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Somewhat ironically, this is a problem that both some leftist and populist-rightist movements share: their ideology *requires* them to believe that they are the authentic voice of The People and so they are ideologically constrained from recognizing that their ideas are not, in fact, popular.

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

In hindsight, I should’ve saved this tweet for when I got Jamelle on the show. youtu.be/nLvF8sG1RNs?...

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I’ve said it before, but while there are obviously lots of reasons to post on the internet anonymously, I’m very glad I’ve always posted under my real name because it’s forced me to always talk like a normal person

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

I keep seeing people say “this seems like AI!” About writing in episodes of shows currently airing and I really need them to stop. No it isn’t, you look like an idiot, and if you’re wrong, that is a massive, massive insult to someone who spends their life sweating words.

If your WR1 doesn’t think this way he’s not the one

the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine

transgenderism *is* transhumanism eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

3 Doors Down were busy?

What, there wasn’t a complete and total cultural realignment towards sadism and fascism? Really???? I was assured there was!

One of the big problems of modernity is that posting is instantaneous and politics very much isn’t and instead of working on their patience people fall into despair when things don’t happen as fast as they think it should

don’t make me believe in Blexas again. that’s just cruel

the thing is, you basically can’t make a fake Epstein email as a joke because there’s almost no one I wouldn’t believe emailed with him again this point

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

The inability to parse the difference between malice and annoyingness is probably the great deficit of our times. See also: basically any discourse about "wokeness" and/or campus activism

That is the most Gender thing I’ve ever seen. I didn’t even know it was possible to engage in misogyny against men.

People will talk "a ratchet that only goes right" to me like I didn't see the support for my existence as a bisexual trans woman become a mainstream liberal position in my lifetime

I’ve seen a bunch of people say “It doesn’t matter that MELANIA is gonna be a bomb: it was a bribe. It doesn’t have to make money,” and while it’s true that it was a bribe, that doesn’t mean some involved won’t be humiliated by it bombing.

This is right. The White House keeps looking for the “Kneel Before Zod” button — and seems completely shut off to evidence that there isn’t one.

It's not going to stop if you ignore it it's not going to stop if you look the other way it's not going to stop if you stay silent

It's not going to stop

sometimes childhood memories will pop up for me where I think “Oh my holy lord how was I not diagnosed with OCD back then?” this morning’s is when I lost my mind when Easter egg dye stained my fingers and I made my mom try to scrub it off with Comet

yeah, the only way that the government won’t have you on a list somewhere is if you never say anything negative about them and participate in no political action. so if you’re not willing to just lay down, you gotta accept that that’s the risk, but that risk can be diluted!

If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.

I am pretty desensitized to the Internet but this still got a ⬇️ out of me

I really wish the word “cooked” didn’t also refer to food because I would like to mute it on all social media sites

I love Tim Blake Nelson, but *this* guy should have been The Leader

i agree with this, and i guess i'd add that i'd like everyone to start treating important things as if they matter. yes, i'd like electeds to do this, but not just them and not just executives and elites. the lolnothingmatters era needs to die, it's a big part of so many big problems.

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Yup. And honestly, you can take the word “civic” out of this and it’s still true.

reading past the headline, I really like how this article captures something I’ve felt: the edgy leftist “just buy a gun 😉” response to today’s issues is a fundamentally individualistic and conservative one

41% of Republicans being okay with outright murder as long as the victim is a liberal is honestly lower than I would have thought

people mistake someone adopting certain aesthetics with having certain politics and it’s gotta stop

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

My kid finding out that Nickelodeon named Mitch Trubisky NVP in week 18

I'm sure people will make me regret this but we dont need to let american institutions like ICE off the hook for their behavior. They didnt need to learn from Israel (or any other country) to act the way theyre acting. Im not saying ignore the connections but lets just pump the brakes a little

Excellent by Adam Serwer. I’d add: How many pseudo-deep commentators, typically MAGA-excusing, go on about liberalism’s lack of community, character, and moral virtue? Then MN features a truly striking demonstration of just these qualities by modern liberals. Reaction: crickets.

I think the issue is it forces them to confront the fact that voting does work but they suck at convincing people. I've spoken to Leftists that think Mamdani won because he FOUGHT the Democrats in the primary and not worked with them.

racists watching Happy Feet, absolutely seething

the other annoying thing about “getting outside your bubble” is that it assumes most people deal with an ideological monolith within their daily lives on a day to day basis, and while that might be sort of true online, it’s not true IRL

We polled all the word users on the word user website and a supermajority agree that using words right is the best way to do anything

The tea party wing of Republicans reshaped the party farther right, there is no reason progressives, SocDems, etc cant do so to move dems to the left, especially in a climate where vanilla status quo BS gets you beat.

This is an awful thought, but tbh I’m not nearly as worried about Dem voters seeing minor reforms and thinking “Mission accomplished” because I simply don’t think Stephen Miller and all the DHS goons will go any significant period of time without doing more heinous shit.

I really hate when people have complaints that are directionally the same as mine, but they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about

I feel like one fundamental error of the right is they assumed every white Democrat was lying and would actually more or less happily acquiesce to a fascist white ethnostate

Yes! If they call Minneapolis and L and fire Bovino to save face, that sends a clear signal that they can take Ls and whatever city is next can fight and win.

Obviously this is far from the end, but I’m seeing people try to stop people from taking this as a win, and I couldn’t agree less. The problem with the mood on this website is demoralization, not complacency!