This was coupled with a media narrative reinforcing the belief that any inconvenience to you personally was due to unequally-enforced general restrictions, producing a righteous martyrdom perspective for anyone who wanted it.
This was coupled with a media narrative reinforcing the belief that any inconvenience to you personally was due to unequally-enforced general restrictions, producing a righteous martyrdom perspective for anyone who wanted it.
It seems to me that the thing that rankled Americans' signature spoiled petulance most was the idea that anyone could tell them what to do. E.g. These articles in 2020 and 2022: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... thehill.com/opinion/judi... www.sungazette.com/opinion/othe...
Clayface has escaped Arkham again
Colbert 2006 Correspondents' Dinner set the standard to follow.
Human centipede but it's just RFK and Hegseth unsuccessfully trying to hold Trump up by his legs so he can do 1 pull-up
No Country for Old Guys
Has Vance even told his weird donor-patron Peter Thiel "thank you"?
Oh wow - mind genuinely blown. I wasn't familiar with him the last time I saw it, so I wouldn't have picked up on him. Time for a rewatch.
Though I will say my votes probably go to David Bowie in The Prestige (which I saw in this thread) or Henry Rollins in Sons of Anarchy (which I didn't see in the thread).
I don't know if I have a right answer, but I know Ed Sheeran in Game of Thrones is a wrong answer!
"Guess I'll have to just luck into reconciliation lol"
The responses here are basically along the lines of scolding Little Red Hen for not sharing her delicious bread with Cat, Dog, and Duck.
It seems to me that Jain, like Yglesias and Nichols and dozens of others, hasn't offered a worthwhile addition to the discourse in a while, yet has the curious ability to suck people into engaging. I'm not fond of seeing their predictable drivel swallow up my timeline for 24 hours every so often.
To that 2nd part, the Dems need to rake NYT and WaPo over the coals in offhand comments at all times. I don't have any delusions that this would cause Sulzberger or Bezos to alter the papers' trajectories, but the older, wealthier Dem base needs to be repeatedly told that these wells are poisoned.
Possibly the worst, most harrowing thing I've ever seen.
Prison.
In large part because the government allowed rival powers to arise from within, in the form of exorbitantly wealthy entities and individuals which were able to purchase controlling factions of government for their own use. The state allowed itself to be hollowed out because its agents were greedy.
Hell yeah
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
I too am now considering this all-too-plausible nightmare.
Not to dunk on Peter specifically (who, unlike most of his colleagues, is actually engaging with the critique and putting forth a thoughtful response), but "Unearned Benefit of the Doubt" is the theme of Trump's political and legal career, and deserves to be etched on the monster's tombstone.
@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social and @profsamperry.bsky.social find a link between Christian nationalism & votes for Trump in 2024 in "Christian Nationalism and the Vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election: A State-Level Analysis", #earlyview & #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....
76% of Texas’s $2.4 trillion GDP comes from the blue parts. - DFW: $709.0 B (29.5%) - Houston: $642.1 B (26.7%) - Austin: $229.2 B (9.5%) - San Antonio: $201.2 B (8.4%) - El Paso: $49.3 B (1.9%) Blue: $1.83 T (76%) Red: $0.57 T (24%) #EconSky #Gerrymandering comptroller.texas.gov/economy/econ...
the right has long labored under the misconception that ordinary liberals have always hated them and their way of life with a burning passion, something which is only just now becoming true
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)
Mark Cuban is dangerously close to Nate Silvering himself with this one
That quoted bit is the new Charlie Brown hoes line
The Denethor Effect
Someone really needs to add the Superman theme to it
Sure.
It's not like the left of fascist crowd has a good track record of closing ranks and doing what needs to be done to shut the door on this era. So I'd just as soon have the people in our camp *not* already starting the process of preparing to defect.
