The one guy who could have voted for this with 0 regrets is Ossoff and he didn’t.

A lot of folks tend to over-conspirscize about things like this when no, the mods are just dumb

None of this is my fault, don’t doom in my mentions, don’t be a bitch, kick the shit out of everyone in our way until you see daylight, hope this helps

anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.

it's genuinely mind-boggling how this went from the best maneuver of Schumer's tenure to a complete omnishambling humiliation of the whole caucus in two days

Slotkin is a Democrat, Collins is not. Thanks for playing!

Slotkin out now with a statement saying she is a No

fully funding SNAP a year out is what makes this a potential ceasefire not a surrender. it takes starvation off the table as potential stakes.

Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

'liberals will just roll over and die because their principles say that they have to surrender.' hey why are they rolling that big cigar cutter out in front of the white house

simon bazelon's essential idea is that progressives must tactically vote for racists so that worse racists can win in red districts, so that that exclusively racist caucus can then reverse the trends which obligated progressives to vote against their preferences

Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

i think it would be good to warn enemies of american democracy -- foreign *and* domestic -- of the consequences of breaching that trust.

i think that the Democrats should triangulate in trans kids by accusing Republicans of being pedophiles

i have seen a lot of people calling this cope. it is, to a certain extent, but let me give you some short profiles of voters i personally know in idaho:

Dems *can’t* fold. Not anymore. Folding and getting nothing is a tacit admission that the shutdown and what pain it caused is all on us. We are in this now, and we’ve got to see it through.

People becoming rich off building affordable housing are creating affordable housing.

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

got a lot of responses to this which were 'surely they can find someone in China with the skills to do this' and the thing is, that's just not how government or intelligence services operate. I want you to consider a US example in counterpart.

There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history. Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

considering his parents divorced when he was three and his father (who lived truly an bizarre, dare I say, Pynchonian life) cut him, his mom, and his sister off financially, I kinda believe this

i was close enough to the senior layers of my organization that i got to listen to a SVP say "as a mature organization, we are going to do layoffs every year," and hear them explicitly say that morale "problems" among US workers were not problems because they reduce the total cost of compensation.

donald trump isn't planning on leaving but he's not planning on dying, either

i think the essential problem is that Marx did not understand that once you raise the stakes of government to "kill or die," that government will have two sorts of person: psychopaths who are great at killing and cowards who are great at not dying.

this is specifically a problem with the memory feature, which everyone should have anticipated was dangerous.

what the hell are you talking about man, biden's entire presidency was about the middle class. it was the entire political theory behind deliverism and the economy

i mean, harris ran the campaign they’re advocating for. it probably etched out an extra point or two but that was never as important as the macropolitical enviroment (backlash from covid inflation) which, via association with joe biden, harris could not escape.

yeah i think i would tolerate the policy paper a bit more if they argued in favour of greater candidate *heterodoxy* instead of centrism but the underlying dynamic basically makes me a doomer about 2028 because it somehow replicates the same dynamics that McSweeney had with Labour Together

fucking absurd gripe from Nate Silver. this is something *directly related* to their area of expertise, written for a broader audience! what is the entire point of having credentials if it's ivory tower elitism or some such shit to bring them up in an obviously relevant context!

Yeah but when i say this about david shor i am correct

centrist pundits will never stop believing that Democrats are the party of identity politics because they spend all their time around pundits who care about identity politics and those pundits vote (sometimes quite reluctantly) for Democrats what actual elected Dems say doesn’t matter

Interesting journalists still want to talk about Biden’s fitness to lead with the election a year ago now despite a less fit, narcissistic more senile man being the current president.

a larger percentage of Americans believed that we faked the moon landing than believed that Joe Biden did not have dementia. also, and no one discovered this until after the election, he had the aggressive cancer he will almost certainly die of during the campaign.

the prostate is a shitty organ which is virtually always cancerous in a guy's 80s. normally that cancer is indolent. every source on the topic helpfully explains "this is not normal prostate cancer."

Why is this so hard for people? www.thebulwark.com/p/the-lies-v...

'brain-damaged narcissistic idiot' is in fact pretty close to the average swing voter in the U.S. so this is good

One of the most frustrating answers to how we got here is also reason for optimism: millions who voted Trump in 2024, plus some who indulged “politics doesn’t matter” or “they’re the same,” did not believe he’d do what he said or what many warned about. Now they see it’s real and don’t like it.

that’s the point

some profound irony that Biden was constantly frustrated by the way that Obama treated him, and then he turned around and definitely worse to Harris

We literally just had a Presidency fail because of expensive consumer goods and the current President is also unpopular due to expensive consumer goods but trust the Ivy Leaguer turned cable TV news host that Globalization Is Bad For You Because Neoliberalism.

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

one thing a lot of radicals don't want to grapple with is the the state monopoly on violence exists because the median subject of the state prefers it over the alternative. the goal of the peaceful protestor is to make that person very uncomfortable and willing to reconsider, not overpower the state

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

This is all downstream of the US government steadily atrophying its ability to punish executives and board members who betray their investors. It taught these guys how to screw their investors with raw power politics, and now they're applying that attitude to our entire system of government.