"critical theory" yeah i remember when Kamala Harris looked into the camera and said "i believe in the culture industry as proposed by Professor Theodor Adorno"
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We all know that Buttigieg is a Gramscian sleeper agent trained by his father
aug 24, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Tom Nichols is canceled.
aug 24, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s replace them with the old racist, sexist, and ableist terminology! How about “white trash” for “food insecure.”
aug 24, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
What's the problem with food insecurity...?
aug 24, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Her unbridled hatred for Jazz during the campaign was really irritating!
aug 24, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
What are we supposed to call "incarcerated people"? Jailbirds?
aug 24, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
"Inmates" was, I believe, frequently used. www.urban.org/urban-wire/p...
aug 24, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
“Prisoners” also works.
aug 25, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
The kicker is the original poster doesn't allow comments on his post. Just tell me you're for fascism, it parses better.
aug 24, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Make America Frankfurt!
aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
She said it right after her debate opponent barked about Haitians eating pets.
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey now. Tom may have been part of a political movement that turned fascist right under his very nose but we should hear what he has to say.
aug 25, 2025, 8:58 am • 0 0 • view
It would be an even bigger step forward to ignore Tom Nichols. I could get behind that.
aug 24, 2025, 6:15 pm • 7 0 • view
OK but remember when Al Gore did kind of actually say that "The first step in Germany's "descent into hell," Gore said, quoting the philosopher Theodor Adorno, was "'the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power.'"
aug 24, 2025, 6:03 pm • 95 11 • view
Twenty-five years after he ran for president, but yeah, sure.
aug 25, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
you have a lot of time to read critical theory when you’re not president
aug 25, 2025, 5:28 pm • 6 0 • view
In plain words that anyone can understand.
aug 24, 2025, 7:06 pm • 8 0 • view
The GOP and their tame media have planted in their supporters' minds the firm belief that the academic discourse of the left - which is indeed alienating to people without that training - is the day-to-day speech of Democratic politicians. It isn't: but voter perceptions matter as much as facts.
aug 24, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
like, in the grand scheme of things do i think electeds should avoid jargon? yes. but like, has anyone actually found an example of *electeds* using this language
aug 24, 2025, 5:53 pm • 68 3 • view
there was a thread going around that actually tracked political comms and most cases were republicans feeding the outrage machine lol
aug 24, 2025, 6:02 pm • 4 1 • view
.3 seconds google search produced this and many other examples of “birthing persons” used by elected bodies and then weaponized by the Right wing to paint Dems as out of touch weirdos that you can’t vote for x www.health.ny.gov/community/pr....
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
This isn't an elected body? It's an administrative office?
aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s an administrative body appointed by Democrats. Here’s an example of elected Democrats doing the same. An equally short google search could show you have the Right effectively weaponized it. council.nyc.gov/press/2022/0...
aug 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Tom has devolved to complaining about it appearing occasionally in legislation now.Caring about how something gets phrased in a bill that no deciding voter in an election will ever read is just looking for something to be mad about
aug 24, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
You’ve all gone to “it isn’t happening” to “ok, it gets used in law, but Democrats aren’t saying it and voters aren’t hearing it” in record time.
aug 24, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I do think that the distinction between rhetoric and the wording in laws is an important line to draw. Voters care about what a law does and how it is sold. I do not think how something is phrased in a law or policy proposal matter unless it changes what the law actually does
aug 24, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
They care. Democrats would be wise to stop handing effective weapons to the propagandists who use that phrasing to effectively portray Dems as weirdos that shouldn’t be near power.
aug 24, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Supposedly he has a clip of AOC saying "birthing person" once, but I think that says more about literally everybody else in the world than her.
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Warren is the easy one here? Got dragged for it at the time
aug 24, 2025, 5:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Big Structural Bailey. Third Way determined the lumpens HATE big structural Bailey
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 8 0 • view
Yes! And they found exactly what you’d expect. It’s republicans dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...
aug 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 5 1 • view
who gives a fuck? like actually who gives a fuck aside from outrage merchants and their marks? anyone else politically engaged enough to hear politicians say these things occasionally is not going to care
aug 24, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
How many times on the trail did she say “cars and driving are an important part of fascism” :(
aug 25, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I would have respected her more had she invoked critical theory 😂
aug 24, 2025, 8:52 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s a classic Democrat mistake. Reminds me of when Hilary Clinton looked into the camera and said, “I am an ardent believer in the ideology of Saul Alinsky.” Talk about a fumble!
aug 24, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 1 • view
Stuff like this is why I unfollowed him ages ago.
aug 24, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
fuck the Frankfurt School, all my homies hate the Frankfurt School
aug 24, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Guaranteed going into '26 Cracker Barrel's logo change is going to get pinned on Democrats
aug 24, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
These think tankers are a bit behind the times. Microaggression surely had its in 2015 but since 2017/18 I’ve only heard it used in a derisive manner.
