Shithead realignment has resulted in low trust individuals going from being an equally distributed minority within both parties to concentrating in the GOP. This has produced both a reinforcement of low trust beliefs through congregating and a breakdown in containment.

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While playing backyard baseball with my friends when I was 12, I swung and miss at a pitch so hard that my bat came around and hit me straight on the nose. Luckily I didn’t break it, though it was hard explaining to my mom how I managed to end up with a bloody shirt and face

Would you like to hear my thoughts on TV shows and popular music?

My assessment of the state of social media:

As cool as it is that baseball Bluesky is mostly functional this place sucks ass for even just hockey content and that's just grim

I am broadly pessimistic of american "moral fiber" and ability to empathize with suffering of others if not reframed as some craven threat to their self interest like "and then virus kills you too" or "and this is your money being wasted on military adventurism", especially for "independents"

people flipping out at him over this is like, maybe a little fucked up. the fraud conspiracy is def bad, and it does play a little into their hands, but idk its hard not to empathize with the guy a bit. id probably be burnt out too. we can be critical of him without being weird about it idk

Bluesky should have a feature where if you get into an argument about whether an elected Democrat’s message was good or bad your phone delivers you an electric shock and makes you do a ten minute mindfulness lesson

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

elon musk doesn’t think female presenting people deserve to be on the internet, so he built a harrassment power tool. simple as that. continuing to use his harrassment machine is an endorsement if his views on women

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Luis Fernando Verissimo wrote decades ago that the reason there hasn't been a real war between South American states in 100+ years is that if someone tried to start one, the generals would turn the tanks around and go coup the government out of habit.

And of course, the constant threat of US interference is one of the things that causes local elites in South America to (partially) rally around figures like Chavez and Maduro in the first place. It's hard to construct alternatives when your rightward flank is a fifth column of US-aligned sellouts.

not enough journalists remember what happened to Julius Streicher

The average liberal (not rando leftist online searching for clout) is aspirational and believes in the American project. The average conservative wants to turn the country into a combination of Hungary and Russia.

The fact that American people elected the Olympic champions of being dipshits can’t possibly backfire on all of us. Nope never going to happen

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

“Impeach them all” is a needed messaging approach.

These online right wing freaks don't just hate their own country in the abstract. If you are reading this here, they hate *you* specifically. I don't know what our future holds for living with these people, but people should remember that toleration in Europe started behind a sword and a shield.

The GOP is dominated by gutter trash bigots.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Will it solve everything? No. Is it still better to demand accountability than it is to type out “LOL nothing matters” on your phone? Yes. I’ll block anyone I see doing this helpless shit. Go stick your head in the sand if you want but stop clucking at people online for giving a shit.

More forceful opinions as to the mayor of New York City’s protesting an Israeli genocide than he does for the US abducting a foreign leader and taking over a country explicitly to steal its oil. Hoping he doesn’t retire just so I can watch him get his ass handed to him.

DNC chair somehow capable of a more full throated statement than any Democratic leader in congress

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

This is not the most important thing but I hope Gianni is sweating bullets now that Trump is threatening a co host of the WC especially after his farcical peace prize

Man eats a flight of McDonald's sandwiches for every meal and is very proud that he can remember what a horse is called, we're not looking at a thousand-year reign of the God-Emperor of Dune here

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

Jeffries needs to be primaried. And if he wins and dems win the house his leadership position needs to be fully challenged

Did the Trump admin (Rubio etc) just assumed everyone is as addicted to power as they are and Rodriguez will rush to collaborate with them because there is a power vacuum? And said she is working with the Americans because that’s what they would’ve done without actually confirming that? If so lmao

18 USC 1201 Again, not joking, there's very clear language that makes it quite applicable to those involved in this, especially if the Admin fiddlefucks whatever kangaroo court charges they're going to try for with this

don’t do the “maduro is bad, but…” thing. the defensive crouch won’t help, it muddles the message, and the important thing is that this is immoral, illegal, and idiotic. the three Is

But if your reaction is to say "oh man demoshitlibs suck har har har" you are also the clown in large part because basically everyone else in the party (including some Senators I had questions about) are on message

I think it’s interesting that authoritarians around the world forgot that the fate of Mussolini used to represent their median outcome

regime change going super

Una cosa que Trump ha hecho ya unas cuantas veces es liarla, hacer unas declaraciones explosivas y con poca base real, y luego retirarse desordenadamente al encontrar resistencias serias. No digo que vaya a pasar eso en Venezuela (no tengo ni idea de qué pasará), pero ojo porque hablar es gratis.

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

name a republican president who hasnt both crashed the economy and started a war for oil

DIA analyst in 6 months: "why does the Sinaloa cartel have a BUK-M2E?"

>realizing the massive amounts of arms in Venezuela that could proliferate to non-state actors across the region if things deteriorate

/4 You see the same thing in the context of due process: the pathological need to denounce crime before stating frankly that our government should obey the law in addressing it.

Spineless fear of the ghost of “objectively pro-Saddam” looms over the Democratic responses to this (a phrase for which the vapid totalitarian soul of Andrew Sullivan, apology or no, should burn in Hell forever). /1

This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.