It is the opposite of what the economic and class reductionists say, they have people fighting a class war to distract you from the culture war.
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It is the opposite of what the economic and class reductionists say, they have people fighting a class war to distract you from the culture war.
were supposed to be just as dumb as the right, and if thats true nate silver can ignore us as much as he can the right and if its not he can be in a situation where someone can tell him hes wrong so if you assume hes the specialest boy there ever was you get to this conclusion pretty logically
I hope you enjoy cosplaying at activism.
Meaningless statement. Unless you prepare for the project, you can't do the thing. Faux radicalism is always a waste of everyone's time.
who the fuck is doing this censorship in their mind
jerk off motion
oh im sorry did i not approach your ridiculous framing from the perspective of good faith how gauche of me
do you have billions of dollars to provide food, rent, and other necessities while we wait out capital or do you think strikes function by magic or something
I don't believe in monocausal anything, actually. But the way being on the left works now as far as I can tell is we pick someone we can blame, make an argument, and that's all it takes. Feel free to try and pin me down though that might be fun.
the way all of this was supposed to work was we all hold the coalition together until demographic shift broke the Koch machine instead everybody decided social media being a thing meant the dream of marx must live again and that turned out exactly the way that always turns out
theres so many its an amazing gun game talking machine pistol is one highlight poison rocket launcher assault rifle data bullet sub machine gun
Just haunted, every minute of every day by the knowledge & the inescapable shades of every harm & every death he has enabled. A twinge in his eye, a palpable dread, a drenching of sweat, a creeping, increasing, inescapable horror at the scope of the truth of his actions. I want him a different man.
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Look, if you wanna get your own bag, that's fine, but i need my bag for all of the various objects I have to keep on hand to regulate my emotions.
In the absence of an explicit statement of your meaning this is difficult to interpret as anything other than you trying to flee with dignity from flame bait that got too hot for you
Al Sharpton at the National Action Network rally today: "I don't endorse candidates, but I take attendance. Let's hear from Andrew Cuomo. Oh he's not here. Let's hear from Mayor Adams. Oh he's not here. Let's hear for Zohran Mamdani!" youtu.be/eznxz7ZA5Yc?...
the problem we have is a lot of people turned out to be pocket accelerationists once it came time to vote against fascism so its hard to know where the right place is to come down in predicting the future right now which is why people should stop doing it
Bread baked in Kyiv today. After a sleepless night, someone still did it. So did I: sent a letter about bread, rituals, childhood memories. My small act of resistance. Exclusive for supporters www.patreon.com/posts/bread-...
Dan Flashes has a new shirt in today that costs $450. The shirts cost more because the patterns are so complicated. This shirt I'm wearing now costs $150 out the door.
nah they already know about me at least just the way it goes im afraid
not kidding that few people go this far. i can’t stress to you how much of a rando i am. i’ve never had a positive net worth & my biggest accomplishment is “published by obscure lit mags” & i actually changed policy at my local school by reaching out—they were like “oh, we didn’t know people cared.”
as a geologist i find this rhetoric inherently problematic
these people who adopt every aspect of the oppressor and then lecture the rest of us for liking the wrong movies
right except i think nuclear power is actually still absolutely a power source we should be using, i just think we should be launching it into space and using renewable down here
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
#OurUSTaxDollarsatWork #EndtheGenocide
Some remarkable quotes from these CDC resignation letters:
and it will continue to be so until you deliver the gold
It's not up to Chinatown (what is?) but Nicholson's underrated sequel is a poignant love letter to one of the best roles he ever had. Ignore the plot (the obviousness of one of the "twists" will drive you mad anyway) & soak up the ambience, performances & Vilmos Zsigmond's gorgeous cinematography.
It makes people like this idiot feel better about making everything worse on purpose if they pretend they knew something they didn't know so they don't have to admit they directly collaborated with Fascism to punish the democratic party for not finding a magical way to get rid of Biden
The masses behave in the same manner as an unhealthy mind because the people who hate therapy all teamed up and made a human pyramid because all the 70's leftists published books about how to subvert american democracy and the assholes all had library cards and thats why they hate libraries
periodically I get a text from my husband containing one of the funniest images I have ever seen in my life, such as this one
Total Fibers: 4 2 Regulated, 2 Unregulated
Kitty head buts are the most perfect thing.
