We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad". Seems suboptimal, to me.

If you think this is because of TikTok, you might want to spend some time on the other platforms. It is a grim reality on every single major platform and growing rapidly. Especially in Red-Brown fascist circles like the ACP which has taken over several major Subreddits.

One thing that makes me depressed is that we’re bringing back medieval blood libel for minority groups (Haitians and Somalis in particular) and where once normies would be shocked or ignorant, now they’re saying stuff like “perfidis Judaeis-cels be seething over Good Friday chads” bc of TikTok

yeah so this one has actually breached into normie discourse world because the people I know who don't follow news at all and usually get current events from me are making unprompted Somali daycare jokes

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

on the very off chance that this were a real problem the correct body to deal with it would be whatever entity issuing government grants for these, which ought to be able to document that grantees do in fact run daycares. the bottom up approach is just maoism

The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

You should still hate Republicans, look down on Trump voters, etc. But notice how the GOP can manufacture a bullshit story on chud media, have it amplified on Twitter, and then use the power of the federal government to make it an issue that breaks through. We could learn from this.

There's a saying in the 40k community about Space Elves and the nature of fascist xenophobia which I like. "The Eldar would let a million humans die just to save one Eldar. The Imperium of Man would let a million humans die just to KILL one Eldar."

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?

Jesus F Christ. This entire administration has the ethical/informational ethos of the editorial board of the Weekly World News.

what kills me is that somehow they are incapable of spotlighting the absolute carnage among the courtiers. like they're right there. we have text messages where stephen miller overrules jd vance about a military strike by *claiming* to know what trump really meant the court drama should be gold

Oh yeah?

Actually making me insane how pundits from across the whole of spectrum have whitewashed the support of a guy openly running on Hitlerite immigration policy into some soppy tale about the humble volk being deceived by a slick talking snake oil salesman

Art Laffer has to be the biggest phony in a very phony heavy field. “If you tax people 100% you won’t collect any taxes! Surely no one thought of this before I’m very smart anyway trickle down”

the no tax on tips thing getting no serious pushback and the growing right-wing opposition to property taxes is a dark omen for the future of political economy paying your taxes is good and that includes you (yes you) not just "billionaires"

"Look at the way he waves as he walks to the podium. He doesn't swimg his arm like a regular American. He doesn't even wiggle his hand"

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.

Always worth remembering that the people spitting on black school children during the integration protests were, like, real people, not extras in a movie about how we overcame racism

Power Word Debt.

Me when I’m put in charge of one of the largest broadcasting networks in the country “is this what it’s like to be hounded out of society?”

I couldn’t find a more recent poll but it’s notable that after Netanyahu helped Trump win the election, Trump returned the favor for Likud by enabling a popular ceasefire that favors Israel

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

So is anyone but me ever gonna mention how much Judaism is clearly packed into Brandon Sanderson's books in spite of the fact that (or because?) he's a Mormon?

You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.

I'm starting to think that Mendelssohn might have been wrong. Maybe Jewish people do need the right to legally excommunicate certain Jews for saying dumb fucking shit like this.

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

I'm certainly sympathetic to this attitude (I *also* hate people looking at me), but at the same time, I think we probably shouldn't "resent" people for liking video podcasts. Our brains are literally optimized for multi-modal processing. For some, video + audio is a (minor) accessibility matter.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Many people are saying... www.seattletimes.com/business/lux...

Honestly I think it should be plainly illegal for white Americans to claim their way of life is being destroyed. Given that you are literally the global hegemon culture, that can only be true if you caused it yourself!

$300 until we notch up another percentage point towards our goal

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Ben Shapiro personally made this all possible by peddling the line "[Obvious antisemite] definitionally can't be antisemitic, they're pro-Israel!" for years and decoupling [hatred of Jews] from [antisemitism] in the minds of his millions of listeners. All in service of Donald Trump.

The biggest danger to American Jews over the last couple of decades have been right-wing Jews who somehow thought that aligning themselves with “pro-Israel” Christofascists wasn’t going to bring them to precisely this moment. www.jta.org/2025/12/23/p...

"Planted roots in" good grief. Even when pretending to laud "migrant families," these people can't help but hold up assimilation into Blood & Soil as their end-all-be-all goal for their model minorities. Every single time with these crypto NIMBYs I stg.

I don’t always agree with of the broader political takes from some “abundance”-coded pundits but man the abundance critics are just pure nonsense merchants like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.

Thoughts in Metroid Prime 4 one hour in: > This is the closest a triple A game has come to being Halo: CE since Halo: CE. > Dread handled the matter of Silent Samus much better by letting her talk once in an alien language while stoicly ghosting everyone else. Bring that back.

They like Trump and want to help him rule us.

Well... yeah.

the pictures of fully clothed anime women i have been seeing rt’d today have been significantly hornier than the occasional hardcore pornography you guys retweeted before maybe this jp art migration is real

Ever notice how all these "can't you just celebrate this holiday as a secular event" folks only ever choose Christian holidays to secularize? If gentiles get to impose a "secular" Christmas on us, are we gonna be allowed to impose on them a "secular" Shabbat? No more movie theaters on Saturdays.

Hey, ADL, it's your Jewish constituents speaking. Would you like to stand up for us as the Department of Homeland Security declares this a Christian nation? No? Okay. Thanks. Great to have good advocates such as ye.

Seriously I always find it absolutely wonderful when I go to a park and there’s a bunch of Chinese tech bros playing basketball, there’s a Mexican family celebrating a quinceañera, an Iranian group is playing some soccer, and Indians are playing Cricket off in the baseball diamond.

8 Hannukah Ghosts appear each night to convince Ebenezer Scrooge to abandon capitalism and instead become a revolutionary fighting to reestablish the Hasmonean Dynasty in Crown Heights.

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

The Nazis were famously all addicted to amphetamines, so this tracks.