aug 24, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
This is, “Make the liberal columnists of the Trump years quit annoying me,” and they have already stopped! They write about how Trump has a point on crime now.
aug 24, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 0 • view
“Coconut Tree” was code for “Critical Theory.” The line itself is a paraphrase of a line from 18th Brumaire. Coconuts grow in “hothouses.” Every American knows this.
aug 24, 2025, 6:01 pm • 24 1 • view
/s
aug 25, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
But she didn’t outright reject that nonsense either, and she should have. Would’ve earned trust with swing voters. Remember: the goal is to win. It don’t matter if you have to do ridiculous or distasteful stuff to win. You have to win.
aug 24, 2025, 6:05 pm • 4 1 • view
jfc
aug 24, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Please describe one ridiculous or distasteful thing we have to do in order to win.
aug 24, 2025, 7:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Ridiculous: go on Fox News and Joe Rogan Distasteful: moderate on climate policy Others might have other examples.
aug 24, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Q: To what end? A: Centrist dogshit
aug 24, 2025, 8:19 pm • 4 0 • view
Sir, as a centrist I am neither a dog nor a cat person. Thank you very much. What is your plan to flip TX?
aug 24, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate? (and why do all the Bluesky people avoid that question? It’s very funny, and telling.)
aug 24, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The guy everyone is excited about in Maine is campaigning against the oligarchy. Maybe big scary words aren't the problem
aug 24, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
“Latinx” lost votes “Defund the police” lost votes. You *must* know that. If not you’re out of touch.
aug 24, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
So things no one actually ran on nationally, got it.
aug 24, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
No voted for the candidate who said Haitian immigrants are eating their neighbors cats because someone once used the word "latinx" If you're going to lie this obviously, you might at least try to make it sound plausible
aug 24, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate? (telling that nobody on Bluesky seems to have an answer to that question)
aug 24, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The “swing voters” for the last couple cycles have been disaffected cranks. It’s not the terminology that’s been moving them, it’s the democrats insistence on engagement with baseline reality. It would be more advantageous to say you think the moon landing was faked than to disown niche terms.
aug 25, 2025, 4:36 am • 0 0 • view
lets check in with reality: bsky.app/profile/dcin...
aug 24, 2025, 6:42 pm • 46 0 • view
So you think Democrats should tell people to talk like humans and make a point of rejecting nonsense words like “birthing person,” “unhoused,” and “latinx”? Good. We agree! Now, let’s go win elections, me and you. ♡
aug 24, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah yes, condescending and trying to control people. That's a good look for democrats. Tell me - how many of these terms did you first hear by someone using them earnestly, and how many by a conservative complaining about liberals using them?
aug 24, 2025, 10:09 pm • 6 0 • view
Elected Dems used “defund the police” Stupid.
aug 24, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Again - where did you FIRST hear the term? And which elected dems? How many? Was it widespread? Did party platforms or policies reflect this?
aug 24, 2025, 10:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Yes, that is a stupid claim
aug 24, 2025, 10:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Fact. Google it.
aug 24, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
lol
aug 24, 2025, 10:45 pm • 6 0 • view
That term isnt on the list lmao
aug 25, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Activists started using it and many elected Democrats were tripping over each other in the rush to decry it.
aug 25, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Not loud enough. They got tarred with it. Doesn’t matter if it’s unfair. They lost. BTW, what is your plan to flip TX?
aug 25, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Health care, green energy jobs, and not buying into right-wing framing like you and Colin Allred have done.
aug 25, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I generally agree with you. But you gotta show TX voters you ain’t a lefty loon. Whether fair or not. That’s what I mean by having to do “ridiculous and distasteful stuff” - you shouldn’t have to fend off FNC propaganda, *but the propaganda works,* so unfortunately you gotta deal with it.
aug 25, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't deal with it by signaling to voters you're a fickle coward by who'll shove your own supporters under the bus at the first sign of pushback.
aug 25, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Which ones? Be specific
aug 24, 2025, 10:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Name them.
aug 25, 2025, 2:44 am • 6 0 • view
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...
aug 25, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
An article written in 2024 bringing up that in 2020 Harris said that the Defund the Police movement was right for pointing out how we are excessively funding police at the expense of schools and other public services, and more police funding doesn't mean less crime. Do you think she was wrong?
aug 25, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
She should never have associated with an obviously stupid and harmful slogan like “defund the police.” Obviously stupid. Democrats that associated themselves with stupid nonsense like that have their heads so far up their own asses they deserve to lose. Rs are criminals, wish Ds weren’t losers.
aug 25, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
How then, in your mind, should she have answered the question "What do you think of the Defund the Police movement?"
aug 25, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
We don’t deserve to lose. MGP does.
