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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Mark may have created the greatest “just a great bunch of guys” team in the history of ever.
The fact Mark Jackson didn’t make the list means you weren’t old enough to know former Jazz player Mark Jackson.
I think it’s fucking hilarious that, from the day he bought Twitter, has loudly and repeatedly claimed he would make everything about the website focused on ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND FREE SPEECH and all he’s done is repeatedly prove that what he really means is he wants it to think and act just like him.
I’m just really fucking salty today that the symbols and language of American Patriotism have been fully co-opted by a right wing authoritarian/Christian coalition that more closely resembles the Confederacy in appearance, values, and goals than the secular liberal American tradition.
Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
I personally can’t imagine any downsides for the USA in creating an axis of power that is the two most populous countries on earth and Russia.
Ok. let’s just pretend you’re not saying every word of this in bad faith, Speaker. What the fuck are you doing about Americans mental health? You gonna pray it better? Or Maybe you’ll give judgy speech and shame it all better you hypocritical rotting corpse filled white washed sepulcher?
Why is the answer never to respect that voters are adults who make choices? The loud, repeated message is “close hospitals and nursing homes in my community, taking money from cities to pay for them makes me feel left behind.” You don’t have to agree, but have the respect to listen.
I just love capitalism.* * The government paying private companies to perform a government function and then on top of that giving them a financial incentive to perform it maliciously and harm people.
MAGA really gonna build confederate style memorials to Ashli Babbit and Big Balls 30 years from now, aren’t they?
I am a simpleton, but it does not make much sense to me to hang a picture of a literal traitor in the halls of your military learning institution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Literally the entire point of their map was to make it so Salt Lake County voters would have as little influence as possible in congressional elections.
just fucking love that Stewart says “we spent weeks traveling the state and gathering inputs for redistricting” without mentioning they then ignored all of those inputs, rejected the recommendations of the non-partisan redistricting committee, and gerrymandered the fuck out of it.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
this is correct and you can see it in the runup to basically every severe crisis, even as it becomes increasingly obvious one is coming 2008 was a great example - "the entire financial system is going to start falling apart like dominoes" was a bridge too far for conventional wisdom until it wasn't
I feel like the juxtaposition of sending masked agents to arrest and haul off “illegal” brown people to foreign gulags while sending RFK talk about depression meds in response to mostly white domestic terrorists committing mass shootings and sending cops on bogus school raids is a choice.
In police state capitalist America, getting bodied by a cop for exercising your first amendment rights as directly as any founder could ever say you are is you doing felony battery on a cop
sure. or…take the quickest and easiest opportunity for real power and wrangle the partisan sheep to commandeer the party from within. I think progressives like Zohran and AOC are playing that game, and winning. But cynically hurling shit at it from the trees and hoping it dies is also a strategy.
Right?! And undoing that and discrediting everything about it in the minds of Americans has very literally been the core unifying thread of right wing politics and propaganda ever since.
LOL. as if every fucking political party in existence didn’t try to leverage that propaganda to their advantage over the years. “the government is broken! Defund ____!” has been such a universal talking point it may be the only fucking thing 80% of Americans still think is absolutely true.
uhhh, people are debating whether or not they actually exist and should have any rights? What the fuck do you think “there are only two Genders” means? And the things you listed don’t need to be debated. especially not by dumbfuck influencers and politicos. They need to be discussed by experts.
anyone who grew up in a conservative religious community knows the hard truth of this. Calls to be civil and polite are universally tools of control used by people seeking to ensure their world view and order are not seriously challenged or questioned.
The only minor caveat I'd add as a historian is that while the current form of aggressive and unapologetic authoritarianism consolidated at the federal level is unprecedented in US History, the political culture of authoritarianism has been a pretty common feature at a more localized level.
Well, a skilled political party would spend every breath clearly communicating Trump is the reason for those closures and offering those rural voters the “Trump choice” of either losing their hospitals or paying higher taxes to keep them because balanced budgets are important to rural conservatives
There's a real disconnect between the heroic image that industries prop up for marketing purposes and the sad reality of their consumers. Kyoichi Tsuzuki's book "Happy Victims" shows the real lives of people who buy high-end designer clothes. I see a similar issue with guns.
Fun with statistics: Three is a trend! (But the three thousand others are just lone wolves and/or the price of freedom.)
