Now it has to be done through the law - or you just get endlessly escalating violence - but the good news is that these guys are doing a ton of very illegal things in plain sight so actually you can just prosecute them for lawbreaking the second they are out of power.

The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

"why are games so expensive" "why are mass layoffs happening" "why are games getting cancelled" "why did that popular studio close" it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock

When Bari Weiss complains about a word salad of “identitarian Marxism” which is merely a barely masked coverup of ‘cultural Bolshevism’ it becomes less and less surprising how many republicans have found common cause with Nazism. They’ve been pushing this kind of division for years and years

24 million Americans are about to see their health insurance premiums double. 40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire. But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.

this administration comprises a world historical constellation of freaks: lady who married a guy who could be her grandfather, bulimic adulteress, childless cat shrew, adult catholic convert, a nosferatu, four different types of closet case, asian viking, guy who literally starved widows. majestic

I think it’s wild that we’ve reached the point where the main goal or function of some industries has just been abandoned. Like we have universities that don’t want to teach, movie studios that don’t want to make movies, tech companies that don’t want to make useful products.

Imagine being a piece of shit stretched out hairless Nazi ballsack like Miller and thinking literally anyone alive respects you more than De Niro, who if he'd never acted again after CASINO would still have been a beloved legend.

Clean energy is cheap energy. While China’s massive investments are driving down the price of solar and wind by up to 90 percent, the Trump administration is killing federal clean energy support and pushing fossil fuels instead, costing America jobs, leadership, and money.

What is this "center?" What is the territory you wish to occupy? Where is it? Can you define it? Does it exist? Is the goal to occupy any ground you're given? What the fuck do you stand for? What are your values?

What negotiation wins by starting with concessions? What battle wins by starting with retreat? What war wins by starting with surrender?

Republicans know what they want: An Antebellum South slave gulag but for the entire world, with technology to punish and constrain. It's horrific and evil but they definitely want it and in rare instances that they retreat or compromise on that it's tactical to that end. bsky.app/profile/reph...

Centrist extremists, man. They don't care where they move, they care only that they remain moveable. They say they wish to persuade, but their only tactic is to be persuaded.

this would sound pretty menacing if i believed he was capable of making a robot army, but he isn't so this just sounds like something a 12-year-old would say. everyone is twelve now

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

the white house thing is objectively hilarious sorry. yeah lemme just rip up the most famous building america and put a gay ass ballroom in there. job done perfect

Hey if you're hyped up on the idea of Gavin Newsom running for president in 2028 you're a fucking idiot

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

a lot of american politicians and political hopefuls wear fascist garb and display fascist symbolism because america is a fascist nation. hope that helps

Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

running for president in '28, my entire campaign is just two posters, one picturing prominent members of the current administration beneath the banner headline "PRISON", and another of all the leading techbros beneath the banner headline 'WE WILL TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY'

Abolish ICE yes of course but also use the entire insane bloated ICE budget to hire a vast army of immigration lawyers and judges and civil servants to help all of the people who are getting brutalized right now and make it so it doesn’t take a decade plus to get citizenship legally

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

It’s dope that you can still get a security clearance with an SS tat. I guess that “secret nazi cells in the military” thing is actually pretty easy to do and maybe not so secret

Are you aware we execute innocent people in the US quite regularly? Here's a story about Anthony Boyd, an innocent black man the state of Alabama intends to murder by gas mask next week. What can you do? Read this, and check out the thread below for how you can help. 🩷

i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good

genuinely why do so many americans have a nazi phase or become genuine nazis. on a fundemental level you’d think that we’d have as much shared hatred for nazism as we do for the british

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom" I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

are there people in this country who can legally run for office who aren't troops or prosecutors or princeton legacies

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

I’m putting “purity test” on the big board of bullshit terms right next to “polarized.” Terms that, when you hear them, the odds the person using them is talking bullshit approaches 100%.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

The internet was supposed to be able to survive a nuclear war, now it wouldn't even survive a security guard tripping over the wrong extension cord.

"Robert E. Lee did politics the right way" - Ezra Klein

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

I believe Zohran should condemn Hasan because I believe all streamers should be condemned

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Republicans — speaking for the White House — called the entire Democratic voting base terrorists yesterday and no more than a handful of Democrats bothered to say anything about it.