Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once you’ve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them you’ve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive
“You will never look at another woman again.” - Medusa’s Tinder Bio
He thinks Chicago will great him with open arms because he saw some wackos on Fox News
There is a professor at my college doing actual antisemitism (Leo Frank trutherism) in the name of "anti-Zionism," and I know if I tried to make it an issue, I would be feeding into the very worst right-wing voices who want to shut me and my mostly good institution down, too, so I have no recourse.
They're at the nadir of their influence, but the right genuinely believes right now that the occupations are popular and that this is their chance to defang Newsom, Moore, and Pritzker
I think that happened during the recent Azeri-Armenian War
Yeah it makes you insane over time even if you are on the side of the people doing the striking
As bad as all this shit is, we are in a way better position than many other countries experiencing similar issues
I take the opposite tack. We almost won when 50%+ of the country was in a delusional spiral about how the fascist magic money man was going to make it an imagined version of 2019 again and give us medical beds, stimulus checks and immigration amnesty
I can only remember the coldest post of all time
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
He and other Republicans think the city occupations are popular and that he can hurt Dems electorally by having them openly refuse to cooperate with him
A difficulty you're always going to run into when discussing ideology online is there are lots of relatively reasonable left-liberals who think their group chats are "leftists" and don't realize that there's a contingent of no-shit Neo-Stalinists with media and organizational influence out there
Nah he looks terrible it's just that he's carrying himself like he's fully awake for the first time in like a year so our brains associate that with being younger. Dude is zooted
Yeah they gave him the good stuff. This was the most coherent he's been in a while and I assume it came with the application of a stimulant cocktail
I assume they have him the good shit (TM) that Biden wasn't willing to take before his debate
They're giving the president the pill from Limitless backstage. Jealous much, libs?
hey guys just so you know if the president is 30 minutes late we all get to go home and won't get in trouble
Court packing does not require 2/3rds of the Senate. Simple majority
So far Trump seems to be late to his proof of life announcement
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the green brick, the story ends, you wake up in your race car bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red brick, you stay on LEGO Island and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
I don't know how much anybody has thought of any of this. Lots of data center construction right now feels more like businesses solely operating on FOMO
That's the question nobody in the industry seems to have asked
Skateboarding on the mind?
The trouble with any natalism debate online is that eventually it either turns into weird race science stuff (Twitter) or arguing about whether or not people are allowed to be annoyed by your baby crying through an entire airplane flight (Facebook/Bluesky)
all this time litigating blueskyism meanwhile linkedinism is rapidly accelerating into infinite power mode
Well, or their favorite porn accounts don't cross post
Ehh it only goes so far when you can get left punching from basically every other mainstream pub's op-ed page
“So you want to tell me to make operational sacrifices to reduce cost? That’s SWELL! I can’t wait to help you prevent cost overruns”
Ehh it's right wing Indian diaspora nationalist types and right wing white nationalist types fighting because they keep ending up in the same group chats
The groups won't let us talk about mahogany
Ultimately the Dem base matters and you can't get away with a "fuck all of the voters who we rely on to win primaries" strategy, no matter how good your WAR score is
Living rent free in the minds of Dem consultant class types means Bluesky libs are likely winning the argument
I think most American socialists have far too Bolshevik an understanding of US material conditions to go anywhere with the concept
All they have to do is to keep digging. Eventually they'll strike gold
This shouldn't discourage any out and proud LGBT person from applying to work somewhere but do note that you're going to have to throw work hands (talk to HR) sometimes
Solidarity is a two way street and a lot of what made me abandon socialism as a viable system was realizing how many working class people would prioritize hurting people who they hated aesthetically over any material interest they may have, up to including avoiding getting fired
Oh yeah and blame the victim when mass firings come down after the company has to pay out the ass to settle the matter in court
This is very good for the general election but also guarantees Republicans end up way crazier as a minority party
Like good for you if you find a workplace with a union and/or coworkers who don't hate you, but I've seen so many situations secondhand in which a trans person gets written up for gently correcting a coworker about their pronouns or has their locker broken into to try to plant stolen product
I think a lot of people who say stuff like this are not aware of how many blue collar workplaces just try to run off any trans person that somehow ends up hired
GOP support for Trump rising while his approvals fall seems to confirm the theory that as conservative voters sour on Trump they stop identifying as Republicans
Mostly posting about polyamory
Sure, I was RAISED Blueskyist, but these days I'm lucky if I log on for the High Bluidays
Every time I here about Burkina Faso in the news it either A: glorious Ibrahim Traoré has signed a trade agreement to send tomato paste concentrate to Russia, the west is finished ‼️🇧🇫🤝🇷🇺 ❌🇫🇷 B: ISIS has advanced another 30 km towards the capital leaving government forces in disarray as they retreat
Honestly? The dream is to make a game that gets one single person so into it they make an account that posts about it all the time, like the quest 64 guy. That's a massive success as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah but like, I'm not sure that we can set our goals at "make annoying opinion columnists own up to being wrong" because I don't even think their therapists could do that
You'll never win Vermont with this divisive rhetoric
I wouldn't say dead. I don't think what Kennedy and Co. are doing is popular but the vibes among the pundit class won't catch up on that until mid-November
Progressives need to abandon their obsession with nationalizing railroads
Progressives need to get over their alliance with free silver movement
[throwing a manila folder down on the desk] Scully, you ever hear of the Clout Demon ?