I'm saying it could be Newsom, Pritzker, AOC, Warren, or anyone else in 2028, and the Right would be following the same strategy regardless. There's a good chance the nominee will be someone you or I personally detest, and yet electing them would be an improvement over anyone in the MAGA camp.
The Right knows how to find and drive wedges, no matter who the candidate is going to be. We really, desperately need for those wedges to find as little purchase as possible when it's time.
Certainly better to push on the party to get behind better options, of course. "We can do better." is great. But building up this familiar "I would *never* vote for " mantra is just self-sabotage.
That makes sense. And Newsom seems susceptible to being influenced.
We share the same litmus test, which is why I'd vote for him in a general despite his comments being outrageous. But I don't like seeing some allies psyching themselves up to withhold their votes for anyone who would attack MAGA if given the power.
Yeah, that's my gripe.
The last thing I want for the anti-fascism coalition is to start building that opt-out permission structure now.
I get that. And maybe it's pre-primary bluster (though I doubt it given the left's track record!), but if by some miserable chain of events, it's Newsom v Trump or Newsom v Vance in 2028? Why on earth would someone left of fascist _not_ vote for Newsom in that scenario?
100%. That said, you don't have to love Newsom – I sure don't – to still recognize he's triangulating or will be malleable on the subject.
*Liz
The whole Li Cheney thing is also just a tangent to Conor's original claim, which was ludicrous. Biden sold himself in 2020 as just being a sane compromise candidate. And Clinton moved meaningfully left? It's a fantastical claim in support of a narrative.
Bingo.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and who dedicated his life to hating and diminishing others, has died. I wrote this back when Pat Robertson, a man of equally immoral character, died, and it still applies: it is okay to speak ill of the dead when speaking ill is all the person merits.
not traditionally what is meant by the idiom "cash in one's chips"
One factor in the 2029 arrests of Republican criminals needs to be quantity. These days, a right-wing individual gets arrested or "cancelled" and by the day's end, they have $200,000 in their GoFundMe. But if five hundred such individuals get arrested? Maybe then there are actual consequences.
Those perfect* shapes we learn as kids (▲, ■, ⬟, ⬢, ...) are part of a larger concept known as convex polytopes, which also exist in higher dimensions. (*same sides, same angles, etc.) In 2D, there are infinitely many of them. In 3D, there are 5. In 4D, there are 6. From then on, there are just 3.
For awhile now, I've had this theory that a non-negligible fraction – indeed, something like 1/3 to 1/2 – of Democratic strategists and consultants are secretly working for Republicans and/or conservative donors. It's outlandish, sure, but sometimes it really is compelling.
On top of being amazing in its own right, it is the show for these times in a way that few, if any, other shows have been in their own time.
Why does he have a fucking merch booth like you'd see at a baseball stadium
It's unfortunate but strangely appropriate that this guy's feeble fuzz goatee in his 20s was actually an improvement to his face.
The war on men The war on white folks The war on drug-riddled rural yokels The war on violent right-wing extremists The war on pedophiles The war on American kings He's currently working to end the war on granting Nobel prizes to undeserving moronic slobs, but there's no end in sight yet. 😢
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...
The entire post-WWII international order - the one we built to ensure WWIII didn't happen - is predicated on not accepting unprovoked territorial conquest of other states This is why, again, Trump threatening the territory of 🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰 needed to immediately end his presidency (bsky.app/profile/mcop...)
The acts of terror themselves can be collectively referred to as Tate-sponsored violence.
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I like this concise explanation for how Germany fell into line behind the Nazis, written by a journalist in 1939 and quoted in Richard J. Evans's 'The Coming of the Third Reich' (2003). (2/6)
Glad you did, because I must have missed it the first time around.
Making up a fictionalized version of a person to get mad at
the thing about Trump and Putin meeting is that Russiagate was basically entirely correct and the fact that the media bought Bill Barr's Mueller Report cover letter saying "he didn't do it" hook line and sinker remains a national disgrace
Losing an election has put my friends in fear of being black bagged on the street by Trump’s gestapo, put the military on our streets and made us all substantially poorer. Fuck that shit. Do what it takes.
