Remember that day that the WH and all of the government agencies tried to come on here all at once as a way to troll and folks blocked them en masse and they gave up, lol

Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.

I was talking to someone today who had literally no idea JK Rowling was a bigot. They're never online, they saw the movies and liked them, and planned on watching the show. I told them about Rowling's behavior and they're disgusted; but they sincerely had never heard it before. I'm saying this bc

ive been pushing at this for awhile and it applies to political things too. those of us who are very online keep acting like "everybody knows this" AND THEY DON'T. they simply dont know stuff we've all absorbed for years.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

the funny part is that elissa slotkin probably agrees with this

really cool how every tech company has shifted the burden of content moderation onto the users and every politician is setting themselves up to be at fault when there are huge data breaches like there always is

okay so there was definitely some kind of language dropped for establishment democrats because they're all talking about rural hospitals now

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

the problem with Twitter is not that kids can sign up for the site without an ID, the problem is that it is literally designed to drive people crazy while it's AI chat bot churns out revenge porn and CSAM, and that is something not even AOC seems to want to deal with

really don't like every presidential candidate in 2028 simultaneously dropping their most reactionary takes

"everything in the constitution happens to be perfectly in line with the modern republican agenda" is not jurisprudence!

It’s true that people using LLMs in interesting and non-evil ways are catching a lot of strays from other scared people over this, and it’s also true that the big genAI companies and their attendant remora hype-men are the people who created this situation and who shoulder most all of the blame.

also i will continue to scream that easiest and most wide open lane for any 2028 presidential candidate to take and still be on the right side of history is anti-corruption and being tough on white collar crime. "JAIL THESE PSYCHOS" is an easy thing to say for the next 2 years

oh so suddenly im not qualified for senate because of those grisly murders i committed along the I-95 corridor? these political litmus tests have gotten ridiculous

Slotkin's whole move, aptly outlined here, is just the next generation of Biden's conservative liberalism.

at some point this year i will have to stop talking about politics and i'ma just post pictures of the bread i make. here's the honey wheat loaf i made last night. the secret is using like half a bottle of honey

kinda feels like Platner was a trial balloon for a lot if the party, and once they saw people were okay with the Nazi tattoos as long as the guy with the tattoo said some vaguely populist stuff they started to fully commit to the bit

Besides being a bad answer it completely fails the “speak like a normal human being” test. People hate that shit! At that point the substance of the response barely matters, you’re already a phony.

Yeah only thing I’d add is this seems to be a broadly shared consensus across different ideological factions within the party.

a key aspect of Woke 2 is re-explaining all the stuff they explained to us in kindergarten but being ruder about it

You’re arguing with a joke.

we talk a lot about how democrats are addicted to polling but now we're starting to see that in many cases they're straight up ignoring polling to stick to consultant and special interest group talking points and idk seems stupid to ignore more than half the electorate on the issues of the day

there are few candidacies that seem as astroturfed and completely made up as Rahm Emanuel. no one fucking likes this guy except beltway insiders. literally no one. Biden sent him to Japan just so he didnt have to deal with him and Rahm still fucked that up.

"Criticising Israel isn't inherently anti-Semitic, but a lot of the people doing so are" feels like a really obvious truth that many people just reject from one end or the other.

The thing about dooming under the Trump regime is that their version of authoritarianism is just a simulacrum of the real thing. They really *really* need you not to see that. badfaithtimes.com/the-doomers-...

"When Rahm Emmanuel finishes taking a shit, he leaps to his feet, wrests the toilet paper from the dispenser like a firefighter unravelling a water hose, and shoves his entire papered fist into anus until every fecal speck has been removed. Woe to any Democratic hopeful who downplays his intensity."

They should've done the whole first paragraph then said in the second "It's important to know how Rahm tosses a salad because as a candidate he absolutely eats ass"

also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt

And we’ve seen the result of these politics, it’s UK labour. They just got back into power after 14 years in the wilderness and immediately pivoted to the right and it’s made them the most unpopular they’ve ever been.

But now almost every 2028 candidate not named Pritzker or AOC is trying the same thing. And it's so obvious on it's face that it's doomed to fail, but in the meanwhile these people are going to try to destroy "the left" and then wonder why they all drop out before South Carolina

Slotkin calls this strategy "lose better"; abandon the left, turn off some moderates, and then take enough center-right never Trump types and edge out a victory. Slotkin sees her almost losing one of the safest seats in the Senate as a proof of concept, not a near disaster.

this is why you get Slotkin talking about coastal elites and Booker talking about partisan firing squads and Newsom saying the party needs to be more culturally normal. they resent the democratic base and are trying to abandon it and hope they can make up losses with center-right voters

i think what we're seeing is a party that has largely bought the idea that the Democratic Party brand is too feminine, too Black, and too queer, and that it's losses with the white working class are a product of bigotry, and so they must forcefully go to the right and superkick the super woke left

This might actually be the new dumbest shit I have ever read in my life.

kinda crazy watching how many democrats are jumping into the Third Way/centrist lane in the 2028 presidential election. like we talk about democrats being addicted to polling but at this point it's clear they're more addicted to consultants and donors.

When Bluesky makes a boneheaded, dogshit move that pisses off the entire userbase it's worth bearing in mind that they don't consider us their customers; we're the product.

oh, that thing that makes your day just a tiny bit better for ten fucking seconds? no, you don't deserve that.

you still cant lock your account or send a picture in a dm

Most money in politics flows to people who already agrees with the donor.

at the risk of offending another genteel law professor who insists that all inquiry is valid and in good faith, the effort to read another meaning into the citizenship clause is like trying to read another meaning into the qualifications clause. it's obvious nonsense.

can someone ask some in Third Way how this separates them from Republicans?

again, i have asked my mom and my sister, both very normie democrats, and they have no fucking clue who hasan piker is. most people don't know who hasan piker is! they didnt notice Cuomo tried to do this exact thing and literally no one gave a fuck?

TikTok is a very underrated source of accidental Dudes Rock content.

I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

Slotkin's Third Way politics are so good that she almost lost one of the safest seats in the Senate and the named the strategy of pissing off your base to grab Republican voters "lose better".

I don’t agree with Hasan on everything but the race to try to deplatform him or compare him to Nick Fuentes is pure insecure hater shit from a bunch of think tank freaks.

It feels so fake too. Did any of the pearl clutching Ds have an issue with their favorite California Governor (and Presidential hopeful) having Steve Fucking Bannon on his show? Just shut up. Chris is right. I don't agree with Hasan on everything but you look foolish comparing him to Fuentes

i can't find a principled way to articulate this but there are some things that should only exist in the grey market. you should have to take some risk to participate and the risk functions as regulation. for gambling, it should be travel or physical violence. i don't make the rules.