I feel like we should be honest with ourselves that a lot of centrist democrats are pinning election losses on trans rights because they are being explicitly paid by lobbyists to paper over the genocide of gaza

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

the only good fascist is a dead fascist

I will say this--from the banking houses of the Renaissance to the entertainment megacorporations of today, when a large money-making enterprise underwrites great art, it's usually by accident. We shouldn't be surprised when the people at the top turn into the bad guys of their own stories.

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

Chaos: Hey Slaanesh, did you corrupt Primarch Fulgrim yet? Slaanesh: Yeah, boss. Made him a giant snake monster, just like you asked. Chaos: I asked you to make him real fuckin sexy. Slaanesh: Just like you asked.

Crucially, there is STILL TIME TO STOP THIS. The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

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People need to stop lying to themselves, saying that 'they can't do that' or that because they are unpopular, they are weak. That might be true for a democratic president, but the only thing a fascist cares about is how many thugs they have.

Openly naming what is happening, grasping that there is no returning to a status quo that already sucked and laid the groundwork for this fascist moment, means having to accept reality and also offer solutions that will change things. It can be frightening, but that's our only hope.

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This is a universal cognitive bias. Humans assume that the frequency they hear information is proportional to the incidence. We are really not wired for a media panopticon. It takes effort to train yourself out of biases.

This is why there's no point in highlighting their glaring inconsistencies. They gleefully argue in bad faith, knowing that doing so when the other side argues in good faith gives them the advantage.

Lawyers, man. Been swearing up and down for 10 years Trump is thiiiis close to going down. But Trump plays by gangster rules, not political rules. At the end of the day, so do corporations.

This is what people are afraid of with organizing. If they can arrest people for legal things, people with the resources to fight back, they can do whatever they want to you. They will crack your skull with no consequences. It's a rational fear.

Wired gives it to you straight. Yeah, it's illegal, but you really cant stop him.

Strength is not a moral concept. It is the ability to enact your will on the world. All the commenters calling Trump "weak" are making a moral argument, not an actual assessment of influence. Mistaking moral certainty for empirical information is a bitch move.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

Dark Math Games, a new studio of former Disco Elysium developers, have announced a change to their forthcoming debut project, which will now be a third-person RPG. https://bit.ly/3I2FuOw

You'll hear orgs that represent rich people criticizing capital gains taxes as "double taxation." That's BS. And most of the wealth derived from investments is never taxed. People keep the assets until death and the "step up" rule resets the inheritance to current market value. Voila, no tax!

It's weird how these 'desperate moves' look exactly like an authoritarian dictatorship consolidating power.

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the center of gravity of this dictatorship. If they really really want someone gone, like Mahmoud Khalil, losing one, two, four court cases doesn't matter, they will keep spamming them until they get the judge they want.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Apparently, Bsky can't tell the difference between the hypothetical process that a fascist government would use to execute anyone they want by claiming they are 'antifa' and whatever their dumbass rules are.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

all the “we have to live together with them” appeals like they haven’t been accommodating them for decades

i think the capacity debate around authoritarianism really underscores how defund the police was fundamentally correct. the biggest lurking danger in america right now is the mass federalization of local LEO like they’re trying to do in florida

Lawyers believe in the law. They believe that the structures of legalism will withstand a fascist assault. I think they fundamentally misunderstand the mindset of fascism. For the fascist, losing once, twice, forty times is no big deal.

Hero shit.

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Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update. ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting. She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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Anyone who still thinks that the problem is the left, or even both sides, when the the vice president of the United States gives a speech like this, simply cannot be trusted.

Hate to say it, but our ship has sailed. Now the tenderqueers and 'ew no kink at pride' kids are going to learn the hard way why counterculture needs to be aggressive and confrontational. Y'all thought the right-wing demon was dead. It was just infiltrating. Organizing. Sharpening their swords.

cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research... This is a great example of someone thinking seriously about the moment. Too much online conversation is a sort of hopeful naivete: "just wait for midterms!" We have to be better. We have to be faster. We have to be sneakier.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Secular and fundamentalists just can't coexist. Two mutually exclusive worldviews. You can't negotiate with someone who thinks an evil wizard controls you.

Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits

kinda wild to have a breakup where I survive but Charlie Kirk doesn’t

I get frustrated with the left because the right has an army, the left has individuals and theorists. They are monsters that want us dead, and nothing we do without an equal seriousness will change that.