Goddamn pigeon fanciers' clubs are like this, it's called Small Group Psychosis (also the title of a great album you really should buy)
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Goddamn pigeon fanciers' clubs are like this, it's called Small Group Psychosis (also the title of a great album you really should buy)
Theme music for tomorrow's announcement www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qf...
This is not the electorate of 2003 where the Right wing were bloodthirsty for more wars, this is the MAGA electorate where "no more wars" was this guy's big selling point
Is this the first reliable poll to show a LGTPM majority?
Exactly. Would anyone say that Mexicans are "fervently attached to cultural markers of a "home country" that barely thinks about them"?
This literally says no-one should be using their uterus, which, fair enough
There's a trend on Reddit right now of people posting pictures of bottles of champagne they bought, you know, for no reason, just in case there might be something to deliriously celebrate in a few days www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...
A smaller reform would simply be to abolish the Senate's seniority system, which leads to incentives to keep running for re-election until you're literally a mummy
Trump is driving an SUV with Vance and Johnson and it crashes. Grassley is Prez until the House elects a new Speaker.
Oh this is nice, Ray Wilson toured with Steve Hackett. Imagine the conversation when they first met. "..." "..." "So. Fuckin' Tony Banks, huh?" "I mean, right?!?" www.loudersound.com/features/ray...
Then what's this Azeribot blabbering about?
Wait, Planter doesn't support Ukraine?
Hey, it's the guy from that ELO song www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUl...
Please tell us why we had to hide away for so long. Where did we go wrong?
There is such a thing as working-class bigotry, but if you have references that violent attacks on trans people are perpetrated by construction workers rather than the Jan6 dentists/car dealer mob, let's see it. the bigger problem is the idea that "working class" means "poorly educated"
the thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter, it’s Bluesky v Substack
To quote from the classics: "Every breath I take without your permission raises my self-esteem"
He's remodelling the place and they were throwing bags of worn-out gold fittings
The bougie trans lawyer is going to complain like a common Karen to the barista's employer and try to get her fired if the barista messes up her latte. Or work for the barista's boss to try to bust her union. These scum have no solidarity. Does Peter Thiel look out for queer workers? Does he fuck.
What is the point of saying "the Left should hate on the trans" when every single party from the center to the far Right hates the trans in England? (* possible exception for GPEW if the boob hypnotist wins)
The Marxian working class are that fuckin' trans barista, or more urgently, the trans techie who keeps every server in Christendom running. But bourgeois communist see those people as "bourgeois like me" because they went to the same university and Biff the milionaire car dealer is a proper prole.
The dirty secret of the sect Left is that those groups aren't run by working-class militants, and haven't been for decades. They're run by self-hating bourgeois failsons who desperately want the True People to like them, and the True People aren't the Marxian working class bsky.app/profile/sque...
It only leaves out the fact that it's not construction workers throwing bricks at trans folks; it's car dealers and dentists and the other scum who made up the Jan6 crowd. And members of the bougie lawyer class like Newsom.
The idea that white racist car dealers and dentists are the True Volk is deplorable; but those fascists have the same attitude as bourgeois liberals that working people are all hateful bigots, they just disagree whether it's a good or a bad thing.
This is the right response to the post it's responding to. It only leaves out the fact that it's not construction workers throwing bricks at trans folks; it's car dealers and dentists and the other scum who made up the Jan6 crowd. And members of the bougie lawyer class like Newsom.
It's so cool how the US basically has the resource curse if the resource was money
This isn't true. Today's children have plenty of impotent rage against the Boomers/Gen X, who are sitting pretty on their freehold housing and smugly voting for more pain for the kids
Even if he was still corrupt and mean and listened to whoever talked to him last?
But popular opinion follows that elite consensus. I'm a radical socialist and only when I'm talking to UK socialists do I ever get the argument that transphobia is a Left-wing position - which wasn't the case 10 years ago before your ruling class went nuts. It's like talking to US Dems about Israel.
I just realised Woke Trump with a bit of a tan is something like Hugo Chavez
An interesting question is: how many liberals and Leftists out there would vote for Woke Trump?
Look, the hairbows are cute, I believe more than one Black Fern wears a cute scrunchie, but a full face of makeup? In a rugby game? I think it's odd enough when women footballers put on the eyeshadow and they're not getting wrestled to the ground multiple times a game www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
I mean Starmer's fascist politics, which are shared with Tories, Reform, even fuckin' Corbyn's party to a degree. You don't have mass mobs trying to burn out immigrants in the US (they have ICE to do that)
Trump's bullshit is not really popular in the US. Starmer's bullshit is really popular in the UK. In the US, in some states, migrants are protected and trans people are not being criminalised.