It's truly as if every time you said between 2016 and 2024 "but if you took that to it's logical conclusion wouldn't that mean X?" it opened a rift in the time space continuum and dropped your example somewhere in 2025
2025 is like one of those movies where all the fictional characters from fairy tales or 19th century lit start walking around in the same universe and cross paths except instead of characters it's hundreds of reductio ad absurdisms interacting with one another
It’s really not that hard to understand. Elites think the debates are the leading indicator, rather than the trailing one. Because for most of them talking about shit is all they ever do and how they make a living.
who could have predicted that handing the keys to a bunch of 20 something’s that don’t know shit about shit and instructing them to “go fast and break things” would result in them indiscriminately breaking a whole bunch of shit that nobody wanted broken?
ah, well
sure. from our perspective. but the most egregious overestimation here, the one that is the root of the fucking problem, is how many people *think* what they believe is just so fucking great and true and universal all they have to do is silence and/or remove the haters and everything will be cool.
Do you really not think there’s any centrist republicans? Do you not think Trump worked to court right leaning centrists and independents in the election? One of Trumps enduring political strengths is his only real ideology is loyalty to him. He doesn’t actually give a fuck what else they believe
you guys should probably go update your wiki with whatever story you want to tell then. Or you can keep looking like insufferable assholes. totally your call.
no, he won by bringing them to heel and and changing the leader/partner dynamic. The Lindsay Grahams and Mitch McConnells of the world have been awfully fucking useful to him if you ask me.
This ratio may be my greatest bluesky moment. Reading through all the replies and I’m just really proud of what we accomplished there.
This has been fun. long time since I had a good kerfuffle on the social medias. now to go touch some grass. literally.
without centrist support? no. that’s very much the point of the post.
I can agree that they suck and also recognize they are necessary and essential to winning elections and exercising political power in America. This is, apparently, heretical to many people on this website
no. definitely not.
lol. straight answers indeed.
If you want. centrally your prerogative. just don’t expect me to vote for you.
christ you are adorable. you ready to declare victory yet keyboard warrior? do it. i’ll give you a gold star.
neither am I. So how about you ask me the question you really want to ask instead of trying to slow walk me to your point?
I’m curious what you think democracy is, if not a system that reflects the prevailing cultural hegemony by virtue of majority vote? does the fact that the cultural hegemony isn’t yours make it illegitimate?
well it certainly wasn’t a progressive like Zohran campaigning on an inclusive message like Zorhan where someone like Zorhan was appealing to centrists by doing things like walking back hot takes and talking to cops and courting establishment dems who weren’t hostile. could try that, I guess.
nah. what’s apparently too hard for you, and them, to think about is how you make centrists serve you the way they have made you serve them instead of just telling them to fuck off.
Right. so you’re a tankie then? Because it’s either that or your one of those deluded dipshits who think the majority of America agrees with you and the only think holding all 100 million of you down is those goddamned centrist democrats!!
or, they were all in response to a post about kicking all centrists out of the democratic party and discussion snot winning elections and you’re just taking out your ass? feels like that might be it, but i’ll let you think on it
no, it’s authoritarian to believe you can take over a country without winning fucking elections.
so what exactly is your plan of you’re not going to be leading and using the people who “believe in nothing but falling in line”
see, this is where I’m struggling to understand the thinking. In a democracy you actually need to win elections. you don’t have enough people who think like you to win enough fucking elections to run this country.
originally a British communist, but more generally a pejorative for authoritarian leftist/communist. not big fans of democracy.
I also follow Karl. And probably agree with Karl more than I agree with Singal. but hey, don’t let that stop you from thinking you can just put your fingers in your ears and win elections with purity tests and the infallibility of your arguments.
ya. I used it here in its broader cultural meaning (vice it’s narrow historical origin) intentionally and appropriately.
Uh huh. who, and what, is that exactly?
who said I was a centrist? You don’t know jack shit about me. And see I don’t need to know what you believe to know what you said right here is loser shit.
not sure of these people are Tankies who just think the solution is the revolution or of they honestly believe they can win elections with this bullshit?
lol. cry more, says the leftist literally crying because his takeover of the Democratic party is still just a pipe dream. And the terf jab when you don’t know jack shit about my trans views is fucking precious. loser shit.
with you on the first, lost me on the second. Second paragraph is loser shit. you don’t remove centrists, you literally fucking need them. just like Trump needed them. You join them, you keep them and bring them to heel, or you just keep losing. Those are your choices.
Hoover would have fucking loved Trump just like Putin loves Trump because Trump is the perfect toadie.
But we’ve been through this before. In fact the battle against this bullshit, and the constant march of progress over it, is one of the defining historical Accomplishments of the United States of America
I know this because I know a lot of rural/suburban conservatives and they talk about these things like they’re not just good but essential to the preservation on America.
