Himbo, strongman, G L O B E Chapter Lead of the Twin Cities New Liberals. Pro-liberalism, anti-"I'm too good for everything" cynicism.
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The downside of Trump's ability to promise to hunt Glonzo in getting elected is that he can't actually hunt Glonzo and then pisses everyone off constantly once in power, which is exactly what we saw his first administration, except he wasn't allowed to crash the economy the first time.
In theory, yes, these should be two different things, but I think the path of least resistance out of our current issues with young men is building up a social approval of a masculinity defined by mature stoicism without parsing the semantics too deeply.
On an unrelated note, I'm a wife guy now. I love my wife.
Also, per the media theories of Will Stancil, whether Trump is dead or not is less important than getting the vibes and zeitgeist fully unified around him being old, weak, and cognitively compromised (a la the Biden treatment), which is best done with mass jovial, circus-like memeing.
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
It helps that this shutdown would be happening as tariffs/revoking of De Minimis start absolutely hammering Americans and the message can be "No funding until the illegal tariffs that are increasing your prices are revoked."
The reason I rebalanced my portfolio to be international and avoid US stocks is not because I think the next 3.5 years will be bad; it's because this admin is setting us up for decades of slow destruction, from which other countries will benefit by our brain/capital drain.
If we truly have empathy for people in rural areas, we should actually build housing and public transit to support more density in cities so they can leave.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
I mean, we're technically a minority within Harris voters. Probably evidence that it's a radical proposition which feels completely normalized in our online social space, even if incomprehensible to outsiders. Still think we're right, though.
The amount of “Harris would have won if she simply *thing I watched her do on national television.*” I…smacks of gender like I just got hit by a Mack truck.
If you think Elon can make the LLM proclaim itself to be MechaHitler but can't make/isn't willing to make it so Nazi content is in front of you more often and non-Nazi content less often, like IDK man.
Feeling very good about my decision to move my 401k to international, non-US funds of various kinds. Even talking about this will cause like 10-30 years of persistent economic damage, on top of tariffs doing the same.
Is it blatant favoritism if its existence is proscribed in the party bylaws, and those bylaws predate the endorsements? The rules were in no way changed mid-stream here. They are being followed, as they would be if the same process endorsed Frey!
Buddy, I had people who were delegates at this convention, and followed it live in the group chat; it was an unmitigated shitshow that cannot be concluded to have accurately decided a winner, and this was clear loooong before anyone got the endorsement.
If this exact same process had happened and Frey had gotten the endorsement, the exact same thing would be happening right now, because this was so obviously botched. I have friends who were at the convention; they live blogged the shitshow in our group chat.
Also, not exclusive to women; plenty of dudes basically want the same thing, but it gets coded entirely different.
Definitionally, they already have, you just don't like them and are trying to wish cast some Dem version of the Silent Majority into being.
Most anti-crime people just want to see the cities taken over, the people there punished for being city people and liberals, and they don't care about the 'crime' and never did
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
Beneath my laughs are the screams.
Yeah...
Sort of? Like, society was more racist and homophobic in 1996 (see surveys on attitudes regarding gay and interracial marriage), but you didn't have a whole lot of 14 words honest-to-God Nazis who made it their public personality.
It was more conservative in aggregate, even as the conservatives were less white nationalist (but almost certainly more racist overall, oddly). Something close to a majority of voters in 1996 probably also voted for Reagan in 1984.
Chat, is insulting older voters as being beneath participation in our society a winning electoral strategy?
I think people also forget that the country used to be dramatically more conservative, and bipartisanship/triangulation was the right decision *at that time* Like, in the 1996 election, 85% of registered voters were white vs 69% (nice) in 2020, and the whites were worse in every way in 1996!
What annoys me about all of these "Democrats need to FIGHT!" think pieces and segments is that Democrats *are* fighting & we see evidence of it broadly and daily. What ppl want is for Democrats not just to fight but to fully stop all of this and like, sorry!, they cant for now. Voters saw to that.
I haven't tried this, but you know, I'm intrigued enough to try. Energy levels are high, keeps the mood fun, but I might start dancing slightly more disruptively than when listening to girlpop.
Yeah, the leftists I like are almost universally people who believe in a high trust society (and downstream of that voted Harris), and the leftists I don't like are almost universally trolls who clearly hold the idea of a high trust society in contempt (and thus wanted Trump to get elected).
