Yeah but have you considered that if we fight back against the fascists, we’ll be no better than they are?
Yeah but have you considered that if we fight back against the fascists, we’ll be no better than they are?
People identifying as “Anglo-Saxons” after being American for centuries reminds me of the Spartans thinking of themselves forever as a group of foreign invaders
this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
I’m telling you
You know what, maybe you’re onto something here. As an option on the presidential ballot every four years, you can choose to fill in the bubble for “I’m Mad.” We count them and publish the results, your voice is heard, and no harm done. It’s like channeling lightning into the ground.
Sidewalks in the UK are softer?
Don’t forget NYC! We have a model for a walkable US city, we’ve just chosen not to follow it.
Yeah I feel like QuoPro is standing in the pig sty and complaining about all the mud. That’s the whole website now, regardless of the user
As Trump was threatening to militarily invade and occupy the city I live in, the leader of the opposition party offered to find common ground with him. I fucking hate these people. They are worse than useless.
The US might be the hardest place to implement something similar. Nearly every corner of it is a place where nobody can get around themselves until they’re 15/16 years old.
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
Look, Jack, this is just what humans were like in the state of nature. Don’t play games with me
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Don’t think we fully have CNN either tbh with voices like Tapper on it.
I don’t think we have ABC. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
I like the poetic justice of doing YMCA since he loves that one so much
RFK Jr. rushing to the White House with a wheelbarrow full of beef tallow to save the President
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
Can someone point me to a good defense of keeping the convention result? I’ve read Stancil’s take, but I don’t believe I’ve seen the other side really
RFK is the first to know, and everyone else finds out when they find him tying Trump's body to the roof of his car.
Lots of anime is intended for adults. And Harry Potter was intended for everyone, as far as I can tell.
thats hot
Wait was that actually a thing? That’s nuts
The sleep of reason brings forth Glonzos
I like that post he did where he compared himself to Malcolm X
Idk. The older, resist-lib members of my family are all starting to get really into substackers, which (if indicative of a trend) would imply it’s a real avenue for swooping in and seizing back the narrative from decrepit legacy media ghouls.
Someone is going to have to go out and prove that “the vernacular of Christianity” in this country isn’t just racism before I believe this will work.
The last president went to church every Sunday without fail and nobody cared
If this worked it’d be great. But this strikes me as akin to attempting to outflank the more conservative party on immigration.
QUIZ: Choose the Real WaPo Headline A) Why Trump has a point on dictatorship B) Why Trump has a point on mail-in ballots C) Why Trump has a point on Smithsonian’s focus on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ Check the link for the answer (Though, as always, there are no winners here):
People will really get on here and say “Catholics are woke now. They’re on the team!” Come on folks. Those guys believe in wizards. They’re the original Glonzo-hunters. Try again.
Look I'm gonna say it: paying the biggest liberal-leaning influencers $96,000 a year to reach millions upon millions of people is pretty reasonable - honestly, a steal, even. In broad strokes it seems like the beginning of the sort of social media strategy Dems have been lacking.
I must’ve been asleep that day
Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich
Ah, the elusive Bluesky Electoral Theory: the belief shared by every person on this app. One day we’ll learn what that is, I’m sure.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
The centrist party line on X has actually just become “When will Democrats finally get it through their thick skulls that racism is cool now?”
The New York Times is a conservative propaganda rag but one aimed at its influential and educated liberal readers, who must continually be actively convinced by the NYT it's something else, otherwise the propaganda won't sell.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
I guess my point is to neither relax because we’re giving up, nor relax because victory is inevitable. We are firmly in the fighting stage, because honestly, it’s not clear exactly how bad it is or what is going to happen from here.
I agree that we should fight doomerism on here but at a certain point we risk horseshoeing into the NYT “everything is normal, nothing to worry about” line. Part of authoritarianism is the appearance of control, and the line between mere appearance and actual control can be hard to see.
haven’t read graff’s piece but i both think this is obviously correct and also doesn’t matter? for me at least it’s sort of like breaking the plane in football, whether it’s an inch or 10 yards into the endzone it’s still a touchdown
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
The thing is, he doesn’t! His stuff isn’t popular, he isn’t popular, his stuff has NEVER been popular! It just turns out having a highly energized hardcore base of supporters is an effective way of getting a lot more people to vote for you
The strategy is not "moderate your language" (almost always conveniently "in the exact way that shuts up the people I, the speaker, find weird and annoying"), it's "assemble a media apparatus to call it all bullshit & then accuse your opponents (accurately in this case) of wild and fanciful crimes."
