Worthless!
Worthless!
Shifting right sucks
Conservative Mainstream Media
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Dude, come on. You insist on getting yourself yelled at everywhere
@jfloyd314.bsky.social nailed it
These people are insane lmao
This is fundamentally the issue. Nazi Twitter is a rigged game. There's no point in staying there because the deck is stacked against liberals. It's a bubble in the other direction
One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Also, Nate has completely cooked his brain
The folks bleating about how a site must be dying because one number on the ledger isn't incessantly, infinitely going up are in the same genus of folks who drove small hardware stores and mom and pop groceries out of business so that you have to drive to a sun-bleached strip mall to go shopping
Why do we think Bluesky isn't working?
That movie sucked
I still remember the absurd levels of parental hate yelled at 14 year-old me reffing/umping rec league sports in White Bear Lake 30 years ago. Absolutely insane behavior every week
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Conservative Mainstream Media
Ah, yeah, they can get bent
If watching 82 Wolves games every year meant occasionally a shithead would shoot up schools and outlawing Wolves games would prevent that, I'd be ok with it!
Maybe these guys are, but most gun owners aren't. Shooting guns is fun! But plenty of things are fun and if one particular fun hobby of mine meant constant low level death and the occasional mass murder of children, I'd be ok with it going away! It's not worth it! I'd find something else to do!
At the end of the day, gun owners are ok with children dying so they can own guns. If any of my hobbies required the periodic murder of children, I'd be ok with giving it up and it being outlawed
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
they like trump and want to help him and critical reporting about his health - to say nothing of the type of incessant drumbeat coverage they gave biden - wouldn't help him so they don't do it.
Ike was right and @dicknixon.bsky.social knows it now
Schumer should just get all the way out of the way
Meh
Assume they'll just trade him
Very, *very* smart piece from @espiers.bsky.social about why media efforts by Dem consultants are so often comical failures. Highly recommended:
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
we learned this already! there was about a one week period where everyone thought Google Glass was neat and then the realization kicked in and people were like, wait a minute, this is a privacy nightmare and the whole thing flopped
many professional political observers are closet or open trump supporters - when he fails or stumbles, as he frequently does, they cover for him and insert a fake, fictional trump into their stories that's doing smart stuff for normal reasons.
Isn't that from Saltburn?
Catching up with a friend. She tells me, verbatim: "My therapist went off on a TEAR today over Schumer and Jeffries being terrible at their jobs and then caught herself and stopped. It was really funny." Dem leaders think it's just some grumpy leftists, but the normies are madder than anyone.
This statement alone is enough to nullify any and all obligations to accept the legitimacy of his authority.
Ah, well, that's all taken care of then
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
Lick that boot!
Imagine needing to pay someone 82,000 dollars a year because the guy you already pay a lot more than 82,000 dollars a year just can’t handle the workload of writing Democrats need to stop using the word patriarchy
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Who gives a shit?
He's out scouting high schools for a new wife...
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
The Democratic party can't eject these dummies fast enough
More money than God and livid at the concept of having to share...
Almost all of the smartest liberal and left wing writers and reporters I know have basically been reduced to doing that work as a mostly-unpaid hobby in addition to their actual job (if they have a job). Just a few rich Democrats could put their money where their mouth is and fix this.
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
It’s very conspicuous rewatching this that Trump is desperately trying to hide the back of his right hand from the camera
Imagine if something like this happened to Biden and he was covering up his right hand … there would be multiple post about it in Axios newsletter for days and Jake Tapper doing special segments. Photo via Getty.
Looooool. I think you're just really dumb, man
One is a platform full of open Nazis and one is full of lefties telling you you suck ass. Maybe try not sucking ass rather than hanging out with Nazis?
Mamdani, a guy who holds no office and has zero scandals, has gotten more scrutiny than the guy tearing up the Constitution every day in the White House.
Worthless!
I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
But that's NOT HOW IT WORKS. Elon Musk controls everything about Twitter. Hell, it's not even TWITTER any more. It's X. He controls the algorithm. He controls what you see. He controls how much people see what you post. You're not taking anything back if he doesn't want you to.
Yeah, here is Trump just openly admitting that he is ordering the FBI to target his opponents. Impeachable offense number infinity
It's long, but this video is a great and complete evisceration of Rogan and all his pathetic nut-hangers youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
You've destroyed pretty much everything that gave boomers so much success to increase profits. Theres your problem
"We dont know exactly why this is happening." Yes you do lol. You literally stated it in the article. You've completely destroyed the social safety net, killed upward mobility, no one can afford good healthcare, working long hours for less pay. Not to mention the consequences of covid.
As someone who grew up in the conservative realm and has many family members still eating this shit up....it's a choice at this point. Trump ripped all pretense away. There's no dogwhistling to hide behind anymore. It's just open hate and if you're still conservative at this point, you're on board
This lady is an active participant of the psyop.... eppc.org/author/rache...
As someone who fancies himself a decent person, I want to have empathy for people who have been dealt a hand like this....but it's very difficult when you know they'll never extend that grace to anyone beyond their own sphere
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o... Ah, see. I have a really simple solution for you then.
Weird how there are multiple news stories about how Bluesky is kind of rude to centrists and almost no news stories about how Twitter is now so racist it would make a Klan rally blush.
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
I do not trust this guy at all...
Better late than never!
Never let Gen X off the hook of being an absolute failure of a generation
its impossible to describe the level of freak out we’d be in right now if a democratic president had troops on their hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for putin, this entire country would be going nuclear right now all driven by conservative media
this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god
Seems good!
This is a good example of what I’ve started calling “normalsauce democratic comms.” It sucks. The whole genre should be sent out to sea on a rickety boat. If your messaging is identical to what you would’ve said in 2017, you are failing and you ought to know better.
Cuomo's new campaign strategist is a Trump supporting right winger
Hey look at who Cuomo has running his socials
This seems true of almost all of our pundit class and pretty well encapsulates how we've gotten to normalizing fascism
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
I've done that with my kids...with the caveat of "call me in 20 if things don't improve" and usually I never hear anything. Just gotta pop that initial seal and kids usually move on...
Just call them out. They don't deserve anonymity
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
It's not even "good enough," but enough people are pot-comitted to the scam that they'll just lie through their teeth
Paul’s right, it’s unreal how little traction this story has gotten. www.mediaite.com/crime/israel...
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
Just punch him in the face over and over and over and over, as hard as you can, and don't apologize for it a single time. Jesus.
DO SOMETHING
Six weeks out from the government funding deadline, many Senate Democrats are in the process of convincing themselves they have no choice but to cave. One of their main rationales will be a bad read of mostly irrelevant history. In truth they’re just scared of the unknown.
Those Democrats who are telling us that the midterms will save us are lulling us into disaster. Elections are important, but only when accompanied by an enormous mass movement. Otherwise, the elections won't matter.
continue to think that a major issue is the extent to which too many elected democrats are mentally captive to the politics of the 1980s and 1990s in ways that leave them unable to try new things
Anyone who is claiming all we have to do is wait and vote in 26 or 28 to stop this are either naive or activly attempting to pacify people and stop Them from actively trying to stop the rapidly hardening fascist government.
States' rights, baby!
One day I'll get to the sub party!