i wrote about milton mayer’s account of german men’s lives in the nazi party and parallels with our ICE situation today www.welcometohellworld.com/the-little-a...

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

The many will never be able to pursue fully automated luxury communism because the few are grinding us to dust to achieve fully automated luxury fascism.

for a long, long time now "the economy" has been used to mean "rich people and large companies" rather than anything approximating the actual, complete economy

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”

A big part of tax discourse is that normal people would not give a single shit about how much they were paying in taxes if those taxes went to helping people, and that it is extremely obvious that this is not what taxes are actually going toward.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

ya like to the extent the "we want to show our readers all the sides of the big arguments in public discourse" is a laudable goal (i'm sketpical) its really, really important that you actually are publishing genuine arguments and not dishonest propaganda designed to dupe people!

This actually tracks if you consider that for the Times, anything to the left of center-right is way outside the acceptable ideological bounds when it comes to politics or economics. “Liberal political leanings” is prob just David Brooks.

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

When South Korea successfully stopped a coup, arrested the former president, and prosecuted him, it sent a very strong message to everyone else: "You can trust that 4 years from now, you won't have to worry about him returning and fucking everything up." The US under Biden did the exact opposite.

Suppose dems do win in 2028. Every single other country on earth will go "why on earth would we make *any* kind of deal with you if 4 years from now some pedophile asshole can come in fuck it all up? It literally happened last time, dipshits."

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

He could just as easily be talking about the Democratic Party, many of whose leaders are making similar mistakes:

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

The Democratic Party is at a crossroads. On one side are millions of working people demanding bold action. On the other side are corporate donors and consultants who are terrified of upsetting the very interests that rigged this economy in the first place.

New York billionaires who call themselves liberals and moderates are currently spending their time figuring out how to punish the people of New York City for electing Zohran, while doing absolutely nothing to stop the demented Nazi in the White House.

This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

What’s this bullshit framing about? What about this 1 in 5 minority makes it “strong”. Why do I have a hunch that they’d frame a 3 in 5 majority in support of strong social programs or taxing the rich as “tenuous”? Politico is spineless right wing apologia on both sides of the Atlantic.

While I usually just ignore this stuff, I think it's worth considering the relationship to a broad culture of deferentialism that helped facilitate fascist state capture in the first place. Waiting for institutions to confirm what we know & see right in front of us will never advance liberation.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Very excited for "Why does the left hate AI so much? Is it because they're stupid and don't understand it?" to evolve into "Why does the Right hate AI so much? Do they need tax breaks? What do we not understand about them? Do they have too few sweet kisses from papa?"

The fact that so many billionaire Californians are each dedicating tens of millions of dollars to fighting a proposed wealth tax — rather than using those funds to pay the tax — demonstrates just how much play money they have and evidences the extent of their delusional entitlement

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

Wherever you find a dipshit whose fundamental beliefs make no fucking sense, you find a dipshit who has fully and gleefully embraced generative AI to soothe the pain of being a dipshit. That is its only purpose, other than producing CSAM and being a ponzi scheme and justifying mass layoffs.

To hell with a Joe Rogan for the left. Can I have a Mitch McConnell for Democrats, please? Imagine having someone who would go as hard in the paint for civil rights as McConnell did for antiblackness.

What we’re seeing with WaPo is part of a larger trend. If it’s not clear by now, there is nothing big money gets its hands on that does not dirty and destroy. - housing - law - govt - media - entertainment What we call “enshittification” is really the capitalization of everything.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Groups like the Heritage Foundation need to be destroyed. Stripped of tax exempt status, the ability to spend unlimited sums of money on politics, and the ability to conceal donors. Go down a list: Heritage, CNP, the Manhattan Institute, ALEC, DonorsTrust, Americans for Prosperity, etc.

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

People say that the GOP is all stick no carrot, that they forgot the bread and circuses. But the thing is these guys are all incredibly cooked in the CSAM slop Nazi bar, playing to a tiny but loud group of utter freaks for whom murder and cruelty *is* the carrot and the bread and the circus.

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

The feedback loop here, where the people ostensibly in charge of the most powerful government in the world are completely obsessed with and deferential to the conservative media-industrial complex, is what's going to get us all killed.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.

We’re going to have to systematically dismantle this cancerous movement. - Strip the dark money groups and political churches of tax exempt status - Target right-wing media with antitrust - Oust right-wing bullshit from academia and law schools - Root out fascists in government and law enforcement