I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.

Frankly the fact that this site hasn't banned M*lly Sh*h for pig butchering is beyond me.

Genuinely astonishing to me that there are people on here who hate liberals so much they just end up becoming pro-Nazi by default

Another way this manifests on the left is fighting against imperfect solutions or harm reduction because the revolution or whatever is right around the corner. This is a position of privilege. Saying we'll have communism soon doesn't help the person starving from SNAP cuts today.

I think one of the most persistent social lies we are all taught is that evil, unshackled by the need to be moral, is better at things. This in spite of the fact that every time evil is tried on a societal level, it fails. It makes everything worse, not just what it wants to make worse.

No wonder tankies feel such a strong kinship towards an authoritarian tyrant like Assad. He's essentially just like them!

Imagine if some of you could have turned the energy you spend on defending the DSA from the latest antics of the IC on defending the actual progressive accomplishments of Democrats under Biden.

The balance we had struck - do sports betting casually with people you actually know, or physically go to some sad, grimy place to do it - was good. There was no need for any of this!

The NBC Olympics commentator repeatedly talking about placing bets on games is just so fucking gross man. App based sports betting needs to be nuked from orbit.

there are certain politicians people find attractive and its blindingly obvious that colors everything people say and think about them

American media is engaging in authoritarian censorship to protect this administration. It's heinous.

"we have to get rid of all these eighty-plus-year-old--" nope, fuck you, we will let this woman stay in the fight until she says she's done

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Donald Trump’s ego is so bruised from when I stood up to him in the White House last year and beat him in court that he’s refusing to meet with us. Let me be clear — he won’t be able to avoid accountability when I confront him in the Senate next year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

you know dudes with questionable facial hair keep posting this moody and dramatic shit, but you know what I don't see? I don't see a bunch of anarchists, leftists, socialists out in the streets doing Revolution I see a bunch of lib moms in the streets and Dems in government fighting back.

People on here: “Democrats are terrible at broadcasting their wins and are failing at youth vote outreach!” Kamala Harris: “OK, I’m turning my campaign-headquarters into a youth-focused media outlet focused on progressive political news and accomplishments.” People on here: “NOT LIKE THAT!”

Trump confessing that he posted the racist video and that the White House lied when they claimed a staffer posted it.

Yeah. “Dems are basically Reagan. Muh rainbow capitalism…” Buddy, Reagan let AIDS rip on purpose because he wanted to make it so there were no rainbow people to capitalism to.

Bill said, "Come outside, James, we're not gonna jump you!" 😂😂😂

I'm assuming that there's probably just mountains of heroin pouring into the country right now.

one of the great under covered stories of the Trump 2 Administration is that Trump and the Catholic Church are as openly at war with each other as I've seen the Church be over and issue that wasn't abortion in my lifetime, its reached abortion levels

I support a national infrastructure program centered entirely around all the prisons we're going to need to build to cram the people responsible for this into for the rest of their lives.

What the FUCK? This is demonic

Nazi regime does more than post racist propaganda.

Man got booed so hard he lost all his rings like Sonic the Hedgehog.

The POTUS is sharing memes of Black Americans as gorillas. To every single person who gaslit us about him and the people who voted for him not being racist, you've been an acute part of the problem the whole time.

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Love this for them.

Literal Disney villains.

We've seen this time and time again. It's the logic of a rapist. They lash out kicking and screaming when denied their prey and try even harder.

And the White House wants us to believe a staffer posted it when the reality is this would hardly be the first time Trump got up in the middle of the night to share something deranged. This is who he is, it's who he's always been.

I'd like Tim Scott to tell us what was the previous most racist thing he's seen out of this White House.

Same guy that bought a front page ad against the Central Park 5

DNC conspiracy posting? thats a blocking, being crazy about Mayor Pete? thats a blocking, saying Biden had dementia? thats a blocking, accusing Harris of war crimes and genocide? thats a blocking, saying AIPAC rules the world? thats a blocking

Turns out when you don't eject antisemites from your spaces, they set up shop and thrive. If only leftists had listened! If only this was the first time this kind of thing has happened!

"Girlboss" as an epithet was a load-bearing piece of the new societal consensus that women are inherently bourgeois and don't deserve power or status, and it needs reclamation stat before we truly return to monke on gender issues

ah, the fools of socialism

Kind of felt to me like it very quickly just became a way to be misogynist, the same way the term “Karen” did. Time for girlboss 2.0.

All the people who claimed it was unfair for Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee without competing in a primary are now freaking out because they are afraid she's gonna run in the 2028 Democratic Presidential primary.

make Civics class mandatory in high school, like math or English. learning about how government is supposed to work is the groundwork for wanting to engage with it, and the key to knowing when things aren’t working like they should.

The American people as a whole are in a weird place where they're simultaneously hyper-cynical and totally dismissive of the notion there are like 18 different psyops going on to undermine their belief in the concept of society.

The Angry Leftist Voter Guide

I was "lucky" in that I'd volunteered for a city council campaign in 2014 where someone shot through our office windows so it was "same shit as always" by 2016 when we got relentless death threats.

"vote for me, I'll tell you up front I'll suck" also pro-tip most awful Congresspeople get re-elected over and over because in fact they are good at something, constituency services. A thing if I remember right Kat didn't know existed.

Jesus Christ, at a certain point Gen Z has *got* to give up on this weird combination of antipathy and malaise that seems to be the only way so many of them are capable of engaging with politics.

that man dying

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

"Ironically" liking Trump became so popular in certain left circles overnight because it was seen as a harmless way to complain about President Hillary, which was 110% assured. People rooted for him like you would casually root for the villain in a movie. There's no stakes, you know they won't win.

I don't think its completely fair to say Nick "was" a moron. All indications I've seen show that he continues to be one to this day.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.