PUT A BULLET IN IT IOWA GOP SENATE SUPERMAJORITY GONE AND A 20 POINT OVERPERFORMANCE
"i wish i could hurt them" is a perfectly normal feeling to have about the people who voted for the army occupying your cities
Yeah one of the things that has increasingly soured me on a lot of folks in Interet Activism is the compulsive need to validate politic urges and thoughts and to invalidate impolitic urges and thoughts. Shame doesn't make people better. It makes them more obedient. When you are looking.
This godawful mess with the Dark Romantasy convention that devolved into straight women committing mob sexual assault is a great reminder that the sexes really are not fundamentally different from one another, they just usually have different levels of power and opportunity to inflict violence.
The problem with spectrums is by definition the difference between the extremes is quantitative rather than qualitative.
Welcome back to the establishment madame. Since your last visit I moved up from escaped criminal to concierge, so if you have any baggage you need carried just let me know and I'll get someone on it.
The Blood Spire is a nice piece of work. Very clearly thought through, and obvious as a component of the story in communication with the Sci-Fi tradition.
Diamond Dogs is great. Childe is such a classic rich piece of shit.
Be as skeptical as you want. Get called a scold or a karen or whatever for challenging nastiness in others, lack of consideration, cavalier attitudes about very hard things. But please, never ever lose your compassion.
Listening to Tosca while scanning samples from the San Jose Earthquakes new practice field.
This will sound like a joke, but ALL of the get rich quick scheme communities I know of went all in on crypto.
Almost as though building ideology around making use of anger only works for monsters.
he does a good job in the movie
the foreign hitman cusack takes out at the reunion was apparently cusacks kickboxing coach and cusack suggested him for the part because they already had experience beating each other up
I dunno how many people have heard the news about the wrestler who was attacked by a famous MMA guy’s son this weekend, but he’s a friend of ours who helped train and wrestled with my husband at Knokx Pro, his family has set up a GoFundMe for his hospital bills & loss of income while he recovers
love that movie
Watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=90My...
for as long as i've been alive i have been someone who, at my best, lights up a room and cheers people up and goes home feeling like i've given everyone a disease of the spirit
Good to know...
This has been the main obstacle to helping Palestine for a while now.
Didn't you mute me already? This conversation is over dude. You're wasting my time. And my time is worth very little.
You voted for Trump. The citations in the spoiler effect article can explain to you why that is the case. He is a nazi. Therefore...
Starting to feel like having 19th century rationalism as the basis of your world view might be an obstacle as much as it is an advantage.
his main opponent was/is a guy who got *pushed out as sitting governor of New York* by the New York Democratic Party
And by not voting, you voted for Trump. How's Trump working out for the struggle against warmongering? Last time he was in office he killed more people with drone strikes than Obama did in 8 years. Now he's planning to turn Gaza into a parking lot. Praxis.
Ranked choice at the state level is the only way to break the duopoly my friend. Sitting shit out accomplishes nothing.
Sincerely, I would recommend reading those citations at the bottom. Just the beginning of a bunch of reasons DSA is for time wasters. AOC figured that out. She has a future, god willing.
No I just looked up what basis of the Spoiler Effect was almost twenty years ago when that still meant going to the library. Oh that's so weird where did that come from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler...
Nah man. I don't fuck fash.
Noam Chomsky had a similar point to make when the first rumors of the Killing Fields hit western press. I look forward to the day when all of you pretend to have been against this from the start.
I am in California, and perhaps this is a coastal thing, but no one I know likes Newsome.
Any other parts of the conversation you want to disassociate yourself from now that you know DSA supports one of the largest acts of mass murder in the last 100 years?
