Damn hit ass dogs holler!!! Sorry that my socialism leads me to believe we shouldn't mock people, even total pieces of shit like Susan Collins specifically for being disabled!!

I literally am having this happen to me literally right now as we speak and I still think we shouldn't do racism, ableism and misogyny to be edgy, not least because I'm the target of that shit

Also forgot to mention, speaking of Ye Olden GamerGate days, Christina Hoff Sommers, the antifeminist activist, had literally called for bringing back bullying in one of her books. It built character, she said. You can figure out the rest in relation to feminism and lefty politics.

when the devil offers us his treats, of seductive visions of "A Trump of the Left", "A Rogan of the Left", let us say *get thee behind me*, because a leftist Trump, or a leftist Rogan is a CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. Such a thing cannot exist. Their very essence is inconsistent with leftist values.

It's pretty interesting seeing people adopt these symbols, but leftishly. In many ways, these leftists are accepting the moral universe of petty fascists--and also acting out their own trauma in particularly dumb ways. "Everything is high school" used to be the sole reserve of the far right.

The organization of society around the fiction of immutable and hierachal sex is a mistake, hope this helps

This scholarly report proves something rather different from what it argues. If you actually look at what the ppl it describes believe, it's very clear that there exists no system that respects *our* most basic civil liberties that can command *their* loyalty. So make a system that doesn't need it.

Carville was all in for Graham Platner who is, for his infinite problems, still styling himself as a progressive in the same mold. One wonders what's different about the crop of New Yorkers who won that infuriates Carville so. Inversely, what is different about Platner that he forgives so readily?

You think AI water usage is bad? It's a drop in the bucket (pun intended) compared to how much we expend so that suburbanites can have perfectly green little half-acre plots of grass monoculture

One of the reasons I'm a passionate YIMBY is that it's a form of real environmentalism. You know what is genuinely horrendous for the environment? Suburban living. It's too sparse to be efficient but too dense and manicured to let ecosystems thrive amongst it.

Actually effective environmentalism is so important The problem is so much of the "environmentalist" movement essentially functions as a reactionary cult that vilifies new tech and exalts misery as sort of a penance for our "sins" We don't have abundant nuclear because of "environmentalists"!

im a socialist and a liberal so everyone is wrong. Checkmate

i really really want to drive home the fact that the 2nd Amendment is, and really has always been, for conservative white men only: laramiereporter.substack.com/p/a-laramie-...

Fundamentally, even if you did uninvent AI, then what? You'd still be ruled by a sociopathic class of capital owners who are hellbent on impovershishing you for higher investment gains There is no way around political economy. There is no way around redefining capital's relationship with society.

Apocalypse scenarios, especially zombie stuff, are usually a fantasy about, "First, let's kill off the disabled people." Hatred of trans people is never far behind. Meanwhile, it's disabled and trans people who are doing the real work to keep communities alive. Look at the mask blocs.

Very important to understand that puberty blockers were an ultimately shortsighted compromise because the default approach to any non-normative existence, gender, neurological or otherwise, is implicitly or explicitly eugenics, and you can't compromise with eugenics.

Reminder that any remotely rational "MAHA" would focus on cars. Cars sicken & kill Americans far far more than f'ing "processed foods" or whatever.

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

Before I became a legal historian, I was & still am a political scientist specializing in US immigration law & policy. Here's my contribution of first laying out the case for why major structural reforms need to happen + what they should be. I drew on many excellent proposals already out there. 1/

Liberals would say this because they are just thinking about an electoral majority. I am saying this because a *working class* constituency (i.e. a *labour* constituency, not a "didn't go to university" constituency) is the only one which can *defend* social liberalism through direct action

The Popularists want to import this admins success to the U.S. They see it as a model.

for the audience, because I very much do not have to explain this to talia bhatt - the birthrate is not, and has never been the point. the point is that it serves as an answer to the question of "how can we justify all the mass rape we want to do"

That they think raping teenagers as a medieval peasant is better than modernity says a whole lot about what they really want to optimize.

"The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled." Good to see research back up something I've been saying for years.

