One obvious generation gap that is going to hit the left is AI. It's shocking the extent to which normie left-leaning folks over the age of 45 have decided GenAI meant GPT-3 in 2023 and have stopped updating their priors except "the tech bros causing a bubble".

The "Surya Bonaly" discourse is the new "Marsha threw the first brick at Stonewall" discourse.

this is also the case for every leftist who hears about the labor theory of value for the first time

There is no future liberal/leftist majority that can govern without us publicly owning patriotism! Normies want to like their country! The left should make arguments that the country we want to build will allow them to like and be proud of their country!

Hot take: Bad Bunny's show, while pretty good, missed some of the true high-energy spectacle because of some social/political points he wanted to make (which I liked!). One example of the tradeoff: when you hear Don Omar and Daddy Yankee for a brief second, imagine the energy...

also the fact that the largest single faction of actually existing Hawaiian independence activists are monarchists who want to turn Hawaii back into Brutal Pineapple Dubai, which is what it was before independence. the actually existing descendant of the Hawaiian communists is the Hawaiian Democrats

I am hanging on X only see the white supremacist South Americans lose their minds with the Bad Bunny performance.

Oh man, this would totally suck.

Hell, we just saw this in a piece of art, OBAA! Benicio del Toro runs a network that has protected thousands and continues to do so; the French 75, while sometimes acutely useful, also spent a lot of their time just blowing up banks and not helping people.

The funny part is that while Helen is a white supremacist, she is accidentally somewhat correct here. It would be bad if our universities were about min-maxxiing credentials and very specific measurables. For one, min maxing on numeric academic measures isn't all our society needs!

The moment in recent history that most succinctly captures Bari Weiss’s approach to bold reform is when Bill Ackman bought his way into a pro tennis tournament and then flailed around for a while as the audience booed. That’s the Bari Weiss Media Revolution in a capsule.

The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them"

A @rivertam.bsky.social the "normie lib Joe Rogan" sign: Bill Simmons closing the podcast with MN about why he wanted to say something in a normally not political podcast, Sal saying Barkley was right on his take, and both of them being like "what the hell are we trying to do there".

No words.

One odd positive in all of the horrors of the last few weeks is that I think we are pretty close to throwing off some of the vestiges of the worst of left-wing online culture that emerged post 2012 and peaked in 2020-2021. It turns out when folks are actually organizing (or preparing to) against...

I mean, while I want to abolish ICE and salt it from the Earth, I find the theory and writing of police abolitionists to be unconvincing. There has yet to be a society without a dedicated group that has the legal/social ability to enforce laws.

The things you do to avoid sending your kids to schools with 'poor' kids. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think it's important to consider that a lot of it wasn't cowardice, but opportunism to reject the idea they could be accountable as well. Many elites felt more comfortable negotiating with a fascists than the public, critics, or the people in their own institutions.

Glory to the martyrs who defend the republic

This is correct. There is a group of people who has taken an absolutist "certain POCs are always correct" as an attitude, and it's interesting which folks get that. Race isn't the determinant thing in all things

whenever someone gets mad about the gay NATO flag I post it more, those are the rules

Like seriously folks, this South Park episode inadvertently explains to you what you do when you believe the government is all powerful through insinuation, not evidence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrvS...

If you actually believe this, take up arms and plot revolution, or get the hell out of the country. I fucking swear... It's more doomerism from folks who get off on imagining the worst because it absolves on finding ways to take action locally.

I can't imagine the hatred the non-MAGA Conservative Politicians in Canada have for the Trump administration

Do not fall for the bait, do not fall for the bait... Aaahh, in these politics, there is only failure.

I think there’s people who really enjoy being the keepers of secret knowledge (“America was racist”) and being the person who could lecture others for being too privileged/dumb to have the secret knowledge. It is an enjoyable dynamic for them and they want to keep doing it at inappropriate moments

abolish ICE is not just the moderate option but the merciful one

i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view stop endorsing their world view

Folks, you don't have to take the bait of some of my fellow POC who post radical chic as a grift to get donations for their art or whatever. We can move past 2020 and call it out as a grift when they spend their time lecturing folks for taking political action.

Responding to people expressing outrage at atrocities and appealing to America as a moral ideal with a hostile, sneering "look up the Trail of Tears" is not asking for a nuanced and balanced view of Americanism. And if it were, it would still be a really useless and obnoxious response.

I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people

Yeah, I mean, I think part of this is sort of a misunderstanding of American demography. Most European states (and most examples of the people bringing down a government) occur in states with a strong central capital which has a ton of the population). The American populace is much more spread out

This is the base of urban black politicians and why black Dem leaders and executives are often reactionaries in urban politics.

Folks in Boston are starting to get organizationally and emotionally prepared as rumors abound of an ICE material build-up. 250th anniversary, and once again, the people of Boston might have to fight some assholes who love red clothing.

I want to cry about how perfect this essay is. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Arrest and deport every ICE agent

The Right wants you to surrender to fascist rule. Do not.

The cycle will continue until the rich in Latin American can learn to view the less fortunate in their nations as compatriots. There is no group of people more brain dead than these exiles, who can't possibly imagine why they lost their nations.

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

Will Stancil is most useful in giving me people to block on BlueSky.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is also a manifestation of anti-social leftism that has taken root and it's bad because it seems to reject the idea of leftism as a project of the commons. damagemag.com/2023/03/22/a...

It's important to remember - at minimum, about 25-30% of our society are unrepentant fascists. The problem is that this now includes many of the gatekeepers.

I'm a Neocon again. Invade El Salvador. @rivertam.bsky.social

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Having real and serious opinions about the Avatar movies is missing the point of them, and I feel weird every time I do. It’s like debating the merits of a screensaver.

I actually know plenty of South Texas voters who voted for Trump! They generally voted for Trump because he seemed exciting and because "he's a businessman" and that will fix things and "a woman shouldn't be in charge" Now they are all very annoyed at him!