low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

you know i gotta say it really does steam my clams when someone cites a report "showing" that 44% of americans work at low wage jobs, only for it to turn out that the report simply defines low wage to mean "earns 2/3 of median income"

The movie side of twitter is having a total mental breakdown because a film critic used the word "lugubrious" to describe the Odyssey, and I think that's beautiful.

"Father says" Dating myself here but I remember when the paper of record had investigative journalists who could verify basic facts as well as most high school journalism interns, instead of hedging the shit out of anything they say that might contradict the ruling regime.

SpaceX investors have swung from celebration to apparent concern in its first month as a publicly traded company. 🧪 🔭 🚀

Feels like a lot of words to say SpaceX screwed the market?

Sometimes I feel like a man in some lost Twilight Zone episode, running around shouting “DON’T YOU SEE? DON’T YOU FOOLS SEE? YOU WERE HERE BEFORE! YOU LIVED THIS ALL BEFORE! ONLY MONTHS AGO! CAN’T YOU REMEMBER??” in a mid-century accent, while they look at me with uncomprehending faces

king

🚨SpaceX bond yields rocket towards junk www.ft.com/content/3a02...

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

It's actually quite wild how many things leftists claim to care about that Harris was on the correct side of. And how willing they were to lie about that fact.

The danger here is that if AES loses you just demonstrated that even in Michigan, people support AIPAC. (That's not actually why he'd lose, and indeed basically everyone hates AIPAC, but that becomes the message).

What do you think he means?

I'm sorry, if you can't look at Biden's economic policy in a vacuum and say "this was good and it pissed off the rich and that's why Elon spent 44 billion dollars on Twitter and specifically drove Gaza as a wedge issue and FUCKING BRIBED PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP" you're completely owned by Capital.

Honestly I'm more horrified by the lack of political consciousness. The revisionism of Biden-era policy by donning Gaza blinders to what amounted to a massive shift in material conditions in favor of the American working class and the marginalized poor means a failure to see the elite revolt.

The fact that the left broadly isn't telling the story, or outright denies it by just wrapping up the Biden era as homogeneously right-wing policy, of the capitalist elite stabbing our nation in the gut rather than offer dignity to the worker is a damning account of how we became ruled by fascists.

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

people are mad about the 8am sunrises because they're losing their daylight shaving time

This is on twitter, in response to Sirota insulting Stevens as "stilted and robotic"

Incredible.

This is an unalloyed great thing, and all the naysayers are wrong

"We'll just inflate it away like how MMT argued we should do it." How long did MMT survive on contact with the fact that voters will sacrifice their children to Baal to limit inflation?

Once again, with feeling: any leftism which doesn't account for the fact that America collects fully 30% less taxes than the average OECD country is doomed to fail. And no, you can't just get it all from billionaires. Adopt @jdcmedlock.bsky.social thought or die.

instant classic, down to him concluding "It is literally a civil war" after a woman tells him she doesn't date MAGA Republicans. I'm assuming he wasn't a professor of English.

If you cringed at this, you should have shut up and Pokémon gone to the polls.

My natural sleep cycle is 3:30 AM to Noon, I will.

“McConnell did more effective obstruction when he was majority leader than Schumer is doing as minority leader” is a very common response to this and like yes, he did

If you could cash out the nominal net worth of the 100 richest people in America (you can’t) that gets you maybe a couple years of current levels of social welfare spending

This will result in your household having a lower tax burden then whatever you imagine the Golden Age of American Prosperity to be

This is why the “no new taxes on the middle class” stuff is truly poisonous for the left. If we want to do shit the taxes need to go up a bit. That’s just how the math works

Our country is currently obsessed with biological purity in the way that post-9/11 America was obsessed with the idea that a religious war was coming to end civilization These things are both deeply linked to “a shocking thing happened, explained by biology/religion”

Oh that’s why they’re crashing out and talking hot shit about Black voters again.

Just join the Republican party if you want those policies on immigration and crime.

Correct.

One of the very real problems with our media being 100% based in New York City is that the Democratic Party of New York is possibly the worst state party in America, and New York itself has terrible election rules that all trace back to Tammany Hall in one way or another.

Based on nothing but this I'm for Stevens. I trust Black voters.

Look, I don't think you understand that she's cringe like my mom and therefore I don't want her to tell me to clean my room.

The pretending that Democrats didn't warn everyone about what would happen in 2024. They do not get to pretend. We were there.

"Democrats warned us two years ago but what are the doing now?" Bud, they warned you. Now we're dealing with people not listening.

"Consider his explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens." Millions decided not to consider this..... and here we are....

Ana de Armas didn’t return many calls, this too, is civil war.

At the voting booth, about to press the button for President AOC when I think “wait … she doesn’t like billionaires … and Scrooge McDuck Is a billionaire!”

As somebody whose family is split between continents, a technological advance I value extremely highly is the ability to call my relatives anywhere in the world for free, for as long as I want, and to see them by video.

I remember in 1990 the Scots dressed a statue in the West German kit for the semis. I'm pretty sure they'd cheer for Hell before they'd cheer for England.

new rule: the winner of the tournament earns the right to face Cabo Verde for the title

So many young leftists love Medicare for All because they have no idea what Medicare is, how complex it is, and how it doesn’t pay for everything.

Watched The Daily Show, really enjoyed the Two Minutes Hate against the old.

Rebelling without deconstructing. I'll keep saying it.

i never take them at face value

You can see the same dynamic with immigration; parties will make electoral compromises, and I can't stop that, but if you believe there is some optimally-designed compromise that will naturally resolve the problem, you're deluding yourself. It's about the changing world, not any specific number.