this comparison is going to drive a subset of people insane but this site is essentially Taiwan for the centre-left/left-wing power users of Twitter

in a weird turn of events the chief sufferers of mental health stigma are not thirtysomething multiple degree havers who have a mild anxiety, but people who are in actual danger of being arrested. good to know the former actually don't /really/ have much empathy for the latter

Well everyone is always telling me to actually get an avatar and an icon so I guess I'm stealing Franzy. If irhottakes can be a neoconservative Starfire then I can be the deranged whip-wielding perfectionist I want to see in the world.

if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this

where are they going to get enough ysalamiri to make the spaarti cylinders viable

TELL THE TRUTH. CARE WHAT’S TRUE. Lies are poisonous and you’ll pay a price for telling them. And someone will always be a better liar than you.

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

This is just one of many scenarios that would end this in as little as four swift moves. We are currently teetering at the precipice of oblivion.

I think these arguments are extremely popular not because they are particularly convincing but because they create a permission structure for what people perceive as the fun thing

people like talia jane would rather slander a lib as a collaborator than lose an argument online.

LARPing is exactly the right description for it. And it's always like, 1-3 LARPers holding the entire group hostage with maximalist demands because everyone else isn't sure they know enough about privacy threat models, but isn't keen enough to realize the LARPers don't know shit either

You could do not ask for a more damming inducement of a certain subculture than this person who lives in *Michigan* scolding Stancil, who is actually in MN, for asking people to not LARP like they’re fucking antifa Jason Bourne and actually talk to media.

For those of you with short memories or who just weren't super plugged in in 2020, it's worth remembering the reason why hawking bullshit "Minneapolis autonomous zone" lines is such red meat for the right is it took less than 24 hours for CHOP/CHAZ/whatever to randomly kill black children.

The current Democratic coalition is every single person who has any idea how society works, any interest in maintaining it, or any scraps of empathy for their fellow human beings, and that's about 47% of the country, tops.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Yes, American society is sick and broken. No, self-flagellation is not substitute for action and people in other countries dealing with our shit would rather us clean our mess so they no longer have to put up with the stink than hear us performatively mope about it. Are we done here now?

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

that i am hearing anything less than this from people protected by the speech and debate clause of the constitution is a complete failure on their part. just straight up not doing their jobs

In fact they do It was installed with concerted effort by a syncretic online (specifically Twitter) coalition responding to every “Trump will be a dictator that takes a torch to the Constitution” with “I CAN’T FUCKING AFFORD MILK” in all caps

Tooze's masturbatory fantasies of massacring liberals for not being left enough are such a perfect summary of who he is and why not treating Leninists like neo-Nazis is one of modern academia's greatest sins. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

All I ask is that I be allowed to hate these people as much as they hate me.

here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware

@jvl.bsky.social JVL - you previewed the Monday Triad by mentioning the City Journal interview. This is what hits me - don't these guys sound *exactly* like anti-anti-Trump politicians when Hitler is mentioned? "I don't support what he did in all of these specifics, but I absolutely support him!"

@jvl.bsky.social - I was inspired by your "Match-Throwing Club" for this one. Well, less 'inspired' and more 'reassured that it was okay to write' - the only other person I know of who writes in parable is Elizer Yudkowsky, and I don't want to get any of *that* on me.

This person has been posting explicit violent fantasies about me for months if not years. I don't care if she's trans, she's unhinged and at some point people are responsible for their words and actions.

I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.

Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it

@jvl.bsky.social and @ebharrington.bsky.social - submitted for your approval (after months), I finally have another post. Hopefully, this one is worth the essay-length read. I'll try to get the next one out sooner, but I'm a perfectionist at heart.

I still genuinely cannot believe that it is apparently the position of many Latin American leftists that the government of the United Kingdom should have allowed a bunch of their own subjects to be sacrificed to a brutally repressive right-wing dictatorship

I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.

We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said that’s too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto

"the revolution will be televised but in a way that creates a parasocial connection with revolution so that a lot of people get really invested in the idea of being revolutionaries without doing much to contribute to it"

Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.

“It’s shocking you’d rather tell the truth than lie for my good cause” - whatever segment of the left this is, leave me out of it

My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."

I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.

Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.

Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo

It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.

Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.

Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.

How I feel about political candidates

Hey John any updates on this dunk

If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals

It's funny to me how many people on here take it for granted that they can intuit the aesthetic, rhetorical, and policy preferences of the median American voter; my working assumption is that the voters who decide most American elections would rejoice to see me and everybody I know and love dead.