Not the point necessarily but the “pro-worker” framing back then was also absolutely racist

I wish the flywheel of American political media wasn’t driven by shit like this rather than, say, our complicity in genocide, but it is, inarguably. So Democrats should never shut the hell up about it.

The last election was about society and permission structures. Enough people looked the other way or choose to enable the worst people in society for vibes and are shocked they have nothing but cruelty and vice to offer.

The people who complain that McDonald's is less colorful and fun nowadays are the same people who would buy this junk.

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

My woke receptors are still developing but it's clear that "Somalian" is a stand-in for the N word.

Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

Clinton treating the “Board of Peace” like it’s a legitimate body is so fucking embarrassing.

this is a great example of something that gets under appreciated imo which is that the whole anti-woke movement is actually deeply grad-school-brained and postmodern.

One of the hardest things to accept is “my ideas are correct but unpopular” and it’s particularly tricky for leftists who romanticize “the people”

At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.

The anti-data center stuff about noise, (except in very specific cases like Elon‘s AI stuff running their emergency gas turbines as a default source of power), is just straight up “infra sound“ bullshit from the 5G conspiracy theories. Like Word for Word the same.

In 2018, Joe Manchin, a centrist who hates the national debt and welfare, was the last Democrat to win statewide election In 2020, Democrats did what Boots Riley wanted and nominated a socialist for the senate seat. She lost by 43 points.

it's kind of wild that ChatGPT is less biased and more truthful than literally any newspaper

I'm truly here for this humiliation.

Trust the plan!

The reality is that most non voters have even worse (in the sense of unworkable, incoherent) politics than the median voter

the issue is (as Skocpol pointed out in Rust Belt Union Blues) is that socialization has gone from union halls to basically Fox News, so economic populist/social con voters are socialized more towards the GOP than the Dems

A reasonable principle to follow is "Don't praise arsonists for helping put out the fire they started"

this is, though, an interesting thing. which is that being on the right is still so low-status culturally that even on a now totally reactionary dominated platform people reflexively do this tic

A man dressed in all black scaled the Department of Justice building and tore down the Banner of Trump. 👍 #cdnpoli

“actually many autistic people i know are productive members of society” is not an effective counter to the deranged eugenic ramblings of rfk jr instead, start with “rfk jr is a nazi and the intrinsic value of a person and their right to exist with dignity has nothing to do with their productivity”

What monoculture we have left is making fun of Trump. And MAGAs are in denial.

So in a few days. Cops have killed a baby and a Black Woman's dog wearing a Knick's jersey. Where are all the BLMs accounts on here?

Of course for a lot of folks the goal is to gut the Democratic party & take revenge on African American politicians so it's understandable they see themselves aligned with the Tea Party's goals.

The thing about the idea of a "Dem Tea Party" is the Republican Tea Party rotted Republicans from the inside out & left it open to being taken over by a fascist huckster who's destroying both the party & the country.

This could well be the path forward for now, but man, "indulge rural reactionaries in their various paranoias" feels like an awfully big part of how we got here in the first place.

We are, as a people, a shameful disgrace to all of humanity and we, as a people, deserve every last bit of humiliation this man brings upon us because we twice permitted him to lead.

And remember children, it wasn't Superheroes and Action Heroes who changed their values, it was you.

saying that democrats need to pick up anti-data center politics because that's what people are mad about, regardless of whether it makes sense as a policy, is exactly the kind of yglesias type 'popularist' move that lefty people complain about.

The last few months dealing with campaigns on the ground leading to the primary has convinced me that Glonzo should never be fed in any capacity. I used to be a "as long as it gets us votes it's mostly fine" guy but we absolutely cannot let this take root.

You can see this dynamic with Qanon. Trump winked and strung them along during his first admin and now he’s hemorrhaging support from the same people over the Epstein Files

I guess my big concern with Glonzo-ism is that you can't control it. Yes, sure, today it's data centers, and while that's not harmless, exactly, it's close enough. But every conspiracy theorist inside the tent is a ticking time bomb.

This is from the official White House account on the left. I made some improvements on the right.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

Sorry, I’ve already depicted myself as the dashing young Clark Kent-esque senator and you as the old guy who appears to have been teleported from 1992 in a mismatched suit and tie

There is a demand for plumbers and electricians so let's go take a look at how the senior members of those trades treat the newcomers to it oh

Honestly, what the left needs is more purity testing among leaders who gain the slightest bit of traction, because the moment people even get a hint of a whiff of power, it feels like we decide it's time to compromise everything. Sufficient flexibility is indistinguishable from surrender.

Our leaders are evil and since we voted for them, it says a lot about us

Remember when a right wing degenerate shot up a bunch of Asian businesses while yelling "kill all Asians" and the campists told us this was actually the fault of Uyghur genocide activists stoking Sinophobia?

Honestly it sucks how politics worldwide is just weird shit about gender and everyone insisting it's actually not

I am autistic. I also have a job, am married, have two sons and a daughter on the way. My oldest son is autistic. He is the best student in his class, loves animals, abd wants to be a zoologist when he grows up. Fuck you, you mannequin made of rotting meat

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

I need #SFGiants fans at Oracle Park to boo Roupp, Brubaker, Walker, Hentges and McDonald so loudly and so constantly, while they are on the field, that they demand a trade away from the Giants. Make their on-field lives as miserable as possible until they just don't want to be there any more.

Plenty of people who can do all of those things and bring misery to the world . And my kid will do none of those things, yet he’s a super pleasant guy who makes people happy, who loves fiercely and is loved fiercely. Pretty sure that’s better than, say, a Tommy Tuberville poem.

i'm sorry, the admin was so desperate to get rid of the algae they had a bunch of guys pouring 12% hydrogen peroxide in by hand at 6am?

I still think people justify Platner support because they've got so much built up hatred of Susan Collins they'll do anything to see their nemesis cathartically struck down, & he markets himself as just the chud to do it. It doesn't work that way, of course.

Also, a lot of the support for Trump came from the belief that he wouldn't involve the US is foreign wars. If we keep reminding people of that, it can demoralize his supporters and make them check out of politics, which is what we want.