I am in Minneapolis and will burn what PTO must be burned to call ICE/red-state NGs a bunch of pathetic nerds to their face at a protest.
Apropos of nothing, remember how Orban's Hungary has a terrible birth rate because it turns out having conmen trying to establish authoritarianism in your country suppresses the desire to have children? Regardless of how much they talk about how the volk owe children to the Fatherland?
I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country. And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side. Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.
If we're going to argue that systems are defined by outcomes which necessitate the failure of their key tenants as facilitated by rent-seekers, I'm pretty sure socialism isn't coming out ahead here.
Massive, uneven capital accumulation is really only possible through conditions of non-zero *economic* profit and creates a class of rent-seekers, which is a. illiberal and b. caused by a lack of market competition. But issues with rent-seeking is hardly an issue only capitalism deals with.
The core contradiction here is that capitalism simultaneously means "a system of unrestrained capital accumulation" and "a system which prizes competitive markets and minimizing government intervention, as possible" depending on the context, but these are mutually exclusive definitions.
I am mostly curious as to what is happening that made this malignant narcissist acknowledge his own mortality.
I suppose this is a version of "every regulation is written in blood" which posits that every social event which overlaps with BDSM, no matter how much or little, carcinizes towards consent/boundaries seminar intros as a consequence of sexual assault.
I assumed every BDSM party had the section where the hosts make you affirmatively promise you know what consent is before the party, but I guess I've only been to good BDSM parties. Terrifying lapses of judgement in this article, holy shit.
People really need this whole situation in Texas to be both a total failure and an elemental betrayal because they have totally absorbed the Republican framing of the entire American political project and the Dems actually Doing Something threatened that.
An incredibly common thing online is seeing a news story presented as an example of Liberals Doing Liberal Shit and then doing a five second google search to confirm that the person Doing said Shit is a registered republican.
Also, old people in areas with less access to reliable transportation, which is to say the rural olds, AKA the GOP's strongest soldiers.
Like, as a dude planning to be a parent and male mentor figure, yes, I do that, but also a lot of young men are driven by the desire to get laid and we should not dismiss women weaponizing that against fascism.
Corollary: if you are arguing your need to pathologcally dunk on any specific Dem is downstream of needing to prevent them having the primary locked in, you're lying to yourself or this website and you should reconsider.
Doing something I call "No Vice September" again this year, but I'm adding social media scrolling and short form video content to the list this year (in addition to classics like coffee, weed, alcohol, porn, etc).
"We can harness discontent for left wing purposes" is a worthy theory in 2008, but idk how you still cling to that in 2025. Selling pure discontent has benefited the Right more than anything.
2 things that are currently abundantly true: 1. Trump and Co are absolutely planning to make the US, at minimum, a Hungary-style competitive authoritarian country 2. They do not currently have the means to pull it off, as long as we, the people, keep pushing back and backing Dems who feel likewise.
I especially like when people are like "people are saying we can't criticize [person]" when 90% of the time, people are just asking why you're bothering spending your time and energy on litigating the 2028 primary when you could be doing literally anything else.
Rubio is a weasel and it's right to dunk on him, but this tonal difference from Trump actually does speak volumes in a good way. Trump is a rotting corpse with an empty mind, but at least some members of the admin don't want to tie themselves so closely to the sinking Russian ship.
like, this is problem with predictions — in either direction — about trump accomplishing a totalitarian takeover, he’s unpopular already, falling fast, and will start falling much faster as all of these moves start biting. produce jumping through the roof is only the beginning.
Well, at least that increases the odds he moves in the direction of Ukraine to soothe his wounded ego.
He is a Dem, Dems voted for him in the primary, Dems are overwhelmingly endorsing him (cue leftists citing Jeffries and Schumer as literally the only Dems to ever exist), and your average Dem who follows anything about NYC politics wants him to win. What the fuck are you talking about?
The single biggest exception here is NIMBYs (which is a form of rent-seeker imo), who become more Dem-leaning even as the party is definitely becoming less NIMBY friendly, and explains a big part of what's wrong with CA.
A big part of this is that the coalitional elements of the Dems that were vaguely left-coded rent-seekers overlap heavily with the parts that left the party to become MAGA GOP. The most rent-seeking union groups, like longshoremen, are some of the hardest right-turning ones.
