This take is even worse than his political opinions. Garbage band

AOC mocking the beltway press by insisting she'd included a Republican in her cabinet

Rubio is such a wet fish that its easy to project views onto him that he does not actually hold

"go back to the land and farm" sorry I'm descended from people who said "fuck that shit, I'd rather be a servant in a foreign country"

The real story it seems like of Maine and other Dem primaries is that Dem voters are just sick of being represented by old people

And especially their staff

This explains burrito taxi psychosis as well. Because while the average American looks down on fast food workers, they REALLY look down on burrito taxi drivers

The idea that conservatives are simply more authentic in their belief is one American culture accepts unquestioningly. You saw this in the response to Reform Jews arguing abortion bans violate their religious freedom - Reform Jews are seen as incapable of holding deeply-seated religious beliefs.

We are going to build the cathedral

Everyone is 12

The key to understanding this is that the Demographic pushing back against being "Educated and Cultivated" isn't the working class; it's the petty-rich. It's the car-dealer class. It's wealth-inheritors who went from high school to their Dad's job, and resent the respect education gets.

The hustler class is the most reactionary class in existence

Sanders is clueless on this the way the Dem establishment is clueless on economic issues and populism. They’re mirror images of cluelessness.

wasn’t bullied enough imo

i think this gives everyone carte blanche approval to be a huge piece of shit towards anyone in this admin and anyone that voted for it as a form of social engineering in pursuit of making people realize their negative actions have consequences

The entire Stancil affair is the closest we have come to Maoist cultural revolution struggle session and the people doing it can't understand why that would be a bad thing ... even just looking at their own interests.

damn it's all Gender

i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"

In re: the Louise Lucas Affair They're continuing to build the case for us, concerning the necessity of going sicko mode when the shoe is finally back on the other foot Every single elected Democrat and public intellectual counseling moderation in the face of this needs to be shouted down

Does this guy always have that stupid grin on his face

Theres a reason the best coaches in sports are usually failed players!! The elite players are too good at playing to put themselves in the shoes of the average athlete

“Los pollos hermanos did nothing wrong because the bulk of their sales were chicken, not meth”

The guy who was constantly unfairly criticized by the right for talking like an academic is saying this?

Farmers shaking their heads sadly, once again voting for Trump in protest of the mayor of Minneapolis not being vigorous enough in opposing ICE. But no, seriously, what are we doing here.

Not nearly as important as his courage and conviction, but: Brad Lander is putting on a master class of modern rhetoric these days, too. Shows you exactly why “find a way to be who you are, fuck the consultants” is good advice, especially for progressive candidates. It resonates so much better.

Im one of the biggest partisan hacks there is. And my biggest complaint is that dems aren’t partisan enough and dont hate the other side way enough like they do for us

Yep. Hes all of these things. But still better than collins bc SCOTUS and voting for a Dem Senate Majority Leader.

Cosmically unfair that the people who opposed nuclear power for nonsense reasons back when it would‘ve massively reduced decades of carbon emissions now get to *correctly* say it’s too late to start building it.

Puerto Rican separatism is pure cope that, just like Irish left-republicanism or Basque/Catalan separatism, gets a disproportionate amount of attention. Statehood is the objectively progressive option.

the Puerto Rico independence movement is so bizarre to me it’s like sure yeah it only gets 15% every time it’s on the ballot and it would completely crater the PR economy, yet some people act like it’s the only reasonable/progressive outcome

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

Bullies who dress their abuse in social justice language get really mad when you refuse to play their social dominance game.

It’s time.

I had someone go off on me for saying supporting Susan Collins for senate enables Trump. This isn’t a scurrilous accusation or anything, it’s just the plain truth. If you think that enabling Trump is less bad than the alternative, make the case, but don’t pretend it isn’t part of what’s happening.

I think the most pressing moral question of our time is acc whether or not we grand citizenship to illegal immigrants but I can’t imagine he’s good on that one either

Jesus Christ shut up, I’m not “painting a target on trans people.” This site is an eternal 24/7 struggle session, out of control, completely intolerable. Every effort to get people to chill out and stop psychotically harassing others for made-up offenses gets transmuted into even more offenses

we need to put these people in some kind of re-socialization camp where they will learn to act normal and just ignore people. interacting with anyone online is 100% by choice. like... just block will if he's soooo annoying. we can't tolerate these harassment campaigns. woke 2 should eradicate them.

I want to ADDRESS the death threats towards will stancil [nods] You KNOW I don't think will stancil should be harassed or anything Absolutely BUT!!! what the fuck are you talking about man

I like will stancil and think his tenacity and willingness to call out the damage done by seemingly-innocuous social signaling is important. Also it's weird that he can't even have an opinion about star wars without wannabe revolutionaries making it into a sign of his intrinsic moral rot.

the appetite for cruelty — which is genuinely nonpartisan — is legit one reason we got trump

a key to understanding the reactionary right, for me, is the realization that there are pleasures in cruelty "and no you are not immune." there's something in the human soul that delights in having someone to look down on--or at least, the capacity for this exists in us

I really do not like being put in the position of defending Will Stancil but the derangement of his haters is really something to behold, and a lot of people who are smarter than this are falling for it; the fact that influencers are now grifting off the Endless Drama should be a red flag for y'all.

This is shit we just are not going to tolerate in woke 2.0.

People’s willingness to just believe something random TikTokers say continues to boggle my mind.

This Andrea woman is a TikTok influencer and a grifter. She did nothing. There was no "spy ring" I revealed - I had a friend who got info off ICE agents she matched with, who said I should share her story. This is insane. I'm being attacked as a misogynist by hundreds of people for doing as asked.

We should ban tiktok actually

it's not possible to put the genie back in the bottle but shortform video has lowered the average intelligence of the developed world by at least 10-15 points also andra might be the stupidest tiktoker alive, which is saying something

Anyway I think we should ban short-form video platforms because the people who rely on them for their information act perpetually concussed