone just agreed to let it go away because it was interfering with his campaign

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Absolutely nothing unusual about that paper reporting the views of deranged wingnuts as fact

i feel like at this point all these companies are going all-in on "dirty" data centers — tons of gas-powered generators heavily polluting their immediate area, built in underprivileged areas that can't fight back — because they're too impatient to work with the power grid

Sickos

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

'Oh no, we just need to acquiesce to the libidinal impulses of the fascist mindset in exchange for a bump in approval ratings once more, we're this close, just give in to the nativism again and you'll poll better, just once more, just go full Rivers of Blood, then they'll like you, just a bit more'

As a matter of self-preservation, Starmer's the worst. No thoughts, just surrounded by yes-man toadies that want his ass six feet under and Streeting in office. It's like a Roman triumph but he's getting pelted with shit and some creep's whispering in his ear, 'Eat the shit, then they'd like you'

Starmer's speedrunning the coveted 0% polling, he's found ways to alienate everyone that shouldn't be physically possible, he's out of bounds, he's zip-skipping, he's manipulating code by picking up items and dropping them a specific number of times and then punching himself in the head

Thing is, this is just a less jargony way of saying something you hear all the time about uh salience & perception from polprofs & commentators. It’s merely the first time a politician’s turned to the camera & gone “well look I think we’re just going to exploit that now if that’s ok yeah 😉”

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do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

thought about this for a moment and realised … he’s made it impossible for himself to work, hasn’t he. not just because nobody wants to work with him, he’s actually destroyed the part of his psyche that made it possible for him to be funny

They thought they could co-opt and control it for their own ends, because they are very smart. It turns out they are actually stupid as fuck, and now we are all boned. The end, roll credits

I mean, this was 2021 but even then, that was a significantly less intense and insane period than the late 2010s had been. And take it from me: very Sensible, very Moderate people would get *extremely* angry with you if you said that some deeply fishy stuff was going on here.

This was obviously wildly irresponsible at the time, and now everyone who did that is so badly compromised by having done so that they can’t speak plainly about what has been happening in Britain.

It’s as simple as: it was insanely destructive to insist that fascists are mostly correct, while recruiting far right cranks to *scream* at the public that anti-racism and equality campaigners are hateful traitors and maybe even terrorists. Just to help Sensible Moderates to get what they want!

it really is something how obviously Charlie Kirk's wife did not actually give a shit about him lol. i know everyone grieves differently but damn

nailed on he has floated a father ted reboot but it got turned down because 90% of the script was various characters talking about sissy porn and autogynophilia

Very plainly, he “could not make Father Ted today” because he can’t be trusted to sit alone in a room without messily shitting himself, and any other reason is light years distant from that.

You might think the bizarre spectacle of this very clearly unwell man behaving like a deeply weird obsessive oddball, babbling about “sissy porn” on the witness stand, might have made him untouchable for media culture war bullshit purposes. You would be wrong.

....people do not understand the distinctions between "asylum seekers" "permanent leave to remain" or "illegal immigrants". Its a racial animus. When theyre imagining an immigrants theyre imagining people of colour that they do not like, many of whom are full citizens.