"What is even being saved if you win by (counter-)cheating?" is amazing levels of myopia for the guy who comfortably throws that term around in the responses. Whatever we will "lose" by Dems responding appropriately, I assure you it was already lost by 50% of voters being fine trying out fascism.
They said Obama "pal'd around with terrorists" so pardon me if I don't think Romney's 47% quote being thrown in his face was on the same level.
Unfortunately for one person, the fact that Bork was singularly unqualified didn't come down to capital-E expertise.
There's some interesting poetry in the comparison between deeply-unpopular establishment Democrats irrationally distancing themselves from Mamdani and politically-impotent leftists irrationally wishing to distance their generationally charismatic representative from Barack Obama.
If we had just acquiesced to the Nazis in 1944, we wouldn't be electing them now. Schachmatt, libs!
should've let us put nixon's hatchet man on the supreme court, sincerely, the Good Conservative Tom Nichols of MSNBC
America's increasing materialism and alignment toward hustle culture has made it more difficult for Americans to value abstract things, with such obvious examples as democracy, representation, anti-corruption, and fundamental rights.
Hell of a beer can chicken
A one-day boycott of anything isn't going to do anything. If you're aiming for more than performance, you must convince people to maintain a boycott for months or longer.
[Dem strategists] ...but is it TOO effective?
Fear will keep the local systems in line.
At least now we know a liberal POTUS can impose a 200% royalty tax on guns on Day 1! I am sure the SCOTUS will agree!
It’s funny that the official Republican position is the US government can only impose a wealth tax by literally amending the Constitution but Trump can personally impose technology royalties to anyone at any time by fiat. LOL.
Exactly the same vibe as the "Dems didn't do enough to convince me to vote for them in 2024"
There just isn't a set of laws that will hold if the president, the majority in both houses of Congress, and six votes on the supreme court want the president to be a dictator
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
I seem to remember seeing somewhere he self-identified as fairly libertarian (though not at the extremes Ron Swanson was at).
Nick Offerman
Do* your** own*** research!**** *Hit **head ***with ****hammer!
Project Immiseration is a go
The only reason no one is painting this as stolen valor is because everyone knows ICE doesn't have any valor to steal.
Nah, I've got my heart set on Nontn Carolina. No, the other one. No, the other other one.
OHO!
The aesthetic seems to be "gold-wrapped chocolate coin."
Me, naive at 23: man, eggs are great. there's really no wrong way to make 'em.
Maybe Gavin can host Pritzker on his podcast lol
[Me] Separating, splitting, breaking up, dissolving, ... [My wife] God, I've had enough of listening to you. It's gerunds for divorce!
You never go full Baratheon!
The Teamsters weren't sure who to endorse and so declined to give an endorsement. Enjoy what you voted for, guys.
This inability to see the good for the self-righteousness is how left-wing voters came to believe that they deserved to be ☆convinced☆ to support democracy, like special little princes and princesses.
My god, if left-wing voters only possessed the basic ability to play along when the liberal candidate is clearly trying to trick their opponents' supporters. It's so easy, even Republican voters can manage it basically every election.
Trump had the opportunity to do the funniest thing
IMO the primary factor of a fictional character going Trump is if they have been shown watching/listening to Fox News or in-universe right-wing media. In real life, people from disparate backgrounds went Trump, but I don't know of any that don't also have Fox or equivalent in their daily routine.
Then again, that scenario most likely resolves itself with Elon attempting to make "radioactive K" and promptly Curie-ing himself.
Why does this read like a convoluted way to give Elon Musk access to nuclear material?
[2028 Pres Debate moderator] So, can you name one thing you like about Donald Trump? [Pritzker, grinning and practically giddy] Those flag drains! That imagery really sells itself.
