like brother, i hear you, we need to storm the White House and submit the bandit-parasites to the People's Justice, got it, but proclaiming snap elections is "putting the cart before the horse" by like 1000 miles

By "MeToo went too far" what they meant was "MeToo got too close". They're not prepared for the backlash they're going to get.

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all of the following are true: -99% open borders is the best immigration policy for the US and the world -voters will never allow this to happen -open borders or ICE gestapo is a false dichotomy -general amnesty is the only possible solution for current illegal immigrants

Trump is controlling EVERYONE with fear. Politicians, foreign nations, universities, industries. "What if he does something to me?" Well, what if he does?! Is that the worst thing anyone has ever experienced? Time in jail? A court fight? You lose your job? Is that worth your god-given free will

The "Irrefutable Vibe" of race science. There is simply no amount of scholarship or common sense you can use to get people off the position. Examples of Black excellence are "outliers," scientific consensus is "political correctness," and the unshakeable defense always boils down to "but, come on."

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

I would like to see more candidates look at polling and say "I think I can improve those numbers on that issue and will craft my campaign to do that."

No, polling is important. The mistake many Dem consultants make is to go for the safe path, not the hard work of changing voters' minds. They decided immigration was a MAGA strong point (because Republicans spent decades attacks on it) and didn't try. Dems need to fight on core issues.

He failed. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is home. The National Guard deployments were halted. Some institutions bent the knee, many others did not. Courts have forced him to reinstate fired workers. Congress has restored some cut funding. (6/?)

Right? "Please don't say abolish ICE it's politically toxic," say the same people who criticized Van Hollen for flying to El Salvador.

Like, don't get me wrong, I'll think about things "as a liberal" But I try never to let that be a purely social signifier. It means "as someone who believes, axiomatically, that all men are created equal"

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

I mean I’m sorry but yes, we should get the sanctions, we should be the ones who can’t travel or use banks and have to blow to foreign tourists for cash. Even if it doesn’t happen, we should assume that’s what’s in store for us if we don’t extract the country from the grip of these fucking goblins

I am begging you, as an American, to boycott the Olympics, boycott the World Cup and sanction us

In all seriousness: if legacy media outlets like CBS, ABC are as compromised as they are, what is the best way to find credible reporting/news? It feels like the entire ecosystem of broadcast journalism has been compromised.

I think a lot of this is downstream of is siloing exposure to logic near-completely as part of STEM education (apart from the small-ish minority who take some formal logic in college). If we taught ppl formal logic (and how to use it with natural language), we'd help both STEM and humanities a lot.

There’s an established penalty for ordering the killing of shipwrecked sailors (even during a war, which we are manifestly not in) and we should apply that penalty. I would say it’s vitally important to apply that penalty, in fact.

Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists). Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.

Some Palestine solidarity people hate Jews! It sucks but it is what it is. We can just tell them to fuck off and not have it change our evaluation of whether Israel is running a genocidal apartheid regime.

There's this agepol thing on tarrifs where older libs view tarrifs as this complicated thing that Democrats also sometimes support, but to anyone under 40 who isn't engaged with political history, tarrifs are this thing trump just pulled out of the 19th century to make us poor for no reason

also like i am still hung up on "we're wolves not sheep" when the actual truth about humanity is we're the thing that domesticated both of them

Everything is gender except gender, which is poorly remembered gay fanfiction

FBI: Have You Seen This Man?

"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"

I think a lot about how elite institutions groom you towards this deference.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Why should I suffer compared to some spic in Chicago?

Blank Fartslinger, more like

Trump does not even have a nub of a brain left. He is completely gone into his own demented fan fiction self-insert AU story with basically no reference to the real world.

I really believe this was influential among first time 18-26 male voters in ‘24

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

100 percent. I think he benefits from what most great orators benefit from: he knows himself—and more importantly, he talks to (and understands) what moves people. And, as far as I can tell, he believes what he’s saying.

This is genuine betrayal of his party. I really don't think I'm being hyperbolic.

Imagine walking into work and your boss slams a new screwdriver down on your desk, but it has a weird oval-shaped and an odd handle. "THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."

Being a Republican is no longer a legitimate or acceptable position. When exactly that line was crossed is academic; what matters is acknowledging and enforcing the reality now.

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

Is there a Mr. Rachel...

There’s no greater sign of online breaking people’s brains than the greatest possible sin becoming ‘being annoying to me personally’

There are a shocking number of people who describe themselves as anarchist or some other flavor of left that says "A person owes the minimum required to society and society owes the maximum needed to the individual." While maybe true in a sense the phrasing gives away the game there.

A lot of these writers seem to exist in a bizarre fugue where there are merely stances and archetypes engaged in a timeless dance. Something stranger and thinner than idealism, even, which is already pretty strange and thin.

Like "mad king stops the grain dole" is truly the stuff of revolutions

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

It is a social environment that half of the most powerful Americans spend 6+ hours a day in. In that environment, if you stand up for basic principles like “racism is bad” or “being a Nazi is a big deal and unacceptable,” you will be mocked by tens of thousands of people as a screechy moralist.