not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again

For shame Zack, don’t you know that’s the job of politics pundits

"More than five years later, I still find the Democrats’ 2020 heel turn on policing to be one of the most despicable acts of political cowardice I have witnessed in my adult lifetime," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

"When it comes to the people who dedicated themselves to staying woke, I can’t think of a single thing they were even partly wrong about," writes @michaelharriot.bsky.social. Great essay. www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-woke-m...

Couldn't agree more with this. The democratic party refusing to engage with the obvious reality of police violence & racism and instead giving them more & more power was always going to lead the country here Also all you shrewd commentators in the replies please read this note from the author

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

This is coming from the company that has been caught fabricating usage metrics multiple times, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. Then again, the other site is about 75% bots, so, who knows. 🤷 bsky.app/profile/adam...

I’m not seeing a normative argument in this. If I accept your assertion that LLMs can inherently be induced to break the law and injure real human beings, and this can never be fixed, then why is it bad to for the cost of offering an LLM to the public to be very high?

The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks. We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign. www.transbashback.com/fsu.html xoxo BASH BACK

"This is bad politics!" I shout, as I hide behind anonymity lest anyone learn that I, the cleverest politician, am the one advocating such a popular position

"You only have the politics you have because the current system doesn't work for you and most other people."

the libs who relentlessly mocked the left for predicting this when the patriot act was signed now smugly claiming to have "warned us last November" lmao shut the fuck up

"How's not voting for Kamala working out for you?😏" I don't think a Harris White House would have invaded Venezuela and kidnapped the leader to install one they chose to get oil. I do know that numerous Democrats are fine that it happened, they just don't like that they weren't informed first.

Our military are a pack of traitorous terrorist WHORES for Trump! Fuck you, US military! FUCK YOU!!!

LMAO read the signs. Just another Zionist siding with other types of fascists (as they always do). bsky.app/profile/alic...

The knots Western liberals have to tie themselves in to deal with the cognitive dissonance of supporting a violently anti-democratic and authoritarian empire

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

this is clear, cogent, moral, and a million times better than anything any member of the united states government has put out today

Do people finally understand why countries not in the Imperialist Bloc have to be more vigilant? Why they restrict foreign media? Why they need deterrence? People deride communists for being "authoritarian", but how else are they to survive amongst imperialists?

Buddy boy they voted for this bsky.app/profile/step...

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...

im so fucking tired of this shit democrats, republicans, same shit different year, different party capitalism gotta go imperialism gotta go colonialism gotta go i'd like to think liberalism wouldn't have to go too, but libs are more like to support this shit the moment trump is gone, so..

“I don’t support irans government but” “I condem Hamas but” “I don’t support Venezuela or Cuba but” Do you know you are an imperialist running dog

Nazi POS: bsky.app/profile/wass...

If Maduro did 1% of what Trump has done, we would have rolled in with tanks and a UN mandate.

Maduro and Chavez were far, FAR too kind to the fascist "Venezuelan opposition" bsky.app/profile/ones...

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The United States is so fucking disgusting I hate this fucking country and all you fucking liberals that have sat here the last few years helping Trump manufacture consent to do this should jump full offense

The European Union is an imperialist entity bsky.app/profile/kaja...

"Two things can be true 🤓" This is exactly the kind of liberal bullshit I despise. No, your first statement is not true, and the fact that you felt the need to couch Trump's actions with it shows how liberals aid empire while pretending to oppose it

Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

This is how an outdoor hockey game should look, Gary Bettman

Such an important article about the NYT's coverage of transgender issues and why it's so reactionary. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

jim pickard: why does everyone hate keir starmer? it's a mystery. ig it's gonna remain a mystery.

they have replaced my healthcare with conversion therapy, reintroduced section 28, stripped me of my civil rights and legsl recognition, and are about to introduce segregation laws mandating i be persecuted, discriminated against, sexually harassed and assaulted whenever i go out in public.

also to expand your vision of what "urban america" means to include cities not on the left or right coast!!

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

evangelicals might be the largest grifters to ever exist in human history lol

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Really, you'll fight it with every tool? Maybe you should have thought of that during the shutdown deal, which contained no punishment for the administration violating the power of the purse and withholding duly appropriated funding. This is constitutional softball.

The culture hasn't shifted, Twitter has, and this dude doesn't realize that he's been turned into a reactionary by that site.

The Democratic Party is irredeemably corrupt and we will NEVER be able to defeat Fascism until the Democrats are defeated FIRST. bsky.app/profile/murs...

Baffling how people act as though "post-2000 Democrat" is some sort of hypothetical. Given the Obama and Biden presidencies, and the constant Dem capitulation to Trump and Reps, I can't understand *why* people think things would be dramatically different if Gore won bsky.app/profile/robe...

i stand by this statement every year