aug 25, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
You're completely captured the propaganda that being near a "bad phrase" means that Democrats support everything associated with that "bad phrase". Funny how that never happens to Republicans. They're never punished because of an association with a phrase like "they're murderers and rapists".
aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, how dare she say that we should look at priorities and maybe not buy police departments an M1-A Abrams tank and close schools. You've been played, player, and you don't even realize it. Kamala Harris did not say "defund the police". Try again.
aug 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 0 • view
She came close enough to cause herself problems
aug 25, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
"Close enough" you mean she mentioned the words. You're angry at the wrong people but it's the people that the propagandists in the media *want* you to be mad at. So they won.
aug 26, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Is cisgender a nonsense word
aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
To most people. Just say “not trans” if you want people to understand you. Perfectly good word for sociology textbooks, but people hate jargon. Drop it for most situations.
aug 25, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
nah i'm good you're cis
aug 26, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
You are asking them to not do a thing they aren't doing, and repeatedly raising the issue (that does not exist) serves only to keep it an issue
aug 24, 2025, 7:05 pm • 60 0 • view
what the fuck is these people's obsession with 'latinx'? oh, and can they point to one time Harris or Walz said it (no)?
aug 24, 2025, 8:02 pm • 11 0 • view
They shouldn't though
aug 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
jesus does it physically hurt being this fucking stupid?
aug 26, 2025, 3:25 am • 3 0 • view
Kitchen table issues, like, you know, Theodor Adorno.
aug 24, 2025, 7:40 pm • 6 0 • view
In whose name do you bless your food before your meal, if not Theodor Adorno?
aug 24, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually don’t know who that is.
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a stupid take. You don't win by standing for absolutely nothing.
aug 24, 2025, 10:41 pm • 13 0 • view
This misconstrues my views. *Elect the most progressive candidate who can win in each district.* If you are promoting candidates who can win then you are just a self loathing puritan who wants to keep losing to MAGA.
aug 24, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
"Lie to me, daddy" is a gross political position to take and will never be rewarded by progressives. Your views can grow and change but without a shred of honesty, then what exactly are we electing?
aug 24, 2025, 10:52 pm • 7 0 • view
The history of gay rights progress suggests otherwise
aug 24, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So gay rights progress came about because people didn't say "LGBTQ+"??? Buddy, gay rights progress came about because trans people were sick of being beaten up by the police and they started rioting. It came about because people dying from AIDS started getting in everyone's faces and saying...
aug 24, 2025, 11:02 pm • 5 0 • view
..."SILENCE + DEATH." Nowhere did it progress by people not pointing out the lived reality of LGBTQ+ people.
aug 24, 2025, 11:03 pm • 5 0 • view
SILENCE=DEATH, goddamnit.
aug 24, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Stonewall was a goddamn riot!! These people forget history like it's nothing.
aug 24, 2025, 11:05 pm • 5 0 • view
Are you paying attention to what's happening in this country right now or nah?
aug 24, 2025, 11:04 pm • 8 0 • view
You need to read the replies. They're not all attacking you. Many of them are trying to show you how ignorant this rhetoric is.
aug 25, 2025, 8:21 am • 5 0 • view
Excuse me? Read the replies yourself before popping off. I’ve read and replied to almost all of them. Almost none of you super hard left types answer this basic question: what is your plan to win the Senate? I”How about Arkansas? Will candidates who want to “defund the police” win there?
aug 25, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
There are no Democratic candidates saying "defund the police." There never have been. It's just a fucking troll from the right, which you are once again privileging over actual lived reality. You've absorbed the right-wing framing and accept it as true. If anyone is living in a bubble, it's you.
aug 25, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems ran on defunding the police in the mid-terms and won. Harris ran towards the cops, not away from them. She didn't run on defunding the police and she lost.
aug 25, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Harris praised the movement. Look it up.
aug 25, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
And Harris lost so great job of contradicting yourself, ya ding-dong head.
aug 25, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
My plan to win the Senate is to primary Dems who won't listen to the Base and send the winning candidates to the General. What's your plan that doesn't involve lying your face off?
aug 25, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
The people who were mad about that sort of thing were posting about how they didn't believe her when she rejected the left in other ways.
aug 24, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Some. But she lost gettable votes by being and reading as too far left.
aug 24, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
She also lost gettable votes by being and reading too far right. If your objective is to win, it's far better to compete with apathy, which has zero budget, than heavily funded fascists, just on strategy alone, without considering the moral compromise.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone who demands Democrats police their vocabulary, but has nothing wrong with Republicans spitting the most racist shit ever is not a serious person
aug 24, 2025, 9:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Agree! Who *are* these people? MAGA types? I, your *friend and ally,* have immense problems with Republicans moral depravity. Their debasement of our language and discourse. Their lies. Their abusiveness. Still—still!—Dems should do better because it is right and effective.
