I think this dam is about to break hard. I'm already hearing it in private conversations.

Fascism uses its own failure to establish itself as camouflage. Failure becomes propaganda that gaslights people for pointing at fascism by saying "But look! Fascism didn't happen! If you think it's a risk, you're deranged from reality!"

Hot take: Hating Ezra Klein on BlueSky is performative anti-centrism like 90% of the time.

Someone needs to explain the Waymo hate in the comments to me, cuz I don't get it. Is it just generic thoughtless rage against "AI"?

People overvalue "amount of reading done" and undervalue the nutritional content of what they read.

I'm not someone who advocates smoking or blowing smoke around kids, but this is a perfect example of weasel language. If there were good direct evidence that secondhand smoke appreciably affects cancer rates, they would say that directly instead of just saying it contains chemicals known to.

Taxing "unrealized gains" is actually a really dumb idea. It's taxing already taxed money over and over again. If you want to tax rich people more, just raise the taxes they already pay or remove loopholes that enable them to avoid those taxes.

They make these ridiculous statements because it helps promote one of their chief lies about their opposition, which is that "the left" hates humanity. Pretty ironic for the side that doesn't care how many thousands have and will die from cutting USAID.

Pantheon > Pluribus

Virtually everyone in both Russia and Ukraine would benefit if it happened.

Let's be real. These cringe "tacticool" LARP people aren't generally the ones carrying out shootings.

"cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, and a bumbling incompetent" describes like half of MAGA.

The pulled CECOT segment from 60 Minutes is available on archive.org. Download and save a copy. archive.org/details/60mi...

People treating their home as an investment and not just a usable good like their car is the root of so much bullshit.

Useless...until you need to know if something will fit in a trunk/box/etc. diagonally. In other words, not at all useless.

If only it were so benign as to be mere foolishness. This is *propaganda* intended to sell the idea that the right is of course *totally* willing to meet people in the middle, talk, be reasonable, etc. and it's definitely the *left* that is responsible for how divided we are.

I guess I might feel sad if he didn't completely deserve it.

Communist states are de facto absolute monarchies already.

The fundamental clash in our culture right now is between people who recognize the importance of the well-being of people they have no direct or obvious connection to, and people who do not.

I'm just so tired of my government being run by sick freaks.

Among the many issues with telling people that the fundamental of this country is "white supremacy" is that some people are going to start believing you but not in the way you think.

Or we could just invest in electric vehicles and nuclear power with the money we're about to spend on invading a sovereign country without provocation.

"In a just world" we apparently have death camps for wrongthink. Communists not beating the allegations, as usual.

It was quite rude and definitely unbecoming of a president, but let's not call being rude "assault". It diminishes actual assault to do that.

I am once again asking Bluesky to not celebrate political violence just because you agree with the politics of the violent person.

50501 definitely has some far lefties operating it and occasionally it'll show. Do not confuse it for Indivisible.

I wonder if free air pumps for car tires at gas stations come with the "OUT OF SERVICE" sticker pre-applied.

Personally, I can't believe that the amoral narcissistic psychopath that people elected to hurt people they hate might fuck teenagers. Clearly he's above that sort of thing.

Personally, I don't think it's OK to publicly suggest feeding someone into a woodchipper for saying immoral things.

"Biohacker" just means "dude who isn't a doctor experimenting with drugs"

If you were looking for a bunch of far left nutjobs to block, just peruse the comments here. Imagine being upset at this of all things.

Does "gender is fake" count as my most woke or least woke opinion?

The consensus view among the Dem base is: -normie mainstream liberalism -unremitting, fire-breathing, hardline anti-Trumpism The factions that exist outside of this consensus have a strong incentive to essentially act as if it’s not an option, and you must choose either leftism or accommodationism

I maintain that the obvious explanation for what is happening worldwide right now is that, thanks to media fragmentation, almost every politically informed person exists within a community of ENDLESS INDULGENCE, where you are actively encouraged to embrace cathartic narratives as unimpeachably true.

That was PJ O’Rourke’s (z”l) line—“There’s no such thing as race and barely such a thing as ethnicity. If we were dogs, we’d all be the same breed.”

The far right is straightforwardly a retreat from civilization as such.

It makes me feel old that the joke is now to call it "Shakira law" instead of "Shania law"

I've been so disappointed with Reason over the last year. It's really been eye opening to me to see how basically every libertarian institution, even "the good ones", has failed to meet the moment when literal fascism arrived at the door. It highlights critical problems with the ideology as a whole

There is a pretty critical distinction. The waters get muddied mainly by politicians labeling themselves as democratic socialists while governing as social democrats.

Still tired of people using "centrist" as code for a very specific type of person to insinuate that anyone who isn't fairly far to the left is some mealy mouthed coward that plays footsies with fascism.

Bluesky has a lot of terminally online far left types that are perpetually upset about anything that isn't a communist revolution.

Sad that Sam Foster lost (barely) the election for mayor of Marietta, but happy for the blue wave overall yesterday.

McDonald's has ~150,000 employees. That means if you gave them the CEO's entire annual salary, evenly divided, they'd get an extra $121/year each. This is textbook "hating the rich" more than "loving the poor".

We've got you 👍

A country that chases the past will be left in the past.

MAGA succeeded largely not by convincing people racism is good but by convincing people that opposition to racism is "uncool".

CEOs have learned that all they have to do is pander to Trump's ego and the market will be forced to shift in their favor. It's toxic as hell.

People arguing that racial diversity "reduces trust" are mostly just telling on themselves.