Rural/Suburban Conservative America has been trained to hate and fear cities and city people with such a passion they will gladly support pogroms and militant authoritarianism as a “solution” w/o even once thinking they’re the fascist baddies their 20th century American education warned them about
The way to understand how groups like the third way seem so consistently fucking stupid and disconnected from reality is they view politics as a game and politicians as sophisticated and dispassionate chatbots that need to be programmed with the correct algorithms and prompts to win the game.
More like a test blitz. this comes after they’ve openly bragged about active criminal investigations of the NY AG, Obama, Biden, the Head of the Federal Reserve, etc. Bolton was just the first they managed to get through the courts. Doing the same thing with the military occupation of Cali and DC
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
wait, what? I guess you can try and argue Kamala wouldn’t have lost if Dems ended the filibuster, but that’s wishful thinking IMO. On the other hand the very real prospect of THIS Republican dominated reality without a senate filibuster guardrail is fucking terrifying.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
…then they came for Bush era war criminals and I…remembered even fascists can do good occasionally.
It’s genuinely baffling to me how the GOP has managed to maintain a reputation in basically all media as the “law and order“ party and the party of “fiscal responsibility“ in contradiction to all readily available facts
Wildest part of this screenshot isn’t that the OP is an ignorant and overly racist 64 yo white male, it’s that the website it is posted on generated nearly 400 likes to 10 comments in response.
“no longer”?? fucking never did. Move fast and break things is, by definition, a destructive and reductive exercise. And sometimes that’s absolutely necessary and important and good. But anyone telling you it’s always the best path to innovation is just fucking lying to you like you’re a mark.
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States. n.pr/4187cQe
This is great but you gotta find a way to explain it to everyone and fortunately Bum Phillips already did
Temu-ass goon squad
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
Wait, is the “deep state” the good guys?
The solution to the deep problems of the current era is not to find One Weird Trick™️ to make Republicans not be wreckers, its to just have less Republicans in office.
The point was never really to save money. The point was to speed run the 60-year old GOP dream of dismantling of the New Deal administrative state using Musk as the tip of the spear, his unearned reputation for being a “non-ideological, former Democrat, techno-whiz, problem solver” as a shield.
LOL. you’re an avid longtime reader, then? Ok. So, serious question, when they were publishing defenses of illiberalism and the weakness of democracy in the early 20th century alongside WEB Du Bois. Was that completely different than what they do today?
Pretty fucking obvious that most of the people talking about The Atlantic in response to this post either don’t know a fucking thing about The Atlantic or are deliberately misrepresenting what it is and what it has always been. But I guess that’s what we do here on these websites, isn’t it?
C’mon, folks, let’s not overcomplicate this. They’re talking about stopping micro aggressions against conservative identity and creating safe spaces. It’s important to always remember Conservatives are the most insecure, fragile and frightened motherfuckers on planet earth.
Would love nothing more than to see Lauri hard carry this D league roster to a .500 record and a chance at the playoffs. So fucking tired of spending over half of every season thinking about player development and lottery balls.
Kinda weird I don’t see anyone making jokes about POTUS starting a war on false pretext and staging an invasion to make himself more popular/rich like we all used to do every time a President did this kind of shit. Just because the war and invasion are in his own country doesn’t make it less true.
oh damn!!
Hey man, just the fact that you’re introspective enough to feel that means it’s not true. I’m basically a stranger, and my DMs are open if you want to talk.
This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.
I think this “upgrade” was actually a brilliant strategy to absolutely fuck every single student who was counting on GPT to help them coast through another semester.
Only modification I’d put on this is I think the word “straight” is unnecessary and inaccurate. Really feel like there’s something deep in the male psyche that links physical contact generally, and physical pain specifically, with parts of our brain that are otherwise inaccessible to us.
Top 5 and only 26 YEARS OLD. Jordan didn’t even win his first ‘Chip until he was 27. Just so unfathomably stupid. The fact they lucked into Flagg after that decision is hard evidence that all notions of cosmic justice are, at best, entirely subjective.
I think, as much as they try to make it about management and markets, Dynasties have always been built on getting and keeping singular generational talent. which is why teams that do what Dallas just did are the stupidest of all, IMO.
Warriors? I know it feels like they’re a legacy NBA powerhouse, but they won exactly two ‘Chips in their 60 years of existence before Steph Curry.
I mean, yes? Terrible campaign slogan. Depressing social commentary. Reasonable justification for casting a vote.