I thought this was the best description ever:

True posters know.

Innumeracy reigns, Example 4,098,673.

To them, the authoritarianism/fascism talk is solely intended to make people flock to the liberal cause; to expand power by using tyrannophobia as a way of entrenching liberal rule. It’s all just liberal dishonesty, self-exculpation, and self-aggrandizement that needs to be opposed aggressively.

“Pay much higher electricity costs - devastatingly higher, even - while experiencing brownouts or blackouts so we can deploy technology to take your job and render Kafkaesque any engagement with any process or system” is the shit revolutions are made of.

While I think Will is right to focus on the economy and has the correct interpretation, I think a big part of the problem here is that people - namely the left - are way over-indexed on economic policy writing and under-indexed on Benedict Anderson and other theory on identity formation.

2028 front runner.

24 hours later, still processing that Canada decided to make me a citizen since birth just to be nice. Wonder how this would have changed my perspective of living in Canada as an undergrad.

We’re living in a world where a secret cabal of rich, powerful pedophiles has been plotting for years to destroy democratic societies. And one of them is now president of the US. It sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but it’s true.

The neat thing about a Bitcoin crash is that the schadenfreude doesn’t stop at 4 PM

Non-crank leadership getting shit done.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ACTUAL RESEARCH: Comparison #2 (This is a new one.) Please help contribute to this real dataset. Look at these two slides. Just take a wild guess as to the average home value on each street. Reply with two dollar amounts, Street 1 and Street 2. Your input matters. Thank you!

Half a century spent inculcating the youth in nihilist cynicism couched as provocative soul searching.

I just realized that Josh Shapiro is the Dems’ Marco Rubio and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to unsee it.

“God Emperor of Gotham” has a nice ring to it, no?

Chomsky had a simple approach to the US: The US is the only country in the world with agency and everyone else is a victim regardless of action, history, or their own agency.

Going to save this for the next time someone says that Schumer’s doing his best (and when they deny he voted for Andrew Cuomo).

All of this suggests that we might want to grapple with whether Chomsky’s view of the United States is thoughtful introspection, or just straight up nihilism. My position has always been one of “yes, but” in that he solely looks at the darkness in our hearts, ignoring the light.

I was promised Fetterman would side with Trump on anything related to ICE and told “look at his X posts” when I said color me skeptical.

What are the senate implications of this?

You could describe it as a flaw in Tolkiens writing that all the evil people are stupid assholes who just want to stab each other in the back and have no plans other than general evil, but it turns out that’s exactly what evil people are like, he got it completely correct.

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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

We are going to win.

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

Jacky Rosen, folks, known member of the Woke Mob.

It's easy to oppose fascism once it has come out into the open & is shooting innocent women in the face. What's more difficult is a) foreseeing this as inevitable if Trump wins & b) working to prevent his victory, even if c) that means you have to be cringe & stump for Harris.

strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November

I’m open to this, but it’s worth noting that our current state is dramatically different primary dynamics between the two parties. Dem primaries pull the party towards moderation and the center, while GOP primaries pull towards radical Trumpism. Neither is ideal, but they’re very different.

ban @altnps.bsky.social (and for the several hundred of you still following it... why)

Never forget

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Authoritarian regimes, famously immune to the winds of public opinion. 🤔

The victim had three bullet wounds in his back.

you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred

Walz should give this guy a state funeral.

This is right, in theory, but I’m also not sure how well the TRC process plays when the baddies are super pumped about cosplaying Call of Duty.

And *nonviolence weakens them further*, it’s a virtuous cycle. They are vicious thugs who expect us to either passively accept or violently resist, because those are the only two options in their theory of dominance. We must take the other path: nonviolent resistance.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

statement from "Gun Owners of America" a pretty far right org the post goes on to say the left also must "stop antagonizing ICE and CBP" like, these are not the good guys. but these are the sorts of splits that kill a coalition -- when the people who agree with you break x.com/i/status/201...

They reopened federal death row—we must use it.

This needs to be the Dem narrative.

It’s all on video and this isn’t what happened.

They should be *getting on planes*. All of them who are serious about fighting this.

Says a fool typing on his phone from the warm embrace of his sofa.