"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

They start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok. They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.

“We are chastised in moments of democratic advance for wanting too much, for trying to do too many things too fast. It’s usually more that we didn’t go far enough.”

all cops are lying bastards

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

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✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

Realistic detective show where an alcoholic dullard seeks out people of color who were in the vicinity of crime scenes to pin the blame on before going home to beat his wife. He never actually solves cases.

if you're gonna bait liberals, this is the way to do it.

bsky.app/profile/rebe... former military - her timeline is the most anodyne slop imaginable - i live in NJ & get regular updates from reddit about ICE presence in the state kidnapping ppl and this ridiculous woman's talking about "ending the division" - words cannot convey how much i despise this

Did the early voting thing in my state's primary today. Chose the progressive candidate when that was an option. No, I don't think we're gonna solve this mess solely through voting but given that I'm the kind of person they want to disenfranchise, it felt a nice piece of spite to vote while I can.

BINGO.

SCOTUS did something smart-ish so you know they're about to hand down a 6-3 decision with a list of skull shapes and skin tones that are now illegal

i really want a democrat to win the electoral college after losing the popular vote (by at least a million) - the republicans will do everything humanly conceivable to prevent that person from entering the white house and that shit is going to be HILARIOUS.

if i reply "eat a dick!" to you apropos of nothing you said first, please excuse me - it's only because i really want to show up on the "RUDE!" feed.

"It just wasn't for me" is such a wonderful phrase.

he's definitely saying a lot of the right things - to his point, i hope the dem party and its adjacent PACs and think tanks run counter-ads to the hideous "american sovereignty" nazi propaganda DHS is running with their own ads of children being kidnapped and ppl beaten senseless and executed by ICE

i dunno what the full story is but my immediate takeaway is "good for chief bettison"

"those danged left-wingers are rude on bluesky - i'd rather support the site owned by the guy who killed a million people when he gutted USAID and oh yeah occasionally does nazi salutes in public" lol - you do you buddy.

kamala harris only lost the election because the government didnt want her peeling the paint off the walls with her catastrophically stinky farts. they loved her support of genocide, and strict immigration laws, but the farts were just too much.

welp, i've seen "rein in" in a few dozen dem party posts today, so i guess that's the harmless term consultants approved - i hope this pathetic weak shit causes every single one of these worms to lose their primaries this year.

It’s almost like all the crises we face are part of a larger problem in which a group of antidemocratic fascists have gained historic wealth because our leaders have refused to rein them in and now the consequences of that refusal are culminating into escalating danger.

those consultants who told you "rein in" sounds good? get your money back. that shit sucks.

look no further than obama promoting tom homan's theories and massively building ICE up - creating a machine for oppression that a republican would have to get control of eventually. ideas like DOGE have been around for decades - bill clinton & al gore began the process of massive cutbacks in the

no better example of failure to meet the moment than this post. "rein in"? come on, ma'am.

boy, other than her on point criticism of CF (i love scorsese but that movie is a wretched mess), this hasn't held up at all.

You libs are such condescending cunts. My organization helped flip our county legislature from red to blue for the first time in 20 years. I canvass and talk to real voters. I’ve been protesting ICE since Obama had Holman as his guy. Go fuck yourself twat waffle.

i dunno man - responding to ICE conducting public executions with "this is why obamacare costs so much now!" *is* pretty cowardly/feckless. if they mostly ignore everything that's going on and run on "abundance" that's gonna depress turnout - "the far left" won't have jackshit to do with that.

"The fact that Dem leadership are not loudly condemning concentration camps in our own country says it all." everyone should be wondering about this - are dem-adjacent PACs and think tanks gonna try and "abundance" the party through the next two election cycles? that's not JUST immoral, it's nuts!

I’m not even that old and there’s been a real shift in my lifetime from the expectation that a politician is someone who gets people to vote for them to a politician is someone who sees how little they can get away with doing without alienating the people already voting for them

someone saying "Anyone else curious how the Federal workers who were fired under this administration are going to vote this November?" reminds me that bill clinton and al gore eliminated half a million federal jobs and i wonder how many of those went to (popular vote loser anyway) dubya bush.

quite remarkable considering that race-based vote suppression was responsible for gore losing FL, possibly kerry losing OH and multiple states for clinton in 2016 (following SCOTUS's gutting of the VRA). and a big part of the problem is that democrats would rather blame 3rd parties (ralph nader,

This is why we must emphasize (h/t @tarabuss.bsky.social for perfect analogy) that the election fuckery isn't merely nasty static it has ability to change the channel. Wishful thinking - "it will work itself out" "Dems are winning special elections" - is impediment to the mobilization we need.

There's a guy with every grocery store whose entire job is to hit shuffle on the store's layout every year or so. He makes $200k and is evil.

he is not "dividing and bending rules" - he is building a homegrown army and having dissenters executed in public FFS what country do you people live in?

An incredibly easy metric for dismissing anything anyone says about politics ever again is if they say any variation of “AOC could never be elected president, she’s only a congresswoman, we should go with a senator, a thing that’s only happened three times in 250 years”

I always have the most current references.

i'll do something i rarely do and extend a little credit (regardless their motivation - they clearly have no love for the democratic party overall) to the NYT here - my boss is someone i'd describe as a middle-class VBNMW liberal and his disgust with the party right now is off the charts.

Very annoyed by the fact that local sportball GM guy's ridiculous little mustache has made him so unexpectedly hot that I inadvertently said "HelLO!" when I saw his pic just now

anyone who says she's "loud" or uses other lightly coded insults is letting you know they're a bigoted asswipe - we should never give a second thought to scumbags like that - they are obstacles to be overcome and enemies to be outvoted, not potential converts.

when dems do shit like this you can bet they've gotten money (and usually a lot) from AIPAC - AIPAC's thing isn't *just* zionism - they're also a conservative organization that probably gives extra to dems who keep talking about bipartisanship and helping legitimize republican extremism.