anyone who talks about birthrate decline in the West without mentioning immigration as a solution is a white supremacist.

good news then bad news

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

at the airport AMA

Man I resent the idea that New York needs to be unpleasant to live in to be authentic so much, it’s pervasive and it holds the city back in so many ways

left NIMBYism is a study in cognitive dissonance and paradoxes: the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”

my vindication is coming

These matter if we work collectively to make them matter. That means everyone talking about them a lot, not just on here, but to normies in everyday life. Please help do your part!

"This won't change anyth––" *backhand slaps you*

I legitimately think one of the absolute poisons of American political discourse is how “but will this matter electorally” has become the only metric used by basically the entire non-partisan media for assessing a story’s importance

marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before

Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.

Republicans don’t believe in this stuff! Like we all continue to be in awe of it because we’re viewing it through the lens of electoral calculus, but they aren’t! They really do believe this stuff (like the ACA) shouldn’t exist

my hot take about Jar Jar Binks is that he’s not even the most offensive racial stereotype in The Phantom Menace and you could argue he’s #3

"We can't reform the Dems, we need a new party" is the political equivalent of "we can't fix climate change on earth, we need to colonize Mars" in that however hard the former is, the latter is *way* harder and you'll just need the D voter base so you wind up with the Schmemocrats, anyway

you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution. to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum. anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.

you’d have to rebuild so much financial, political, and legal infrastructure, and that’s a lot of capital to expend when you can just directly choose your nominees for the democratic party in a primary. this is pretty straightforward imo

Parties are shells that are continuously remade. Compare Ds/Rs in 1868, 1904, 1932, 1972, & today on class, race, gender, immigration, & religion. Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation. Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.

Did Guillermo del Toro burn some of your houses down or something. Maybe he should

they’re not prepared to do what is necessary to stop America from sliding into autocracy, so therefore they must convince themselves we’re not sliding into autocracy

Yup. If you’re unwilling to vote, donate, help, or run for office, you absolutely would not be willing to do the *much worse* shit that would come after electoral politics.

That doesn't mean let up on the pressure, oh no. Just that I cannot, and you cannot, let your sense of purpose depend on Democratic Senators doing the work. They - en masse - will not. Not yet anyway.

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

Vote and get involved because you're going to like the alternative to being asked to participate in a political group even less

I’m past being disappointed, I’m past yelling on here about how feckless they are, etc. Let’s just fucking replace these people and make their lives hell until we do.

Trump sure does look unpopular. Welp, time to cave to each of his insane demands

I’m sure someone else did this but still

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

That might be the best footwork I’ve ever seen on a catch

once you realize people like this are just unconsciously trying to justify their own paralyzation and inaction, you can’t unsee it

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

There's a whole lot of people who like to say they know a lot about politics, but when you look at what they say (and the bigger tell, what they think other politicians do and believe) it's clear that their understanding is a funhouse mirror version from memes, YouTube, and podcasts

Bernie Sanders record of surrounding himself with people who then got gigs of their own by association only to turn out to be absolute disasters at it is only matched in public life by Bill Belichick

Frankenstein is available to stream on Netflix today, so expect a bunch of “I don’t get the big deal” takes from people uninterested in the movie who half-watched it on their phones.

on the one hand, this feels too good to be true, but on the other, a +14 Sherrill poll would have seemed too good to be true on Monday so who the hell knows what the environment is lol

@pattymo.com just wanted to send up the bat signal that PREDATOR: BADLANDS surprisingly has a Good Little Guy in it.

I don't want to hear about how if you're protesting ICE you need to hide your identity and keep no ID because otherwise you'll be rounded up and sent to the gulag, or whatever. they can't even land a conviction when you throw a footlong at them

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

JUSTICE IS SERVED… BETWEEN TWO SLICES OF BREAD

it’s so insane that our country is gonna be behind the rest of the world on this because Donald Trump and republicans think burning fossil fuels is manly

say what you will about this era, but the visual metaphors are on the nose

if they were smart, they’d realize his victory showed that sincere, Lin-Manuel-esque aesthetics are actually very effective at selling socialist ideas to normie libs. but they are not smart.

you ever have a shitty time and then a small compliment or interaction from a stranger completely turns your day around? you can be that stranger for others. i just think that’s Neat

a recurring problem for the U.S. hard left is 'the government is a force of pure evil, and also we think it should control much more of daily life".

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

“Neoliberal” is a word that has an actual meaning and it isn’t just “liberal I don’t like” lol

I really do think the lesson everyone on the Left, not just politicians, can learn from Zohran is that seeming and sounding Normal is worth its weight in gold

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.