your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

Goodnight, and may tomorrow's dawn bring the glaring pounding hangover-bright light of conscience and dedicated changed ways to bsky mods, centrist political hacks, and craven fascists, alike.

Either everyone has human rights or no one does. People who think they can have rights while denying them to others have conflated being in the majority with actually having rights. White supremacists understand this. That’s why they’re terrified of “replacement.”

Absolutely, and we see this play out time and time again. They say the left has to win elections to be taken seriously then refuse to back candidates like Zohran even when they do just that. Their tent has room to expand only rightward.

israel, just like usa, will tell the world every single person they kill is a horrific cannibalistic monster who will destroy all if not eliminated. farmers, schoolteachers, nurses, the dude with the produce stand, the people who have the clothing shop, little old ladies, toddlers. all terrorists.

My maga dad thinks trump is smart and Harris is stupid. They’re just racist misogynists .

40% of Republican voters only vote that way because Nazi isn’t on the ballot. We pretend slavery, wiping out Native Americans, Jim Crow, centuries of lynchings and 80+ years of bombing who we want, when we want makes us the good guys. What is good is a % keeps trying to make us a better nation.

i had a post the other day about how we need to treat them with the same derision that we have for child sexual abusers and i was not kidding

What's a bitch ass song you love? Mine is Donnell Jones, Where I Wanna Be. He ain't shit for that song but I love it 😂

We learned how to code just to make our MySpace pages unique. Pirating is light work.

Triple Six but we're fighting fr bruh

They have the United States MILITARY carrying that man’s casket for processing off Air Force 2. Motherfucker served not ONE day in the military. He was a podcaster. Racism is POWERFUL

This is how it starts. An off hand comment made publicly. Then comments like that become normalized. Then someone says, "well what if..." Next thing you know they're marching ppl to death camps.

If you’re old enough to remember the BioShock games, you remember one of the lessons is you can get people on board with absolutely vile shit if you just ask them politely. This moment is a reminder of that; it doesn’t matter how abhorrent your views are if you frame them with “civility”

I’ll never understand how people don’t see Kirk for what he is (well, was): a racist, misogynistic, homophobic bigot with zero redeeming qualities.

Obama drove them insane. Hillary, following Obama -how DARE she try to break the highest glass ceiling, HOW DARE SHE - made them traitorous Russian shills. VP Harris - Who the hell does she think SHE is!!?? - convinced them they needed to destroy their own country. See, it's all us Dems' fault. 🥴

For those not used to public opinion polls, this is actually an amazing set of stats. You can basically count on 25% of Americans to believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster is managing Fort Knox, if you get the question worded right.

Let me tell you something: I would rather stand ten toes down on being radically anti-fascists than to have someone reading my book who thinks I should respect the memory of a fascist. Playing nice with fascists is how we got to where we are now.

It’s giving people do not understand power dynamics and violence from the oppressor is different from violence from the oppressed.

They only call it political violence when it moves upward. When it presses down it's just the natural order of how things must be and don't you ever forget that again or Father State will make you remember in blood.

The only way out of this is out of it together. Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less. We hang together, or we all hang separately.

New working paper alert 🚨 We investigate the influence of police unions in U.S. local politics. We show that in cities where the mayor was supported by a police union, police departments obtain more resources, but, if anything, police performance worsens in these cities. More in the thread below.

This has never served me wrong.

I need to be rubbed and cuddled

Normalize calling racists racist.

Snoop has a chapter in Karin Steffins book..... Snoop made porn...... Snoop killed a nigga...... Snoop been cheating on his wife since 92' Snoop was ke keeing about a AI Tupac diss from a Canadian rapper...... Snoop has smoked himself stupid.. Snoop got to explain all this ND he worried about a kiss

Duh. Who had legitimate questions about this????

Hi, I'm Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry I groped your mom and killed your grandma, but if you give me a fifteenth chance, I promise to throw you out of your apartment.

"But nobody will vote for a Wealth Tax!" Divide it into pieces. Tax 2nd, 3rd, 4th homes and so on at increasing rates. Up the Capital Gains tax on stock held for over a year. Close the carried interest loophole, and all the borderline illegal ways the super rich use to dodge taxes. It can be done.

tbh it's not impossible that Gavin Newsom isn't actually personally a transphobe. However, that would mean he's a weathervane, always finger-to-the-wind, and will change on a dime based on his perception of what polls well. I don't trust people with no principals, just like I don't trust transphobes

Riots are the language of the unheard and the oppressed. Stop demonising a means of speaking out, especially in capitalist and white supremacist systems that do not intend to listen to the tired, overworked, poor, and homeless working class, when they speak in a way that the ruling class approves.

Nah, white people (both conservatives and liberals) got us into this mess. White conservatives because they voted for Trump, white liberals because they helped build a society that was tolerant of racism. If white liberals had been doing their job, very few other whites would've voted for Trump.

At the end of the Civil War, every person who took up arms with the Confederacy should’ve been jailed or executed. Their plantations, land and crops should’ve been distributed to the newly freed Black people and their heirs. Had all this happened, the U.S. would be an unstoppable powerhouse today.

All Nazis should’ve been executed, yes.

I do hope that Newsome’s communications staffer who has embodied the true poaster’s spirit so completely is getting a raise before the spotlight moves on. Also hope the inevitable crash out includes bodying their boss for “fighting back” while his own LEOs assist ICE & hunt the homeless for sport.

Cities aren’t scary. You are scared. There’s a difference

Yes. It's not legal for them to respond by throwing you to the ground and breaking your collarbone and detaining you for 12 hours, but there's no functional remedy for it.

Newsom can't be President because he's an asshole with bad politics but he can absolutely goad the current President into doing dumb and loud shit and there is no greater need in the moment than a loathsome fuck to anger and annoy the other loathsome fuck

If a person is too poor to pay for rent, making them homeless doesn't help. If a person is too poor to pay for food, putting them in a cage doesn't help. If people are poor, don't punish them for it. Give them money and make them not poor anymore.

I don’t think Jeffries refusing to endorse Mamdani hurts Mamdani because he’s running against two Batman villains that everyone hates but it does tell us that they really wish they could hurt him

White liberals love to blame "the left" for Trump, but they are more to blame. They should've tried harder to make their racist friends, relatives, and co-workers less comfortable about supporting racists like Trump and other members of the Republican party. They could've suppressed RW turnout.

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Not a living soul over 35 actually believes the crime rate is higher than it's ever been. You can and should call such people outrageous liars. To their faces.

I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image

I just can’t find the humor in the false fear generated by Republicans in DC because it’s not sincere and it’s not really funny, it’s their way of saying that Black people don’t belong in society, that Black people are inherently unsafe, and that it’s worth using violence to segregate us.

Very cool how Thomas & Alito were found to have taken exorbitant bribes over the years and not a goddamn thing was done about it