childhood is thinking Carter was bad, adolescence is thinking Carter was underrated, maturity is knowing Carter was underrated but still quite bad as president

Enough about 2016. In the contested Democratic presidential primaries since 1960, who would you have supported? Ignore electability; assume that by making your choice, you automatically have them elected. Feel free to quote with your own thread 1960: Humphrey 1968: Humphrey 1972: McGovern

As part of my dedication to creedal ultranationalism, I have decided that I am going to be supremacist and exclusionary against people who are supremacist and exclusionary. MAGA will be to me what Somalis and Indians are to them

Imagining a 1970s version of Matt Yglesias who says: "McGovern is the strongest candidate for 1972; he overperformed Humphrey by 25%. He will win back the moderate vote"

Explaining the strategy of peaceful protests to a gamer: "okay so instead of spamming the basic attack, if you tank enough hits and build public anger, you can do your ult"

He might have been like the one right wing gamer who wanted smaller breasts for female characters

I'm optimistic about our chances to the point of delusion. 2028? That's the best election result the GOP will get for the next 20 years. The 2030 midterms? It'll make 2026 look like a ripple. We will consolidate control and set the narrative. The eighth party system will be a 80% blue map. By area.

My friend who works for the foreign ministry has a good head for policy but when it comes to political instincts, I keep remembering the time he predicted in 2023 that Biden would step aside for Gina Raimondo (the strongest candidate, of course). Very wonk-brained thinking

>refused to get on board with resource extraction in venezuela >working to abolish ice >countering dutch territorial expansion >provides public servants with money to enjoy comfortable lives Is ExxonMobil the most progressive company in the world?

The fascists thought they could break Minneapolis. They thought they could attack a diverse and multicultural city and the white population would just let them. They can't comprehend solidarity. They can't comprehend virtue. They don't understand that when we say all men are brothers, we mean it.

Okay so pro tip to any of my fellow lib regimers: When it's our turn to consolidate control, we have to be smarter than this because oh my god this is not how you do it

Just a note to ICE agents thinking of this: a shotgun doesn't provide the rate of fire necessary to give pleasure in this situation. Much better to do it with a semi-automatic in the privacy of your HQ with a couple of others you can trust. Get things right and you'll be firing off loads in no time

There are infinite wonders to be found in the political discussion section of the alternate history forum

🧵: Regarding the discussion about whether it's okay to say fascism is un-American: When Stephen Miller says that ethnic Somalis aren't American, we don't retort with "actually, they are legally American, get your facts right". We understand he's advancing a normative vision of the nation.

oh to be the token zoomer failgirl in the lib mom protest group getting life advice and wisdom from everyone around me

This is actual Blueskyism

They want to repeal the Enlightenment, repeal feminism, repeal prosperity, repeal our humanity. They would have us as beasts, with the glory of the mind shackled to an atavistic cruelty. The only solution is for us all to become uncompromising partisans of modernity and civilisation.

The sex act can be between any number and any kind of consenting adults, but it should not desecrate the Republic or its virtues I'm only like 20% joking

Did Francis Fukuyama ever consider that liberalism could fulfil the megalothymotic urge by making competitive RPGs free and universally available? Just promote EVE Online for downwardly mobile Americans and you completely solve the fascism problem

There was once a scheming vizier named Stephen, who sought to purge his king's realm of diversity. One day, he turned his eyes to Minneapolis. But first, he needed to consult the great oracle of the time. "If you occupy Minneapolis, there will be a great rebirth of social trust" "Thank you Grok"

2016: "I don't support killing seals in Greenland" 2026: [REMOVED]

this is our time's equivalent of reading about nineteenth-century cavalry exploits.

LET'S GOOOO Anyway I made this for the occasion

We're used to thinking that the only tools of a regime are state institutions, but this isn't the case. Twitter is an indispensable weapon of foreign policy under this administration. It is just as legitimate for democracies to crack down upon it as it would be for them to close US military bases.

This is good. 'Digital sovereignty' is generally a bad idea used in service of authoritarian agendas, but we absolutely need it in this case. You cannot have a full picture of MAGA foreign policy without considering Twitter. It is a tool for the global export of fascism, far more than the military.

Is anyone else getting a whole lot of follows from people with follow for follow accounts? Not entirely enthusiastic about this development

Ironically, I think the most effective way to reform the Supreme Court (looking beyond the necessary packing) might not even be a court reform at all. Instead, we can restore the power of the legislature, which reduces the incentive to seek political victories via partisan control over the court.

Tempted to say that people who reject the validity of morality itself should lose its protection and be exposed to barbarism at full force. Denmark should build a chair out of this man's bones.

Not to sound like a Star Wars villain here, but you should let the rage flow through you. It is good to rage against evil. When you twist the lid of your jam jar, don't suppress the urge to imagine it's a Gestapo neck. Experience it, just a little. Through rage we gain the strength we will need.

Normalise describing the regime and its supporters like how they describe us. They are murderous un-American filth who soil the flag they wrap themselves in. For our values, our future and our species, their power and influence must be eradicated from public life.

Thus always to Social Darwinists

As a principled humanitarian, I think we should ban CSAM and punish the creators and users. We don't want child soldiers, so I don't know why we would want child air defences either.

It's not about oil, it's about *stealing* oil. It's not about installing a compliant regime, it's about removing a non-compliant one. It's about the aesthetic of imperial domination more than it is about the economics or geopolitics.

God you just know that this shit is going to be feeding SpecOps cultist gooners for decades to come

me and the boys in the liveleak video in 2026 because Asmongold told us to vote for Donald Trump

Every death is a tragedy, but Venezuela has the right to defend itself. Any US military casualties are entirely the fault of the US. When the bodybags inevitably start returning home, Americans will have no right to blame Venezuela for it.

What people need to understand is that liberalism isn't a European or Western ideology; Europe was just the first conquest. It's more as if a portal to hell opened in Paris and then the dread hordes streamed out from there (laudatory).

I always liked the quote "There is light in the world, and it is us", perhaps because I was 16 when I read it and so it was formative to me. I think it sums up my optimism about humanity's potential. The only problem is that it comes from Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfiction