"I love the lower class so much that I think they should stay low" This is the modern version of right-wing anticapitalism, in the vein of Carlyle. Pro-hierarchy, anti-modernist. Combating worker alienation by doubling down on tradition and reducing social mobility. It's like classical fascism.

DSA anti-partisan brigades ruthlessly putting down Cuomintang loyalist guerrillas in the streets of New York

2028 debate spoilers: "I understand the problem now. I'm the son of working-class Appalachians." Vance said. "You're a billionaire from old money. We have nothing in common." "Perhaps we do." "What?" "We are," responded Pritzker, "both traitors to our class."

The UAE is actually existing socialism Fully automated: they have slavery, close enough Luxury: yeah especially if you aren't a slave Gay: look you can't have everything here Space: they signed the Artemis Accords Communism: according to conservatives communism is slavery so yeah 4/5, close enough

Me and the girls in the bomber command room in 2033 because Asmongold convinced a bunch of boys to rebel against the federal government

Now this might sound like a reach, but this too is gender. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it is motivated by general contempt for a scholar-bureaucrat-professional class perceived as feminised because of the cooperative nature of the enterprise and more importantly, the large number of women.

The UAE is actually existing socialism Fully automated: they have slavery, close enough Luxury: yeah especially if you aren't a slave Gay: look you can't have everything here Space: they signed the Artemis Accords Communism: according to conservatives communism is slavery so yeah 4/5, close enough

2028 debate spoilers: "I understand the problem now. I'm the son of working-class Appalachians." Vance said. "You're a billionaire from old money. We have nothing in common." "Perhaps we do." "What?" "We are," responded Pritzker, "both traitors to our class."

Liberalism is a religion and I support theocracy in its name. May the spirit of freedom bless the Liberal Republic of America and the committed men, women and enbies of its wise Guardian Council.

The GOP factional conflict on Twitter is actually just the latest front in the India-Pakistan conflict. The pro-Israel Republican content farms are from India, while the Groypers operate out of Pakistan. Russia is supporting both sides. This is how we know America really is a third world country now

Someone's going to write the next chapter of American liberalism. The question is who. Do we want MattY writing the 2028 platform? God willing, Liberal Currents will supplant Slow Boring as the most influential publication for Democratic staffers. I'm very happy I'm getting to write for them

Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

World War II was actually fascist infighting. The Axis? Fascist. The USSR? Red fascist. China? An attempt to do fascism without state capacity. The UK and France? Imperialism is fascism turned outward on the periphery. The US? The New Deal was fascist (I still support it)

The thing about resistance along self-interested elites is that in the absence of virtue, it's a matter of them weighing the likelihood that others will join them against the likelihood of retaliation. We want to raise their perception of the former while decreasing their perception of the latter.

Thinking about how being both a cosmopolitan internationalist (no moral distinction between the domestic and the foreign) and something of a liberal interventionist (fascists are the enemy and can be attacked) has given me a bit of a woke Schmittian outlook regarding MAGA

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UK social democracy is found not in Labourism, but in Toryism. Liz Truss worked hard to destroy the monarchy and stock market, and represents the democratic socialist wing of the party. Someone like Rishi Sunak, who reversed her excesses, can be likened to Deng, but in a democratic context.

Foreign policy sometimes requires making unethical decisions for the greater good. We might not have many values in common with regimes like Denmark, but their brand of fascism is better than Russia's, and so we have no choice but to work with them.

Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.

danish socdems the type of mfs to pass the "kill all brown people NOW" law in order to win the election and then not win the election

imo if you think chaos at the border is bad for your party you should think a couple of moves ahead about something that has the potential to produce the largest refugee crisis in human history

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How Ryan Lizza could've won: >Don’t be yourself, focus on being worse >Demand Olivia not to be an idiot with older men >Don’t draw out article publication, post it immediately >Zurge rush NYT to cut off horny male journalists >Ally with Sanford against wife's infidelity >ignore RFK

It sounds absurd but my position is now unironically that sex should not degrade civic and republican virtue You are a citizen and a journalist and that carries obligations which override the desires of the flesh. If you shirk those duties to freely screw a fascist, you have failed the Republic

Every Idiran-Culture space encounter from 1337 onward is like the Divine Instrument, Executor of God's Will versus six identical copies of the GSV Still Waiting for Brunch manned by a crew that does nothing but watch the fighting and have sex

"social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism" factoid actually just statistical error. average social democrat commits 0 atrocities every year. Danish Socialdemokratiet, which hates immigrants and steals 1000 refugee jewelry items every year, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Despite what Stalinists will tell you, social democracy is not the moderate wing of fascism. However, Danish social democracy is.

How it feels to support tech accelerationism for biotechnology but not AI:

🧵: Just back from a holiday in Katanning, a small town in Western Australia with a level of diversity unusual for rural areas. In our first stop, we went to a farmers' market, and as well as the usual food and craft that you find in such places, we came across some fantastic Malaysian food stalls.

Gazing into the crystal ball to see future meat discourse: "veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?" "high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy" "veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"

'Gang of Eight'? Well then call me Hua Guofeng Hua Guofeng the way I support putting down this Gang of Four times two

Me and the boys on the way to the woke reeducation camp in 2029 because we posted stupid misogynistic shit about Kamala Harris sending us to war

Just saw someone with a Milton Friedman flair on r/neoliberal saying he hopes Mamdani wins above 50% to send a message

Broke: Democrats need to triangulate on fascism by being anti-immigration and transphobic Woke: Democrats need to triangulate on fascism by doing this

Imagining a party with the strength and will to power to enforce a party line upon every single one of its members, while still totally capitulating to public opinion

As a woman, I cannot vote for Andrew Cuomo. As a ratgirl, I cannot vote for Curtis Sliwa. As a racist, I cannot vote for Zohran Mamdani (not racist against him; I just don't like his outreach to Hibernians). So today, I wrote in Dick Cheney for New York mayor

Look, no matter what you think about him, I hope everyone can put aside politics and agree that Dick Cheney was a man who loyally served his stock portfolio.

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

It's often said that the best way to honour someone's memory is to learn from how they lived. I can't do this here, since it's illegal to kidnap and torture people if you're an ordinary person not clothed in the power of the state. It's illegal either way, but you'll get punished in the first case.