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
I mean at least he's admitting the part none of them dare say: that they think being shaken down by fascists is preferrable to paying more taxes because the fascists are asking for less money
YES YES YES, FINALLY PEOPLE ARE GETTING IT. A hardcore, energized base wins over people in the middle. Read this entire article. This is why liberals have been losing: they've been listening to quants who obsess over median voter opinion and ignore social dynamics. renewal.org.uk/blog/why-lab...
People don’t want to hear it, but he’s right about the intolerance problem here. A post denying the holocaust will earn you cries of “racist” and “Nazi” from the wokescold army that is Bluesky. Only on X would others have the decency to engage with that claim on an intellectual level.
That conception comes from right-wing propaganda, and it will take a tidal wave of messaging of our own to reverse it.
I would lean toward the latter in the majority of cases; most people don’t spend much time examining their beliefs or checking whether they believe the principles they affect.
This is actually why I’m so bullish on Bluesky. It’ll never compete with other socials in raw numbers, but if it’s the platform where writers can find audiences and get off the ground, there’s a decent chance it becomes the long-term home of elite discourse.
Yeah I do feel people were right to identify a microblogging platform like Twitter as the right place to get readers, even though Instagram and Tik Tok have more users. But their algorithm has killed that ability now.
People have been repeating the lie of “liberal bias” in journalism for so long that even journalists can’t be disabused of the notion—no matter how much evidence appears to the contrary.
You had me at “revenge!”
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
I always thought referencing Calvinball was a Posters’ thing, did not expect to see this from a SCOTUS justice!
Here for it
Oh so you’ll take my money but if an Adams staffer tries to donate that’s a big scandal? Strikes me as a bit of a double standard
You know, whether cities are occupied by the military is an “inherently political issue,” so who can really criticize something like that? I work for the Washington Post and I am very smart.
I think we could still see some salutary effects today if we had the capability to deplatform. Journalists are so much worse now because of X brain-cooking; I wonder if boxing up the Nazis over there might go some way toward reversing that.
I also just don’t think this is right that our side has never been able to influence who gets platformed. Yes, Musk owns Twitter now and platforms Nazis, but there was a time where Twitter did not do that, and I think that was the right choice.
I mean our side certainly failed to win the platform war, but it’s working very well for the people who did win. Look how much mileage the Republicans get out of both social and traditional media constantly elevating right-wing perspectives and minimizing others.
Columbia do something that’s not fucked up for once (challenge level: impossible)
Inject it into my veins!
“You don’t take on a nation that is ten times your size” is ironically a rebuke of the American Revolution itself
“Trump is illegally expanding the authority of the executive branch and breaking down the norms of democracy in America. How are Democrats going to sell voters on the idea that he shouldn’t?”
We need our own politics of revenge.
An addictive algorithm on Bluesky would be a massive start, imo.
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
Holy shit lmao
Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.
In other words, the collusion of nearly all media organizations to ply a false story about what Americans care about is a very powerful force. In a world where only certain political junky types are able to get what’s actually going on, it should be unsurprising that politicians remain clueless.
Contempt, maybe—but I don’t want to skate over the cluelessness this behavior is born from. Saying a military takeover is a distraction from the price of ham is perfectly reasonable if you get your information exclusively from mainstream media like NYT; they endlessly push narratives like that.
Murphy’s lack of political talent/instinct is almost impressive. He insists on throwing himself in the mix of current events at all times while missing the point on every issue. Like a broken clock that somehow shudders to life at the exact moment needed to not even be accidentally right once.
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
since they basically own the ordinary media i think pissing them off is probably the fastest way to raise the salience of an issue even for the non-online
(all of them)
I can think of a couple of organizations today that would benefit from looking outside the Ivy League for hiring, tbh
Every single one of these agents needs to be unemployed on day 1 of the next Dem admin. No questions asked, you’re fired, end of.
Was once on the subway and a guy was carrying a duffel bag with what appeared to be the stalk of a marijuana plant sticking out of it
As far as I’ve seen, the Guardian is the most honest outlet that reports national news we have left
lol yeah, really
Yeah, to an extent it feels like we’ve reached a very “stoppable force meets movable object” stage of this thing
Not the voters, I mean the participants.
I guess I just feel like “fix things for now and hope the fascists don’t take over again despite that” isn’t as secure of footing to be on as imprisoning everyone who had anything to do with this mess.
I like the sound of that, but why doesn’t that suffer from the same “cycle of revenge” problem, with the other side packing the Court next chance they get? That’s usually the fear people express wrt that idea.
Our society has revealed itself to be full of unprincipled windsocks at the helm of many of our most important institutions. How do you propose we get the support of those people if only the other guys will punish them for failure to comply?
Last I checked, Carthage didn’t bother them again after that.
Some people have never heard of the Carthaginian Solution
