It's really funny that the "soft times makes soft men, which make hard times" idea is...true in a way? every billionaire has lived the softest life that could possibly be imagine, and they're all so goddamn stupid that they're going to literally destroy the world because estrogen scares them

Anyways a bunch of republican voters will happliy accept living in a neo or techno feudalist state as long as their race and/or voting history saves them from being the slave class

Remember during the election when a bunch of Black people said the gop wanted to recreate the confederacy and they'd bring back chattel slavery if they could find a way, and we got told we were overreacting and being paranoid and reverse racist? Anyways.

Man blowing up the east wing for a ballroom and getting gold bribes while the masses suffer. This is really really starting to feel very French revolutioney vibes.

We need to make Galt’s Gulch real but not for the reasons the billionaires think

Godwilling this becomes an albatross around their necks not just for this administration but for a decade

The Epstein Ballroom it is

Absolutely. I still play it. (With mods, of course.)

this needs to happen tonight. venmo magdalene-visaggio

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

everyone who talks in an essentialist way abt “how men are” meaning we all have to accept sexual assault, misogyny, Nazi tattoo politicians etc hates men more than the most extreme blue haired tumblr feminist could possibly imagine

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom" I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

just looking around at politics everywhere and a HUGE advantage Mamdani has is that he isn't obviously a fucking freak

It seems Glenn Beck and his ilk are preparing their followers for two possible futures: a) permanent and complete GOP control of the federal government or b) massive resistance to a Democratic victory that will make J6 look like a garden party. One thing they’re not prepping folks for is democracy.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

I mean, Jesus was *very clear* on this point: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Matthew 25:35

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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Oh oh oh. Let's take this one step further. *EVERY POLICE OFFICER IN AMERICA* knows somebody who was at the protests because *SOMEBODY ON THEIR FORCE* was at the protests *IN THEIR ROLE AS A POLICE OFFICER*, could see the scale of them with their own eyes, and can attest they were badly outnumbered

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

the only way this works is if you essentially have an unpaid class of workers and i think we all know what the word for that is, and also why the technofascists like it

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

I’m laughing, but my chest feels heavy. It’s horror. We’re witnessing horror, in real time.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

I do think that what's likely to happen is eventually a wholesale collapse and replacement of the elite class with someone quite a lot more woke, because it turns out that some level of connection to reality is required to actually run a country, and that tends to lead to leftish beliefs

The Confederacy collapsed from within after enslaved people abandoned plantations en masse & demanded the right to take up arms against slavery while white Southern women started doing bread riots, none of which had been anticipated by enslavers, political leaders, or even most abolitionists.

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

We’ve known for a while but this makes it official: Trump is a shit-poster.

its so funny that so much of our government is just held up by gentlemens promises and you can just do insane stuff because nobody thought about it before. Like "the president can demolish large sections of the white house because he just didn't staff the approval committee" should not be true.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

This is great work, America but I know we can do better.

It's also, very clearly, a statement of ownership. This isn't the People's House - it's his house. He owns it. It belongs to him. It's his possession, to renovate, or alter, or destroy as he sees fit. It's a statement that he owns the house, owns the country, and plans to stay.

the government is shut down. there are federal troops and agents invading our cities. and the president is posting videos of himself shitting on america while literally tearing down the white house to build a temple to himself.

History shows us what happens when corrupt Kings destroy palaces and temples to rebuild for their golden visions and it often ends in flames and looting and razing when they die, just speaking as an archaeologist here, nothing whatsoever to do with anything modern *clutches pearls*

No kings. No nazis. This should be the message of every single Democrat from here out.

Good (and terrifying) article.

This is a very smart and important point. Talk to the people around you.

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

yeah, the thing is you don't even have to bring morals into it it's just an obvious practical problem that society-warping amounts of power should not be concentrated at the whims of a single individual and the simplest and best way to solve that problem is to disallow anyone from having that power

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

Good article.

No, you unfortunately did not mis-read that headline. www.jezebel.com/trump-truth-...