new type of weirdo just dropped

dem tea party: good!

#SCOTUS just granted emergency relief in *both* the California teachers case (putting back on hold, at least in this case, California’s law barring teachers from outing transgender students to their parents) *and* the Malliotakis redistricting cases. The Democratic appointees dissented in both.

doing first ever strength build in Elden Ring and I gotta admit, the big bonk build is fun. also clearly superior to every other build I've tried, like right out of the gate? and seems to scale well? in any event, my strat is "be way over leveled and pump it all into strength" and that's been great

four to eight year sprints is not enough time to build a durable, stable life!

I don't think trading electoral wins and losses with fascists is good enough. I want representation that agrees with me and tries to eliminate the threat of fascism for the foreseeable future.

"our betters in the government should be in charge, not the terrible unwashed masses. the problem isn't that the republican base is repulsive, it's that *all* voters are repulsive, and cannot be trusted" this is where dem leadership is at, and this is where their dead end defenders end up too

I would be very interested to know how the economics of all this have shaken out both for the firms that fought and the firms that caved

Yeah, I agree. I didn't mean to suggest to the contrary. My point was that originalism will reliably generate these bad-faith actors, so the problem goes deeper than one actor's bad faith. I said that more clearly down-thread. bsky.app/profile/matt...

eh, i mean the final sentence here is true but imo inapposite. respectfully, the problem here isn’t the wurman is playing historian in good faith but doing it badly, the problem is he’s acting in bad faith to produce regime-friendly propaganda. originalism is just a tool for that, not the motivator

Asked about what version of Platner offline Mainers see and got this response (thread): bsky.app/profile/curm...

the only thing I find remotely interesting about platner, who I otherwise find odious, is nothing to do with the man himself, but rather the conditions that have allowed him to remain competitive and even a favorite to win the dem nomination despite being odious.

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

people are putting forward explanations. i think most of them make sense. but they all in some sense involve the press allowing trump and his most dedicated supporters to decide whether a story about their unpopularity is legitimate. in a democratic society, the leader is not the assignment editor

Fuck, they’re going to put Riley Gaines in charge.

apparently this needs to be stated explicitly: this same sentiment applies to elected/wannabe elected dems too. I was done with platner the day the story of his nazi tattoo broke and I think that was obvious from my response to that story, which included phrases like "extreme, disqualifying doubt"

Unfortunately one of the funniest things he has ever said

I think Platner is actually a very talented political communicator and that this talent is tied to a dude who is either Nazi-adjacent or a stone cold dipshit with horrendous instincts - or both - is Not Great

Lawson is so eloquent, worth 2 mins of your time.

“noooo you can’t make internal critiques of the Democratic Party noooooo” it’s one one of the most hideously unpopular entities in America and it’s on decade-long losing streak against a half-coherent reality TV host that’s so severe that it has potentially vaporized US democracy

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

other people can make inroads and find common ground with regretful trump voters, in my personal capacity as a private citizen i am committed to hating those dumb motherfuckers for the rest of my life

i never once thought this guy was anything but an idiot and i never understood why people treated him like a serious interlocutor worthy of engagement

you could pivot to being a LEGO account or maybe a day in the life influencer or something but you need to go away as far as politics goes because you gave the wallet inspector your wallet

if you ever called donald trump the “peace candidate” or expressed a similar sentiment, please have the decency to delete your account and go away and let smarter people discuss politics

we’re gonna get airmen in nebraska falling in love with their ai-powered icbm launch system

materialists take: this could’ve been a good movie if dakota johnson wasn’t a charisma black hole. she has negative charisma. somehow makes evans and pascal seem flat, two of the most naturally charismatic guys in hollywood.

racialized gooning from michael yet again😔

This is the way

this is good. more of this!

the human body is so fuckin needy. you buy groceries, you cook some food, you do some dishes, and then, what…you’re supposed to cook more food? do more dishes? and a few days later buy more groceries? and guess what comes after that. insane. it’s never enough

just saw that yesterday was the anniversary of “who do you think you are? i am!” and i can’t believe i missed it 😢

as a podcaster i must defend the idea that a loud blowhard can be good

This person doesn’t seem very smart. Like wondering out loud to everyone why we’d call the hockey guys “losers” when they just won a gold medal

when i “whine” about dems being losers, its not because i think they’ve lost too many elections, its because i think they’ve squandered that power when they’ve won. is there a better case-in-point than the biden admin fumbling the response to a fucking coup?

Thank you, sir, for making your first post in almost 3 years after solely posting pictures of Germany to weigh in on behalf of Jasmine Crockett.

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one way to look strong is to have a principle or value that you stand by and fight for even when it doesn't poll well. this is basically what Beshear has argued with trans issues. but the current dem governing and electoral strategy is almost ontologically opposed to doing that

always a weird experience when someone you've only recently followed retweets something kinda deranged and then you're left to wonder if it was an ironic "look at this shit" type thing or if they actually believe stuff like that. time will tell!

We have more types of normal than anywhere else and they all get along

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looking forward to another day of being normal online with my pals on bluesky who are also sure to be very normal

Hearing about this new trend. It's called brown hair