Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

All activism is performative! That's what makes it work, you perform it! But yes, you're absolutely right, I just get really annoyed because we should be more performative in our lives. We should be involved in ritual performance and not blame some haughty sense of authenticity to not act.

The important thing to understand about pedocon theory is that it’s not just Trump. It’s not just a few of them. It’s essentially ALL of them (the men, anyway. Especially the “church youth” leaders). One of the main reasons a man goes MAGA is sexual frustration / a sense of entitlement.

My casual observation from the signs on Boston Common is that pedocon theory has absolutely gone mainstream.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Liberal speakers at this No Kings rally in an East Texas city that's R+20 and the last one straight up just said that if the Heritage Foundation wants blood they'll get it lol

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for

There comes a point where if one continues to be part of a contribute to a state, one becomes morally responsible for the actions of that state regardless of personal disagreement. We’re not there yet but that’s the direction America is heading.

We are really not talking enough about how spell check seems to have collectively collapsed across all software platforms at the same time bsky.app/profile/spil...

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there is no world where the "don't sign up for a protest or take a picture at it!" shit is non-stupid advice for peaceful mass protest. if it is not that bad yet it's unnecessary, if it is That Time it is not nearly enough to protect you in a way that matters.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

I had thought Larson had passed away, so this is doubly good www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

This thread is very good.

A lot of non-white Christianists - Latinos, Jews, Indians, whatever - are attracted to the GOP because of the power, thinking if only I am on their side I can be one of them. Lol, dudes, you ain't *ever* going to be one of them.

Solidarity is the only way

It is my sincere hope that every member of the Trump Regime has the opportunity to - very specifically - starve to death.

"You can make a principled stand for what you believe while welcoming in alienated voters looking for hope and community." Notably, Anat points to a similar place Andrea Pitzer did in her dissection of the conversation between Klein and Coates: Expert in framing 🤝 Expert in authoritarianism

He is a traditionalist. Ya’ll just skipped the required reading. “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this* They don't give their opinion to the media They don't criticize how SCOTUS works This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

He's the actual pope whether heretics in America like it or not

Mind of my mind.

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"I keep on asking this chatbot how we can improve the user experience, but it keeps on spitting out end-of-contract notices for the entire C suite. I think it's broken."

that's my argument more than anything that regardless of what is the Right or the Wrong thing to do from a moral standpoint, the bluesky team is clearly lacking someone with the vision to see that this [gestures wildly] is actively harmful to staff morale if nothing else, let alone brand reputation.

They aren't hypocrites. They literally do not care. There is nothing you can say to get them to realize any personal shame regarding contradicting views that change from minute to minute because they have none. They don't give it any thought whatsoever.

Nothing rare about it.

If AI really is that dangerous (and tbh I think it just might be) then all the more reason for each of us to try to develop an independent understanding of it.

Because the other guys are Nazis, Tim, and the longer you take to recognize that about them, the more we start to have some questions about you.

Maybe I'm just easily disappointed but if you told me in 1990 that the future of the computer is to become a wallet full of ads, I would probably grow up a very different person to who I am today

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

I have now inadvertently typed shitdown at least 100 times in various written communications before correcting it (hopefully the same number of times) and I sincerely hope that I retrain my fingers before I am distracted.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

And I need to emphasize, my mom does not use the word fucker, ever. She tsks when I say it, except about Jeff fucking Landry and a few others. Every dem strategist who said to stop calling them weird needs to never work again.

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Very dark forces across the globe.

"The undecided voter is, by definition, a huge moron, so if Democratic messaging looks like key jingling, that's because it is."

Climate change was another can-kick. Obama just totally punted on the topic, because any meaningful effort to address climate change would discomfit too many rich donors.

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

(It was probably better to make it look like an accident.)

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The obvious next step is for blue states to find a mechanism to withhold taxes from the federal government. Blue states subsidize the red states, and that is an obvious power differential that it is past time to leverage.

"Oh is there a procedure for 'The Entire Government's Become Divorced From Reality'? That's reassuring!"

I'm getting tired of saying "we should fight back" and having wonks jump out of the woodwork to tell me that "fighting back is against procedure".

"Just have some fucking rizz" is not particularly sophisticated advice, but it's better than 99% of what consultants tell candidates.