I maintain that the second largest cleavage in Dem politics today (behind fight-no fight) is anti-rent seeking vs vaguely left-coded rent-seeking. Mamdani is the former, while NY and CA politics are chock full of the latter, but I don't think NY Dems as a whole will be pathologically opposed to him
This, but inconsistently. Stephen Miller genuinely believes if he can purge the brown people and cut off the funding of the Cathedral, the Dems will whither away to the new Reich. JD Vance, Kash Patel, etc are acting like they're trying to use as much taxpayer money to get whatever they can, fast.
Also, I would check every box here except Italian, then need to type in like 3 more. We're a nation of absolute mutts (laudatory).
Need him tried for treason, hanged until dead, bones left on hanging in display in DC until they whither away. Will settle for prison.
And if/when they do endorse Mamdani, will you update your priors? I'm personally guessing you and everyone else harping on this will not reflect, even for a minute, on if your whole internal model of Dems that you use to bash on them for internet clout is maybe wrong.
Yes, which is happening based on endorsements/polling in NYC. But if the DSA candidate lost and then wanted to continue running, what then? Exactly what I said would happen.
I'm sure this wouldn't be railed against by all the same people as a way to suppress the DSA and enforce the duopoly. Oh wait, that's exactly what would happen.
We're not actually even talking about NYC politics here, is my point. The original post is using the NYC mayoral race as a convenient tool to grind axes against federal Dems while ignoring what's actually happening in NYC. So yeah, I'm going to point out that's bullshit.
My business is telling wreckers to fuck off. So fuck off.
"These two Dems haven't endorsed Mamdani on MY timeline, so I will ignore every other Dem who was endorsed Mamdani to foam at the mouth about how much I hate Dems." Fucking wrecker-ass bullshit. I'm going to bed; fuck off and have a good night.
I am, in fact, demanding every serious Dem in NYC vote for Mamdani instead of the sex pest, the corrupt former cop, and whatever festering wound of a soul the GOP is running. I'm just not attaching that to grievances with federal Dems for clout. Pay attention.
Dude, for all we know they have endorsements that will be rolled out to maximize the advantage closer to the election, like a competent campaign would do (and the Mamdani campaign is clearly competent). To my earlier point, you don't care about the NYC mayoral race; you care about your grievances.
Their endorsements do not matter half as much as the actual, on-the-ground politicians who have endorsed. And for fuck's sake, if Bill Clinton endorsing Mamdani didn't make Cuomo drop out, Jeffries and Schumer wouldn't magically do it either. Just taking a grievance and backfilling the argument here
Cool. How does this translate into a reflection of NYC Dems not embracing the Mamdani campaign outside of your acknowledged grievances and dislike of those politicians? It doesn't. You have to ignore a million other, more relevant endorsements to bring it up, which is why it's bad faith.
I agree with the point on NY Dem overrepresentation in leadership, but also fuck this bad faith bullshit, I'm sick of it.
And? The overwhelming majority of Dems in NYC have endorsed Mamdani, Cuomo is running third party not Dem, and Federal Dems being brought up for "haha, dunk on dems for clout" BS is endemic of a larger problem with the online left.
So we're in agreement. You just want to grind axes against Federal Dems you don't like, and you don't give a single shit about actual local politics in NYC. Thank you for clarifying.
He's not running as a Dem, though, and I highly doubt all the DSA fan boys actually want the Dems to control access to the ballot for ostensibly third parties who run in Dem primaries.
So you skip all the actual NYC local Dem politicians and Congresspeople endorsing to talk about Jeffries? Wow, I see how much you care about NYC politics as opposed to grinding random anti-Dem axes.
email jobs and the existence of hr are a vast achievement of human civilization and the weird masculinity/leftist discourse about them is actively poisonous and reactionary
"But the Trump Admin will just only cut money for urban areas/blue states" If they had even an inkling of the problem, maybe, but let's face it, like the ruraloids themselves, their representatives in Washington are convinced "it's those darned Blacks who need Medicaid, not good White rural areas."
This 100% true, but also the reason the impending disaster of the OBBB will absolutely decimate ruraloids economically AND psychologically. Ruraloids about to take unsustainable psychic damage as all their subsidized services collapse, but the urban services continue to function.