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
You are not a friend or ally if you are saying that Democrats have to police their language and otherwise can’t frame the conversation.
aug 24, 2025, 9:56 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t follow how helping Dems win is anti-Dem What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 24, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re not helping them win
aug 24, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
I know. The same ppl that lament how voters built up a false and rosey idea of Trump are now pretending that Democrats as a whole can’t be tarred by association with progressive culture. “Kamala didn’t say that”. I know man, but the Press and social media suck, and also Dems are a brand.
aug 25, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I think this is correct if I understand you. Media bias favors Republicans. That sucks. You still have to sell your brand even if the environment is unfair.
aug 25, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes exactly, well said.
aug 25, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
So, not only do these people expect Zohran Mamdani to condemn "globalize the intifada," ever Democrat has to condemn everything anyone left of center said ever, got it
aug 24, 2025, 7:41 pm • 16 0 • view
If it’s stupid, condemn it as a rule, yes. But I think that you have a point (implied), that Dems shouldn’t be overly defensive about manufactured controversy. (They should definitely play offense, not just defense.)
aug 24, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
If you're against "manufactured controversy," you should probably have a quiet word with this poster (I think everyone would appreciate the silence): bsky.app/profile/fuli...
aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 12 0 • view
whats "stupid" here? Zohran for all you can say about him has been THE MOST OFFENSIVE AGAINST REPUBLICANS and yet the establishment hate him?
aug 25, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Go fuck yourself.
aug 24, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
You seem like an open minded person. What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 24, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Reinforce that narrative. It's what you do apparently bsky.app/profile/doom...
aug 24, 2025, 8:24 pm • 17 0 • view
This is an explicitly anti-intellectual position.
aug 24, 2025, 7:58 pm • 6 0 • view
What the fuck are you talking about
aug 25, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 25, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
What potential Democratic voter is looking for a rejection of these things? If you are against them, why not vote Republican?
aug 24, 2025, 7:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Many voters in swing states who want better healthcare but don’t want to be condescended to or made to feel like their social values are scorned.
aug 24, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Their social values are shit and should be scorned.
aug 24, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate? How would you go about flipping TX?
aug 24, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Let the rurals suffer the consequences of the policies they voted for and not bail them out. Make voting in rural areas as difficult as possible. Every action that Republicans do should be met in kind tenfold. They are shitty people with shitty values and should get out of the way.
aug 24, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Run on punishing the corporations, the wealthy and the fraudsters. Run on more healthcare, jobs, unemployment insurance, Social Security and paid family leave.
aug 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Doubt that’s gonna flip TX. But at least you responded with a plan.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It would over time. Probably not 2026, but who knows how fragile their new maps are.
aug 24, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
“Over time” uh huh
aug 24, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. Start winning and keep winning. The only way Democrats have a chance to take back power is with big, bold, and new ideas. Play to the crowd outside the stadium, not the guys rooting for the other team.
aug 24, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Then run on better healthcare and not this anti-woke crap. You'll get a bigger coalition by offering material benefits and contrast with the GOP.
aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Not mutually exclusive
aug 24, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
But why run on the anti-woke crap? It loses voters like me and others on the left.
aug 24, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 0 • view
It helps win the middle, or at least nit lose it
aug 24, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think anyone in the middle will care about these words if you offer them better healthcare. Conversely, the voters who do care aren't going to vote for Democrats just because they stop talking about incarcerated people, racism and queer rights. The only voters these words affect are lost.
aug 24, 2025, 10:05 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t vote republican because, well, where to start! Corruption. J6. Science. Decency. Minority rights. Fiscal sanity.
aug 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Reject what? When was she supposed to do that
aug 25, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
*eye roll* Stfu, weirdo
aug 26, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
"In order to win we must let Republicans control the words we are allowed to say" Do you hear yourself?
aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 53 0 • view
You are going to get roasted for this take and you will deserve it.
aug 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 2 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 25, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, that’s why she lost. Not because America is sexist and racist with a terrible electoral system.
aug 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 6 0 • view
"It don’t matter if you have to do ridiculous or distasteful stuff to win." You are what's wrong with America. Doesn't matter Right, Left or center, THIS is bullshit and if that is truly your mindset, you should be ashamed.
aug 25, 2025, 2:52 am • 2 0 • view
If you just want to be a hard left puritan then you’re not taking the situation seriously. I want a better life for my family. What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 25, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
Explain 2020 when left wing activism and talking points were even more visible
aug 24, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
So weird that you use right wingers framing for the reason she lost and that this is the real conversation to have when every white nationalist, white supremacist and racist clamored to have Trump elected. They should be punished.
aug 24, 2025, 8:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh I agree with punishing these MAGA fascist broligarch assholes. Which is *why* I want to be smart and win. What is *your* plan to win the Senate?
