It's the principle that matters: Democrats don't need to win, we just need the left to lose

I know it seems like the motley coalition of rancher-klansmen, Dominionist car dealers, and deeply impoverished authoritarian followers who only talk about killing liberals and burning cities might all be gleeful fascist, but actually they're just sad about deindustrialization and diesel taxes

(OOC: this is the inevitable result of a society built around corporate theft. When US liberals abandoned even Nader style regulatory reformism they forgot that things like public education campaigns are actually wars against corporations and you need to disempower your enemies to win.)

(OOC: so it's two things. First, desiring and/or loving trans women is seen as political, and these people are allergic to anything they deem political. Second, a major tent pole of male heterosexuality is just misogyny, so having sex with men can be pretty straight if it's because you hate women.)

Exactly! Now these progressive babies that fueled the Platner campaign can pack it up and leave it to the adults in DC. Stop trying to do politics lefties!

If you liked the campaign that was promising to make your life materially better you have to like the hollow eyed consultant demon. If you disagree you're a slopulist homophobe.

I had many disagreements with Mr Pinochet but he devoted much of his life to public service and he his enthusiasm for helicopters was exceptional. My heart goes out to his family.

Welcome back Trofim Lysenko, we're so glad to have you in the Marketplace of Ideas

I can't believe we're automating phoney research done with slipshod practices, we need to protect American jobs! Generations of Americans worked hard in diploma mills and Christian Science centers and selling snake oil, and we can't give that up to the machines like this

Us right-wing Democrats are going to excise the DSA invaders. I'm shocked how the DSA has uplifted known rapists to office such as Joe Biden and Bill Clinton.

And even if they didn't it *feels* true, which is what matters

I disagree with him of course but we can't make our tent smaller by dismissing these reasonable concerns out of hand

This is quite straightforwardly true which is why the Koch Brothers creating a massive network of propagandists, volunteers, financiers, etc, is literally the same as you telling your friend you think they should vote for a candidate you might not otherwise like

Hey you DSA apologist brat we still need to flense Chappell Roan for doing exactly this to Harris, can it

Some people are accusing Helen Lewis of having legitimized the anti-gender movement among liberal elites through he role as an anti-trans, anti-feminist activist, but I think that's very unfair and probably cancel culture even.

Slopulism is like porn: it's whatever the Heritage Foundation doesn't like

Ok but have you considered the Abundance of buildings this sort of thinking could accomplish?

How come the left isn't raking in Kock Brothers and Heritage Foundation dollars huh?

Heh well since we all know that Platner supporters are just misogynists that love Nazism I'm sure this latest news isn't going to catastrophically end his campaign, time to be smug about how this too means Mainers have evil hearts

Please bro just one more Amy McGrath bro this time it will work we're going to flip an extremely safe red seat bro Please 🙏 I promise this isn't just a scheme for lucrative consultant fees on ad buys

(OOC: Geidner's piece doesn't really explain this but as far as I understand the issue is that BPJ's lawyers made an argument that the liberal justices believe was impossibly flawed, and Jackson essentially explained how to make a successful argument in the future)

It's actually racist to primary right-wing Democrats

If the DSA were really about opposing right wing forces like they say how come they aren't beating Republicans in their Democratic primaries? Riddle me that, communists!

First they came for the trans kids and I was like "lol that's like four people that's not even that bad"

Thank you to Sonia Sotomayor, Kentanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan: today you bravely stood alongside your Republican colleagues and unanimously voted to re-interpret Title IX to enforce the Republican gender regime. The gender policing law being created by women is a big feminism win!

It's despicable how these queer people could support Trump because, as we've seen, queer people had nothing to lose from a second Trump administration

Working class means someone who owns a general contracting company or a million dollar farm, whereas pharmacy techs who are not allowed to take breaks and research scientists who can't see the doctor are elites

(OOC: I call this phenomenon Stancilism, where a person for whom being politically informed is an important identity marker refuses to understand unambiguous and clear things and treats their refusal to understand as proof that something remarkable and irrational is happening among the public)

Real centrism has never been tried

Leftists refuse to understand that once we retake power we're going to make all kinds of big realistic reforms to counter the Trump revolution, like slightly easing taxes on the middle class and enacting some zoning reforms so NIMBYs can't keep stopping data centers. Just look at Spanberger!

Everyone in this story is clearly suffering economic anxiety

Ken is committing two crimes here: first, his analysis is really mean to third way Dems who are having a very bad year already, and second, his seemingly incredible tame, dadcore turn of phrase to describe politicos he sees as fake is actually a secret nazi dogwhistle.

I want to congratulate all the AIPAC funded consultants and Republican operatives who are going to make a lot of money in Maine this cycle. Have fun out there you scamps and put some into savings!

Mainers need to get with the program. The DSCC vanguard's decisions are final. Anyone who rebels against the consensus of democratic centralism is a traitor and a nazi.

Yeah a common problem with society today is too *much* epistemic rigor, so true bestie

Why do conservatives always seem so happy?

The United States as a political project hasn't successfully democratized the US South in ~250 years, but if centrists win this next election it will definitely take this time

It would be irresponsible for Democrats to try to weaken the Orphan Crusher while we're out of power since we may very well win back power and then be able to use the Orphan Crusher ourselves

Morality is very simple; if very many people do something it's moral. Checkmate philosophers.

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.

Fascism is the worst form of government except for all the other ones

Anyone who won't sacrifice their utility bills to the technocratic god of bloodless neoliberalism is suffering from a moral panic. Or "social contagion", that doesn't look so out of place on a spreadsheet.

Look, did Chuck Schumer march in an openly fascist event in support of the genocide he has helped orchestrate? Who can say. Does he vocally identify with one of the most powerful religious extremist movements in the US, dominated by Christian nationalists? Maybe. But he was very moderate about it

If you think about you actually have to provide Whites Only drinking fountains because some white people really have suffered from crimes, and Black people might remind them of criminality. And wouldn't it be wrong to not accommodate that?

TRAs were wrong to pursue maximalist positions like "we should be allowed to participate in public life", and especially wrong to cut a bloody swath through institutions meant to protect civil liberties by expecting those institutions to do that. The normal transes are much better behaved.

Thank you to Macy's and Citi Bank for inventing Pride!

The DNC was actually pulling a headfake by recruiting and backing Mills, their secret plan was to force Mainers to accept an extremely outspoken critic of the DNC. You would be a fool not to get in line with the geniuses at the DNC, you can't comprehend their 5th dimensional plans. Submit.

As a liberal I think individual liberty and freedom of expression are the most important values second only to the necessity of ensuring that nobody ever sees a nipple

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts