Like what do kids think when they see every corporate logo go rainbow for a month? Do they think "those capitalist pigs don't really care about gay rights" or do they think "accepting gay people is normal and mainstream". Anti-gay activists understand this much better than the left!

AOC represents basically the same policy platform without having decades of baggage and constant scandals. Why the am I obligated to support Platner. Why am I expected to rally behind this. Why are people so committed to selling vice as a political virtue.

Platner is an embarrassment and will ikely cost us a Senate seat because slopulism is in and too many media liberals have a complex with their masculinity. Even if he somehow won, it would still be embarrassing for him to be a US Senator; he is not a serious person.

Closest I have gotten to 82-0, and it was also my first attempt. If I had known you could switch eras and teams... www.82-0.com/share?id=4EC...

Hot take: Door dashing a bagel because you’re too hungover is dishonorable. Part of the hangover bagel is getting yourself put together enough to obtain the hangover bagel.

This is embarrassing slop.

So, I might agree with this, but it does such a terrible job engaging with the actual tradeoffs of this decision that it actually negatively polarizes me against this. He goes "yeah, freight, that's a thing people are concerned about" and just ignores it or plays it down without evidence

Democrats really need to stop this “labor is always 100% correct no matter the actual details of the issue” nonsense. the other side of the negotiating table with the LIRR unions isn’t billionaire shareholders. it’s public servants protecting taxpayers from getting ripped off

Lord this might be the most bizarre article on this subject I've ever read. It is quite clinically & accurately describing an epsitemology that is pre-modern, pre-literate, pre-scientific -- an epistemology that history tells us leads inevitably to authoritarianism -- and... just... calling it good?

My most reactionary opinion is that most blue state transit unions should be broken. The average employee is a white suburbaite who also votes GOP and actively works against improving transit. Transit is for the people, not the employees.

This asshole is gonna gift a seat to the GOP.

This is ridiculous, elder abuse, and other stupidity.

I'm gonna go further: Christakis now has a very public presence precisely because he propagandizes against the students he claims he wants to serve. Moreso, as someone who has probably been with friends holding "Gays for Gaza" sign, I am able to comprehend several things at once as a gay man:

Honestly, Southern White Republicans should be considered traitors to the Republic.

Left slopulism is going to destroy our capacity for governance.

The villain origin for Yglesias is that he can't conceived of believing in things that are unpopular or can't be implemented right now.

the reason democracy works so well is that we settle issues via the ballot box. once that avenue dries up because one party wants to entrench themselves in power forever, people start looking for alternatives

The Republican Party is the greatest threat to human liberty in the world.

Finish Reconstruction, by whatever means necessary. The Confederacy has spent the last century running a quiet war. It's time to fight back and make it loud.

I increasingly think that we are headed to a Civil War, because the Republican Party cannot abide that Democratic governance can be legitimate.

and now i'm just rage baiting myself but i cannot help but be reminded of that one stupid meme (you know the one with the brick ovens) the South is literally the root of all evil in America and in the 21st century it has exported its rot to all of rural America

At some point, these people are asking for revolution. The wealthy are increasingly sociopathic.

I will never not have a bad feeling about Platner, and I sure hope I'm wrong

It's embarrassing that we are gonna run Platner for Senate.

As I have said for more than a decade, finish Reconstruction. By whatever means necessary.

The DC Media Corps is in many ways the vanguard of MAGAism.

This essay is deranged. This author is deranged. Expecting everyone in your life to live their lives according to the severe precepts of your own eating-disordered experience—while projecting your own rationales onto everything they do—is deranged.

In the worst moments, where I hadn't seen people in person for a month, I understood why someone might want to end it all, but obviously didn't, because I knew this was just temporary. I am not sorry I need people to survive.

I love working in lounges. I'll show up 2-3 hours beforehand to chill.

To all who celebrate

It’s because no one gets a cool countercultural anti-institutionalist thrill protesting Donald Trump for being bad, something that your grandmother probably does. Only ranting about Democrats gives you that. Sorry but that’s largely the answer

As President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran with Israel entered into its second month, some Democratic officials were looking around and wondering: Where are the anti-war protests this time around? And why are college campuses so quiet? @lauren-egan.bsky.social takes a look.

the hype around Mythos feels a lot like this to me if it is true that they've invented an infinite zero day machine then yeah that sucks but it's not like i can actually do anything about it i can't tell the bank "hey stop keeping my money on a computer"

The hell, University of New Haven has a ME campus?

The non-YIMBY left that dominates the Northeast cities is just depressing. Providence City council voted for rent control at a time they are facing a demand spike from a housing constraint from Boston! Rather than see this is as an opportunity to build to pick up tax revenue...

“The economy is bad” is an ideological belief that spreads through social networks the way ideology does, not a descriptive belief that spreads because people are individually observing the economy and coming to conclusions about it.

I don't want to buy a home! I like the flexible that renting gives me in being able to change my living situation as my life requires it! Homeownership superiority as a mindset is a mind killer.

I am very committed to being a Platner hater; this man is godawaful and the Democrats voting for him should be embarassed, and honestly, if it wasn't for the fascists in charge of our government, I would be tempted to vote for Collins if I was in Maine. It's that bad.

I am pro-fare gates, pro-fining people on the subway who engage in anti-social behavior. It doesn't cost you anything to not be an asshole.

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

It should be tanked. The provision banning people from building homes for rent instead to buy would drive tens of thousands of homes off the market. The housing bill would actually raise your rents!

It's depressing that I need him to win his eventural general for democracy, but Platber is a moron who we should be embarrassed our primary voters seem to be selecting.

Platner is probably the one Democrat that will make me embarssed to identify as one. Slopulism embodied

I consider urban labor unions an obstacle to good governance that likely do need to be broken.

The problem is that the powerless of most of the American left in both their personal and political life leads them to seek power and control in a forum that feels at home to them. This is by the way, why most communist movements become...yeah...

One day, Freddie will learn about how charter schools operate post-Covid. He will also learn that they are not all the same. Today is not that day. Every link in here except one is from news articles a decade old. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-peopl...

This goes back to an argument I have made in the past: a good economy is defined as one where you have access to the foods and services at your perceived class level. Having slow service at a restaurant because people didn't want to work was a sign of a bad economy to folks.

As I have said before, if the only alternative Matt provides is "left-wing people are allowed to make zero progress on any issues they care about for 20+ years", at some level, that justifies "fuck it, let the fascists take power" so that you can attempt a different status quo.

It's also interesting to me that the strong support MBJ has shown for Majors didn't have any real impact on his campaign.

This video is embarrassing.