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The plan should be to stop playing by republican’s rules. The message is really, really simple and you don’t have to give air to ANY of their grievances. That entire third way list of “bad words” were republicans claiming Dems were saying them when they hardly were!
aug 24, 2025, 10:53 pm • 3 0 • view
The message you promote here is a good one! Very, very good! I agree. I humbly suggest this should be complimented by *also* not saying stupid shit that ordinary people find repellent.
aug 24, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
such as
aug 24, 2025, 11:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Do you sincerely think swing voters, the dumbest people in the electorate, are informed enough and paying enough attention to decide their vote based on who is or isn't using terms like "critical theory" and "cultural appropriation"? Or can you just admit to projecting your own anti-left views?
aug 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 80 1 • view
You're aware she would have to spend the entire campaign denouncing the latest word someone had claimed Dems were using?
aug 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree that Dems shouldn’t be played like puppets. It’s a balance. But signals matter. You can demonstrate you’re not a crazy leftist puritan without being defensive, I think.
aug 24, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
If it helps clarify the balance, someone with an archive of mailouts confirmed these were, bar one or possibly two, all words republicans whined about, not words that democrats used. This is not a game you can win by playing.
aug 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 3 0 • view
In the mean time, trying to prove I am now like my opponent is not actually a great way to get my supporters or my opponents' to vote for me.
aug 24, 2025, 8:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Elected Dems used “defund the police” and we deserved to lose because that shit is STUPID
aug 24, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Thing is, if we look at a campaign that is actually succeeding at the moment you may notice the guy is only willing to talk about what he *does* stand for, not what he doesn't. As well as staying on topic, this does involve actually standing for things.
aug 24, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 is happy with the outcome, or want to be absolved of their part in his reelection. May they all rot in hell. No amount of coddling by Democrats will convert them to the righteous cause.
aug 24, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
So you give up and want to lose? You don’t want to try to win??
aug 24, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
No. Kamala Harris was a mainstream Democrat, as was Biden, as was Hillary, as was Obama. What message do you think is going to appeal to Trump voters that won't alienate Democrats?
aug 24, 2025, 10:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Harris had one if the most left voting records in the Senate if not the most. Biden governed as the most liberal president since FDR
aug 24, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember: swing voters don’t exist. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Swing voters are the least informed voters. The margin was so thin that it didn't matter what she did (i.e. run a centrist campaign), the media landscape branded her as a radical. Maybe low-info voters will always see a Black woman as a radical, no matter what her policies are...
aug 24, 2025, 11:11 pm • 5 0 • view
no, for the same reason nobody gives a shit if she actually said "critical theory is good" nobody would give a shit if she said "critical theory is bad." it's dumb bullshit made up by her opponents for stupid people. have some self respect lol
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Are the "swing voters" in the room with you right now?
aug 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 8 0 • view
You're just a maga fuck who doesn't like Trump's aesthetics
aug 25, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Hahaha. No, I am on your team, actually. What is your plan to flip TX?
aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
If the goal is to win maybe the stupid "chasing the Rs right and validating their every insane brainfart" bullshit the Dems have been doing for decades that has absolutely obliterated the party and got us Trump might be a thing to *stop* doing
aug 25, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Which leftist candidate have one red states? All the purple state govs and senators are centrists.
aug 25, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
"The Dems run as far right as they can and actively sabotage and undermine any candidate to the left of Nancy Pelosi" "Oh yeah well then where's all the left wing state governors?!" Do you iron your brain every night before you go to bed?
aug 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"We have to show the tumblr users who's boss" is how you get Brianna Wu.
aug 26, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
This is nonsensical. You simply don't understand the strength of the GOP outrage machine that amplifies comments by random people - or just makes them up entirely If Harris rejected every one, she'd never say anything else, & you'd say she didn't give enough reasons for people to vote for her
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 11 0 • view
IKR! So much manufactured outrage! So, oh, I agree and I think I do understand. (The Sydney Sweeney foofaraw is a recent example.) you have a fair point! But I *still* think it makes sense to demonstrate that Dems aren’t crazy by rejecting nonsensical stuff. Ans elected Dems haven’t done that.
aug 24, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Name one elected Democrat that commented on the original Sydney Sweeney ad (not the controversy after FOX talked about it incessantly for days)
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 pm • 9 0 • view
The Democrats will never be able to out fascist a fascist. Nobody believes them when they do that. Nobody believes that a chest thumping democrat rejecting wokeness at the top of the lungs will ever do so more effectively than any random republican.
aug 25, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
Who is arguing they should go fascist??? What is your plan to flip TX?
aug 25, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s implied in what you’re saying. You want them to move to the right, to appeal to the same bigotry and stupidity that Republicans do. And they will never be effective at that. No one will believe that. So if that’s the plan to flip Texas that’s not gonna work either.
aug 25, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
You didn’t answer the question. None of the hard left puritans on Bluesky answer the question: because you have no plans. In no way does “moderate” and don’t use “stupid woke lingo” equate to go full fascist or even Republican. Just nominate sane candidates that can flip districts.
