Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism
I've been calling it "dark matter rizz", cause I sure as hell can't see it myself, but the actions of others don't make sense if it isn't there.
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
you had both centrist pundit and dirtbag left types being diehard Platner defenders and their commonality was an obsession with white male identity politics due to gender hangups about feeling like having email jobs makes them not be Real Men and idk I just think maybe they should reflect on this
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that's what's missing from this conversation: an acknowledgement that even if we did not need a single tax dollar from the rich to fund public policy, taxing them into oblivion would still be the right thing to do in and of itself
The role "the Epstein files" have played on the public consciousness is to transform sexual abuse from a societal problem that we all have to collectively grapple with to a baroque conspiracy committed by faraway, unrelatable villains that you get to righteously fantasize violence against.
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6mo agothis is basically vulgar Making Up Guys to Get Mad At but it's a little brain melting for the continual cover-up of the epstein files to be one of the largest news stories of the year at the same time as the shitty michael jackson hagiography breaks box office records
It began as a disgusting display of decadence and moral rot It continues as a disgusting display of decadence and moral rot Nothing has changed at all
@crypticpinecone.bsky.social · 6mo agoContinuing their party while there's a corpse in the lobby is almost too on the nose.
I just love this so much, for both good and bad reasons.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo agoToday, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
In the Epstein story, the rape and trafficking of girls has been made into a metaphor for the economic exploitation by the elites of the American people. But there’s also actual rape involved, and it’s not a metaphor.
“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.
being literally wealthier than kings and monarchical dynasties with no corresponding social obligations is extremely corrosive to both the individual and the body politic, and taking 95% of everything elon musk has would be better for him, personally.
While my commitment to left political ends—eg progressive taxation that funds a strong safety net—have not changed since I was a teenager, I have become much more temperamentally conservative as I have watched the right smash institutions and shred the social contract in pursuit of short term gain.
Trump pledging to ‘rescue’ Iranian protesters if the regime shoots them while having literally no plan or intention to do so is such a classically American betrayal
Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.
When I hear New Yorkers describe something that's pretty common in a lot of global A and B tier cities as exceptional it just makes me think that every other US city is a wasteland
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 10mo agoMamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
Now: Half-Life 2 Then: Halo 2
Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 10mo agoQuote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2004, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one) Localisations/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend. Two-way ties count. Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Now: Halo 3 Then: Halo 3
Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 10mo ago...aaaand we're back! It's the Big One Quote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2007, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one) Localisations/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend. Two-way ties count. Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
It’s absurd to ask people not only to say things that are true, but also explain that they didn’t mean the untrue things that they didn’t say.
At Bondi on a Sunday afternoon during the holidays is like being stabbed directly in the heart of this country by a knife you didn’t even think could exist
Just fyi telling me that reaching into the back-seat to grab another beer while I'm speeding and steering with my knees is a breach of the social contract that should have legal consequences is actually super-carceral and anti-poor.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 11mo agoI think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
Reminded of a post describing Trumpism as “a nondenominational movement of the American scum”
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 11mo agoNigel Farage's electoral coalition now runs from James Orr to Bonnie Blue. Talk about cross-pressured.
I love having a pantry so big it needs aisles and has people who work there to keep it stocked for me, it’s wonderful
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last yr.I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store
