The basic problem here is that the kind of edgelord behavior that became popular on the left starting around 2015 is indistinguishable from the behavior of Gamergate, so if you embraced that milieu of leftism someone's eventually gonna point out the similarities.

“I can’t control the news only report on it.” I mean I guess true but it’s funny how journalists see other outlets reporting on a story and feel like that is worthy of coverage to give a story legs and still somehow feel no agency in this process whatsoever.

It’s funny how Brent crude crashing on the news that Trump hallucinated a resolution for the straight of Hormuz still means price per barrel is up 40% in a month’s time.

people were treating that shit like a modern Chernobyl the political media has the exact same attention deficit as your average TikTok poisoned teenager, just with a bigger budget

remember that one time a train derailed in Ohio and literally nobody died but it was a news story for like a full week and Pete Buttigieg had to personally answer for it?

Ok but like he’s right in a lot of places they didn’t survive. People just quit the DSA and the PSL has never actually been interested in holding any power. People protesting in MN, monitoring ICE and voting for Mamdani in NYC are mostly regular libs in both name and politics.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

The funny thing about rfk is that when he dies it will probably be impossible to tell whether it was murder, given how much weird shit the guy is up to. They'll be like "we found an absolute ton of arsenic in his blood, but also he was taking arsenic pills"

True and also everyone should understand the civil war with the Gone with the Wind scene where southerners talk about how they are better fighters than the yanks. Rhett interrupts their revelry to say “the Yankees have factories, shipyards, coal mines and a fleet, all we have are cotton & slaves.”

The way in which the US media live reports partial election counts in breathless fashion really is bananas, and the way it’s covered is regularly actively detrimental to understanding the result

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

Communism for a lot of people seems to be defined as the desire to bully people online the way they were bullied in high school.

“Boy I sure wish my in-group signaling was the only thing that mattered”

I mean this is true but it’s weird for a journalist to say it as if there’s no agency here almost to imply that Republican reactions dictation news coverage. Which they basically do.

On one hand, having someone hungry in office would be exciting. On the other, I'm still regretting my vote for Saira Rao. And the difference in quality between NYC DSA and Denver's DSA is palpable. I'm still sad Senadora isn't running for this seat.

the king stay the king

i have been rewatching THE WIRE for the first time in like 15 years and one thing i am struck by in the first few episodes is how theater-like the show is. each scene plays like it could be on the stage, right down to the blocking and movement. but it’s not at all distracting! it works, in fact.

I cannot overstate how much people should not touch Denver’s socialist organizations with a 20ft pole. They’re just way to into the aesthetic of politics and not the actual politics of politics.

Persia against Lydia, Sparta and Athens: Yes hahahaha YES! Persia against Macedonia: wait wtf this fucking sucks!

Denver socialists will be like “we need a new reconstruction” but they mean for “democrats” and not for “the south”

It’s funny how none of the targets of these “protests”, which are really just trolls baiting for content, are republicans. Dont you think it’s worth highlighting the politicians and political party in the US who would say verbatim that they think Israel exterminating Palestinians is good?

One of the biggest lessons I’ll take from this excellent poster is that the belief in the “noble lie” is counterproductive and will like work against your professed policy goals. Good luck. Smart move. Every time I delete a social media account I feel noticeably better.

Here’s the thing I believe that some form of American hegemony is going to survive this but it is funny that the Trump admin is doing its best to stab the nation to death and it seems like it is mostly, though not completely, failing.

Two hours until futures open. Bitcoin at the lows and well below Friday’s low.

*record scratch* so you’re probably wondering how I got here well

Sorry babe I missed what you said I was just reading about the fall of Sardis

tfw you’re a settled society and the invading hordes remind you that your ancestors were nomadic steppe horse riders

You rubes, he never wanted to growth the wealth of the nation and thus his own. He wanted to steal what was already earned by others tear everyone around him down to sit atop a pile of rubble. He defines success as the failure of others. And buddy, that means his voters too.

Trump ran for president to enrich himself and satisfy his ego. I think it’s pretty funny how many voters knew this and thought he’d also do it for them personally.

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

so much of anti-housing politics is pure aestheticism. it fits a certain archetype of activism to be positioned against “developers.” the facts on the ground do not matter.

the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

This and also partying with hard drugs. It’s a weird subculture man

Environmentalism and “green aesthetics” are very much at odds with each other. True environmentalism looks like big dense cities, buses, teams, and right outside of these cities are fields and fields of wind farms, solar panels and a several nuclear power plants next running water.

I hate rural American culture more than most but vibey environmentalism and RETVRN TO PEASANTRY Marxism ignore one of the greatest achievements of the modern era, which is that every growing season is not a roll of the dice on everyone’s lives.

I would simply farm without these unsafe fertilizers, the way they did before we had industrial agriculture* *starve to death

My hate of the south is really bad for my March madness bracket

What’s really funny is that organic farming still uses fertilizer! You literally have to!

The right wing was courting anti-vaxxers before Covid. Tbh notably started with CrossFit bros who were all pretend libertarians. Paleo diet, caveman, I’m strong, too strong for vaccines even. I think RFK and the rest of the MAHA movement are just a productive of the times and insanely lucky.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

"the pentagon didn't even have a plan to deal with iran closing the strait!" okay but the thing is: that's not the pentagon's job. that's never going to be the pentagon's job. the pentagon's shown serious incompetence here but this isn't it let me explain

I agree that cars are a scourge. And I really enjoy riding a bike even when that’s the case. There is joy in riding. I would just like it to be less dangerous to do so.

These are very bad numbers, and yet also stupidly good considering who is being evaluated and what he has done.

Trump job approval (American Research Group) Approve: 34% (-2) Disapprove: 63% (+1) (shift since last month) americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

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When you’re winning

i often think that playing in punk bands that like five people care about for three quarters of my life so far has given me a healthy appreciation for doing things just because you want to do them

Honestly sometimes just wonder if being a leftist in America is mostly being a Russia apologist.

The weird leftist reaction to Trump 2016 was to continue to insist that the Trump campaign did not work with Russia to tip the election in his favor despite explicit evidence confirming it.