aug 25, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
"Just nominate sane candidates that can flip districts." The whole point of gerrymandering is to make this basically impossible. TX fascists have a lock on power. Probably better to focus on overwhelming voter turnout than hoping that a white racist will be impressed with your anti-wokeness.
aug 25, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
No they don’t. You can’t gerrymander the whole state. What is your plan to flip the state? You don’t seem to care to try. I would like to win elections. That’s better for people’s lives than being a hard left puritan.
aug 25, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh and you care based on what, your posts here? The plan is the same, because that lock on power is also maintained through voter suppression. Purging the rolls, intimidating voters, and so on. Ken Paxton bragged that Trump would have lost TX without him doing exactly that.
aug 25, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
But you didn't say "don't use." You said it had to be specifically condemned. Which is to give into right-wing framing that this "lingo" is everywhere, when it isn't. It ends up being advice to out-right the right, which cannot be done. It wasn't necessary for Biden to win in 2020 during peak woke.
aug 25, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
No. The goal isn't to win. The goal is human rights for everyone.
aug 24, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Not only should Dems not say those words, they should talk about not saying those words. Without saying them.
aug 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
“Why didn’t Harris explicitly reject a social theorist who died in 1969?” is the sort of question that should answer itself, yet here you are.
aug 24, 2025, 6:38 pm • 152 1 • view
The logical conclusion is black dems should just run as far left as possible
aug 24, 2025, 6:48 pm • 20 0 • view
She lost becsuse of people like you who think that it s ok to treat people like idiots or outright lie to them. On their defense they usually get paid a lot of money to do so, doing it for the love of the game like you is kind of insane.
aug 24, 2025, 7:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Your and @radiofreetom.bsky.social the Republican's white-supremacist "have we tried appeasing the fascists?" strategy saw @kamalaharris.com waste billions to lose all 3 elected bodies of government in the most winnable election in a century. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gets landslides on no cash.
aug 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 13 0 • view
If anything, this was the least winnable election for Democrats since WWII. bsky.app/profile/jbur...
aug 24, 2025, 7:42 pm • 7 0 • view
It's adorable you seem to think that doesn't have anything to do with the positions said ruling parties chose to offer, and instead seem to be suggesting that its the result of alien lasers or something.
aug 25, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Conservatives lost in the UK. Democrats lost in the US. Their policies weren’t very similar. A lot of dissatisfaction with governments in 2024 was due to post-COVID inflation and global instability.
aug 25, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Both fully supported the Zionist white-supremacist colonial genocide and attacked trans rights. If you're going to be this vague in your support of your nebulous argument, why fucking bother? Are you always this lazy in your thinking?
aug 26, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
IDK, the economy was actually pretty good and Trump is terrible. Seems winnable with candidates who are a better fit for the country (Bashear, Whitmer, Shapiro - not far left candidates who lack strength as communicators (Biden, Harris))
aug 24, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
You should read this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
aug 25, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you really think that Biden and Harris are far-left candidates?
aug 25, 2025, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Relative to red states we need to flip, yes. They are the farthest left candidates for prez in recent history. More far left than any other elected president.
aug 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Really? More left than FDR? Jimmy Carter? Have you ever been outside the USA?
aug 25, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
ok, so Biden and Harris are far left in your opinion. good to know that your brain is made from literal shit.
aug 24, 2025, 8:05 pm • 16 0 • view
The economy was pretty good, but voters felt the economy was bad because of inflation.
aug 24, 2025, 8:47 pm • 4 0 • view
True. Still a winnable election.
aug 24, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
No it wasnt
aug 25, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
Compare Harris as a communicator to Trump. Trump has only ever beaten 2 women candidates. One had been subjected to 40+ years of misogynistic media calumny. The other had to play catchup but the misogynoir was fresh and plentiful. But “Latinx” amirite?? Stupid takes abound here.
aug 24, 2025, 8:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Biden and Harris are far left to you? That’s crazy
aug 25, 2025, 7:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh ffs 🤦🏼♀️
aug 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 3 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate?
aug 25, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
Well first, I wouldn’t sell out minorities (gender, race, ethnicity) to pander to conservatives with the hope that they’ll vote for us - they won’t.
aug 25, 2025, 11:23 am • 2 0 • view
You didn’t answer the question. Shouldn’t you want the most progressive candidate who can win to be elected? What views does that candidate hold in, say, Arkansas?
aug 25, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
They should hold the same views wherever they are. I don’t think a progressive is going to win over the cousin fuckers in Arkansas by pandering and if they do change their tune to try and win over with the cousin fuckers, then they’re going to lose their base.
