glad to see that it's starting to become general knowledge that sunrise is wreckers and sucks shit

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl

People who study Western civilization would have all of these people hanged.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hegseth: "We need students of western civilization and the pillars of our republic. Leaders who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of anthems -- Athens. The power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776."

We really should just send all of these people to die on Kharg. I don't even think Iran would mind.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."

He wrote a whole book about it.

When you're charismatic they let you do it.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mamdani: "We also know the president not just as the leader of the country, but also as someone who has built quite a lot of housing in our city."

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

This is, I think, an incorrect conclusion. There are a lot of things out there I would be happy to hear about that I would nevertheless not support, because it would be socially corrosive.

Center for Strategic Politics@stratpolitics.org · 3w ago

We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.

What drives normies into the hands of Republicans most easily is the idea that Democrats are up to awfully stupid shit.

Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve know a few people - many of whom are immigrants, many whom I would not consider MAGA at all - who hold the view that University of California not accepting standardized test scores for admission is the biggest sign California is off track. It’s… interesting.

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

"Talarico blew his lead by taking the 80 side of an 80-20 issue" is one of those things that has become folk wisdom on Bluesky despite being incredibly stupid on its face.

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 4w ago

"My point is there are people in Texas that will stay home and not vote for Talarico because of this 1 issue. And Paxton could win because of them." Right. So its very frustrating that he torched any lead he had by being transphobic. That is what is being pointed out.

I think trans people are capable of doing anything cis people can do, include being worthless wreckers who stump for Republicans along with the rest of the post-left. That's the magic of agency.

slow and steady wins the race

A whole parade of people who have never seriously reasoned through even the most basic problems doing windmill dunks on people who have.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

I don't think I've ever seen any other field where the experts are trying to warn people of the danger emanating from their field and then be dismissed as marketing.

There is a huge mass of apathetic voters *loud correct ding* Who can be rallied around an egalitarian/progressive/socialist cause *ear shatteringly loud incorrect buzzer*

my position is that Hasan is an obvious piece of shit, defending him is idiotic, and also he is wildly irrelevant to either the Democratic Party or the election.

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · last mo.

The thing is I don’t think he’s even sincere about the screenshot on the left. He knows he’s being hypocritical, and he enjoys saying the stuff about his factional enemies that they said about him two years ago. It’s trolling.

The thing about influencers is that their only interest is themselves and their own self-aggrandizement. They are all worth less than shit.

Vibecession Forever@ghazelleberner.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a hanging crime

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

it's come a long way, but video game romance has always struggled since the dating sim days to capture the complexity of dating as being more than than putting nice coins into the heroine until sex falls out

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

this is a big problem in a lot of video game writing, the inability to accept that a relationship may be better served by being honest or firm. except our problematic fave dragon age 2

They come from a specific human register — argumentative forum poster, rationalist-adjacent, "there's a lot of work being done by" as a phrase — that models absorbed from people writing like you. The causation runs the wrong way for you to have caught it from them. — I took 20d6 psychic damage.

I asked an AI if my Reddit posts sound like AI and I was roasted to death. — Short answer: no, these read as unmistakably human. But I can see why you'd worry, and there are a couple of specific constructions worth naming . . .

It seems like a design flaw that we have no realistically plausible means of imposing consequences on the people in our society with the most power to destroy the foundational principles and rules of our society

There's an asymmetry here, where Trump et al barely even pretend to be following the law or respecting the Constitution, and openly revel in how much they can destroy and steal, but when it comes time to impose any consequences on them, an innumerable list of objections must be overcome one by one

Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

i lost a friendly bet with an acquaintance on the scope of russia's special military operation. i really believed they wouldn't do it on the grounds that it's extremely dumb. an expensive lesson for me. tragically a significantly more expensive lesson for the rest of the world.

i dreamt a dream,@adistantdream.bsky.social · last mo.

"they wouldn't do that because it would be really dumb"

1. This guy is a fascist, and belongs under a jail. 2. You gotta take the Ws where you can find them. As much as it would be great to, we cannot literally eradicate all Republicans from public life. You need to peel some off and promise them amnesty if they'll help you shiv the rest.

Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · last mo.

Statement from Gov. Mike DeWine: "I think we have to ask ourselves: is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like this being picked up and facing deportation? Do we want that being done in our name?"

normal website for normal people

in particular it also seems to be a case of “surely the same list of reasons why they weren’t supposed to have invaded ukraine will stop them this time” because even in the age of trump cannot help but assume thT *other countries*, at least, are guided by reason and strategy over ideology and ego

this was unfortunately immediately relevant a lot sooner than i thought it would be

i dreamt a dream,@adistantdream.bsky.social · last mo.

Somewhere along those lines, you also have to think about which Walmarts to bomb and which people to kill. For that you need a priority list and for that you need a theory of power. If you put "Thompson" or "Israeli embassy staffers" or "Prairieland" near the top of your list your movement is NGMI.

they're starting to get into the "we should kill the applebees managers and single-property landlords" territory, which also goes a long way in explaining why everybody throughout history with any stake in the status quo suspects deep down the socialists really just do plan to kill them all.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last mo.

i genuinely fucking hate Luigi (a Elon-musk loving nepo baby) for opening this Pandora’s box of edgy faux-leftists who have never worked a desk job in their life celebrating the murder of anyone with a moderately successful private-sector career