Have you ever been in a working textile factory? The noise is literally deafening and the constant motion of the machines is overwhelming and makes you sick. It would be tantamount to torture to be in that environment full time by today’s standards.

Being a craftsman who only does projects you want to when you want to is a fun hobby that few can turn into a profitable enterprise. Working in a textile factory is not something we should aspire to have more people doing

You can romanticize the radical, sure, but you also need to recognize that those radicals aren’t really good at creating change. You’re making an aesthetic critique here and not a political one.

Here's another hot take: The fetishization of blue-collar work by people who've never been forced to do blue-collar work is essentially the same as the fetishization of cottagecore/trad aesthetic by people who've never been forced to do cottagecore/trad life work.

The problem with "you're wrong about" type podcasts is that eventually they get around to covering something you actually know quite a bit about and when they get major things wrong it bursts the illusion that the hosts know anything other than how to make a podcast.

New York's congestion pricing toll has reduced traffic and sped up commutes. Now it's also hitting its revenue goals: $48 million raised in its first month. President Trump still wants to kill it. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...

The smug confidence of people telling the world how much the Democrats suck in the face of actual fascism is getting on my damn nerves.

this is incredibly stupid shit and you should feel bad about amplifying it

Silicon Valley looks like the suburban sprawl ringing every American city, except the crappy 70 year old tract houses all cost $2,500,000. It’s just a profound failure of governance and planning.

The thing that’s so toxic about stuff like this is people “from the left” deciding to accept that Trump’s abuses in the present are just “how the system works” and then projecting that into the past to blame Obama and Biden for not doing the same but for good.

if your main reaction to USAID being destroyed is not one of or both of: It means the constitutional order is gone, and/or it will kill a shitload of people, you are either a stupid person or a evil person and people should stop pretending this is not the case

to put it in really dorky terms a lot of arguments online appear to really boil down to "resolved; everything is pointless and doomed forever" and the aff side is represented by a person who has untreated clinical depression but a shitload of red bull

White leftists stop acting like Black Americans have the same relationship with America and Americana as they do challenge.

a white new yorker who i think doesnt do anything, telling Kendrick fucking lamar how he should express his complicated relationship with America is next level.

important to support public transit

Fuck the Chiefs

We are dancing on the septa.

They're dancing on the septa

“we got people climbing the poles on top of the new stands, on top of the septa, on top of the stop [signs]” “they’re dancing on the septa”

“i got fireworks, there’s also a dj booth” [intermittent explosions in bachground]

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

The other, related version of this that I see all the time is "If you ignore the base (us lefties) you'll lose the election (because we won't vote for you)" vs "We lefties cannot have cost her the election, there are only like 100 of us total"

I'm really happy that even after winning power these people will stay miserable in a hell of their own making.

An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests

If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE

Checking in to say Go Birds, America's Football Team and yours has prevailed

They're not going to win in the long term, they're not going to win in the medium term, and if the past few days are any indication we're giving them a run for their money in the short term too. Just keep in mind that their strategy is to baffle you into submission.

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

Green: I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.

Hard to not feel cynical about the silence from specific people and groups who were very loud and angry this time last year.

Fuck that guy, honestly. Go back to making homophobic tweets about Buttigieg for your Chapo buddies.

Bitter millennial pushing 40 with a Simpsons avi and a hammer & sickle in bio

a tale as old as time

cancelling pepfar will kill like a million people a year, every year

In addition to a ton people loosing their mind the number of depression bots out there is insane. Tiny accounts who have only have two posts about random stuff but hundreds of replies telling everyone that democracy is dead.

I'm serious that what's going on here is people have doomer friends who demand their friends validate their mental illness and have lines prepared about how it's actually <all conceivably applicable prejudices> to point out mental illness in someone like them, and so you can only yell at the Dems

Jaden Smith stuns in new Accessory Dwelling Unit

I mean this literally. She both sided the crap out of the election. Including stating Joe Biden would "get her family." And *now* she's worried about health care, trans people, etc? www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/chap...

This is why we lost. Fucking white people.a black woman was never going to be good enough.

So, a reasonable person must now ask: what's your goal in convincing your fellow Americans that they're powerless?

I have a theory about this. It's kind of mean. In a lot of Evangelical environments, there's a strong ethos of "we are the lone righteous oppressed by godless tyranny, but We Will Win in the end". I think a lot of online people grew up like that, and so that's their idea of how the world works.