I really like how my entire feed is full of smart people rightfully dunking on this slop and their posts are collectively getting maybe 1/10th the engagement as the op. Nothing concerning about that at all.

Everyone shut the fck up FF7R 3 got announced

The ride-or die argument for Platner is "undoing the historical wrongs of the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries". The Senate is a would-be-nice. Settling the score is essential. It's going to be 2016 until everyone who voted in 2016 is dead.

A lot of people really want this to break down on a left/moderate or old/young axis but it really doesn't, it's ultimately a cosmopolitan/herrenvolk one because the people most aggressively defending him are doing so from the implied understanding that the "soul of America" emanates from white men

Gonna be a normal one on here tonight isnt it.

it's because they think that they are supposed to receive awards for what they view as dissident behavior

Good thread

This entire thread is very accurate and worth reading but this point in particular stands out to me. The utter bafflement by the American media complex at why the public isn't culturally realigning in favor of Trump as predicted. The answer is because of Twitter! They think Twitter is real life!

you have to understand that shitty Ezra Klein take in this context too; he was attempting to climb onboard what he believed to be a cultural bandwagon.

the thing about the Olde Twitter culture whereby leftism equals being a belligerent dickhead, and the bigger a belligerent dickhead you are the more radical your leftism, is that invariably you get guys who just like saying slurs and reverse engineer "left" excuses for doing it

With all due respect to Mr. Grim (none) I think what’s more likely is that her campaign was so extremely online that she could be bullied into swapping major planks of it in the final 72 hours in a desperate attempt to avoid a Grayzone journo assassinating her clout with the Twitter Cool Kids

"OBAA is the Gavin Newsom of movies" still hasn't been beat in my book

“One Battle After Another is the Gavin Newsom of films” I say wisely as my brains slowly leak out of my ears to congeal in a pool of mush

Prices will continue to rise, but Trump did speak to a CNN reporter, so this is certainly better than Obama's presidency.

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class. I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

thinking about this guy rn, wonder how he's feeling

Dems tried to tell people. Many members of that first cabinet tried to tell people. Many normal citizens tried to tell people. It didn’t get through. Too much of the media and social media was dedicated to the opposite message and also people are largely very stupid.

I mean the thing is at the end of the day, the American people voted to make things cheaper by voting for higher tariffs because liberals killed Peanut the Squirrel. I don’t know how to message for that kind of electorate and neither does anyone else.

what did y'all think touching the stove meant? vibes? papers? essays?

I'll say it again: If you're consistently finding ways to rationalize away Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo or embrace of Nazi content creators then you really are no different than those on the right who were trying to explain why Elon really wasn't giving a Heil Hitler

There are no ways an opposition party, strong or otherwise, could have stopped a lame-duck Commander in Chief, with a trifecta at his back, from ordering a military strike.

The media simply refused to describe the actual, real world stakes of the 2024 election. The Republican nominee was a demonstrable violent lunatic hell bent on revenge and that man was covered like a normal guy who would tame inflation.

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

very funny to me to see folks who have no social media presence outside of twitter say you have to be on twitter to be influential

"Bluesky is losing users because you won't be nice to my friends" My guy, I don't give a flying shit whether or not Bluesky has a million active users or 10, I'm here to see the opinions of about 40 people I give a shit about.

Sometimes I think maybe I use this site too much. But then I see that a New York Times reporter became a weird transphobe activist after someone was mean to him on the internet, and I think "actually, maybe I'm fairly well-adjusted, considering"

in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler

The twin dangers of doing glonzo politics are: 1) bad idea to highlight unsolvable problems and 2) a lot of people end up believing in glonzo

If nothing else, this would make a very specific handful of twitter blueckecks incandescently mad

The 2025 "vibe shift" was something a lot of media tried to make happen, casting themselves as mere observers rather than drivers. But it turned out 2024 was a national election amidst multiple fluky factors in the aftermath of a global pandemic, not a binding referendum on American culture. Whoops.

"None of us figured out how to avoid being here." IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."

All the "how to blow up a pipeline" posters screamed like the dickens when Ukraine blew up an actual pipeline to stop an actual invading fascist army because they were terrified that it was the start of World War 3, I don't think they're the hardened fighters they self-portray on the internet

One thing many people refuse to understand is that voting for Kamala Harris doesn’t excuse you for telling everyone she sucks and convincing others not to vote for her

"We don't talk to journalists except for the cool ones, one of which is me" is functionally indistinguishable from an exclusivity deal that prevents Bloodborne from being released on PC

They arent getting “flaming chainsaws” with Trump 2. They’re getting the Ellison’s remaking CBS in Bari Weiss’ image, and Bezos dismantaling the WaPo.

*opens app* *Sees 'is Obama bad?' discourse* *closes app*

The Iraq War and Bush's economic crash got held against the GOP for exactly one election, was forgotten by the next election, and the election after that they got to run as the outsider candidate taking down The Establishment responsible for all those bad things.

Like ninety percent of discourse on this website is feeling helpless and wanting to punch somebody and being unable to drive to DC and punch the orange fuck in the balls yourself so you punch the person next to you instead.

I am fully on board with calling Chuck Schumer a hapless poll-chasing relic unfit for the moment Unfortunately many of those calling him as much are considerably less willing to extend the same sentiment, deserved in equal measure, to the everyday common working put-upon ordinary American

The single and explicit message of the 2024 election was that Americans were more interested in the promise of cheap and easy treats than democracy or the rule of law This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them

the entire thing is stupid for this reason. whether or not 'affordability' is what Real Americans Want To Hear or Out Of Touch With The Moment literally just entirely depends on who is saying it. no one has principled beliefs about this messaging shit, from either the left or center.

Person who hates Democrats and is ambivalent to positive about Republicans while loudly proclaiming themselves to be the biggest trans ally and therefore most progressive. Many such cases.

Mr. "I want Kamala Harris to promise not to send young men to die in another pointless fucking war in the Middle East" is in favor of drafting young men? I don't know about you but I'm getting a whiff of gender right about now

Increasingly convinced that one of the main reasons the "Trump is going to cancel the midterms" meme won't die is because a lot of posting addicts don't want to accept that electoralism is still a necessary condition for beating Trump. It's a perverse sort of wishcasting.

Warframe has no business being as good as it is

“some Democrats are better than other Democrats” and “every Democrat is better than every Republican” feel contradictory to some people but they are not