I don't like the person the Trump era has turned me into but i'm not going to die defending the humanity of these people, they can fucking earn it.
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One of the most sacred adages of the online left is Fuck respectability norms, put some hate in your heart- and rural racists who voted overwhelmingly for Trump couldn't be a more perfect outlet!!!
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 7 1 • view
build massive amounts of housing and transit so the people willing to live in the present can escape, the rest made their choice
aug 26, 2025, 9:00 pm • 59 3 • view
Alright, but how exactly would you do that, under the conditions you describe in your thread?
aug 26, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view
authoritarian YIMBY liberalism
aug 26, 2025, 9:20 pm • 18 1 • view
kept honest by a robust and active American left
aug 26, 2025, 9:20 pm • 15 1 • view
“It’s gonna be great when WE get to do it, with no bad and unintended consequences (and of COURSE no dishonesty)!” God save us …
aug 26, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
do you think the end of Reconstruction was a good thing or
aug 26, 2025, 10:14 pm • 11 0 • view
Do you think anything I said in my reply, or have ever posted anywhere, suggests I do?
aug 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
There are parallel figures too (in many ways Martin Luther was a 1500s Alex Jones) but I can't think of a parallel to Trump. Maybe Savonarola?
aug 26, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s a good parallel for his degrowth/tariff policies. Especially with how he pitched it at first: you only need two dolls and four pencils. Stop being selfish and let the tariffs make America Great!!! In other words, throw your sinful luxuries into the bonfire of the vanities
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck the Medicis, MFGA
aug 26, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I am increasingly struck by the parallels between the introduction of the printing press and social media, in which people from very narrow fields with very specific communicative cultures (clerics, printers, administrators then, scientists and engineers now) imagined they could scale globally
aug 26, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I also want to note that people who live in cities are constantly referred to a scum and cockroaches and 'not real Americans' as if cities aren't 'real america.' Seems like a bit of a disconnect, there.
aug 26, 2025, 9:01 pm • 15 0 • view
Can I get an amen
aug 26, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Call me a small government libertarian the way I want to cut all subsidies to rural counties whose most productive economic center is the local meth lab
aug 26, 2025, 9:01 pm • 7 1 • view
The last few years really have made me understand how george wallace advanced his career by jettisoning policy and shouting every racial slur known to man
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 1 • view