You know, the one notable U.S. founding father I'll put in any effort to bother doing a bare minimum nod of approval for? Benjamin Franklin. Boy howdy, did that fella go into character development overdrive to atone for his support and participation in human slavery before he died.

If you're the type of weak-willed submissive who vote shames leftists for not participating in electorialism even despite the existential fact many of them focus on doing more bonafide forms of direct action, you're not a serious person who is deserving of a serious political conversation.

Color me non-shocked neoliberals get scratched and become bleeding fascists in opposing taxes subsidizing neat and helpful stuff.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

It's funny how the correct straightforward answer to getting the state out of something is to decentralize that something entirely. And I was so embarrassingly close to getting that back when I was an "an"cap but was stopped by the whole misguided belief capitalism was divorced from statism.

Let's be real: MAHA members have ease of access to all sorts of certified education sources regarding health. They have refused to willfully look into it and actively do their damndest to make it their self-interest not to. You don't try to reach out to folk who are that keen to spread death.

It's weird when people bristle at the idea of abolishing billionaires. Are you a billionaire? Is your mum one? Why do you care? It would be good to abolish billionaires. More money for public services, less money for them to buy rape islands.

If we can move past the irrational idea that monarchism is good and desirable then we can move past this beyond stale idea that electorialism is too. It's absolutely doable.

Every Dearborn scapegoater who has the audacity to blame the Muslims in Michigan for Trump — blame godawful neoliberal Democrats deliberately pissing them off instead by the way — but who are also getting pissed at a Muslim man about to pull off underdog victory are the pinnacle of unserious losers.

Karl Popper produced the paradox of tolerance: one of the most effective anti-fascist methods of undermining oppression. Yet he refused to put it into himself by instead willfully helping the Mont Pelerin Society's efforts to normalize fascist enabling neoliberalism. Incoherent as all hell mofo.

Anyone who spouts that beyond garbage "white replacement" nonsense is an unlikeable authoritarian illiterate who actively refuses to do everything they can to not willfully put the phrase "population dynamics" into a web search engine. The right can't research stuff they demand other people do.

So the new Bluesky CEO is just as much of an unlikeable fascism enabling neoliberal as his predecessor was.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

A left-leaning Muslim like Mamdani winning New York against an incumbent neoliberal was an underdog victory that broke half of the brains of right-wing Democrats. So what'll happen when another left-leaning Muslim does the same thing in the same year in Michigan? Fascists are gonna bleed but good.

Any neoliberal who tries the "big tent" talking point is admitting, tongue in fascist enabling mouth, that they despise the paradox of tolerance. They hate it applied to them by folk who actually clear the minimum bar in opposing the authoritarianism they support. It's a weak whine. Ignore it.

"Democratic socialists will destroy the Democrats." If the DSA was a genuinely radical anti-authoritarian group, I'd be gleefully supporting them if that was their actual intention. But, no, they want to make the party center-left. And if it gets destroyed from that attempt, cool, I'll take it.

Submissively licking the boot of authoritarians when they demand it will still result in you getting kicked by them anyway.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

Taking up firearms, or whatever weapon you can get a hold of, against fascism is GOOD. That is applaudable anti-authoritarian behavior. So, of course, the fascist enabling neoliberals are gonna absurdly hate on such rational behavior.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 4d ago

We seem to be tripling down on a really bad piece and I’ll just register my disappointment. (Alex Pretti was armed. I’ll wait for an explanation as to how that was bad/ineffective)

The conventional wisdom that you had to be ironclad in support of Israel and even genuflect to a series of absurd, exceptional demands like "right to exist as a Jewish state" and "right to [offensively] defend itself" is dead. A lot of people are just mad that it's dead. Sorry.

The question of whether you support open or closed borders is a false dichotomy of choice. There's another option that actually does qualify as the absolutely correct one. Borders are fantasy used to undermine the ability to travel freely. They're a fiction that can neither be shut nor closed.

"Just want to state I was asked by Amnesty to perform at today’s event but told to behave myself and not open my mouth about anything So I told them go fuck themselves for hypocrisy in celebrating women’s freedom while telling me to shut up." — Sinead O’Connor June 2012 #Amnesty

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Smug online Brits are wont to brag about how more straightforward and less dysfunctional their state system of government is. And I can't help but notice how that's actually a problem. Because the fascism happening over there has had a easier time getting shit done due in large part to that fact.

The "constitution doesn't allow that" retort that sycophants adore doing? That is just saying "I sacredly prioritize anti-democratic documents made by long dead authoritarians ahead of helping make things better for my fellow individuals." Fuck constitutions. Stop looking to them for permission!

See this fella here, y'all? This is a textbook muckraker. This is a genuine journalist.

Decensored News@decensored.news · 6d ago

MUST SEE: Journalist @samhusseini.bsky.social confronts Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer at a “Combating Corruption” event about his support for Israel "You talk about corruption.... what could be more corrupt than backing genocide??"

The Ken Jennings shit is just the Hogwarts Legacy shit again. You *could* just play your NYT games and read your NYT subscription and *not talk about it* and nobody would know about your hypocrisy. But no, you need to be able to flaunt your hypocrisy *and* be celebrated for it.

Remember: whenever any Zionist has the audacity to claim opposing a Jewish nation-state is bigotry, that's easy to counter as God himself condemns that in the first book of Samuel. Traditional Judaism opposes authoritarianism like statism. You are being anti-Jewish for insisting otherwise.

Centrists are self-hating right-wingers who have zero bravery to be that honest about that. And this demand for Democrats to be an at bare minimum center-left opposition party? It has pushed them into the corner to be committed. They're replying with, "we're not answering in the most horrid way."

Adam H Johnson@ahjohnson.bsky.social · last wk.

Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

Oh look. The evil smooth talking right-wing neoliberal grifter so many Canucks willfully gave sanction to boss them around has let a mass murdering war criminal escape blowback... again.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

Mark Carney just allowed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through Canada despite a warrant for his arrest and the country being a signatory to the Rome Statute. We have aided and embedded one of history's greatest monsters

I don't trust so-called "anti-authoritarian parents" who get absurdly kneejerk when you ask in good faith what they've done to facilitate the emancipation of their children and if they support it for youth in general. Because that reactive reply? That underlines they don't support youth liberation.

Appealing to reifications like legality isn't just a fallacy but not a gotcha to justify the authoritarianism it was crafted to help justify, normies. And even the most coherent of socialists will tell you the same thing.

If Rosa Luxemburg was alive today, it's a guarantee she'd be telling center-leftists who win office to live up to their claims of being "socialists" in getting their coherency game together and dismantling the state. And she'd be getting absurdly shit on for doing it as she did in the 1910s.