This shit always makes me think about how the Soviets refused to build a monument over Babyn Yar because they simply categorically refused to entertain the notion that their own citizens may have collaborated in the Holocaust.

And when it was talked about it was taught as fascists attacking communism and not ethnic based murder.

To be fair here, part of the issue is that FDR also was flirting towards more imperial versions of the presidency and asked for massive control of the economy, and the difference with Trump is that when the Supreme Court and Congress derailed his plans, FDR accepted a compromise, unlike Trump.

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

Mfs expecting "it's biblical" to somehow excuse the fact that it's transparent pro-Roman-Empire propaganda. "No, Christ wasn't killed by the guy who killed him. Don't you see? Pontius washed his hands of it! Not his fault. The REAL guilty party here is all those fucking Jewish subjects."

Christmas was a popular time for pogroms also.

Jews are in fact allowed to push back on the claim that Jews killed Jesus? like, that's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. saying "it's biblical" doesn't change the fact that it's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. it's kind of doubling down on the antisemitic conspiracy theory, in fact. 1

Also, this shouldn't need saying, but the tankie line of "All true left-wing politics in Central-Eastern Europe is pro-Soviet, all Soviets are essentially Russians, everyone who disagrees is a Nazi" is also precisely the line that CEE Neo-Nazis ardently push and would *love* everyone to internalise!

This is an excellent thread on how and why triangulation/moderation no longer works as well as it did, and why the Democratic party will have to become more extreme on social issues than it is now (because there's no real way to actually seperate yourself anymore).

Its harder to segment your coalition now- Dems can't performatively cede ground on trans rights & then not follow through or do so on a regional basis, with national politics it's all or nothing. Further, the Dems & broader left are all bound together in the popular imagination

Also being pro human rights and freedom- immigrants, LGBT+, pro choice, etc- is the one of the unifying theme of the center left coaltion in the united states. Labour in the UK has given up on doing the right thing & collapsed. A coalition needs some iron in it, something to fight for

Problem with lower-case a abundance is that Dems have (somewhat inadvertently) allied themselves with the two of the biggest perceived obstacles to cost-of-living help - rich NIMBYs - The MBA/Consultant/PMC types who get blasted for greedflation Add that to being perceived as anti cheap energy…

Okay, I'm gonna ask to avoid falling for something that fell too neatly into my priors for the second time in thirty minutes: Did he actually say this?

It’s a deep simplification of the reality. It also basically accepts the imperial presidency where the president orders independent agencies around.

It's definitely too hard to amend the constitution normally, but another issue is that it's also too easy for the Supreme Court to amend the constitution unless you are willing to ignore the Supreme Court, and that leads to places no one will like.

Ditto claiming transness is a class perk of the bourgeoisie

this is just “Weimar decadence” with woke window dressing - transgender lives aren’t a luxury or privilege ask a transgender person

I'm 100% serious by the way. It is impossible to describe by any other word than "racism" the way that apologists for Sovietry talk about my people. I cannot begin to describe how many times in the last fifteen years I have seen random Westerners claim that our record of our own history is Naziism.

Chris Freiman talked on Twitter about how downplaying the economic strength on both the left and right is used to boost support for radical reforms that aren't necessary or harmful. I see a lot of this here.

Basically I think the arguments people are making just do not make much sense? They are just listing bad things, but recessions are not particularly caused bad "too many bad things".

Pretty big divergence between what the Politics Knowers think is happening to the economy and what Economy Knowers say is happening to the economy. I find that gap troubling. Keep your expectations in check, folks.

The reason you have so much Holocaust revisionism in Eastern Europe /today/ is because the first time people spoke openly about it was in fact when the Soviet empire fell. Literally all forms of Jewish and Roma self-organisation that could have promoted honest chats about it were illegal until then!

The Red Army closed the camps, sure. But then the NKVD shot anyone who tried to write about them, because the very fact of a conversation was so politically inconvenient.

bro they used to shoot people trying to escape the country like it was an open air prison

What happened to East Germans who wanted to emigrate?

I understand the desire to share every terrible news story and new threat trans people face. I used to do it. There's a traumatized way in which it can feel like the right thing to do to help people stay safe. It's not. It helps to keep us in fight-or-flight, and stop us from taking useful action.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

This is a weak, unpopular regime getting more unpopular by the day. It will crumble. The ride along the way will be nasty for everyone--Trump is liable to deliberately wreck a fuckton more stuff on his way down--but it ends with these fucks out of power and in prison.

The other day when I said that people sometimes use “Zionist” not to critique an actual ideology but as a code word for “Jew,” a lot of people on here got mad at me.

obviously there's some raging antisemitism going on in here but i'm hung up on willis' "question my interest in participating in american politics" i've been on about how liberals need to rediscover liberalism as a fighting creed... the same goes for bros like willis bsky.app/profile/joel...

if it's the last thing I do I will get more of you to understand this

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

The difference between pro-Israel rightists and anti-Israel rightists on antisemitism is the difference between how Muslims treated Jews and how Christians treated Jews. One is worse than the other, but the claim that someone is pro-Israel means they're a moderate on the Jewish question is a lie.

I sort of agree that the promise of Obama was the end of racial strife in America, but ending racial strife is something which is on the side *doing the racial strife* to actually stop.

praise one black left of center intellectual without shitting on another black left of center intellectual challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

we finally have polling on how Jewish ppl in NY feel about Mamdani...and he's winning by 17 points. this is why polls are useful. they give you a sense of what ppl think, and let you know when leaders and pundits are full of shit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/jews-like-...

Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.

The new TikTok US entity would be controlled by a consortium of Silver Lake, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Oracle. 80% US, 20% China ownership. One board member appointed by the US government. Existing users would be expected to shift to a new app (lol). Would not be surprised if this nukes usership.

This is not to say that they can't do enormous damage beyond what they've already done; it's that there isn't a scenario where we all wake up tomorrow morning and it's 1984.

People really hate all of this, it’s why I keep saying that the administration is doing things as propaganda out of weakness, not strength

It's a defining characteristic of bigotry: the worst members of a minority group is held up as if all of that minority group are like that. Hell, that worst member doesn't always have to be real!

Racism is essentially: if you’re in my group the best example is the default assumption and the worst are outliers and if NOT in my group, the worst example is the default assumption and all of the best examples are outliers; even when evidence is the reverse (see white male murderers)

the core of fascism is assuming any group of people you can envision is a monolith and all members are responsible for one’s bad acts. Which is of course just more projection

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

Yeah, it's genuinely scary how much the right has accepted that Stalin-style show trials and executions of all trans people are acceptable based on individual murders. We really, really do need to draw a hard line that attacking trans people isn't okay.

The idea that there is a clear distinction between cancel culture and ideological purges of government is untenable

No George B. McClellan Democrats

It is somewhat telling that both TCW and Noah dot Blog seem to only view social media as a tool with which to wield political/cultural influence and not like. An online space that connects people

i mean its a bit more complicated than that because the 1850s were also when members of congress were pulling knives and guns on each other, stalking people to beat them up, and were so narsty they just spat their chew on the carpet instead of using the spitoons that were literally everywhere