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Newsom's trying to create a broad coalition all right, but I'm not in it. No one left of Biden is in it. He's made it very clear who's invited and who is not It's not that I'm refusing to get on the Gavin train. It's that Gavin's made it real clear he doesn't want me there
Yes - but only if it’s being broken by a member of the out-group, which is worse than no law at all.
Jesus I see what you’ve done for other people dot gif
Let that number sink in. This is how to do it when you’re fighting for the future of your democracy.
I mean what is this but the “revenge of the dick antagonists?” Some of most anodyne “be nice” or “don’t litter” PSA’s from the 80’s would be met with hysteria in 2025. Rogan is a useful idiot for the tech oligarchs who prefer a society of individuals who compete rather than work for a common good.
Very simply: belonging. These people are alienated from everything, and feel like the last few decades left them behind. The simulacra provides them with a place that allows themselves to evolve into “new guys” and find common cause together, which is just “the permission to be a whiny bitch.”
We desperately need an operationally secure platform where people can safely engage in conversation about the kinds of resistance that are rightly and understandably taboo on social media. IRL is the way, but organizing millions of people? We need systems and guides to use them securely.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
If you can’t ban Nazis without sweeping up high profile Republicans and you can’t ban disinformation without sweeping up high profile Republicans, the issue is Republicans. Not the policy.
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
For sure - and also, realities will collide at the election no matter what. There’s no possibility that he can lose inside the simulacra. We can roll eyes at dumb claims of $2 gas but the election outcome? If we haven’t tipped by then, it’ll send us over the edge.
All he needs is for it to be real enough for his base to buy into it. A more deadly version of claims that $2/gal gas is a thing, he’s winning trade deals or blue cities are warzones. It’s only for *his* audience, and denial of that reality is for the haters/losers. Guys like Miller though…
Heads up Kathy @governor.ny.gov
Fucking finally!
The gap between the average Democratic voter and average Democratic politician on Palestine is almost incomprehensible at this point— to the extent that I really don't know what will finally break this dynamic
“Jury of your peers” but only if your peers are the most cruel, gullible, dumbass reactionary motherfuckers on the face of the planet.
This is good but let’s not kid that “juries are bad actually” is not on deck here. The right has already laid the groundwork to perceive “blue juries” are a thing and can’t be trusted. They’ll move cases to the middle of nowhere or prefer some military tribunals instead.
Kevin Roberts said that in July of *last year*. Imagine if we had taken these people seriously and prosecuted them when we had the fucking chance?
And if/when they lose power? Flying a confederate flag gets you one year in jail. It’s the only language they speak, so speak it.
And dem leadership should be threatening / promising it to happen. Let the risk hang over their heads every day, make them think twice, have them consider if it’s worth the consequences.
I get opsec and understand why it’s foolish to be posting about use of force - but if we can’t talk about it online, then we should all be in the process of modeling and spinning up IRL spaces where we *can* talk about it. Posting the implication day after day is infuriating and pointless.
Bluesky posters conundrum, daily. - Big accounts posting how we must “do something” about this, but never risk defining what “something” is. - Scold / block anyone who even mentions violence or use of force. So you want revolution, just don’t post about it in your mentions?
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
what makes the Third Way propaganda work, linguistically speaking, isn't just the true fact that people out there in fact use terms like "microaggression" but also the less savory true fact that there's a coordinated right wing media offensive to associate that with a political party.
GOP gets attention - bc media likes them and wants them to win etc - and bc they spout insane shit and constantly break “norms”. In contrast, establishment Dem leadership is vanilla as hell and challenge nothing. They need righteous gangsterismo. (Note that vanilla slop > GOP fascism, to be clear.)
Yeah even if their choice is between allowing themselves to surrender power and risk being held accountable for all of this shit or just blowing everything to pieces to avoid it, it’s fairly obvious which one their going with. Cults never end peacefully.
Does “moving forward” involve putting said abusive family members in fucking prison?
You can draw a direct line from the Ruby Ridge fallout to the decision to not meaningfully and aggressively prosecute those who perpetuated J6. Unforgivable cowardice.
Heist movie where a ragtag team assembles to heist the body of a recently dead right-wing celebrity and then broadcast it being torn apart by wild pigs
Always nice to consider that they fully expect it to collapse, but it’s nbd bc it allows them an even more unrestrained application of violence when it happens. They may prefer it as they can dispense with politics kayfabe or consent manufacturing when they can just kill anyone that challenges them.
