Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
And foreleast but not most still cool?
Ignore the website where people want to ban gambling
Also they have at-home alternatives now! Just poop in a cup and oh I've shared too much
It's not OK at all. This is just an example of what's allowed on Xitter.
That would suggest the larger problem here is that the parents' generation lacks a healthy sense of ironic detachment.
"Much that once was new is lost, for none now live who remember it as it was." - J.R.R. Tolkien, if he had ever played video games Which is to say, if Rimworld came out the year after C&C they would have called it an RTS.
Seems excessive when we just borrow that one
Hello, my name is Canteatapig
You have got to be the most boring person on here
Oh Akward
I think that's just all of TV news at this point in time. Like the only people under 40 (50?) watching TV news work for the news media.
What about the people who don't follow you?
The dude is going to tweet/truth through it if he's conscious.
You think like a conservative. Conclusions lead to evidence.
That's one. I'll need to see several dozen more to call it a trend.
And framing it is as if the coffee drinkers are some tiny cult like the amish
Harper the snitch?
If by common you mean the large majority of users, then yes
All of which makes me suspect you might be on the autism spectrum. My son has autism; some of your behavior is familiar. The off-topic interjecting, feelings about justice, arguments over factual misunderstandings, etc But whether you do or do not, you treat people like garbage. Blocking in 24 hrs.
So I read through some of your replies to other accounts and this is all you do on here. You reply to other people (out of the blue) and tell them they're conservative, or insult them for being liberal, tell them to read more (never what), and disagree with them about everything–no matter what.
And I don't want the people or politicians having input on monetary policy! That's crazy talk!
Great, he's useful for something. He'll make a good replacement for Durbin as whip next term.
Not really when you consider Trump won Wisconsin. He's targeting "Blue States".
Or shift attention away from unpopular incumbents! Look, we want new ideas. But they need to be at least average quality ideas.
Now the DNC should keep pretending they're doing a convention until Trump is fully committed. Pretending, because holding a convention that shifts attention to the out-party, away from the incumbent, right before the midterms is self-evidently dumb. Fire Ken Martin.
Funny way to spell OHIO
I'm afraid you're going to have to be more specific: there are a lot of books.
A lot of people are mentioning Obama and Biden in this thread. We're talking here about behavioral patterns ingrained at an institutional level. So tell me who had the greatest effect on the behavioral patterns of Congressional Dems between 2008 and 2024? - Obama - Biden - Pelosi
Well it was nice being vaccinated while it lasted.
I mean Marxists
There's really no "generally" about it. People are people wherever you go, and kindness/cooperation is a positive evolutionary trait.
And all of them, forced to be outside in DC during August, covered head-to-toe, just quietly dying in the obscene levels of humidity. So make sure to add little sweat drops around the heads on the graphic.
I am pro-choice and support UBI, yet someone confidently told me today that I am right of center. This is BlueSky.
How much more power could the right feasibly gain in the current system? The truth is this wasn't a sustainable paradigm by 2010, yet here we are.
Hey if we lived in a universe where I slotted into the GOP then the world would be immensely better off. But here in reality this is laughable.
Shorter Cuomo: visit NYC for the wealth inequality
True, but... Congressional Republicans: This is our fault, but we prefer it this way. Congressional Democrats: Look, I've been here for more than 30 years and this party operates the same way now as it did then. If you want to blame someone, go talk to our former presidents and failed candidates.
That's right, because crime didn't exist until the Democrats invented it when Obama was President.
40% of the time, new microwave
Shorter Lutnick: industrialized serfdom
DC the city (not the metro area) is only 60 square miles. That's tiny. Chicago, which has a slightly higher population density, is over 200 square miles.
Are these right wingers on BlueSky with you now?
So true. Think about historical context. The English Revolution of 1688, a conflict about parliamentary primacy, was closer in time to the year our Constitution was drafted than 2025 is to the end of World War I.
This is needlessly hostile.
What a rare combination of dense intellectualism and clueless-level cluelessness
Well, I mean, what did the Democrats accomplish between 2021-2023 that Trump hasn't torn down? Or, can't tear down if he feels like it? Plus, to your point, these same leaders are following the same strategy as last time: what makes you think the party won't repeat the same mistakes next time?
On the other hand, Trump can't see what's obvious to the rest of us. So it would be great if a committee member were to bluntly say that deploying troops domestically is disqualifying and personal grace is a key character attribute (while defining the term).
Define "work" in the context of lasting political accomplishments
Tom, on #1, your bubble is showing. The vast, overwhelming majority of people on the liberal left don't talk like this. I don't think I have heard any of these terms spoken out loud EXCEPT on cable news. And where do I see these terms in writing? Newspapers and fine magazines like The Atlantic.
Does soldier count? (/s)
"Gavin" works unless you know a good one who is in the news a lot
It happens. I once posted a picture of a large moth on reddit only for someone to point out it was actually a picture of two moths.
Take this with a grain of salt–because I am apparently the only person on all of BlueSky that lacks the medical qualifications to provide an accurate answer–but consensus opinion is he's dead and that's a special camera that can photograph ghosts.
