did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...
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did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...
They're just going to keep blaming "The Left". It doesn't matter what reality is. It doesn't matter how we react. They just want to hurt us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You're correct when you're talking about non-Republicans. Only extremely online Democrats or Independents know who this guy is. But his death was eye opening in just how many Republicans consumed his slop. Internet trolls are mainstream now in the R party.
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you
Cool I'm gonna go back to worrying about the human rights of the people I love being removed and you can worry if you're polite enough to ICE when they black bag you
The point is that even if you are the bigger person they're just going to say you aren't and punish you anyway. They're thrilled to have an excuse for more violence and they're going to use it to the fullest. Nothing we say or do will change that. They're in charge and they write the narrative
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It's important to remember that we all deserve this for not being nice enough about Kirk dying
I love that while my city is getting invaded by federal police and I have to worry about the safety of my loved ones due to the policies Republicans support, I need to also ensure I never say anything to upset reputation lest they support it even harder.
"I wasn't sure if I supported sending all brown people to concentration camps or not, but then a guy on Twitter said something mean about Charlie Kirk. Now I'm all for it!"
The behavior I'm talking about isn't imaginary. It's what the media and political leaders these people support are doing right now. It's great to imagine that really nice, well meaning Republican who whoopsiedoodle doesn't notice or appreciate everything R's do. They don't exist.
And I'm arguing that even if the entire Internet was perfectly polite about it the Right Wing would say the left is celebrating and use it as further pretense for violence against us They don't care about reality. They just want to hurt their enemies.
I read mostly hand wringing about how we had to be nice lest the Right Wingers hurt us more And as always, the right wingers just pushed the narrative they wanted to be true and are going to use it as an excuse to hurt us more regardless
Both political parties in this country have bought into the idea that Conservatives are the Real Americans and the rest of us are just something to be embarrassed about
In 2015 it was "lock her up." In 2016 it was "2nd amendment solutions." In 2017 it was telling cops "please don't be too nice." In 2018 "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." In 2019 it was "can't you just shoot them in the legs or something?" In 2020 it was "stand back and stand by."
Please post exactly correctly or the people who declared the ninth crusade against a restaurant chain for changing its logo two weeks ago may act rashly
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
They have invaded 3 major cities under the pretense of "they have a lot of crime" They are going to keep being awful no matter how we react
if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
This is why all of the calls for decorum on social media ring so hollow If magically everyone on social media was incredibly gracious and kind about Charlie Kirk they would just say what they'd rather be true on TV and then everyone would repeat the lie. They just make it up.
They've already invaded 3 cities under false pretenses because they imagine crime is bad there The bad thing is already happening
Do you legitimately believe that if everyone on social media is just nice enough that they won't ramp up their violent attacks? You know, the people who are sending people to concentration camps and invading cities?
Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
They don't even need examples, they literally will just make shit up.
There's this weird thing where people seem like they are embarrassed to seem like they actually oppose the bad guys lest they alienate all of the Moderate Bad Guys. No just call a villain a villain stop fucking equivocating all the time ughhhh
I've heard a lot of horror stories but I traded in/bought a car from them in 2022 and it was the best car buying experience I've ever had. It seems like their concept is good but they have a lot of pains that come with chasing Infinite Growth
It's weird how when your message is something other than "The other guy is bad, vote for me or the bad guy is your fault" people actually want to vote for you
Hey TBF our current administration is forcing health officials to use ChatGPT so we still have plenty of room for a major calamity. The fact that it doesn't work doesn't mean idiots aren't using the tech for important things
The fact that it doesn't work doesn't mean we're not feeling negative impact from it, though. The entire tech industry is contracting to balance their budgets from the AI money incinerator, not to mention the opportunity cost if they money had been invested in a useful product
All of the cable news channels are absolutely brain poison, it's just a matter of degree.
His entire audience is hate reading him, it seems
You know what'll drastically reduce the uptake on this stuff? When people have to pay for it It's all fun to generate a bunch of silly AI images but the moment that's locked being a subscription they'll go back to taking stuff off of google images again.
Unfortunately until a major shift happens, he's right. He can do whatever he wants without consequence. If the current Dems took power again they would tell us some nonsense about healing division to explain why he faces no consequences ever
Does anyone actually unironically enjoy Silver's writing? It seems like his entire audience is liberals he's rage baiting.
That's not how they think. They are on the Good Team. Everyone on their Team is Good, because they're the Good Team. Everyone against their Team is bad. That's as much thought as they put into it. RFK is a Republican, which makes him Good, so he must be right.
I don't get why people feel the need to make up rationalizations. They are punishing an outgroup for being an outgroup, full stop. Even they aren't pretending to have a pretense for it. Why are people imagining one?
Is the job of the news media to report what people say and not what's actually happening?
The world keeps saying resoundingly they don't want more Clintons and somehow the people in charge of the Democratic party who haven't won anything since Bill Clinton think MORE CLINTONS is the answer
The beauty of Mamdani is he doesn't fall into the trap of constantly using Trump as a yardstick. Trump is a Nazi. When your grade is F, a D- is better. Which is why we keep getting D- candidates who depress turnout. I wish everyone else would stop using "better than the worst" as a metric.