Which also feels like an inevitability - and a twisting of the knife that fits right into our current moment. There’s a line that they’ll eventually cross and bring their ruin but history shows it always happens too late. In hindsight it’ll look inconceivable we let it go on this long.
Yeah, pure uncut copium. The market crashing real hard is maybe the exception but I’m not sure even that would actually motivate a new cohort of haters into action or whatever.
I keep waiting for some big immune response from outside - a market crash, global sanctions, military coup, general strikes, mythical benevolent billionaires - to finally throw a wrench in this shit but it never comes. That the world can just keep coasting along like this is a fucking indictment.
Perfect analysis from The Elephant Graveyard… new one really gets you thankin.
Had like 4 fucking years to send all these people to prison and stop it from happening but nah, wouldn’t have been sporting of us!
Theres a distinction between “itching for a civil war” and deducing that it might be inevitable - bc the right *is* itching for it. It’s a terrible prospect and ignorant to hope for, but denial can be irresponsible too… otoh, maybe it’s far too late to meaningfully prepare for anyway.
They absolutely should, but If the shooting hasn’t already started by then, it’ll pop off when we try to hold the GOP accountable. They’ll never go quietly and can easily rally their base to violence if they want to (especially if thousands of ICE agents are about to be abolished out of a job).
it's very true that Nazis can be welcoming and accommodating TO INFLUENCERS who they want to help them spread their message. if Nazis are being nice to you it isn't a sign they are more "welcoming". it's a sign they find you useful.
America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them
Dem leaders should 100% be forcing discussions with state national guard and police and making changes while they still can. Now is the time to install loyalists and purge those who would betray us.
The last decade has been “constitutional law experts” clinging onto the rulebook going "calm down, a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on them over and over
Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.
Predictable.
“i need to be incentivized to do good” is such a fundamentally evil position
Gonna be the shoddiest piece of shit McMansion hack job you’ve ever seen.
Wait whats the issue with threatening to send the fascists to prison forever?
I think they were emphasizing that we don’t just do the vague “lock them up” rhetoric instead of actionable plans - like we will charge them with *these crimes* using *this evidence* and seek *these sentences*. But if they weren’t, then yeah lol I agree.
If there is a “Project 2029” the first few chapters should just be specifics on how to build cases, prosecute and charge the entire apparatus - DOGE and beyond. (As opposed to vague “lock them up” rhetoric.) Time to pay the price.
Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.
One day all these right wing psychos in power are going to be held to account. For the first time, the paranoid fever dream about the “gov coming for them” could be a reality - all this hardware they’re stealing now can be deployed later.
Needs the big pinky ring, menacing hand gestures.
I dunno, I kinda think we should continue letting agents pack themselves like sardines into highly penetrable box trucks. Seems really safe for them.
It's easy for right-wing donors to invest in fascist media because they know they'll get what they pay for; we have to be real that left-wing donors DON'T invest in left-wing media because they're afraid they'll get a wild card that doesn't shore up their fundamentally pro-capitalist nonsense.
A+ thread
Angry goose meme: And why has the issue nonetheless taken over the political conversation motherfucker??
It should highkey Balkanize even faster because it’s probably the cleanest way out of this mess. Give everyone like 5-10 years for a ‘great sorting’ where people migrate to where they want to be, create some trade policy and move on. Rooting for it, tbh.
(stupidest motherfucker on earth voice) a government small enough to drown in a bathtub
It's incredibly easy to look at a situation and identify some tiny, marginal group who can be made to wait or experience just a little suffering while the rest of us try and keep the ship steady. The enemy knows so. That's why they make the bargain to begin with. While eyeing up *your* neck.
Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.
there is some deep structural problem with the way coordination between large capital enterprises and their leaders puts serious guardrails on a variety of left and center-left policy trajectories and just none on Republicans at all
Here are when the 17 Dems who voted against the Sanders resolution are up for reelection: 2026: Booker Coons Hickenlooper Peters Warner 2028: Blumenthal Cortez Mastro Fetterman Hassan Padilla Schumer Wyden Bennet 2030: Cantwell Gillibrand Rosen Schiff
The first socialist or demsoc candidate who gets up there, bangs their fist on the podium and says “under no pretext” is gonna break so many brains in this country.
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
When the right said “Second amendment solutions” they suffered no consequences - so have at it. Kinda rolls off the tongue tbh.
![A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3vj3sznbplg35cnfx4dtvss/bafkreig2ukd3sswlxg2g3py5t23jjs6dzdizqk67wuw7ddrdv6wgrgbjpi@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Rufo need not be given air.