aug 25, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
We once had a DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT from ARKANSAS. Recently! You know what he didn’t do? Call voters “cousins fuckers.” Which evidences poison if the mind and the soul. Reexamine your heart and your brain, because *you,* ma’am are part of the problem. Condescending out of touch hard leftists like you.
aug 25, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
But Trump calls voters names.
aug 25, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. And I’m just using ridiculous language because that dude is a pompous little tool.
aug 25, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I know but clearly calling voters names us a winner thing to do.
aug 25, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. Trump is terrible. An abomination. Don’t be like Trump.
aug 25, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Im confused as to what you are advocating for now. My rep is the leader of the blue dogs. Flipped my red district in 2022. :/ the sacrifices I knew about were Guns, Environment including and especially the endangered species act. Didn’t sacrifice: trans rights.
aug 25, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Bill Clinton hasn’t been president in decades, that’s not recently. You’re right, I should call them sibling fuckers given the Duggars live there. Alas, it turns out the entire premise that you’re defending is bullshit: bsky.app/profile/jona...
aug 25, 2025, 12:24 pm • 3 0 • view
You seem like an extremist, and not very nice. I want to win elections. Not be a hard left puritan.
aug 25, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a registered republican, lmao. And I’m no extremist. I was the vote for Harris no matter what because I don’t want a bloody fascist in office, but that doesn’t mean that the Dem candidate should throw trans people, gay people, brown people, black people, or women under the bus to get GOP votes
aug 25, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
“Centrists”: The easiest way to win is to WANT to lose, and then guarantee it by dissatisfying everyone. Checkmate vertebrates 🐒
aug 24, 2025, 6:46 pm • 10 0 • view
Is that the goal? Win what exactly?
aug 24, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Power in order to advance good policy. You want more healthcare for more people? Minority rights? Climate policy? Win the Senate.
aug 24, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh. Which candidates are running on that stuff right now?
aug 24, 2025, 7:39 pm • 7 0 • view
Dems are uniformly better than Rs on all of those issues and it ain’t even close.
aug 24, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view
You are not answering the question I asked which concerns specifics, what you are saying here is generalities. So that would be you can't think of any candidates or even leaders who are doing anything like that either huh? Why is that you think?
aug 24, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Gosh, I think any of the likely and quality candidates in 2028, for instance, are good and far better than Rs on these issues. Whitmer. Bashear. Butedgeig. Pritzger. Shaprio. All.
aug 24, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Again you keep talking in generalities, which ones are running on actual laws, legislation, platforms and policies? When they have power, have they done any of that stuff?
aug 24, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
You're right, you SHOULD do distasteful things to win. Which is why people like you should shut the fuck up and get behind the progressive candidates who are actually WINNING instead of wishcasting a centrist administration that wouldn't meet the moment. Remember: the goal is to win.
aug 24, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Nonsense?? You know what's nonsense? Trying to appeal to the mythical 'swing voters'. They don't exist. They're really Republicans who will always vote Republican no matter how much time Dems waste on them. All that's accomplished is turning off Dem voters who end up not going to the polls.
aug 25, 2025, 8:01 am • 3 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate? How would you flip TX? Sounds to me you just want to be a hard left puritan and never compromise.
aug 25, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
If you look back at recent history & current climate,trying to 'a woo' the moderates/swing voters lost Dems House,Senate, & WH.Progressive or "hard left" voters stayed away from the polls bc they are tired of Dems efforts on the same people who will never vote Dem anyway.It's a sunk cost fallacy.
aug 25, 2025, 12:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I think you are incorrect. Look at all the Dem senators and governors in red and purple states: none of them are hard left extremist types. I think you just *want* this to be the strategy that works because you believe in far left positions.
aug 25, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Why should I have to sacrifice voting rights?
aug 25, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re not listening. My advice to you is to nominate the most progressive candidate *who can win*
aug 25, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The shittiest part is, I can see the bitter anger in her representation of representing Vancouver not BC Washington not DC Clark County not NE Across from Portland not ME. She hates her most populous city and we can tell!!
aug 25, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
She plays it like the country folk have real concerns and we don’t.
aug 25, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
My rep is MGP. I am allowed to be pissed at my democrat and even recommending unifying around hating her to both of the factions since she has all the hatable traits to leftists and normie dems.
aug 25, 2025, 1:06 pm • 2 0 • view
She makes me feel sick. And I feel moral anguish because of her. It isn’t about purity. I would happily trade for Marcy Kaptur.
aug 25, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Give me a Jim Costa. Give me any of the democrats who arent from Texas or Maine.
aug 25, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
She is good! More like her please! Better than the alternative by far!
aug 25, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I like how she talks like us… but go to 25 seconds. watch for 45 seconds from there. :( if she didn’t seem to hate us first. youtu.be/7LvhUHKYupI?...
aug 25, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
The alternative is serving in national office you dipshit!
