Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

People can scream "ageism!" all they want. The truth is that RBG's decision not to retire is a big part of why Roe v. Wade is gone. The truth is that Biden's decision to run for a second term despite his age is probably the single biggest reason Donald Trump is currently president.

This is wild stuff man www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Hey Jude. You're unc and chopped

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Pokopia felt a bit overwhelming at first but then I started just following the quest lines at my own pace and then suddenly the clock said hours had gone by, unsure if I should trust it, will ask the Tangrowth for advice

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

This can't be the same brain that knew all the channel numbers

You are not a serious person if you claim the entire approach to international relations of the GOP and the Democrats was the same in 2024.

The Blood Moon happening in the 9th year release anniversary of Breath of the Wild is some spooky stuff

Eventually the Trump regime will collapse, because it’s built on a single rotten, 79-year pillar. When it does, the army of cranks who have tried to shelter under the boss’s seeming impunity, in order to commit crimes of their own, will have nowhere to hide. We must scour them out of our society.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

The world is bad but the pomeranian pokemon, the pomeranian pokemon is very good

This is very bad

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

Can barely wrap my head around how disingenuous this paragraph is. "The people doing the work seem to largely be the ones writing guidelines about the work", uh yeah? Duh??

Important thread. In an age of disinformation, tribalism, and AI, it's more important than ever to remain as factual and reality-based as possible.

“be truthful, incentivize telling the truth” is a value in and of itself, it doesn’t need anything else to make it worthwhile!

The continued use of Twitter by otherwise intelligent pols and journalists is going to be one of those things that future generations just cannot wrap their heads around. "You mean to tell me the fascists bought the website, began promoting every crank and Nazi on it, and you...kept using it?"

What? We're doing this again? There will always be people telling you to stay on Twitter, keep your WaPo subscription, keep reading Substack, watch CBS News. Preserve the status quo. You're free to do that. But you're also free to not. You (and we) can, will, and already are building something new

Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website. The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

Okay but could I be served the Franken-wing if I ask politely

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

You must vote. You must vote for the Democrat against Trump. There is no other remotely morally acceptable position. I’m sorry if this simple truth gets you yelled at but it’s still true

As scary as stuff like this is, it's also just so indescribably pathetic. I can't believe they willing post this shit under their given names. Unmeasurable loser energy.

They are everything they claimed to fear.

This is a great read, very insightful

John Roberts' hand in the destruction of the American experiment cannot be overstated. Alongside McConnell and Trump, villains of a level difficult to encompass with words.

We are being ruled by stark raving lunatics

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face? LYONS: None SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back? LYONS: None

i liked the levis ad that was just butts

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

can't say which i find more appalling, remnick handing him a "fair enough" on the left and right being equally antisemitic or saying there was "no immigration policy" under dems. either way, super embarrassing for remnick to get steamrolled this hard by the right's pre-eminent midwit

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Mamdani is just phenomenal

NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Seeing these two headlines side-by-side is really something

If you want to help in the short term, you can Venmo/PayPal me (@kfoleyfl). We're going to the store later today to get them groceries for the next few weeks. I'm also working on figuring out what else they need. Things like gas, rent, and utilities. Whatever they need, we're not leaving them alone.

idk guys i just think if your pathologically contrarian posting brain leads you to try and whitewash the pedophile sex trafficking cult you should have very bad things happen to you

Leftists have this thing that purity outweighs practicality and that’s dumb. But liberals have this thing that we can’t demand better and just have to accept the suck. That’s stupid too.

What a talent, and what a message

quark names piss me off so bad. “up down top bottom charm strange” those are notttt adjectives to describe the building blocks of the universe, those are half-assed TTRPG attributes made by a terribly depressed homosexual