*I do not endorse any pope, I just endorse consequences and would like the democrats to be to the left of the fuckin pope

Liberals: well there were valid concerns about trans people but now the case is decided, the fight is over, and that's that The Trump regime:

The biggest problem with cancel culture is that no one got fucking cancelled

try to imagine @gluesenkampperez.house.gov arguing that we have to make black people second class citizens because theyre only 15% of the population. it would be bs. we must moralize on trans rights because trans rights are human rights. either you're for it or against it.

We will survive this dying empire. We will defeat its lies. We will defy its power until it breaks. We will abandon nothing and no one. Every day we keep us alive is hope. Every cost we inflict weakens its hold. Every act of resistance is a chance for victory. We will not walk the coward's way.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

Also, if Dems are going to lose swing districts in Iowa because Upper Manhattan elected someone they don't like, what are you even supposed to do about that? Is the proposed course of action here to just not ever elect anyone swing voters would dislike?

We're going to have to do much more than vote to save our Republic diplomatic.substack.com/p/trump-pres... #ImpeachConvictRemove

The democratic senator from New Jersey and two prominent democratic governors were revealed to have been attending billionaire sociopath and Epstein associate Peter Thiel’s social club last week and you didn’t hear a peep from these people

No only baffling but explicitly, inextricably part of the problem. You're some of the most powerful people in the world, watching as the government's foundations are torn apart and you're worried about whether your friend is gonna be in your class next year? Grow up.

megyn in accounting would be fired on the spot for saying what megyn on a podcast said yesterday, stephen in accounts receivable would never have another job for saying what stephen in the white house said yesterday

Honestly, this is really begging for some kind of online quiz that forces people to confront that all the shit they are afraid of is stuff that we did in the 30s and then lost in the Reagan administration.

The fight over the Kennedy Center—and Trump's enormous, humiliating fig leaf—as parable. It's fights like this as far as the eye can see. www.offmessage.net/p/detrumpifi...

How much revenue should a $2.8 trillion company have? Let's say this is a tech company, which I guess it is. A high price-to-sales ratio is acceptable for them, like 5-15. SpaceX had $18.7 billion in revenue last year (and no profit; it lost $4.9 billion). So their P/S ratio is 149.73. What?

my business plan for games media: give me $1 billion and i'll hire a bunch of talented people and let them write things people actually want to read, forever my business plan for video games: give me $1 billion and i'll pay a bunch of studios and people to make cool shit

you gave up 4 runs in 4 innings to take the loss, maybe you should be less focused on quoting Genesis and more focused on Job and Numbers

it's really something isn't it? a modest ranch home? burgers on the grill on sunday? maybe drive down to the grand canyon with the kids this summer for a few days? you can't have that. so they can have everything

Elon Musk is such an evil person, and gets to be the richest (and thus most powerful, or close to it) person in the world. His influence on the world is evil. I don't have anything funny to say about it. What's the point? I can't say anything interesting about it or do anything about it.

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Had a discussion with a Fetterman staffer many years ago after his sudden shift hard right on Israel. They said they knew it was bad but they agree with him on 99 out of 100 things. I told them that does not matter because he has shown he is willing to compromise all his values for one thing.

it is working. i have never been this impotently furious about how completely we as a broad society of regular people have been boxed in by a handful of the worst among us. perhaps it is as you say mike johnson. perhaps there is no point whatsoever. not sure that's good for you tho

love seeing ostensibly liberal men out there absolutely salivating at the idea of getting to tell women to shut up and vote for a domestic abuser or they hate democracy

This brings me to my modest proposal. Let me just say it like this: No to the death penalty as a possibility for humans; yes to the death penalty as a possibility for corporations and billionaires. Let's introduce a cost of doing business that exceeds the gain to be realized.

these are getting weird

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

So are we ever going to have a conversation about how vast swathes of liberal influencers and personalities are just ex GOP strategists, guys who used to crime for Trump but have “reformed,” and people who used to work for the FBI and CIA? Because it kind of feels…important?

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

They're gonna keep chasing the right. They're going to keep going after the people who are ungettable, while ignoring everyone to their left except to say we owe them our vote for literally nothing. All of the policies people of my persuasion routinely champion would help them win, but no.

What is happening with CBS shows the US media bias problem. Outlets with actual integrity are regularly accused of liberal bias, even as a large and growing part of the media is owned by the right wing pushes right wing viewpoints at the expense of integrity.

This is particularly rich coming from a FREE PRESS guy, but the key distinction between the “cultural left” and the “cultural right” is that at no time in the 2010s did the “cultural left” actually seize the wheels of state power and wield it for its own purposes.

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

I am guessing the general public perhaps finds it utterly enraging that these members are not capable of finding and watching a short clip documenting how our country is going fully fascist in order to better inform their decision making. But that is what is happening.

As Democratic officials are using the "outside agitators" line again, it's worth noting a deeper dynamic here. For all the complaints about, well, anything radicals do being "purity culture" the politics of centrists and liberals here are a sterling, actual example of a political purity culture...🧵

Even the supposed basics of a "democratic" society: condemning officials, withholding support for politicians and policies that threaten you and yours, radical journalism, boycotts, even temporarily disruptive protest. All too extreme. All forbidden, including by force. It's servility or nothing.

Wait, you can impeach a president for stealing money? Weird. You can even move impeachment proceedings along despite not knowing if you have enough votes to accomplish it? Unbelievable.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

It is actually incredibly important for one of the most well regarded senators in the Democratic Party to say clearly and unequivocally that the next president should blacklist officials who aided and abetted crimes against humanity.

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc. "Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

Are there going to be 100 opinion pieces about Republicans and political violence now or is that just for when somebody says something critical of Trump

The only way back to global dominance and prosperity for the U.S. is accountability. If Democrats recommit to liberal democracy, end gerrymandering, expand the Supreme Court and imprison the majority of Trump officials for a variety of crimes, then there is a path. Otherwise, party's over for good.

You don't defeat fascism by choosing tiny slivers of vulnerable populations to sacrifice to it. That's how your coalition shrinks until you die a coward. You defeat fascism by putting the vulnerable populations in the center, and forming a circle around them.

The web has always been free and open. AI is a grift by rent-seeking billionaires. They aren’t remotely the same and anyone comparing the two is a useful idiot to billionaire propagandists.

People comparing AI, which is driven by billionaires and costs money to even touch, to the web which was an open platform that the billionaires of the era fucking hated and could be used for free by anyone, is making me absolutely crazy.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which should be our national anthem, turns the struggle to fulfill America’s foundational promise, freedom & democracy, into a holy war against oppression & tyranny. It’s time for a return. It’s time to win the (metaphorical) battle of ideals once & for all.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)