There is no more powerful argument against remaining on Twitter than seeing these dispatches from leftists you sort of recognize from ten years ago who don't realize they are morphing into Pat Buchanan

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

I had forgotten about this, somehow even more loserlike behavior than I first remembered surprised Elon didn’t name his mom’s account BasedMayeMusk, this seems like the kind of move he’d copy

Israel does have a tremendous advantage that accurately describing their utterly shameless actions sounds like an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

the next president should let Comey do one (1) federal crime

I don't think this is at all widespread or common, but there is definitely a *particular* sort of ostensibly leftist person who loathes AOC as an unprincipled sellout but is willing to carry water for a nakedly antisemitic, xenophobic oppurtunist

“Commander Shepard even as a paragon is fundamentally fascist because Mass Effect is fundamentally fascist” wow that’s really cool, anyway, let’s help get you back to reality a bit, I know some folks who can potentially help

"I didn't like the work so I hope it was written by a bigot so I can cancel it guilt-free". If you conform your politics to your preferences in creative works, what does that say about you?

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

Hulu but for war crimes

"I support a two state solution but will scream bloody murder if even the most token gesture is offered toward that goal" has been such a bedrock position among prominent political & media figures that you can literally see them short-circuit whenever a normie Dem voter flat out rejects that premise

We have to win this because I fucking refuse to be bested by Hungary.

We knew this is what happened at the time but this confirms it. Almost every democratic elected official thought it was more important to support this than to win. If you said israel was more interested in committing genocide than rescuing hostages you could lose your job.

it's hard for me to imagine the depravity of an organization which excuses the mass murder of its own hostages because they thought htey were following orders to commit genocide

Single Issue voter on actually doing the Conspiracy version of Jade Helm for real this time

the republican party should be treated as an inherently criminal enterprise i say this as a former republican

increasingly convinced the comp for oysterman isn’t Fetterman 2, it’s JD Vance’s Luigi (Vance is himself the Waluigi, naturally)

Someone described Platner as neither good nor bad but inevitable. This is a good illustration.

Im really not kidding that the South must be re-occupied and we need a mass arrest of Republicans in 2029

Hard to believe a real Italian said this

"the homogeneous italian people" is excellent, no notes

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

"pandemic potential is tremendously low" I believe in our ability to overcome the odds. USA #1!

There isnt a proactive venture in their bones. It is reactive almost entirely and the ratchet effect is a thing because half the time they try to manage how things are at net present as their most pressing directive.

I mean the media is the enemy of the people. sometimes that happens in a country that barely resembles a republic let alone a democracy

In a proper world, Dave would have been a legendary Rolling Stone/ rock reporter who would have gone out the way of music reporters in the past, preserving his legacy.

Trump could shit his diapers on live TV and the DC press corps would tell us it’s ok because the White House is willing to “take risks.” It’s all about how much attention they get, even if it’s Trump calling them a “bitch.”

funniest possible argument that Jay Jones could make is that the current map is an illegal racial gerrymander per callais

I object to the "occasional good opinions" part but yeah, if your entire Thing is being the guy who dies on every hill and argues with everyone, you can't really complain about attracting negative attention

The myriad of things that didn’t make sense when Trump was first running and winning make a lot more sense when you think about qualifications. His main “qualification” was racism, so for a bunch of racists, that was a no-brainer. He announced his bid for the presidency by calling Mexicans rapists.

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And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

so bluesky mods are abusing their power and personally banning people for even the slightest criticism? and combing through peoples’ posts from YEARS ago to ban them? as well as personally targeting trans & palestinian folks? y’all are fucking evil and need to be fired. reddit moderator ass website.

They need a human to make sure the user is trans or Black before they're banned

You’ve been suspending people simply for talking about what Bluesky’s head of safety did, and the irrational reactionary suspensions he handed out when a bot broadcasted his publicly visible actions.

so actual human mods are manually banning users for posts that are ~2 YEARS old? or is it just the one mod? I'd say his name but you and I both know he'll ban me for targeted harassment. Or maybe not, since he only seems to be banning trans women for this shit

> No account is suspended or removed without human oversight. there you have it. every trans woman banned by staff was manual and not automated. someone on the team decided that a woman complaining about being harassed for her rape was worth being banned for and sent that out as an email

so you carefully, purposefully, manually, and meticulously banned hundreds of people who mentioned that thing your safety guy did

The introduction of the phrase “trans identifying” being normalized in media standards is one of the most insidious things the media campaign against trans people has ever done.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

"It's a Trolley Problem!!1" Fine. Can we discuss how the Dem's institutional failings made it that? Bc Harris is all in hindsight, and we're staring down the barrel of people racing to force people to make that choice again w Newsome 2.5 YEARS before the election even starts

It is. It is a tacit acceptance that over 50% of voting white people and many white people in well-intentioned white people’s personal lives will always vote for pure evil and that rather than humiliate or ostracize them they would rather punch towards the visage of a mythical lazy democrat voter.

the most racist person you'll never meet lives in Laredo, TX. is a second generation immigrant who speaks fluent Spanish, and has two family members working for Border Patrol

White people don't understand how Latin culture has a whole caste thing about how raped by the Spanish you are and what that does to the perception of treating other ethnicities from the Latinos perspective (terribly btw)

Note that racism is not just "White Latiné people refused to vote for a Black lady" but also the full history of Republicans disenfranchising us, Democrats not trying to stop them, DC not having representation in congress, Republicans using immigrants as a scapegoat, Democrats running to the righ

There's a troubling lack of non-pork charcuterie out there. We're going to need a lot more duck pastrami to correct for that

this is correct. we so often choose to not fight when we might lose, rather than taking the risk and getting caught trying. older example: the biden wh's response to dobbs. “well, our executive action is guaranteed to be overturned” — and? do it anyway, lose, and show the courts are partisan.

Orban couldn't gerrymander his way into permanent political power and these morons are no Orban

I just don't think this equilibrium where Republicans arbitrarily redraw districts every six months and Democrats have to wait a few decades for the possibility of a +10 wave to potentially overcome them is particularly stable.

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