aug 25, 2025, 1:30 pm • 3 0 • view
They're either Progessive or they're not. People are sick of the status quo leftover from the Reagan Era Dems, i.e. New Democrats... who for 45 yrs have enabled the Republicans in their endeavours to get the US to where it is at this moment in history.
aug 25, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I like “new Democrats” and would be happy to have one. My rep is the leader of the Blue Dogs.
aug 25, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Blue Dog coalition sounds a lot like the New Dems that came into being in the 1990's who claimed to have progressive policies, which turned out to be more nonsense from a bunch of neoliberals.
aug 25, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
What kind of candidates are winning statewide in purple and red states? Whitmer Bashear Shapiro Kelly Galleago Etc. The evidence is not aligned with what is in lefty Bluesky hearts. Median voter theory is aligned with the evidence.
aug 25, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
But those people are all to the left of MGP…
aug 25, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Gallego & Kelly are my state senators.They won bc they ran unopposed.They were the only choices for voters like me who would never vote GOP & for who not voting is not an option.This is a common problem for Dem voters when we have little choice.They suck & I hope they get primaried.They're GOP-lite
aug 25, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not bc my logic is based on empricial evidence. But if you think the Dem Party continuing on the same trajectory that wants to keep 'a wooing' voters who will only end up voting Republican or Independent anyway... is finally going to win Dems elections... OK. 🧵
aug 25, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 0 • view
But... factoring this into that great American tradition of Republican voters who vote to screw the 'other' guy... that 'swing voter' strategy is a lose/lose. 🤦🏽♂️
aug 25, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I prefer to stake the future on empirical evidence, rather than far left hopes and dreams. I want my life to get better.
aug 25, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Empirical evidence is showing that Dem strategy of trying to appeal to 'swing voters' at the cost of progressive/left voters isn't working. Hopefully,Dems win in upcoming elections. But it will be bc🍊 & the entire GOP is so freaking evil that even my golden retriever could beat them in an election.
aug 25, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s the only that has worked in red and purple states. You just don’t want that to be true, I think.
aug 25, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
It has literally obliterated the Dems and turned a number of blue states purple and purple states red. You people would rather lose with your right wing bullshit than win
aug 25, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
You're high.
aug 25, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Nonsense?? You know what's nonsense? Trying to appeal to the mythical 'swing voter'. What a crock of shit.
aug 25, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
So your idea of building trust is to either throw anyone but straight white men under the bus or to lie that you will. Are you sure the electorate that finds that appealing is going to think Trump is going to do that less or more?
aug 24, 2025, 8:01 pm • 12 0 • view
why don’t you just actually advocate what you believe instead of passing it off onto other imaginary voters
aug 24, 2025, 6:28 pm • 59 0 • view
In general I think people *should* advocate what they believe rather than arguing for taking positions for electoral reasons. But in at this time the discussion is about strategy. That said, are you suggesting that I am hiding what I “actually believe” I assure you, I am not.
aug 24, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
So you think everyone should stop saying any of the words on that list? Or just that Harris should've said that everyone should stop saying the words on that list?
aug 25, 2025, 4:16 pm • 4 0 • view
That reminds me, I need to have “And exactly what the fuck do you know about winning, you little collaborator shit” put on a macro or something
aug 24, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Why doesn’t this apply to right wing politicians who (these days) never ever disavow even the furthest fringes of their base? Trump is out there repeating racist tripe about Haitian immigrants eating housecats, but Kamala should have shat on anyone who adds additional letters onto “LGBT”?
aug 24, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh my god shut the fuck up
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 12 0 • view
What is your plan to win the Senate? How do you plan to flip TX?
aug 24, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I am sure every republican voter is waiting with bated breath for dems to use the right language
aug 24, 2025, 6:22 pm • 7 0 • view
You're a ridiculous moron
aug 24, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
"You haven't explicitly disclaimed this thing I'm hoping I can force you to talk about because it gets you off message" is the bullshit game the fascist enablers want to make Democrats play. Don't play that game.
aug 25, 2025, 2:42 am • 7 0 • view
That’s true, sometimes this is a trap. Usually it’s a trap. But there is a way to reject garbage ideas like “defund the police” and win respect and trust.
aug 25, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
It's always a trap and furthermore it's always used by the media to work very hard to drive a wedge in the Democratic coalition. If she "disclaims" it then the media will talk endlessly about how that means that "Democrats are in disarray". The narrative must be fed & the narrative is "Dems bad"
aug 25, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re out of touch with reality.
aug 24, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
If you were on the street confronting masked agents, or standing outside courtrooms protesting, or pushing into ICE facilities, or throwing sandwiches or doing ANYTHING helpful no one woukd give a flying fuck if you used any or all of those words.
aug 25, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, that's it right there.
aug 25, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This guy sucks. @radiofreetom.bsky.social
aug 24, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m a Democrat and I want to hear these words more. If they shy away from them, I think they are weak and cowardly.
aug 24, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view