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Kinda shocked chocolate chip cookie granola isnt more common than it is, given the predominant flavors are brown sugar, vanilla and chocolate chips
Trump is far too temperamentally NIMBY so if they do something it'll be surface level
Aspiring monoplatforms will cancel each other out like how you can start a fire to prevent the spread of a different wildfire
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
tbh there's a subset of X/Twitter that basically view Bluesky as the last refuge of the woke/Warrenites which is just a very funny mindset to have
People were sharing lots of "everybody was overreacting to the tariffs" takes right before it was revealed that the economy was likely entering a recession
Generally speaking, you want to wait until quarterly reports are out before you chastise people about inventing bad economic data
Y'all gonna be embarrassed scoffing at AI enhanced images when Trump is revealed to have 7 fingers
We could probably gin up a panic about gear with some concerted effort
Fwiw I'm a British food defender. Meat pies are amazing
I at least understand that one because she was getting a lot of death threats and this site doesn't moderate well
My running theory for why NYT has gotten so bad is that I suspect Dash is a red scare listener
"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
For additional context, he stopped engaging at all on this site after getting criticism over how he and his team handled the shutdown fight
Brian Schatz's last post on this site was 2 months ago and before that it was 4 months ago
I've had this conversation with other Ohioans about the governor's race here. The people still psychotically angry about Covid 19 protocols are all right wing voters (Sean RCP is almost certainly lying about not voting for Trump)
Red flag was getting so intimidated by this site he refused to let his staffers even cross post on here. Like, Fetterman cross posts on here
I really hope nobody plans on making Schatz a Senate leader when Schumer retires because dude is cooooked
The press will get right on that. I hear they’re off to Delaware now to inquire about it.
I don't think he can speak coherently anymore
Like the problem of being obsessed with being in front of the press is it's really really obvious when you are avoiding them.
They also don't read a lot of conservative media. They think everything they're doing is popular right now!
In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How’s the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And when Trump and RFK are talking about all these medical cuts… they don’t mean insulin and oxy, right?
There are a few but most are just extremely depressed and come from Facebook liberal/left spaces. You can tell because they just do not know any online etiquette at all
I suspect if we see any sort of overt anti-democratic rhetoric from their side it will come after the Virginia elections
I can see why nobody ever wants to talk about the right here, but it's good to understand how galaxy brain their ideas are right now. Too often people substitute their paranoid sense of dread for the right's beliefs/strategy
They also think the most recent mass shooter was a Muslim, that Black Virginians are all going to vote for the GOP gubernatorial candidate, and that British people would be shocked that a Labour Party-adjacent functionary would be a socialist
They're talking about how Pritzker pushing back super hard might let the GOP take the Illinois governor's race next year
Conservatives definitely think the city occupations are insanely popular and that Dems will suffer at the ballot box for opposing them
Me when my wife sees the browser history
A lot of people had severe anxiety and depression flare ups in November 2024 and they steadfastly refuse to talk to anybody. Had one guy on here tell me it was offensive to say that he should talk to a professional because he wasn't suicidal
I created an identity around consumption and now a YouTuber is telling me a blue haired barista is taking it away and I’m going to vote to make it everyone’s problem
The concern almost everybody has is extra constitutional action
People with power naming the plot early actually does help in the event that Trump or Vance half assedly try to declare the 2026 elections invalid
Gonna be real knowing that a company with as terrible of a self imposed work culture as Nvidia is saying stuff like this makes me worry the bottom is falling out
Oh I didn't know that it got ported sweet
Lol assuming this is true he may not be dead but he's doing badly
You need to call their natural predators: history PhDs
Being a peasant in the Soviet Union wasn't much better than being a peasant in Tsarist Russia tbh
Developing more crank theories like Americans should build more concrete framed apartments and houses
Ethiopia was more of a Russian bugbear tbh. The Romanovs were huge fans
One thing I started thinking about is how Vance would try and be emotional in a “meeting his historic moment” way and we would openly celebrate it. We could celebrate it not just a day but have block parties every week and Vance would have to be in “how dare you Sir” mode about it.
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