It’s been said many times before, but there’s nothing quite like trying to look something up for a tetchy bit of world building, finding an incredibly useful, clear, and concise comment that speaks to your problem, and then seeing it was posted by u/jesuschristsbutthole

what if it happened *today*

So Mamdani *isn't* the future of the Party and *isn't* someone who should use his platform for advocating for better, got it.

this is even fewer people than yesterday

i find it fascinating that vance routinely goes out of his way to make clear that he doesn’t have anything to do.

mike johnson, everybody

No it is not enough to show that she was cheating on her husband or stole Stacy's prize sheep, the devil part is load bearing and we're going to have to ask you to leave the community if you can't understand that.

Listen Becky I know you want us to stop saying we saw Goody Proctor dancing in the woods with the Devil" because it's not true but you should understand that accusations of witchcraft are what bind this community together and that you're being a wrecker and potential Devil Dancer yourself.

i frequently grind my teeth about what i find to be unproductive complaints about various elected democrats but you can have jared polis, call him whatever you want, he fucking sucks and this is how he deserves to end his political career

This is difficult for those of us with scruples and normal morals to understand, because we understand controversy & negative response as BAD things. Someone like Singal does not, bc being in the conversation is how his bread gets buttered. And he emotionally disengages when the backlash gets hot.

Jesse Singal (whom Stancil was NOT defending, he was telling himself a story about how he went bad) did not go bad because of harassment & bad responses to his piece. Jesse Singal staked a controversial position for money & prestige, which the controversy only fueled, & laughed his way to the bank.

Also, for the record, assuming that conservatives or crypto-conservatives and bigots from the NYT Pundit Failson Class think and feel like you do is an understandable liberal-left error, but it's nonetheless often an error, projecting your own neurotype & psychology onto other people.

Or are they like “This looks exactly like the stuff petty communist dictators and third-world megalomaniacs spent years doing, but he doesn’t REALLY mean it, he’s just owning the libs” Or do they just really think he’s some kind of golden god-king

I mean do you think the Republicans who spent years calling Obama and Biden dictators have, deep down in their souls, even the slightest hint of doubt about a president who is literally wallpapering DC with golden monuments to himself?

Having the American president’s face on a giant wall banner like he’s Hussein or ayatollah is humiliating. This is a TDS 2016 lib opinion but Trump obviously has the same psychology as every wannabe dictator, he’s not just a regular republican who’s a vulgar showman. he is antimatter to americanism

Treating the White House like his personal house and Washington, DC like his personal front yard and using NPS money that should be used to maintain our National Parks to do it is a great example of this. It's looting. It's a big fucking deal. Presidents didn't used to loot in this country.

it's going to be cool when every queer over the age of 40 sees the way people talk about pete buttigieg and refuses to say word one about their queer experience where anyone under the age of 40 can see it bet that'll go great for everybody

While there's definitely a few people who don't realize how bad things used to be for gay people in the past, the much, *much* larger and louder contingency simply likes lying about people they've already decided to hate. If you disprove *this*, they switch to "bread price fixing". Always a new lie

Like, I totally agree with this entire thread by Kathryn, it's 100% on point, but there's a significant part of me that can't help but think that these folks know *exactly* what they're doing, and simply like to smear people online for fun and clout.

The worst fucking people alive are going to spend election night this November saying "Fuck Mills and Schumer for handing Collins this seat again!!!" and within 24 hours they'll all claim they never heard of this Gram Planter or whoever that was.

Mills was actually a pretty damn great candidate, but let's play devil's advocate: even if she were as bad as people claimed, that still doesn't excuse voting for a Nazi actually. No one put a gun to your head and made you stand behind a man with a Totenkopf tattoo.

Everyone comes out of this looking bad! Mills was old and Platner was a Nazi rapist, just no heroes in this thing at all!

it's not immediately clear to me after reading the story what meta even thought they'd gain out of this.

I think I've finally got the terminology for where the problem is. They think that queerness and transgression are commutative: "you are queer because you are transgressive, and you are transgressive because you are queer". But only the second part of that is true.

The tragedy of Biden's presidency is that it proved no matter how many legislative wins you pile up, no matter how much bipartisanship you engage in, and no matter how good economic data looks, if you don't "play" the role like the media wants, you'll be deemed a failure

As usual replies are split between “nobody was celebrating Oct 7” and “Oct 7 was awesome”

This is an odd way to describe the mass murder of Jews but also rather proving my point

There must be joy in work.

Oh look

Chevalier was at a PSL-organized rally condemned by both AOC and Lander.

there were lots of people who correctly saw that this was a double disaster - a massacre of Jews that was going to result in an apocalyptic slaughter in Gaza - and acted accordingly; the literally pro-Hamas rallies were not among them. People were fucking jubilant!

Don't piss on my leg and then tell me it's raining; I remember what all you fucks were posting after a massacre of Jews.

oh come on, the Oct 8 rallies weren't in mourning for Gaza, they were in celebration of Oct 7.

i get that it was stupid, i agree that it was stupid, but people need a sense of perspective about this — these people would have been calling the shots not very long ago, and they’re on the outside looking in now

this was, again, less than 5% of the caucus, almost half of whom belong to the CPC

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there's a noosphere, and it's deeply degraded and disturbed. strange and vicious thoughtforms are manifesting in the world.

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.

Just gotta rush out there and invent an Other who can be the Enemy in order to sate the deep desire to live a violently heroic life in service to an invented past.

You know, every time I use Umberto Eco's definition of fascism, I get a few folks super-upset that I haven't used some other (more poli-sci, I guess?) definition...and then these guys just keep vindicating Eco on the topic. You've got points 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 right there.

A big question is whether we'll now see major ICE raids or whether they'll do something more disguised, because ICE is toxic even in red areas. Either way, local press reports that this could mean an economic loss of up to $400 million. Way to own the libs, Ohio! newrepublic.com/article/2124...

Wrap it up folks, mark the calendar to do this again in 3-5 years (Commissaries aren't a good fit for this because of how DECA is run/structured and its directed mission; meanwhile AAFES probably is but it's already half private and basically breaks even so)

if this were true, the conservative media ecosystem would have produced *one* good-without-qualifiers *new* punk band in the last 25 years, their biggest success are the defiant, who are all washed-up has-beens that are older than i am

"i run the protection program" is a fucking hell of a thing to say when even the party's own voters are angry about epstein shit and the rest of the country's been getting increasingly angry about naked corruption

"cancel clankers, stay human" except when it comes to paying graphic designers, lol

one of the things a democratic house majority should do in 2027 is a deep audit into exactly how much trump has spent on renovations, who authorized the spending, what budgets it was allocated from, and whether any of it was even legal

i don’t know how you can watch every single person in trump’s orbit (which is the entire republican party and then some) become objectively worse — no matter how bad they were to start — and fail to understand this

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school