Yeah, it's ridiculous. But this doesn't happen in a vacuum. The party's a mess.
Imagine visiting Westworld, but it's the 1980s instead is the gist of this video
Amazing how many medical doctors are replying to this post.
Don't listen to her. Blocking liberals on BlueSky is the best defense for leftists. (/s because leftists)
Given that we're still over a year away from the midterms the big one is that he, and other anti-slavery candidates, should do so if they desire. Beyond that, when it comes to Newsom I think he should stop the anti-trans stuff, and soon, if he wants to be President.
I'm a white liberal. You know jack shit about my people.
Look to the Congressional wing for the party's malaise. Most notably the long-serving members who pre- and post-date Obama.
For context, Obama–whose style was most definitely mass persuasion–led the party as President for exactly 8 years: 2009 to 2017. Before that, he was, very briefly, the junior senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008. After that, he was/is a retired politician.
Likely also gender neutral
The weird hot take was the thing you said about Hamas.
We're clearly dealing with a genius here. After all, every failed rebellion in history was doomed, just like 10/7. Therefore leaders of failed rebellions are just like Hamas.
I suspect part of the problem is that lib politicos don't or won't make this argument.
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries has presidential ambitions, and that's a bad thing right now.
I didn't realize JD Vance was over six feet, but, then again, it makes sense that Trump would pick someone tall.
I visited DC (my former home) last December to see an old friend. We stayed out late and found ourselves walking around the city at 1am on a Wednesday night/Thursday morning. I never once worried about my safety.
The staff of that pub knowingly put their jobs at risk. Rather courageous of them, don't you think?
EVERYONE should be free to express their opinion. Even the staff of a pub.
How many of these are journos?
Describes 90% of dem voters
Counterpoint: the next anti-GOP party to gain power needs to accumulate a shit-ton of it.
Riding on the street?! Not a crime lol
Regarding Afghanistan, I believe the final tally was Soviets 0 wars won and Afghans 3 wars won.
Teacher: Why are Republicans unpopular in big cities? Student #1: The GOP favors policies that degrade the overall quality of life in cities. Voters aren't stupid. Student #2: I thought it was all the PoC? Teacher to Student #2: You'll do well at CNN.
Update resume?
Literally snake oil
Pity the poor Senator. Work is so unfufilling because of all the dumb rules that God made. And it's lonely too! No one from the other party holds hands in public anymore like all the Senators used to do when being a Senator wasn't just politics but racism too www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Aging brings a gradual loss of motor function?
I mean, clients come in all shapes and sizes and tolerance for ethical violations. I have zero doubt text fundraising is a boondoggle, but nothing is 1.6% [in]efficent.
You're a CPA. Did you read the whole article?
I hate the texts with fiery passion... but the headline numbers are misleading. However I also hate dem consulting firms so the extent of the energy I'm going to spend on this is limited to saying: read the post.
Democratic party leaders rallying the troops: "Soldiers, I promise you moral victory after moral victory! We will go down in history as the saviors of good manners and everyday decency!"
Texas + California is 20% of the population
In the 90s my Dad had a friend, Jerry, who loved brewing beer at home. That was his hobby. His full-time job was working for the federal government. Then Jerry opened a brewery (Old Dominion) and his hobby became his job. This is what happened with the internet: hobbies became (paying) jobs.
In the 90s my Dad had a friend, Jerry, who loved brewing beer at home. That was his hobby. His full-time job was working for the federal government. Then Jerry opened a brewery (Old Dominion) and his hobby became his job. This is what happened with the internet: hobbies became (paying) jobs.
That's half the story at best. The original 'unpaid internet volunteer' (with a 9-5 'real' job) was not pushed out by 'soulless corporate hack'. The original 'unpaid volunteer' became the content-creator, the site-owner, the full-time 'internet-job' person.
The "crime wave" was a few youtube videos and retail chains claiming the "crime wave" was the reason they had to close a lot of stores. Real reason was, drumroll, post-pandemic decline in sales at the closed locations.
The cognitive dissonance embedded in "$60 with time" is a classic
Now let's see where those cities rank in metro area population (lol)
In one word: licensing. It's "easy" for one company to get an exclusive license for the NFL because there is one league for the whole world. FM in contrast has to obtain many more licenses, but the sheer number of leagues, countries, and players involved makes a Madden-like monopoly impossible.
Josh Allen would have three Super Bowls by now if the Bills played in a dome
It's also important to keep in mind that when Valve removes a bunch of games at once for policy violations, they err on the side of removal and often make mistakes.
Based on what I read earlier this week, Steam removed games that the press will only refer to with euphemism. That's muddied the waters a lot. From what I can interpret the non-euphemistic description of categories Valve removed is: adult-only "pro-incest" sex games.
Next bubble?
This must be the full extent of it given how notoriously camera-shy Trump is
It’s offensive to be called “pro-genocide” when I’ve been in on the “Fuck Netanyahu” party longer than many of these people even cared about the conflict.
Long ago someone explained to me that the stuff we don't see is either fundraising, sausage-making, or me-time.