Right. The "Good guy" party has no actual beliefs or ideals and just needs to know what they think focus groups the best before they decide who should be allowed to have rights or not. Absolutely cooked
Sorry, it's a two party system and all of the Reagan Republican Boomers who run the Democratic party will just force anyone out who doesn't appeal to Moderate Fascists like literally one of the most mainstream influential Dem podcasts is debating human rights, what the fuck
I love that the choices in this country are All Out Fascism and "Well, which Human Rights should we say are invalid to try to win over Moderate Fascists?"
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Nobody is willing to "allow fascism". People have given up a system where they lose no matter what. Democrats offering do nothing candidates and threatening voters to settle or else just makes people opt out. Threatening people doesn't work. It's time for plan B. Not moving ever farther right.
Hey if enough of the "Let's settle for the Reagan Republican because anyone is better than Trump" people leave maybe we can actually get a good Democratic candidate for once! And actually win an election!
It's too bad that threatening people is not a viable strategy to win elections! But hey do the same thing that lost to Trump twice, I'm sure it'll work if you just keep trying it over and over
I mean you can bitch and whine all you want, the policies of the Dems last time led 90 million people to stay home You think doing the same thing that keeps losing but threatening people harder will somehow win this time Spoiler: It won't Run another empty husk and lose yet again
Politician merch is so fucking cringe, full stop. These aren't sports teams, they're elected officials. You shouldn't be a fan of these people.
So your theory is that Dems need to get their message out and that will motivate people to vote for them, but the message is "We're not going to do anything to improve your lives"
I don't get what they think it will do. His cult will just call it fake. He's been accused and convicted of a multitude of crimes, including sexual assault. They just choose not to believe it. We think Epstein is what will finally bring them to reality? Dream on.
Why is this shocking? They made it very clear the direction of the paper under Jeff Bezos. They aren't going to challenge Trump in any meaningful way.
If we just capitulate enough the Moderate Fascists surely will bring us into enlightenment The only real problem is all of us people who don't want Moderate Fascists leading us, we need to stop "purity testing" and give up
This is what I suspect. They have to make up for the billions of dollars they're throwing at AI somehow. Cutting headcount shores up those quarterly results since AI is a money incinerator.
The first domino may have sucked, but at least it didn't knock over things like that last domino
The Democrats still think their base is primarily made up of Moderate Nazis and are embarrassed that anyone to the left of that supports them
"think carefully" about describing a military occupation of American cities accurately or accepting a blatantly false premise and pretending it's valid Reporting reality is now optional if it offends enough people, I guess
Honestly, with as shitty as the fanbase has been, I hope he never releases a book. Every single thread i see online about GoT is full of assholes saying "Put the book out before you die you fat piece of shit" Fuck them. They can get nothing and like it. Burn the manuscript.
The weird politics fans who are like "Oh, they're just playing when they say the bad stuff. They're only going to do the good stuff"
It's not Kamala Harris' fault she chose to support an active genocide and lost votes for it. It's the voters fault for not realizing that Genocide without mean tweets is better than Genocide with mean tweets Spoiler: people weren't upset about the tweets it's the genocide
Oh right. They had the choice of: - Let Isreal do what it wants while shaking your head - Let Isreal do what it wants while cheering and saying you'll build a hotel The people who made the policy supporting genocide? Innocent. Everyone but them is to blame. Grow the fuck up
When people are protesting en masse about Gaza, and the Democrats call them terrorists and say they support Isreal unconditionally? Of course those fucking people stay home. They told them loud and clear they didn't want their vote. And you excuse the fucking Vice President and whine at them
Right, the whole "When Kamala Harris abandoned huge voter groups and pushed them away, I get mad at them instead of Kamala Harris for her shitty campaign" You're doing it already in defense of the next shitty candidate A bad candidate alienating voters is THEIR FAULT. Stop lecturing the voters
If Newsom runs in the general what will happen is his Republican opponent will win If your primary goal is to ensure Republicans don't win, you should be doing everything you can to encourage Democrat leaders to run better candidates and stop depressing turnout chasing Moderate Nazis
Why are people so fucking eager to just settle for nothing? We have a guy who hasn't even announced a run for president and people are already lecturing everyone to give up on everything they believe in and settle for this guy Trying to get 100 million voters to stay home next time I guess
It's great to be so weak and powerless that you are never worth listening to and your priorities don't matter, but also completely to blame for all of the failings of the party
So wait these guys are doing WHAT over there?
Also the MSNBC Brained Blue No Matter Who Crowd is conditioned that the only "Electable" candidates are ones that fucking suck so they don't even need prompting to start telling everyone to cast aside their ideals and compromise.
Are you cool if we put your civil rights on the chopping block for the sake of political expediency too?