I mean Charlie shouldn’t feel safe anywhere he goes, that bigoted motherfucker should feel terrified to show his tiny ass face anywhere in public for the rest of his pathetic life.
Primarying both Schumer and Jeffries from the left is an important and strategically worthwhile political project.
Honestly so fucking clarifying when someone just comes out and says it... These monsters have been outwardly calling to genocide everyone and they suffer no consequences. You can’t tolerate intolerance, they gotta go or this will just keep happening.
The point being - I don’t think most people have internalized just how deep the rot is and what it would actually take to remove it - the act of holding them all accountable and the response to it would in itself set off “civil war” moreso than anything they could do while they’re in power.
This was a hypothetical re: truth and reconciliation committees after *retaking power*, which was what OP was proposing. I’d imagine that cleaning this mess up would necessarily involve purging our enforcement of fascist enablers and turning the screws on these bastards.
I’m saying that if *I* had my way - I would absolutely use the the power of the state to end this white nationalist project that they’ve been running, and that involves dragging ICE agents and domestic terrorists into trials. That’s what they’d meet with violent resistance and terror.
Imagine a future where national guardsman or the fbi are dispatched to arrest / disarm them and bring them to justice for what they’re currently doing. Since Waco / Ruby Ridge the gov has always backed down in fear of reprisal bc it’s literally what the right has been waiting for.
Newsom can’t hold this opinion *and* platform Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast. If he thinks they’re assassins who aren’t screwing around, then why invite them for a friendly chat where they will engage in bad faith tactics to spread their bullshit?
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There’s concern of political violence in the present but violence might more likely pop off if the right ever *loses* the ability to wield the institutional power it currently has and is forced to account for its crimes. Their movement has no intention of re-entering democracy. It shouldn’t stop us.
It’s not so much conviction as it is just denial. Conservatives have gone full fash, and unfortunately they understand eventually this will lead to armed standoffs, they’re counting on it. Ignoring a fight does not mean you’re not in a fight. How long do you lay down and let yourself get worked?
Blue state govs should be ensuring their guard adjutant generals aren’t sympathetic to the fascists. I have no doubt in my mind that if the situation was reversed, red states would have already forced an armed confrontation with their national guard and/or paramilitaries. Leaders need to wake up.
As predicted by a bunch of leftwing nerds a long time ago, US policies in the Middle East have finally come home to roost
Just me but I would expect a supporter of the LGBTQ community to *not* normalize bigots like Charlie Kirk or fascists like Steve Bannon by inviting them onto your podcast to have a nice fun chat or to give oxygen to right wing shit like trans women in sports or treating the homeless like animals.
no it wasn’t and no it didn’t
Democrats should loudly let it be known right now that anyone who is carrying out corrupt orders—or illegal ones— on Trump's behalf will not be able to hide behind bureaucratic obscurity later. They will be held accountable—politically, or if needed, legally as well. newrepublic.com/article/1980...
Are they trying to radicalize the libs? Because doing dumb shit this is how you radicalize the libs.
Might be something the fucking mainstream press wants to cover too - but as we know, hideous poll numbers are only worth reporting when it’s at the expense of Dems.
What I get for not reading the article. I guess the metaphor then is for the press to throw meatballs to Republican players while going Koufax mode on the Dems?
Clearly, the metaphor play here is for Dem pitchers to intentionally throw hard, up and in to bean as many hitters as possible only to feign surprise and give sarcastic thoughts and prayers every time it happens. Manifest that Joe Kelly energy.
Hakeem should give a record breaking speech about how much he fucking sucks.
seeing a lot of people plot out new hypothetical Democrat campaign strategies, doing fantasy football shit with politicians while the fascists take over, and I say this with love, get your fucking heads out of your ass you dumb fucks
So the next President will be able to dismantle Homeland Security without Congressional approval?
Likely a projection of just how much ruling-class ass kissing he does himself.
Dems should deploy the Walz ‘weird’ talking point strategy but for calling out GOP *vice signaling* as being anti-American or anti-Human. Don’t let them run this “cruelty good, empathy bad” narrative without making them pay - pressure voters to have a “are we the baddies?” moment!
If the GOP talks about designating Antifa - not even a formal org - as a “Terrorist Organization”, then it’s way overdue for Dems to return the favor to Claremont and Heritage. Not even a tough sell, they fucking admit it. Fuck these people.
Under no fucking pretext!
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
If you use socialist as a slur you're a republican as far as I'm concerned and should be chased out of the Democratic party with pitchforks and torches
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real
