Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Okay, everybody out of the pool. We can’t fucking do the 80s and 90s “nobody knows anything real” shit again. We gotta fuckin knock this shit off before it turns into Science Wars 2 or 3.0

It’s going to be crazy when this guy gets the woke day of the rope

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if you have time today, just watch the whole thing, it's incredible:

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

the "DEI" moral panic was largely rehashed gripes about affirmative action, and the "woke" scare largely renewed intransigence to "political correctness"

*taps sign* capitalists hate free markets and depend on heavy-handed state intervention to discipline labor, subsidize costs, and absorb externalities

Abusive non-competes are part of the Plot to Enslave America. They want serfs and slaves. Making it impossible to switch jobs has been an explicit goal of the capitalist class for as long as it's existed.

lol

Now that the NYT is running Ross Douthat’s high level cutting edge “Girls: They Have Cooties” summit, I am obliged to tap the sign:

estrogen didn't save her 😩

stalin & mao were the greatest anticommunists in history and if rightists were smart enough to figure that out* theyd be their biggest fans *some have in fact figured it out eg alain de benoist: "better to die wearing the helmet of a red army soldier than to live on a diet of hamburger in brooklyn"

almost as if-- xkcd.com/385/

A stereotype is NOT a generalization of how some population differs from human universals but a way to demonize members of that population precisely WHEN they act according to human universals.

it's especially fascinating given Mahmood Mamdani's work is essentially about Uganda's governance being post-colonial fascism

For those of you too young to remember how gay marriage played out, what eventually happens is that the media tacitly retcons Republicans having ever believed in the retrograde thing without the Republicans actually changing their minds. This somehow works.

Every now and again I think about the way Senators who knew and worked with Rubio were convinced he was “one of them” and would moderate Trump and now he’s leading the charge on killing random people in international waters to try and provoke a war with Venezuela.

Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.

It’s not that people are dumb and confused by “misinformation” into having a false consciousness. It’s more a case of national collective fiction play. Participatory make-believe play of acting as-if a fabricated content universe is really real.

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

The right is producing content for what is essentially a reality TV show for a national fascist counter-reality that anyone who wants to believe can immerse themselves in and pretend is real (and use as “evidence” for decision-making) but it doesn’t replace actual reality that we can all still see

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

seriously think the only remotely plausible solution to this problem is to go all in on the new religious movement aspects of maga and quasi-deify the late dear leader

the brutal ableism of Trumpism is an underrated part of its ideology by most pundits. Trump mocking a disabled journalist *invigorated* his voters rather than repelling them, because it made them feel that they were safely on the side of the bully, rather than the victim.

Reminder they one or the the iron rules of fascist politics is that their electoral wins are ordained by god but their opponents winning is an attack and a sign of massive conspiracies to keep the “true winners” from office. Fascism only sees itself as legitimate and everything else is illegitimate

remember that information environments are still toxic sludge and legacy media taken over by rightwing oligarchs so democrats still need a grassroots party messaging apparatus and liberalism a resilient, insurgent epistemic ecosystem to withstand the coming ai-powered techno-fascist onslaught

Agreed. The 'wokeness panic' -- and a lot of the nation's obsessive cultural politics more generally -- reflects localized intra-elite status competition that said elites project onto the mass public.

legacy chattering class status anxiety and resentment

There was genuinely some stupid bullshit that went on between say 2019-2021 or so but it’s long over and the continued and accelerated vituperation is largely an excuse for racist reconquista

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

I think we need to start calling it “Der Twitter”

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Nobody talks about it, but this is actually the way Donald Trump is most like Adolf Hitler. It’s not his racism or his will to power or his disrespect of democracy. It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

are we all on the same page that "affordability" means "build more housing," "upzone," "break the HOA cartel," "YIMBY supremacy," "total war on cars," etc? because thats what it should mean or else its just an empty slogan affordability = urban density and walkability

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

Dem message for next year’s midterms

Turns out that perforated nazi might really have been a Turning Point after all

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart. In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

People are very right that there is no contemporary equivalent in the US of the Sturmabteilung or the Blackshirts - in physical terms, anyway. There is, however, an *information-space* paramilitary force upon which the Trump regime increasingly relies. Techno-fascism.

1. There are three very important constraints on tonight's Mamdani victory you have to keep in mind when we're looking at what he's going to be able to do in office (taking him in good faith as someone who wants to make life better for people and discounting Trump). Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

After tonight’s results shed a tear for transphobes in the Democratic Party who will now have to just own their desire to throw trans people under the bus and can no longer displace it onto “voters”

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.