Not true. They also virulently hate the French. How much US Left "humour" is about the French language dying
Trump's America is not turning into Orbán's Hungary. Starmer's England is turning into Orbán's Hungary. The difference is that in the UK this fascist bullshit is legitimately popular, and the central govt is much more powerful
Have you ever talked to an Irish person about what they think of the Butcher's Apron?
*Dead Kennedys* Too sick to tweet Too sick to tweet Too sick To tweet He's passed out cold on the floor Too sick to tweet
Because it's a heraldic derivation of the NI coat of arms, which in turn was derived from the historic flag of Ulster
The Geek Social Fallacy
I am still of the opinion that factions in the White House spread the death rumours themselves, to see who would start scurrying around, popping champagne, making phone calls, shredding files, etc
... this is actually the position faced by liberalism in general today, not just Zionism
not to snipe unnecessarily at people who wouldn't vote for Harris over Gaza, their votes didn't actually swing it or come close, but this is why saying 'what's worse than genocide' was a very foolish thing to ask so flippantly
Yeah, but what's your explanation about it happening everywhere else? I mean, the UK as well (plus the humiliation of having to play well with EU partners) but how about in the EU itself
Anti-cosmopolitanism has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken people to the evils of rootSS
This is an Australian. She's talking about Australia.
Is there simply *no way* to enforce the rule of law without an armed force which acts like a gang, prizing loyalty among themselves above all and seeing themselves as bosses of the citizenry rather than servants, and culturally Right-tending-fascist? Because that's ALL countries, not just the US
Governor Hairgel McTransphobe of California is taking his "le epic troll game" and using it to attack Trump from the RIGHT bsky.app/profile/govp...
Attn all femme neuro-atypicals: You are no longer "info-dumping," you are "shelucidating."
Media is enshittified to the extent that there's a vast amount more crap, but about the same amount of good stuff (which is what you expect from EVERY technological breakthrough - it comes with less quality control) The 2020s have Bluey, for heaven's sake
America is not unique. Cops act like that in non-gunhumper countries too, they just use non-lethal weapons.
None of you fuckers name a French-speaking city lol
A lot of level-headed people have pointed out that this is very post-modern fascism, that it's a guy doing The Wizard of Oz only with a giant Hitler head and if establishment libs would stop shitting themselves and complying in advance for five seconds they could pull away the curtain quite easily
But they also watch Adventure Time, I don't know what this meme's on about. Every generation is convinced the coming one are braindead zombie barbarians, and have been since Roman times
My eldest has graduated from unboxing and "people acting out Paw Patrol fanfic with toys" vids to, er, Mr Beast. Not sure if that's an improvement.
... and yet, they *still* might lose next time!
She's an Australian. She's talking about Australia.
A challenger appears in the Context Collapse context! This is an Australian, and most of the replies and QTs are commiserating with how bad Americans are. The funny thing is that *I* assumed it was an American too. This is what cultural hegemony looks like and it stinks. bsky.app/profile/dumb...
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This is the opposite of the common complaint that we *did* use to tell rich techies to fuck off, all the time, on old Twitter to their faces, and that provoked them into becoming fascists
The answer I get to this is "party leadership just haven't told them about the fix"
There is also a massive overestimation of how much oppressive manpower the Trump regime has. There is a danger in the current situation for "program to determine theory"; in other words, analyses which are slanted so they support whichever political program the analyst wants us all to adopt anyway.
The biggest "tell" is the exaggeration of the parallels between the Trump and Orbán regimes. Orbán doesn't *have* to rig elections, until recently his regime has been legitimately popular. And he has an ability to change the constitution, a unitary state, and other levers of power Trump doesn't have
Eh... it's an argument for a "hyper-popular front strategy" and, sotto voce, an argument for excluding trans people and migrants from the movement. A lot of liberals exaggerate how consolidated Trump-fascism is to push a conservative politics which capitulates to many fascist planks.
Okay, this has officially left the realm of "Grubby but funny trolling" and entered the realm of "playing with fucking fire"
Because the ruling class fail the marshmallow test. This should be obvious by the fact that they've continually refused to deal with climate change. Late, decadent, neoliberal capitalism has become all about short-term profits, and fascism offers the ultimate "sugar rush".
