Shitpost thought: Modern vulgar Maoism (as practiced by Western fanboys) essentially promises that the revolutionary can tap into the WAAAAAUGH!

Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.

I don't think I've ever seen gears shift this fast before.

In writing this, I focused on a chapter of his that concerned something I knew a bit about. I was flabbergasted. I then discovered that other people had produced similar takedowns of chapters about their own specialisms. I came to the conclusion that he's a charlatan. www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear. *See next post.

Jeffries is vowing to spend 'tens of millions' of dollars to push through an April ballot initiative in Virginia to potentially give Democrats four more seats." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/sund...

I’m sorry but somehow it’s the middle of Trump’s term and we’re already doing the thing where we forget how bad Trump is???

People shifting their views to accord with what they think the social consensus is, except their idea of consensus is formed mostly by incessant discourse with deeply unhealthy wackos on a niche politics website. Many such cases

This site is an absolute loony bin and I can see it cooking the brains of people I know IRL

The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems! I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS

The people most pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026 are the ones obsessing over how much they won't vote for him *when he hasn't even declared his intention to run*. They're going to wishcast this into existence just so they can own the libs again.

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oh this is a brilliant idea lol

with social climber snakes that do those sort of callout posts you cannot say inflammatory things to them without playing into their hand. they're not here for anything other than building themselves up by tearing others down. as good as it feels, its not worth it to dunk on them

Some may insist on a rigid definition of “quiet meaning.” Others may want to winnow out who can be counted as “ordinary people.” Still others may think that “quiet meaning” is an oxymoron. Et cetera. I could be wrong. I often am. But that’s what I see.

The truest beauty of a strong civil society is that it lets ordinary people live common lives of quiet meaning. The anti-Democratic factions may not agree on which parts of that they despise, but they all surely do.

The common threads I keep seeing in all anti-democratic American factions are these: 1.) Civil society will always be there, regardless of how badly we neglect or abuse it. 2.) Sincere conviction is cringe.

And the iconoclasm is a garnish, not the whole dish The vulgar center is a bad place to be when the deadlock breaks

What, you don't buy the deep and sincere left credentials of Analingus T. Firefly @piss.shitter.bsky.social ? Splitter!

skeleton key, right here VVV

In the past 2 years a small group of insane people on X have doxxed my home address and sent me a glitter bomb, posted dozens of bizarre AI images of me, crudely speculated about my sex life, and tried to get my husband fired because they don’t like my posts about, uh, zoning reform.

I am increasingly sympathizing with God when God decided "ok this entire generation can't enter the Holy Land, they're just too fucking dysfunctional and damaged" that's us. that's everyone who's still fighting the Eternal 2016 Primary with a new face. none of us are ever going to be ok again.

i am so fucking sick of having been right about these people and having been told for a decade that i was making shit up

you see, Michael, they got the chance to claim out loud that they were more enthusiastic to vote for a Republican in 2028 than the Democratic nominee (it genuinely does not matter who they claim the Democratic nominee will be, except inasmuch as their claim itself is esoterically racist.)

you ever think about how the internet is just people yelling into the void and sometimes the void yells back and thats called 'going viral'

wow stephanie this is an ASTONISHINGly witty observation I am blown away. i'm like... astonished. no one has EVER made an observation like this before. and it's very deep and definitely based on reality

At this point, I think the biggest mistake of Brexit was that it didn't also disconnect all of the undersea internet cables connecting the UK to the rest of the world.

thinking about how cats probably invented the concept of 'personal space' and then immediately violated it by sitting on ur keyboard

man i wanna get knighted. not like from the king of england for recording a pop song or whatever. i want to be charged to be brave and kind and protect the innocent by another knight with a sword. that kicks ass. i'm already brave and kind and i protect the innocent but i love instructions

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

It’s extraordinarily dangerous twice over: we convince ourselves that we can be popular by enacting the exact policies that just failed to make us popular, AND we alienate people who gambled on our policies by refusing to acknowledge they enacted them

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly. And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

i will say that the entire concept of hyperstition seems a lot more of immediate practical import in a world that's post-QAnon and the price of bitcoin

i have a Take about Voting Discourse that I cannot express outside of an oldschool LW sequence that starts with a refresher on acausal blackmail and veers into a discussion of hyperstition as a critical/theoretical context ergo has an audience of: one person, in my own bathroom mirror

And like... I'm on the left wing! The fact that this happened made some of my ideology implode too! But I'm actually trying to deal with that, not go into denial and pretend that the "working class" cannot fail, only be failed.

Context:

This is exactly correct and the left wing will ignore it entirely because if they truly reckon with it their entire ideology will implode.

I am Graham Platner's age. I too was in the post 9/11 military. I also grew up in a small town in the Northeast US. I am also a college dropout with PTSD. And I am telling you: anyone from my demographic who had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years is either a Nazi or too dumb to be an effective US senator.

There aren't red flags that are much clearer than "had a large Nazi tattoo on his chest for 15 years"

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

this is dumb hot take shit from me, and it’s worth me actually not being stupid about it: “the left” here, as defined by online hypeaddicts, is fucking worthless. but there’s a real movement left for regular progressives that i think is working, and useful.

trying to paint skepticism of a new arrival who grew up in Texas as some kind of ethnic xenophobia is, honestly, gross as hell and extremely online

perfectly calibrated message to the website where "electoralism" is controversial. I dunno, man, I'm having a hard time seeing that work out in the end.

"just say Palestinian" is an extremely weird clapback to people noticing you didn't live in the district when you declared and then it turning out that you and your friend group were hiding the relationship that prompted you to run in that district in the first place

the american left has a consumerism problem, part the infinity

Of course it’s not a threat at all, under any interpretation, LET ALONE a true threat outside First Amendment protection, but I guess some of these people have a lot on their conscience about supporting a pedophile and tend to blurt it out.

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

This is an odd response to a prediction about a Midwestern congressional primary if I’m being honest

how can i be expected to vote for Chuck Schumer if he doesn’t bend me over his knee and spank me