A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

Amazed that there are actual adults who could think that moving to the middle-east would insulate them from geo-politics. The middle-east! Were they surprised by the hot climate too?!

The trade was not that you were getting exposed to the wretched child living in pain and terror in a windowless basement when moving to Omelas.

this will be a public health disaster. We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

The world we chose

Nobody is ready for the future

Braver than the troops

I hate cancel culture because it destroyed a generation of progressive intellectuals and weakened our defenses against fascism, which I am ambivalent to positive about.

I like that Hegseth is so stupid and obsessed with violence that he can't even run the line about "it's not a war" because he's just SO EXCITED to feel like a big strong man and not a drunk fuckup moron so he gets on stage and goes "this isn't a regime change war, but he regime did change"

It ain’t me, I’m no 6’9 son

yes, mr president, this is your campaign strategist speaking, i am advising you to Keep Posting This Shit the american people will surely love to know about how your rival would have avoided the unpopular war you started. this is a great media strategy.

Matt Stoller basically makes this explicit

"Populist ideology, but without class politics" is how fascism started, and how it was explicitly pitched. It always ends up with attacks on minorities, protection of bourgeois interests, and oppression of the proletariat.

She's a goddamned Queen

Yeah it's this. If he loses it'll probably be in the general, not the primary, and if he wins, he'll win ugly.

The President of the United States *literally* views our armed services as idiots who get what they deserve if they're killed in action because if you don't want to get shot, don't sign up, duhhh. The concept of patriotism doesn't exist to him. The media doesn't care because they feel the same btw.

Our President hates our troops so much he can't even cynically use their deaths as props to boost the PR of his own war. All he can muster is "meh, they died, happens, will happen more". He might as well be wearing the "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" jacket when those flag-covered coffins come home.

I'd like to point out that Donald Trump attended a single dignified transfer in his first term, was confronted by a family member of a fallen soldier at it, and promptly wussed out of ever attending another one again.

“America hates Iran because of Israel.” Oh yeah man, American Islamophobia is only because of Israel uh huh, sure. Everyone is 12 Theory remains undefeated. Nation of boors.

Dogmogging AND beefmaxxing, this is spiking my cortisol levels

these are corruption machines, intended only to corrupt you, and it’s not like a video game where you can withstand a certain amount and pull back; every part of your soul and your morality that they take, they keep

the entire modern right wing movement is about, maybe more than anything else, the rejection of dignity and of standards and of shame and of principles, and twitter is the beating heart of it

god fucking dammit

It really is American as apple pie to be violently uncomfortable with U.S.’s misdeeds and pass it off as someone else’s fault. You’re absolutely correct.

Charitably: I think, conscious or not, (some) Americans want the villain to be someone other than the American people and their chosen representatives. “Israel made us attack/facilitate a genocide” has cross-spectrum appeal when it comes to avoiding accountability.

Counterpoint: “There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first…” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

If he ever understood these things, or even realized they are things to be understood, we're far past the point where he still can.

The leader is the state. The leader is the nation. The leader is the constitution. The leader is the government. Nothing else matters or even exists. And to change the leader changes the regime. This also explains how he thinks of the United States.

When we say Trump has a personalist view of politics and international relations, we don't mean he sees everything as personal relations. We mean he cannot conceive of the existence of a state, nation, constitution, or government distinct from the person of the leader. The leader is the state.

don't think there's a better encapsulation of everything wrong with "working class politics" that a literal petit-borgeois business owner is somehow universally viewed as blue collar because he's a white guy with a few slurs under his belt

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

They’ve been living in online dreamspace, where you baldly announce something (“Donald Trump is the peace president! He would never start a war in the Middle East!”) and if enough people retweet it, it becomes true. The real world doesn’t work like that, it turns out

Republicans are literally incapable of comprehending that the world doesn’t simply follow Trump’s orders the way that Republicans, or American CEOs, or Supreme Court justices do

Other countries have agency and domestic politics, too.

this is where i've been at for a while, same with the oil states providing the Trump criminal family with all their money laundering needs you lose cynical realpolitik alliance privileges once you start enabling fascism in my home

see also: bukele

its always weird to watch Platner play a role when you know the truth, in this case the warrior poet turned man of peace when in 2020 he was posting breezily about how he went to Iraq for adventure and to kill people and what a good time he had

And please note that evacuation is never gratis—you always have to pay. Anyway, feeling awfully embittered toward the US regime at the moment.

Again, Americans are not “choosing” not to depart at the time. The airspace is closed.

He went to Hotchkiss. He is the grandson of furniture designer Warren Platner. Dopes are so easily fooled by some tats.

Of course it's FUCKING Branko

I genuinely think the conspiratorial worldview is the shared value that results in horseshoe theory

It's called Operation Epic Fury because Hegseth can't spell Immanetize the Eschaton jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

I think it was Ganz on the old place who had the banger about leftist’s having a little reactionary crush and the reactionaries just call them all Jews.

if the only thing bringing you into public life is an incoherent anxiety of a shadowy cabal of bankers, lurking in the shadows; you're going to be a very, very easy mark for the antisemites.

Ideas and rhetoric that used to be firm signs of commitment to an ideological structure or belief are now weak signals of opinion that can be adopted and rejected piecemeal and ad hoc as people choose.

I know this is emotionally difficult for various left-liberal male podcasters who have developed embarrassing crushes on Platner (PSA, KYE, etc) but start watching REACHER or something

even if its 2, lets be clear at a time of rising fascism when Neo-Nazis are trying to hack their way into the political mainstream we CANNOT! elect someone so clueless that he doesn't know an SS symbol sitting on his own titty and at this point there's no way to rule out Nazi-curious

Insane. The anti-trans movement wants an absolute right of parents to control their children, from the kids' religion to their gender. The state must obey the parents. Except when the parents want to affirm their children as transgender. Then the state can do whatever the fuck it wants.