"nobody knows how to lose better than us" Couldn't have said it better myself You see a mass response of Democrats who don't like Newsom, and you choose to yell at them and try to force a candidate they don't like on them instead The same thing that causes D's to always lose
It seems like every 5 years the industry convinces itself that the only way to be successful is to buy as many Nvidia GPUs as humanly possible, I'm sure somebody will come up with a technology with dubious utility to burn up GPU cycles soon. Ctrl+F replace Crypto With AI -> replace AI with New Thing
Keep doing the same stupid shit that let Trump win two elections and acting shocked when it loses yet again, genius
No dude I voted for the lame Democrat and it failed We need a new strategy that doesn't involve wagging fingers at people to vote for dogshit candidates because they keep losing no matter how hard you wag your finger at folks You're not going to nag your way into another do nothing centrist win
It's great that extortion is enough for you, but 90 million voters stayed home More people didn't vote than voted for either of these fucks Start demanding better from Democrats if you ever want to see them win again You wagging your finger harder and harder at people never works
This is asinine "No matter how hard I lecture people to vote for do nothing Democrats, they won't do what I want!!! Of COURSE I can't demand my party run better candidates, what are you stupid? I just have to lecture harder that people should settle for nothing!" IT DOESN'T WORK
You're like "Imagine if the Democrats were good at their jobs. Wouldn't they be worth voting for then?" Yeah dude If they actually did shit for people everyone would show up But they don't so everyone stays home You can yell at them all day but until Ds start doing something they lose
When you find the Democrats who are willing to do things to prevent Republicans from making things worse let us know I bet they'd win the election if they did shit like that
As someone who was really into the sport around then, he shouldn't have been booked past the 90s and was bad enough by the late 2000s that even the $5000 gigs at regional shows were drying up. He made a long career out of Looking Like A Tough Guy In 1995 though
Meanwhile we're all getting yelled at because apparently we need to just elect do-nothing Dems in perpetuity and any time we fail to get them elected we deserve whatever happens to us.
Right, the President? Vice President? Congress? Powerless. It's our job to keep voting for them no matter what they do or how badly, and anyone who doesn't give them power in perpetuity is to blame for everything bad that happened. Weird how the offices are powerful when R's have them
The Party can never fail. It can only be failed.
Now imagine if after a horrible election loss where the leaders in your party made terrible decisions to chase after Republican voters while alienating Democrats....you took away that Democrats need to get better, rather than lecturing all of the people they alienated to lower their standards
Imagine if you held the people who pushed voters away from voting half as accountable as you hold the people they deliberately alienated.
Right, rather than expecting Democrats to use their office and powers to make laws to help and protect us, we should be content to just elect them over and over again to do nothing while they say "At least I'm not the other guy!"
Hear me out: What if, when Democrats were given the powers of office they.... Actually used those powers to do good things and prevent bad things, rather than just doing nothing and saying "At least we aren't doing as much bad stuff" Nah, all they can do is be passive. No other possibilities
No, the problem is they aren't actually standing in the way of fascism..they're letting it happen while asking us for $25 for their next campaign. The Democrats had Project 2025 in hand years ago and instead of preparing at all they just campaigned on it and asked for donations
This attitude. The way that everyone acts like Democrats are entitled to votes no matter how badly they wrong people and start cursing and blaming the people who the Dems turned their back on rather than the Dems for alienating them. Bad enough their life gets worse, but you chide them also
Always blaming anyone but the wealthiest most powerful people in the world Senators and Presidents are powerless. Poor widdle babies with their hands tied. There's nothing they can do. The people who don't want to see a genocide in Gaza? Those fuckers are to blame for everything.
As long as the Democrats are the party of "We won't help with most everything but we won't fuck things up as much as the other guy" everyone is going to continue to stay home They lost the last election by alienating as many big groups of D voters as they could and are on track to do it again
Legitimately what do people think this would change? A video of Trump raping a child could come out and MAGA would call it fake and go on worshipping their idiot king They don't care one bit
The bad guys published their plan for how they wanted to dismantle the federal government years before Trump got elected The "Good guys" in charge did nothing to prepare except ask us for donations The Uvalde Police vs. School Shooters. Voting for the people who do nothing doesn't actually help
Yeah because he would have ordered the Union to surrender to the Confederates
It really sucks to be a non Republican in a country where both major political parties think their core constituents are Republicans
People can have a little bit of bigotry and intolerance, as a treat
Exactly! We just have to elect them again in perpetuity if we don't want things to get worse
It's a good thing they preserved those emergency powers, really worth the cost we're all paying, great job Anyhow the "here's why nothing good can ever be done" routine is fun and all but if you want to see Democrats ever win an election again they need to figure out how to accomplish things
"passing laws" You know like the Democrats did when they decided to ban TikTok? Just a thought maybe limit the president's "emergency powers" that Trump loves to abuse?
It's fucking BlueSky do you want me to write you a legal dissertation This notion that only Republicans are able to do things when they're in office is idiotic. If you want to see Democrats win again, the party needs candidates who are taking real, decisive action.
Right, it's impossible for Democrats to "make laws" or use the powers of their elected offices to do anything to benefit people. The powers of office only work for Republicans. When Democrats get in office, the office is weak and useless and has no power.
