The notion that using they/them for someone whose gender you’re unsure of is an attack or transphobic is OBSCENE. It’s obviously correct! It’s obviously inclusive! This is a fundamentally abusive technique! And people aren’t expected or required to look at your profile! Grow the fuck up!

“Few servants but many slaves of fear” goes pretty hard

lmao dusty bitch

I think it’s bad actually that “liberal” has become a floating signifier that has no meaning other than that the person saying it doesn’t like liberals, whatever they are

Remind me why anyone trusted her stumping for an outlet named after the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide in the first place, again?

we've got a whole lotta people using words like "soy" and "HR Lady" politics on here, and it's openly misogynistic and homophobic crap. HR Lady politics is basically the left-bro version of the longhouse.

it's true that I talk a lot now about how I don't think liberalism and leftism are compatible that wasn't true until leftists explained to me why they think that's true I, along with most liberals, used to say we were "on the left" until we were told we weren't welcome

Remember when the TikTok witches tried to fight "Allah" during the Afghan Withdrawal but he was too powerful

Although there's a debate to be had wherever Sulla was ideologically anti-democratic or if his (very much extant) opposition to Roman democracy (such as it was) was an extension of his opposition to Marius.

this is a very odd way of phrasing “i cooked my brain on right wing agitprop and forgot people on bsky don’t find zogposting or kekistanism funny”, but you do you

I think this is where we'll leave off today

“Enemies of slavery referred to the institution as "the slave power." Republicans like Lincoln recognized quite clearly that they needed to fight slavery not just to save the slaves, but to liberate the country as a whole from the grip of the slave power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

My big three tests in determining if someone's an idiot are: 1) Opinion on vaccines 2) Opinion on the EU 3) Opinion on the Russia-Ukraine war Dunno about 1 & 2, but she failed test 3.

Fucking lmao

You might be cool in your little circle of irony-poisoned friends, but you will be doomed to be forever unhappy and watch from a distance as people who can build coalitions decide what ideas and values you have to live under will be

"cringe" is almost definitionally anti-mainstream, and winning elections requires a mainstream coalition. If you are irony-poisoned and anti-cringe you are virtually certain to never be part of a coalition that takes power and deliver on anything. It is a route to your ideas or values being ignored.

TikTok kids call you a "monarchist" if you point out that they're wrong about what actually happened after the French Revolution. These kids are doomed, just totally brain-poisoned forever. Hopeless subliterate ignoramuses.

To understand American politics you must first internalize that the Democrats are the Mom Party and the Republicans are the Dad Party and American voters are stuck in a cycle of hating mom and demanding to stay at dad's only to immediately beg to come home because dad's an abusive drunk

libs are both effeminate impotent voters and jackbooted authoritarians. they're just very strong and very weak. that's dialectics i think

Happy Juneteenth to all who follow me that are commemorating I'm glad that in my lifetime I've seen this celebration of freedom become as widely accepted in society as it has, as I've gotten older

Not quite the Nile turning to blood but we'll take what we can get I guess.

I would simply not organize my left politics around contempt for the Democrats and their base.

The way we save democracy is to win the next two major election cycles and then devastate every voting group that either votes Republican OR abstains, ensuring they remain demoralized and silenced while we elevate a new middle class hegemony of white collar upwardly mobile knowledge workers

The Churchill bucket, you say?

To be fair, he made himself an absolute monarch and turned a lot of those Republics into conquered territory.

One would think the existence of Blair White would have settled the question of whether or not being a trans woman necessarily cancels out being a reactionary dipshit, and yet...

Paradox Interactive is honestly the funniest example of this because "the game is $200 with all the DLC" is probably what you should be paying up front for a game that's had 10 years of continuous development and they get mad that people paid that $200 in quarterly installments

There are two strains of people who have nostalgia for the Space Race: those who view it as a missed opportunity for national aggrandizement or enrichment, and those for whom "We came in peace for all mankind" remains something more than letters etched in steel.

I think a lot of people's appetite for fantasy is actually an appetite for sci fi with swords and it shows in how you approach the actual like, tropes and feel of the genre itself

perhaps this is selfish but while Blexas is very important to me as a function of civil rights I also just enjoy the prospect of a fresh blue government unencumbered by California's many interesting (derogatory) quirks of government

I said a long time ago that worse (and in the anglophone world more likely) than a centrally planned state or laissez faire capitalism is the ‘middle’ option of a sclerotic License Raj

(This is why I get a little snippy sometimes with people who quote the “all regulations are written in blood” line. Good intentions do not equate to good outcomes! Opportunity cost is a real thing! Enforcement is done by the fallible and self-interested!)

Shrieking White-Hot Sphere of Pure Rage (Woke) had better be the Dem frontrunner for 2028

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

we really need to have a talk about the recent crop of electeds whose campaign strategies revolve entirely around pithy socmed soundbites aimed at people *outside* of their districts

So glad Texas Democrats didn’t vote for her

People are going to be selling these and imitations on eBay like pieces of the true cross. 29 pools worth of material.

how it feels to be passionate about tailoring, cats, and water from the lincoln memorial reflecting pool

Your office does not exist to serve all americans; it exists to serve those who aren't fascists This is the only way to restore political deterrence, Biden Admin tried the carrot so now they all get the stick until they learn to either stop voting for fascists or (more likely) stop voting period

me: "gimme the ELINT infestation with harrods toy livery" the state of qatar: "say no more"

"maybe when datacenter demand collapses we can use the datacenters as giant computer warehouses that could store and process information" a real opinion I just saw on bluesky dot com the social network for opinions

Every so often I like to take a moment to remember the inflection point for Elon Musk's public persona being people ragging on his plan for rescuing a bunch of kids trapped in a cave.

A lot of people have very strange ideas about who the preparators of political violence in the FR were, who their targets were, and uh, if it worked.