"Listen guys, I know we were all completely justified to hate Joe Biden as much as we did, and in fact it's possible we did not hate him enough, aways gotta leave that possibility open! But maybe we um... don't uh... don't hate *Trump* as much as we should...? Biden bad though, don't get me wrong!!"

"hooray, tumblr philosophy isn't dead" wrong. the internet is a series of tubes, which are topologically equivalent to barrels, and if you march an infinite parade of monkeys through a barrel some of them will turn into Diogenes. this is Barrelposting, and it can never die.

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

them: "autism is a new thing! it must be vaccines!" any historian: "the ancient greek scholar Autisticles of Athens exhaustively catalogued every kind of boat. we think he just really loved boats. he's the only reason we have any knowledge of ancient greek boats."

degrowth has the same problem as prison abolitionism where the policy is either vague or entails committing the worst mass murder in human history

Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time

surprise crossover appearance from my family tradition of dinnertime poetry: www.poetseers.org/contemporary... also what the fuck is "unschooling" I mean, I get that it's homeschooling, but are you telling me that people doing it actually call it "unschooling"?

My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."

challenge to alleged leftists: name one (1) lobbying group that isn’t a secretive Zionist cabal

Thing is, a lot of communities do have systems to address these things and what that looks like is “The pastor or the church elders tell the wife she needs to be more obedient and pray harder.” I have yet to see a hardcore abolitionist contend with the fact that some communities are pro-abuse.

The problem with you guys is that you don't actually want to solve problems, you want a religious reawakening in the usa

there's a central point in here that's worth underlining twice, highlighting, and tattooing on the inside of your eyelids: the optimal [situation/choice/outcome] is not necessarily the one that makes you personally happy, because your happiness is very rarely the most important factor involved

This is going to be very nuanced and very divisive. I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing and digesting it before commenting. Okay? Good, here goes: I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is. 1/

Looks like it’s time to break out Old Reliable again.

truly one of the most "you must get up very early in the morning" grindsets of all time

like, I simply can't trust you if your opinions are both extremely intense and exactly what makes you popular and minimizes social friction with those around you I just don't believe that you believe these things for the right reasons. I would rather be an outcast & hated than not be able to trust

see the difference between Hasan and Beijingers is that Beijingers love their dogs.

I think some of the posters on Bluesky are also extremely invested in their identities as the downtrodden underclass, and evidence that they’re pretty well off, actually, threatens them.

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This is another thing that Posting Activism erases: every course of action, including inaction, has an opportunity cost equal to the highest-value course of action you didn't take.

The enemy of my enemy is another problem for my enemy.

this is the part where we are obligated, as principled anti-fascists, to make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons (this does not and should not preclude us from enacting Operation Unthinkable at a later date)

@eleanor.lockhart.contact this seems potentially relevant to your interests, or at least to something adjacent to them

one of the major problems with liberal revolutionary states is that the willingness to kill the president under some circumstances is a load-bearing pillar of the ideology and they cannot make it legal to say that perhaps we should kill the preaident

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the profit motive is a massive shield that protects us, through incentivizing profit, from other motivations to build systems that are much worse, like the desire to spread religious and sexual values

I've had a migraine all day so I'll say this as best I can if you bring a Palestine flag to a No Kings rally, what you're saying is what happens in a foreign country matters you more than what happens in your country (or the rest of the world)

According to the bluesky poster, the Stancil is both ultra powerful and very weak

friendship ended with Oust The Geriatric Incumbents, now Put Septuagenarians In Charge Of Everything is my new favorite age-related political brainworm

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

ah yes but have you considered that I am much much darker and edgier than my pussy-hat wearing grandma, whom I hate, and who once told me to log off in the middle of a very important Discord chat to help her put away the groceries

This place is never beating the "4chan for hall monitors" allegations.

Bluesky is a place where you can post "I like pancakes" and someone will respond "WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS DOING ANYTHING AND WHY AREN'T YOU PERSONALLY FREEING GAZA, AMERICA IS DOOMED AND THE TIDE OF BLOOD RISES" and then maybe, if you are lucky, in four hours, they will add "also why you hate waffles"

These are the positions of a reactionary 19th century bourgeois who hates the industrial revolution and is also racist. They are being presented as the most up to date opinions for avant garde teens

Absolutely wild that in order to be a leftist you must believe in the existence of souls, that good art "reveals" this "soul," that certain ethnicities have access to the "truth" revealed by this "soul" and not others so they can't make art, and that art can't be made by machine.

You have to make sure the children can’t escape, of course. You can’t make an Omelas without breaking legs.

Perhaps that's the point, as much as anything to do with punching evil clowns in the face: that the doomed city must be defended regardless. That you do not have to hand it to (indeed, that you *must not* hand it to) the League of Assassins, because to abandon Gotham would be to condemn Metropolis.

this is because Sexy Murder Poets, like Betta fish, are a highly territorial species: if you have too many in a single ideology they'll start assassinating each other. if any of them are load-bearing (as some inevitably will be in such an overpopulated ecosystem), this causes explosions.

I'm condemning social media because it has BROKEN OUR SOCIETY and CAUSED A REBIRTH OF FASCISM, which seems worth being a little bit shrill over. No, I don't have a good solution for the problem. But if you want a structural explanation of why insane extremism is on the rise worldwide, this is it.

Alice: "Wow annoying trend" Bob: "Those people are a tiny minority and don't exist" Chris: "Yes we do" Every time.

American revolutionaries in 1776: "I'm signing my name *extra big* on our breakup letter to King Fuckface III, so he knows who to sentence to death the most. If we'd invented AI I'd attach a video of me fucking his wife." American "revolutionaries" today: b-but what if the government knows my name

i always interpreted bothsiderism to just be a republican defense tactic because you never hear "both sides are the same" to defend a democrat.

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These people are insane. It’s madness. Generations put in effort barring the doors to hell shut and they want to open them because they think the demons will politely eat a few libs and queers then leave everything else tidy and unmolested. They are risking millions, perhaps billions of lives.

some people think that without Capitalism humanity would exist in a state of natural grace, and if you just Got Rid Of The Devil-- sorry, Jews-- oh my GOD I'm so sorry, Capitalism, that everything would naturally be wonderful and everyone would get a pony AND a blowjob

As I recall this all got started because Will insisted on pointing out that Biden’s policies had been good for poor people and that the data on this was accurate, a sin for which he could not be forgiven by a lot of people who claim to be on the left.

oh, you didn't think it was going to be this bad? fuck you, you're an idiot

if you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, shut the fuck up right now