Unfortunately, the fact that fascism is *stupid* - in that it replaces expertise and truth with loyalty and pandering to the based needs - is exactly what makes it popular, in eras of social crisis and hopelessness in which cleverness and pro-social behaviour are seen to have failed
Opening this up to Europeans on my feed (perhaps @dov.bsky.social in particular) to bring more-informed reckons as to why the EU shouldn't just zero out Orbán's budget
What problems can you see with a situation where the EU can pull subsidies if it doesn't like a member-state government? Partial answer: that utterly dries up further applications for membership
The afterimage left of Adorno & Horkheimer is "scientific rationality led to the holocaust" and the afterimage of Arendt's notion of "totalitarianism" is "everything annoying about technocratic expertise in the US and USSR is basically Nazi Germany"
"I can't believe these fascists are doing [maybe one of the top 3 hallmarks of every fascist government in human history], this is unprecedented and goes beyond fascism"
HAHAHAHA holy shit my phone's suggested search results
One argument you hear against free buses is that it would make it easy for homeless people to just sit on the bus all day. But .... what if we saw that as a benefit, rather than a cost?
It makes sense if you believe that rural/working class white folks are *correct* to vote Republican because "the shitlib Dems are so awful". Surely people don't deserve to be punished for making the *correct* choice. I'll say that again: these people think GOP voters are their target population.
Stephanie is 100% right, but this is one of the most amazing examples of "breaking containment/context collapse" I've seen in a long time. Yanks, don't engage in a post from someone saying "toitū te Tiriti" if you don't know what that phrase means
Isn't it a lot of "wishful thinking"? In the sense of "if this is true, them we'll have to adopt my preferred strategy. So of course it's true."
If your "broad pro-democracy coalition" is going to accept a sports ban, a bathroom ban, a transition ban that applies to adults or kids, and legalisation of discrimination, there is NO REASON for trans folk to fight for democracy. You cannot shame them into fighting for YOUR freedom.
Just say "trans people have to accept detransition/segregation", bro, this is taking forever
The Leftist version of this relies on the idea that working class and rural Republican voters do so because the Dems won't bring in a welfare state or full socialism. The idea that no-one would actually vote for cruelty or fascism "if shitlibs weren't so useless/complicit" is unshakeable
The Trump death rumours were started by the Trump camp themselves, to see who on their own side would start scurrying around, make moves, order champagne
Unfortunately, it seems that president Trump was found alive today at the white house. Ours thoughts and prayers to the american people in this difficult time
Nah, Trump can't swim but nor could Harold Holt, apparently
Well, let's go back to the beginning. You were arguing that you knew better than Jodi Ernst that there will be no free elections in 2026. If you wanted to drive down turnout to elections so that MAGA could win fair and square, that's one way you could do it
I gently suggest that you have gone a little bit... well, crazy's a harsh word, but you're complying in advance a bit
NIMBYs who want to kill their children for their property values The kind of people who whinge about the City Rail Link not going to the airport, but whinged harder about Light Rail which was going to go to the airport A mayor who agrees with whoever talked to him last
which is why you offer no conclusions for actions from your "analysis", huh
I suggest you read through your thread (the one that ends with "autogolpe") and reflect on your own motivations
"blithely" is one of those words like "coddled", which reveals a whole discourse and the speaker's imagined role in it
Thr argument you seem to be making is that you, and many other randos on Bluesky, can see that the elections will be rigged, but Jodi Ernst can't
Tbf the US still has a lot of credibility among Kosovars
W. D. Fard said something like "whoever brings 4 heads of devils to the mosque gets a free trip to Mecca", and someone is said to have actually turned up with 4 white person heads - is that it?
A whole generation of readers who can't read the Western originals and so don't know why Banazir Gambasi was really called "The Gardener" (you must be over 18)
TIL there's a word for this shit
Counterpoint: right now, every trans person in the US should be armed to the teeth
how i would "address" migration is that i would simply welcome everyone who enters the country after minimal criminal checks, boosting its economy and increasing overall national prosperity
Same crowd that made fun of (and still do) a scared Syrian 8 year old and if you called it out they'd accuse you of wanting to start WW3
I cannot stress this enough again. I'm not being funny but if you think this is forgivable please stop wasting time and block me now.
The defence that "she's not mocking Ukrainians and hoping they die, she's mocking LIBERALS who care about Ukraine" just sounds like hating Ukraine with extra steps
If you're pitching to a trans audience, there is a *big* audience for takes like "this *is* the Holocaust, you *are* going to the camps within 2-3 years, you've just got time to write your final heartbreaking memoir"