In other words, hiring based on looks rather than merit.

Jesus Christ

Woke 2 is coming

I loathe to give Shor credit here but his theories really taking popular positions on *salient* issues. A lot of centrists think that you can just run on 80-20 issues no one cares about and win automatically. Which ironically is the GOP strategy with running on trans sports

Popularists want you to picture Bill Clinton’s victories without confronting 2025’s demographics, politics, and media environment.

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

bro are you fucking kidding me

The new face of HR

big irish head on me, never getting a loan :(

the caliper cometh

the thought of performing masculinity as a man: 🤢 performing masculinity as a tomboy-shaped androgyne thing: 😎😋😍

update:

labour’s big problem is that sir keir is a weak leader who doesn’t believe in anything. he has no philosophy other than power and that’s why he embraces the bigotry and nativism. it’s weakness, plain and simple. and it must be rejected

mamdani's "we are a city of immigrants" drew a clear values contrast, but so did biden's "battle for the soul of america" & linking trump to white supremacy in 2020 you've got to name & oppose

i think when people like me say "run on values" they hear "be maximally preformativley woke, start every speech with a land acknowledgement & pronouns" which couldn't be further from what we're saying - you don't need to be that type of progressive to have values

& i'll point out that, despite not trying to appease fascism, the dems won with more traditional & progressive candidates it's about drawing a clear values contrast (the one thing reactionary centrists can't do as they self-consciously put policy compromise first)

which is what many armchair generals, civility columnists, and stupid think tanks have urged dems to do in labour, this tribe finally got full control of a pollical party & . . . bsky.app/profile/polp...

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

& there has been a very loud media voice pushing them to do just that - one of the main narratives has been that trumpism is a reaction to the excesses of woke, that to win again dems must pander to socially conservative voters, empathise, see it from their point of view

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

while there are some dems who i think could be more aggressive, certainly many more moderate than me, NONE of them has validated racism the way starmer has, NONE is pushing for an aggressive national bathroom ban the way labour is

"most dem victories where centrists" i say later in the 🧵, i'm not claiming this as a victory for either normie dems or socialists it's a victory for opposing fascism & not trying to appease it (which comes in both lib & left variants)

Finally a big city mayor raised on “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

i've been getting an evergreen amount of use out of this one (though i think i made it longer than 2 years ago)

reskeet with your favorite memes you made in the last two years

Can someone please make a preachy, low-budget movie called Wokeness Is Not Dead

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

Thank you dirtyharry1960maga. Any other top political commentaries you'd like to add?

factoring "good" and "bad" into the equation at all is too difficult for the smart boy clique that's spent years self-inducing a dissociated state where Everything Is Numbers

I think Bill Kristol is guilty of a lot of terrible choices over the last few decades. But the reason he’s Good and not Bad is: I bet he’d agree with me about at least a handful of those choices. A lot of people can’t do that! They lack a robust inner world where they can grapple with morality!

The thing that makes Bill Kristol special, and what is sorely lacking from both our political leadership and our commentariat, is his ability to change his mind or at least engage moral complexity with nuance and subtlety. Absolutely more valuable than any ideological commitment.

see, the thing is, we just had a vote on this literally yesterday your guy lost, you don't get to decide anymore

andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”

ok yeah sunset at 5pm rules actually

The abscess grows from the earth. The dagger meets my virginal flesh and I nurture the egg with my own blood. The atmosphere swirls a sickening red, green, black. A haze of plague. The long-slumbering god emerges from the pustule-egg. I kneel in praise. we finally stopped woke 😎

I suspect that the revolt of the bosses element of all this really is explained by: a bunch of upper echelon Americans really didn't like the cultural and workplace changes induced by Woke era, some portion of them were pushed into internet insanity, but most just wanted a shift slightly right....

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

I feel like we all kind of forgot the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia ran a gay Nazi porn Tumblr page.

look, who amongst us-

They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”

Trans rights, Black lives matter, hospitality for immigrants, and food for the poor because the image and likeness of God shall nowhere be diminished, nor subordinated to another.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Just a perfect counter to the dumbasses in 2024 saying the whole country shifted right

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

he says we're not gonna accept antisemitism. not gonna accept islamophobia.

"in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light "whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community one of the many black women that donald trump who has fired from her job... your struggle is ours too"