This might not be the one with the proportions. Let me know if not and I'll find that one for you. Very easy to google though.
oh no my dude i do have a citation for that Sorry about you and your friends supporting an enormous global genocide thats rough. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
That's 15 million dead over the next ten years. 75% will be poor children in places like Gaza. Because it turns out USAID was also funding relief for Palestine. Not that any of you give a shit.
You mean aside from the citation I provided where the DSA endorsed an ongoing genocide? An endorsement that still stands, despite them just having had a conference? You are pro child starvation when it suits you to be so. Maybe think about that.
Weird how supporting genocide stops being an easy and obvious line for some people based entirely on how powerful the people doing it are. I'm sure Lenin might have some Stalin related reservations on that topic, but what do I know I'm just an idiot who thinks leftist genocides are bad.
That fighty tendency of Pritzker is reassuring to a lot of people and I wish more Dems would get on board. Not just saying this because I'm also a fighty person.
About 300,000 dead infants so far. Since January. Hilarious.
They just had a conference. Found time to repudiate AOC. Couldn't find time to edit a website. Seems like not a lot to ask for, honestly.
Literally right above a part about Palestine. Congratulations on the genocide support. www.dsausa.org/dsa-politica... Abolish USAID, NED, Voice of America, and other governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid and journalism.
The DSA supported cutting USAID. That act has killed about half a million people since January. Maybe any of you should know about this. None of you do apparently. Because you're all in on this for the vibes I guess. Pretty standard DSA stuff at this point.
Whatever it takes to get you through the night man. Maybe look up what I said though. Just for shits and giggles. Because of how stupid I am. Definitely won't find the international DSA platform explicitly supporting an action which has so far killed half a million people since January.
A defender of genocide, apparently. You're one as well. Have fun with that.
You know what the Maoists at the DSA do support? Killing 15 million people over the next ten years by shutting down USAID. Half a million dead so far this year. Still part of the Official Platform. They support genocide. Maybe try processing that a bit.
fun fact: the person being surveilled and murdered and oppressed observes no meaningful distinction
ok big guy you and your friends have fun defending genocide
yeah die on that pro genocide hill
While running a harem of abducted girls he knowingly infected with STDS. You know, socialism.
So do murdered peasants only matter when they die for capitalist reasons or does letting them starve for communist reasons make it a good thing? I know you're probably going to pull that "the struggle of the workers can not compare to elite deaths" but my point was all the poor people he starved.
I don't know if you know this but maoists are also fascists. Maybe don't let fascists into DSA before you start defending it.
The reason AOC ran as a democrat is the DSA is an unserious organization that only exists in the american discourse because of major eastern cities with old crooked democratic machines. The socialist part of it exists as a function of marketing.
"A few months later, when the mainstream wing wanted to commit the DSA to “work to defeat Trump in the 2024 election, without endorsing the Democratic nominee,” the sectarians voted even that proposal down." 3/3
"In November 2023, the sectarians in the DSA leadership argued that a second Biden term would be no different from a second Trump term." 2/3
"The differences between these two broad groups are not academic, and they have had real-life consequences. Under the pressure of the sectarian wing, the DSA refused to endorse Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in the past two presidential elections." 1/3
you should read the article
he is just perfect. god's most special little baby man ever
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
MAHA wasn’t a response to COVID and any journalist who doesn’t understand that it *exploited COVID* intentionally, deliberately from day one should pack it in bc they’re a dupe. Cover people who want to improve nutrition if that’s what you want to talk about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
i think that one thing people have completely twisted is that, no, he does not intend to leave but, yes, "ten thousand new gestapo" is two and a half orders of magnitude smaller than what he would need to seize power by force.
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
I refuse to listen to Ezra Klein but co-sign. MAHA is a best understood outgrowth of a century-old New Age movement that overlapped with but did not encompass the modern anti-vaxx movement (which largely recruited from alt prenatal/children's health stuff, prior to COVID)
I wasn’t going to ask for help again. But I caught J arraying his Super Nintendo on the hotel table and asked what he was doing. “If we sell these, we can get you a wheelchair.” Jason doesn’t have many childhood belongings, and he’s already sold most to keep us afloat. He loves these.