There should be a reality show where men compete to be selected for the best podcast idea and then that’s the only male podcast that’s allowed to be aired for the year

I’ve been spending some time on Threads and it’s, it pains to say, not bad? The community feature means you can use it sort of like Reddit, only being exposed the unique brands of batshittery of your choosing.

People don’t respond well to improving economic conditions if non-economic conditions are worsening, that’s what we’ve learned. We can wish it wasn’t so, but it’s very clear. So dems need to figure out how they’re going to make non-economic conditions improve as well.

Using AI in the corporate world is so cool because it’s like being a teen again and adding totally meaningless fluff to a school essay to get it to be long enough except instead of getting marked down for bad work everyone in charge wants you to do exactly that

Part of this is that the libleft loves to lecture because it shows how smart they are but basically everyone hates being lectured at. Stop lecturing and start just talking about what you like/believe, it’s the most effective individual change one can make to become more politically persuasive.

A crank theory I’m percolating is that the decline in all types of substance use over the past ~10 years is why people responded so much worse to the state of the economy than the graphs suggest they should

The last 10 years of productivity/grind culture had told people they’re doing every part of life wrong yet perfection is unattainable and life is stressful so that’s why smoking is back it’s not just because people think it’s cool or something

Why do eggheads feel the need to caveat all opinionated concurrence with “I don’t agree with them on everything…” there’s no one you agree with everything on so just say what you want to say

Yes it’s that everyone lived through a once in a lifetime global event that was followed by years of tumult in being able to predict what would come next and they’ve funneled that anxiety into economic insecurity because that’s mostly all we measure to understand if things are “good” or “bad”

Big day on bluesky for people who think of themselves as liberals to be spouting conservative individual responsibility claptrap

Life now is easier than it was for peasants but it remains an interesting question why life feels hard even though we have material abundance. It’s a problem so many progressives think the answer is that people are ungrateful hedonists. Fine to feel that way I guess but that’s the conservative take!

Not great that so many in the technocratic part of libleft see something like this and their *first impulse* is to mention what a dummy this guy is and then rattle off a bunch of data. Even if it’s true it’s totally poisonous politically.

Learn AI or perish, but you absolutely cannot use it to complete your homework, nonono

Dem leadership has an astounding amount of contempt for its strongest supporters and doesn’t care that it’s plainly obvious to everyone else, who they consider even dumber

absolutely wild, our nation’s first anti-school shooter manifesto manifesto

I went to have cocktails to celebrate the giant meat grinder but then someone turned on the giant meat grinder and it was really loud and scary. and you're laughing

Oh no, how will Drunk Uncle Loser Prom ever recover from this?

Really want to believe this but they are seriously testing the limits of my rationality

Almost everyone hates to be lectured at but Dems love to lecture so doing it to their own coalition is seen as a safe outlet for this desire (it’s not safe)

These big boys are driving up food costs for families by gorging on salmon. I’m doing something about it tinyurl.com/mr27j4nz

Vibecession : Recession :: Placebo : Treatment Placebo can modify physiology without therapeutic intervention, similarly the vibecession can be ‘real’ in the absence of poor economic data

On the topic of Geese, nepo babies, viral culture, etc., and as the parent of teens who interact with a lot of privileged kids, it’s interesting to see the bifurcation of which kids that go the professional route vs. the arts route

‘The dummies don’t know how good they have it’ undercurrent of this discourse coming from our technocrats is irritating. Yes we want things to continue to get better and are unsatisfied if they don’t, that’s progress, supposedly a cornerstone of democratic politics

Love the savvy takes that are like: *eyerolls* he’s not actually going to use a nuke, dummy *eyerolls* Good news, for those who think that is the most important takeaway right now, because the typical American has no idea what’s going on and really doesn’t care

This plus the protests have been much bigger and broader so those who may have participated in campus protests have been incorporated. A more interesting question is: where were all the normies a couple of years ago when only campus protests were happening?

As a young Xer borderline millennial there weren’t many paths to get rich that didn’t involve lots of schooling. Understandable and not irrational to me that high paying software dev jobs, then later influencing and crypto, has made the economy feel unfair to young people even if they are better off

When people talk about what a good communicator someone like Buttigieg is it’s good to know that type of communication has little political value in today’s information economy

The gyre widens.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-al...

This picture of David Scott qualifying for reelection…

Related: if swingy voters see you willing to throw your strongest supporters under the bus, quickly and repeatedly, they can piece together that they’ll soon be under the wheels too

this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

No Democratic nominee since Gore (and that was only with an exceptionally razor-thin margin) has lost enough votes on their left flank to account for the margin of defeat. Which makes it both an empty threat and pointless to blame or argue with such people.

Some variation of this seems true and it’s why protestations that Biden’s economic policies were the best in generations, but he didn’t get credit, are uncompelling. Yes they were good, but were happening against a backdrop of societal turmoil and we can’t separate the two as some would want.

In The State of the Art when trying to decide whether to bring Earth into the Culture the answer is quickly ‘lol, no’ and more time is spent on whether to leave the planet be or just blow it up. Not quite dark forest theory: we’re simply too stupid for advanced civs to bother contacting.

POV you’re riffing on bluesky

Colorectal cancer kills more young people with cancer than any other type and rates are rising so broad access to Cologuard would be a good first step

One reason we should encourage kids to explore this early is because having even a small amount of resolution of identity frees up space for them to go out and fully engage in the world as adults. Being forced into an open-ended identity limbo is a huge mental/emotional tax on the human experience.

Democratic consultants need to stop pretending median voters are persuadable via fact-based arguments. It makes Dems look like out of touch nerds. Just run on "They're covering up child rape, taking away Healthcare to pay ICE to harass immigrants, and crash the economy constantly every time."

Once again, who is ‘the left’ here? Dem politicians/influential funders or just regular people? Because if it’s the latter it really doesn’t matter, they can believe whatever they want and them preparing for a worst case scenario will do nothing to stop that scenario from happening.

AI is a good example of a broader phenomenon where the opinions of some of the wealthiest and most powerful people, with access to their own media platforms, are treated as somehow equivalent in terms of the discourse to the opinions of just regular people on the left

When someone tells me how old their child is I say "that's such a fun age" even if it's 37

Comments on this post are a good example of a common phenomenon on the libleft, call it positive conspiracism or a conspiracy of reasonableness. Instead of a conspiracy where the world is more malign than it appears, with positive conspiracism the world is more orderly than it appears

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