We can't let large language models take the em dash from us — it's too important

counter-counterpoint: i'd consider voting for satan. can't say the same for newsom, buttigieg, or rahm emanuel tho.

"meet me in the center" says the unjust man. You step forward. He steps back. "meet me in the center" says the unjust man.

It is 1996. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2016. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The American president was born in 1946.

tired: predicting a centrist publication's eventual veer rightward to help chuds with their trans dehumanization project wired: sarcastic responses to such predictions by a contributor to said publication being ratioed inspired: smug superiority getting bitten in the ass by predictive accuracy

I hate to break it to you, but: we're all gonna have to be Marxists

"grow up & vote the way i tell you to" there's that effective voter outreach dem lackeys are known for!

“I’ll vote for a soggy ham sandwich.” Ok, great. Good for you. Well done. 1) not the point 2) a lot of people won’t 3) we need better anyway 4) and we HAVE better 5) so when people start pushing the ham sandwich 6) we say hey the soggy ham sandwich, that’s a really bad idea 7) which IS the point

yeah so anyways, i’m never voting for gavin newsom

the fuck we are

but... but we still don't have proof the kirk thing was politically motivated? looks more like a pretext to take more 1A rights away from iowa educators (yes, *more* – teachers here can't strike or collectively bargain either) this fucking state istg

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

continuing w/ this state's legislative attempts to turn back time: this would permit couples to "jointly agree" [side eye] to opt out of following iowa's no-fault laws in the event of divorce & instead be legally bound to a fault-based process... when submitting their **marriage license** /1

we humans really don't deserve dogs, given how we treat each other & the planet we share with them, but the dogs love unconditionally anyway. what a good boy

stavvy confronts his doppelganger in a loincloth-laden battle royale

daydreaming about potential consequences for these fucks once we've torn down fascism is one of the few things keeping me going these days.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social this (among countless other atrocities, incl executions in the streets) is what you're fighting to keep funded. you're either complicit or suckers. resign. neither of you are qualified to lead a mall kiosk, let alone half of a nat'l legislature.

Schumer: ball’s in your court Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

a more accurate pithy little worthless picture would be a bunch of little blue hands pointing up at a big blue hand thats pointing the same way as the red hands

The good cops are the ones who make things easier for the bad cops right? That’s how this works?

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

the whole thread is:

"The Dems have to do this because they know they’d never win a fair election, which is why we’re suspending fair elections." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-...

It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it *illegal for married women to vote*, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"

to close out this chapter of "arguing with liberals," here's someone using nicer language than mine to explain the problem & why some of us bother with arguing in the first place. bsky.app/profile/alic...

related: bsky.app/profile/crom...

much easier to maintain the denial by blocking intrusions that would otherwise break it. sadly, the internet is forever.

we just had a mayoral election 3 months ago, and minneapolis rejected omar fateh. low information “voters” should stop making signs like this and start looking in the mirror

"this is how the REAL left—the ones in BLUE states—build solidarity & class consciousness, you dumb hicks!" - @finleycordain.bsky.social

truly @finleycordain.bsky.social, go fuck yourself and your clear bigotry against folks who, by 'privilege' of birth or childhood move, live in so-called 'red' states. bsky.app/profile/finl...

i gotta vote for something right now or i'm gonna go insane!! i've got the bloodlust... for electoral politics!! if i don't vote i will fucking DIE

top schumering lately. his party's supporters want ICE abolished; he proposes ICE being reformed, & then those reforms are a bunch of half-measures like the agents not wearing masks, & then he waters that down until we land on the agents not wearing masks unless they say they have a reason. 10/10

in the unlikely event anyone in dem leadership sees this: CALL. THEIR. BLUFF.

"you won't find evidence of epstein trafficking children b/c 16 yr olds are too old to be trafficked. they just happened to be... around! on a private island. where they didn't live. somehow. and most of us--er, them--thought it was fine until #metoo got started" fucking yuck

have you tried being internally consistent? having been where you are, I know that the cure for that is internal moral consistency. it doesn't inform all actions or strategies going forward, but it certainly helps with the despair. here's a hint: the communists have always been correct.

"the arc of history bends toward justice... but not if justice seekers make too much noise & are mean to democrats."

*to be clear, i myself have utterly lost faith in electoralism as a vehicle for substantive change & improvement of material conditions just planting seeds so lib types maybe learn to stop blaming the wrong people re: long-past elections

feasibility or likelihood w/r/t viability of 3rd parties winning in a fptp system notwithstanding, more than 2 available options = not binary. sorting past presidential winners by party affiliation might result in a *bimodal* distribution, but that doesn't reduce voters' options to a binary choice.

one thing liberals love to do is describe moral atrocities as quirky minor personal flaws. someone says "I don't want to vote for a candidate committing genocide abroad and funding the Gestapo at home" and they're like "oh so it's illegal not to be perfect now"

worthwhile & illustrative reading. no, really. read this. the choice bits @chrisgeidner.bsky.social highlights are shockingly frank considering the source is a court transcript + it's not too legalese-y, so even if you're not a law person you'll immediately pick up on how troubling this all is.

majority of americans: ABOLISH ICE schumer: how about this? i'll negotiate trump down to 'reining in' ICE in exchange for more ICE funding majority of americans: NO WTF this guy: lol schumer's being awesome

lol bsky.app/profile/adas...

i think it had more to do with you & your crew being loud & proud nazis, buddy. [insert nazi bar meme here] you were wearing a shirt printed w/ 'deus vult' in huge fraktur typeface for fuck's sake.

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

reminder that "common sense" = weasel words. actual common sense—in the sense of "a desired solution to a well-known problem that's shared by a wide swath of people"—would be to abolish ICE bsky.app/profile/crom...

i suspect that when people use "activist" as a pejorative, they're thinking of the ones who do this type of overwrought, inoffensive, "any woke you can do i can do better" activism and not the actually effective kind.

me when i see a list of famous people who all came up after... idk 2012?