A big thanks to every pundit who dismissed as hysterical the many people sounding the alarm bells in 2015

Jonathan Ross was hired in 2016, under Obama, and served through Biden's full term. He's not even a CBP transfer like Bovino. ICE has always been like this, and Obama's absolutely pointless efforts to bolster his border credentials led us here.

"Free societies are under assault from a resurgent fascism. Across the world, fears about immigration have been one of the main—arguably the main—weapon used. And across the world, there has been a timidity on the part of progressives about countering these arguments."

Facebook boomer liberals are calling for blood, formerly checked out Latinos are mad as hell about ICE, and Dem leadership are still doing this "restore normalcy, pivot to grocery prices" bs

“A large and at best modestly accountable enforcement apparatus engaged in the surveillance, regulation, and intimidation of citizens is a logical necessity for immigration enforcement per se. It is the price.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

Not good enough, repeal every immigration law since Hart-Cellar at minimum

"The police institution as it exists in America today is incompatible with liberal values." (from July 2020) www.liberalcurrents.com/subject-the-...

open borders is the only moral position.

the adults in the room shit hasn't worked, it doesn't work, and it's not going to work. it just tells the world that you're not serious. just outsource your messaging to ChatGPT if you want bloodless

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

yes because right now, primal screaming is what the moment calls for. Only a lunatic thinks these times call for normal politics.

The existence of X allows the still powerful, traditional neo-liberal wing of the United States to go, "We NEED to be able to talk to THESE people!" Which, if your goal is to change almost nothing, is a fantastic tool to ensure that nothing changes.

Our society is massively vulnerable to people who say the right things but are obvious frauds. Its happening again right now with Graham Platner.

In the final analysis, liberalism and patriarchical class society are incompatible. The dictates of patriarchy (particularly patriarchy scaled to economics, otherwise known as "capitalism") will eventually override any stated liberal principles, and abrogate any written liberal laws.

Capital feels it is no longer accountable to the public at all.

The problem here is twofold: Having a exterminator is better than not having one You are allowed to complain about the exterminator if you think they suck

Guess we're fucked then. Because those are the options and if you think they aren't its cope

Investors are why enshittification happens. Once again we see that the root cause of every problem is capitalism.

No they predicted this and it was dismissed and downplayed. Because they were right. And they were always right. And every half measure and symbolic gesture offered by the "sensible middle" and mainstream media was complicit in creating this nightmare. They were right. Period. End of story.

“Governor Hochul may have declined to remove Adams from office at the time. But Mayor Mamdani, so far as his powers permit him, is going to act as though the last 461 days of the Adams Administration simply didn't happen. He considers Adams to have become illegitimate after his indictment.”

The problem is that as long as the Right exists as a political force, you can't rely on the US being a good actor. In many ways, this is the reckoning that should have happened in 1945. The Right should have been destroyed, root and branch, to the point its not even fringe.

i criticize socialism bc i like socialism and want it to win

This pretty much sums up the entirety of male reaction to the past 10-15 years. Men (and yes this is specifically a problem with men) felt like they were in danger of losing sociocultural impunity, and realized that the ethical progression of the world since Calvary was putting that in danger.

The Metternichian criterion was not really aristocratic legitimacy, or imperial equipoise; it was REACTION.

yeah im past the idea of an apolitical military bc 1: that's plainly not true, they very much favor one side 2: war is literally politics where you shoot people, the concept was always bullshit

The biggest lie the Left, Right, and Center tell themselves is that rancid violent gutter bigotry is a side distraction from the Real Issues instead of the true animating force of politics, from modern to ancient We aren't going to war for oil, we're killing racial enemies for racial caste reasons

how is joe q public supposed to shake off his daily routine to defend his country against an attack when the “opposition” party is still acting like there isn’t one

Modern leftism is just a series of wrong epistemic turns by old white men (Chomsky, then Bernie)

Because they're sociopaths. The great myth of capitalism is that it is an amoral, efficiency maximizing system, when it is an *immoral* system that maximizes human evil

Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files, allegedly involved in child trafficking & infanticide. Any political system that allows a man this evil to become president is irredeemable & must be abolished. The leadership of the New York Times continues to defend these atrocities.

yall were right about everything. every fucking thing. god. everything has to be on the table, period

To expound on this - capitalism is, and probably always was, incompatible with liberalism (outside the hyper descriptive "A System Is What It Does" sense)- both capitalist liberals and anti-liberal socialists are wrong here. Capitalism fails to achieve stated liberal values pretty much always

I think its interesting that in 2023 a lot of moderates argued to me that actual crime stats didnt matter: voters believed crime was up, so dems *must* lean in to the panic. And the same type of dude, relying on less clear, more nuanced data, has the opposite stance on the economy.

Exactly, dillweed. The large population of white men is working, whereas marginalized communities are seeing 8-10% unemployment and it's likely much higher in reality.

I know institutions in meatspace cannot move as fast as geist moves on the internet but surely by 2028, the absolute miserable crashing failure of Starmerism will have discredited the “you can infinitely abuse your base in pursuit of voters across the aisle” school of MVT-uber-alles politics?

Yeah no matter how much you dislike, say, tankies, anti-communist politics is fascist politics

Because they're the intellectual and in many cases, literal descendants of those plantation owners.

Liberalism is the soil from which socialism springs, socialism is the full realization of the liberal promise

This is the government that @mattyglesias.bsky.social and his ilk wants passing all the policies they believe need to be enacted and it's failed spectacularly. None of these people should ever be listened to for political advice.

Ds suffer from a crippling form of institutionalism that prevents them from seeing what’s happening around them. They get so fixated on following the rules, like demanding a vote to release the files, that they can’t see the files may have been destroyed already. Rs DNGAF. Ds refuse to believe that.

Yes, a glaring example of how institutionalism hurt Dems & helped give the USA this abominable so-called admin. Not enough Dem leaders realized the threat; now we’re living in MAGA hell. Biden, Garland & others helped put us here along with factors mentioned in this article.

All of these institutions and universities are going to try to rewrite and lie about their complicity in the years to come and it’s our responsibility to tell them to go fuck themselves

Yep, imagine having more backbone than American institutions, because those are having cold hard funding threatened, and while many have caved, *many have not*. Complying in advance is far less defensible for the Guides.

The thing about it is that they genuinely believe that authoritarianism is the only legitimate form of government, and democracy, human rights, and rule of law are complete psyops designed to undermine the True Will of the People, which can only be expressed through the authoritarian dictatorship

really enjoyed this piece from @quinnae.com, digging in to how much elites convinced themselves transphobia was a winner, even as ordinary americans demonstrably just don't care that much--and what that means for dem strategy going forward

Woke 1 was fighting the dog whistle. Woke 2 is fighting the dog.

The problem with Woke 1 is that it was fundamentally Old Liberal in means, it had fundamentally West Wing politics despite all the posturing. Once we expose the continued power of the white patriarchy we'd...do something. Woke 2 is for the whole damn thing, about whether we wield power against it

Woke 1 was right about everything and took a lot of guff because there was still a lot of plausible deniability out there. Woke 2 is about what to do in concrete terms now that no one’s fooling anyone any longer.