"Our ballooning inequality is accompanied not by unambiguous gains among other classes, but by precarity in housing, healthcare, childcare, climate change, and a turbulent labor market, all pervaded by a vibe of declining social mobility." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-libe...

it's genuinely hilarious how Rod is genuinely in the mindspace where like, Pride flags are as evil as like, a 20th century style right-wing police state

But you see, I chose to live out in the middle of nowhere 68 miles from civilization, so therefore we should base literally all of society around drivers.

As someone who wants Kamala to run again, this is 100% on point. 2024 could have been, maybe framed as her being a good soldier. 2028 will have no such mitigatory narrative.

" Indeed, the history of American politics is littered with ostensible golden ages—the Era of Good Feelings, the Roaring Twenties, the postwar ’50s—that can only be deemed such by our total exclusion. " this is *exactly* the kind of thing American institutions and American capital seek in 2026

which is why our task, *as liberals* is to sever American democracy from American imperialism. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

all good liberals are socialists and all good socialists are liberals

I see no inherent conflict between being a liberal and a socialist - they are highly compatible theories!

And good socialists agree with the principles of liberalism; they just don't think liberalism has the courage to follow its own logic to its conclusions

"When socialists advocate wealth taxes, they are often portrayed by economists and centrist liberals as unserious and driven by an illiberal 'zero-sum mentality.' ... It isn’t zero-sum thinking to see that the billionaire class represents a profound threat to the liberal democratic order."

"Nineteenth-century socialism existed in a variety of forms that little resembled Marxist-Leninist authoritarianism, and included pivotal contributions to the greatest emancipation in history." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-libe...

The billionaires hate liberals and socialists both, so why does it seem like only socialists have the self-respect to return the sentiment? We would do well to embrace the great liberal FDR's approach to the oligarchs of his day. “They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred!”

this is also specifically why government IT overhaul/revamping to bring everything in house should be a major part of the democratic program. get rid of elon, get rid of palantir, get rid of the contractors

Performative bullshit is when you win political power for socialism, and the more political power you win for socialism, the more performative it is

Great thread. And the moral of this story I think is this keeps happening until we gate social media with the only tool that works: Registration Fees. Pay $20 for an account, get banned for being obnoxious, a ton of this becomes far easier to handle (because reg fees pay for paid moderation)

"The pre-Trump status quo is dead. Whatever else he has accomplished, that is a done deal. We will need to rebuild, and when we do, it shouldn't be simple fix-up job. It should be a Reconstruction grounded in good, liberal values." www.liberalcurrents.com/building-a-n...

Society should be full of beauty and whimsy and fun I have left-wing politics because I want *everyone* to have *more* of that sort of stuff rather than to strip the world down to a soulless, sterile husk

I'm told very strongly the only reason the left wants to tax wealth is because of a zero-sum mentality. The left just doesn't understand that bil—scratch that—trillionaire wealth benefits everyone! That's just economics. Could there even be a more zero-sum worldview than Great Replacement Theory?

Liberalism and socialism argue over the mechanics of liberation. That's fine, they should. "Democracy requires a hot family feud" Fascism, reactionary conservatism - these reject the premise of universal liberation. They want liberation only for the Nation, the Throne, the Church, the Volk.

Musk helping incite fascist violence abroad even as he became a trillionaire illustrates the future he really wants. He envisions something like a multi-continental, Armageddon-like Total War in defense of white peoples against "invaders." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

I think a post-restoration America could take care of this problem on its own. But completely agree with these ideas: it’s time for institutional actors the world over to stop ducking fights with this awful degenerate. Responsible leaders wouldn’t leave this up to protest or boycott movements alone.

i want to say "many such cases" but that's too easy. i'm reminded again of blom's THE VERTIGO YEARS, and his argument that pre-war europe was consumed by a crisis of masculinity brought on by rapidly changing technology and culture which i think is basically true today

The "well, the pronoun thing really is out of control" centrists held the door open for the Nazis to walk through.

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

Conversely, this sounds like actual Heaven on a metaphysical sense to me. A world where I can do things I want to do and not die? And it goes for everyone?