I lived in New York (Astoria) and decided it was simply not for me because of the cost of living. Build more apartments, you nerds. That said, it's a cool city and I begrudge no one who likes it. Also, talk shit about Minneapolis and I WILL take you down to a lake and show you a pleasant day.
Everyone who works on this should be purged by the next lib president with the same thoroughness the current administration purged women and black people from the top of the military.
lab grown things are going to change the world. given that there will be a fetishization of "naturalness" to rival the organic boom, we are going to need to be out front in defending the synthetic. which i do not think many people here are capable of doing
If not that, they think they will capitulate for 3-4 years, then pretend they were resisting through means opaque to us plebians when it's over. We need to make sure collaborators face destitution.
Ok, but like, wouldn't you need *both* for the latter? Renewable energy is a must if you don't want massive energy costs or future energy instability. We need France's nuclear grid x 100 or we'll end up like German manufacturing (very good, but increasingly crippled by bad energy infra decisions).
A lot of institutions in blue states will come out fine-ish. Basic reasoning is that pairing massive cuts in every public service with trying to secure leverage over public services are counter-productive exercises, especially the less the service depends on fed dollars vs state dollars.
And? You don't need to be running a campaign to be contributing to the zeitgeist, and a zeitgeist that says "well, at least I can always shit on Dems for clout cuz I'm just a smol bean UwU" is exactly what got us here. I'm under no obligation not to call it out as bullshit for your comfort.
I mean, sure, but it depends on the energy distribution. If 50% of your energy right now is dedicated to litigating a primary 3 years away instead of relentlessly attacking our current fascist government, you are at minimum sus as hell.
Fuck the bastards.
Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power? Revenge is very much something that we can do.
Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.
For non-meal prep, I've had good experiences with lemon chicken thigh over lentils, salt + pepper salmon over white rice + lentils base, and I've seen a lot of good beans+lentils recipes, but my body doesn't do beans well. Oh, and sautéed potatoes + lentil "salad" (salt, garlic, paprika, mayo)
My go-to is 1/2 cup brown rice (cooked 90 min), 1 cup lentils + 1 cup beef broth (heat brought to med and reduced to low, 30 min), 1.5 cups cottage cheese (added just before removing heat) + Thai chili powder, salt, and garlic powder, which is lunch for 2 days. (I eat 250g protein/day)
Lentils. Been doing a lot with lentils lately because of the high protein/fiber, low cost, and ease of cooking (not much more difficult than pasta). Can be combined with all manner of meat, cheese, veggies, mostly ends up tasting like the seasoning and other ingredients, tbh.
At some point Trump will die, and with him his coalition, at which point most of the low social-trust voters the GOP is cultivating will shrug and stop voting (assuming things don't get bad enough they all start pretending they never voted for him in the first place).
I want Democrats who understand that the goal is to lay waste to Trump, his toadies, his movement, and his party, and that after you’ve done that you can turn the country over to the survivors and they can quibble over how to fund the social safety net with less-than-existential stakes
my brother if you are struggling to get laid in 2025 and you think you'd do better in a world where women are even more aggressively shamed for expressing their sexuality and also don't have access to birth control i don't know what to tell you.
And making young men be less shitheaded is primarily the work of current older and middle-aged men, though various forms of being role-models and enforcers of social norms. In short, we must be the Pub Guys, which is not always fun and is sometimes a drag, but by God we have to do it.
It's a problem in the sense that "young men do a lot of crime and do way more crime when socially ostracized," to which the solution is not some variant of "state-mandated girlfriends," but instead "figure out how to make young men be less shitheaded for many reasons, which will get them laid."
I am quite glad I moved all my retirement accounts to international, non-US index funds of various kinds, tbh.
"It's Woke To Make A Judgement Of My Personality Based On My Actions And Should Be Illegal" Many such cases
"I lead an elite institution. Surely, I cannot be a rube."
I don't know if they're betting on a thousand-year Trumpenreich or that mollifying Trump will only be temporary and then everyone will forget their cowardice, but either way, our job is to punish every elite group/institution that collaborates in perpetuity.
we've been through this before but "emotional labor" is, like, the added exhaustion a female waitress endures when she is sexualized or talked down to by customers. it's not being nice to people. you should be doing that anyway!
Based.