This is a perfectly fine thing to say. You’re not going to convince me that providing an off-ramp for “MAHA” is bad. She didn’t come out as anti-vax, she said people are mistrustful of food and drug industries. If we don’t speak to this, the right is free to contextualize the issue unopposed.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

If Bernie declining to answer a loaded question and instead banging his stump speech for the millionth time comes as a surprise to you I don’t know where you’ve been for the past decade.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Bernie Sanders refuses to say whether he regrets endorsing Platner

considering arguing about TTRPGs all day

Calling for a detente between libs and leftists so we can hold hands and look at charts together.

show this to a chart guy and it’ll shiver their timbers

I generally think it would be better if people with disagreements on here had good faith interactions without assuming malicious intent on the others side BUT I did just see a prominent ragebaiter get mauled in their own comments and it was kinda funny

This discussion feels like it sorta misses the point. Lots of valid questions about this: Are we measuring the right things, what cues are the population responding to, etc. But “they’re wrong to believe the economy is in decline” seems like a conclusion you can’t draw without answering those first

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nobody is going to poor people and saying "You aren't poor." They are poor. We know they are poor. We don't like that they are poor. But for years the bulk of the American population has erroneously believed the economy is declining, in ways that it empirically has not been. That's a big mystery.

I remember hearing “teach men not to rape” in undergrad and at the time I honestly found it condescending, but this is why that’s needed- if we don’t, men like this will teach young men and boys to rape. They reproduce that in their social groups and collectively make monsters out of themselves.

AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · 3w ago

No, this really really really is rape

Even the horse bot is saying it

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say Bluesky has an anomie problem

England vs Argentina, winner gets Hatsune Miku and the Falklands

i think it rules when wizards have flintlocks

Nobody wants to hear it but this is dead on

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't think I can take anymore how much of this community is built on just finding other people to do weird performative hate rituals around

Heartened to see DSA’s experiencing tremendous success, but I think this breakthrough will mark a transition where the Democratic Party might begin to treat them less like an obnoxious fringe and more like a real threat. That’s a necessary battle, but it’s gonna be nasty.

It’s about how, after roe v. wade, one side recognizing they were engaged in and committed to a political struggle and the other side said welp we’re sure glad that courts permanently ended that political struggle

Heidi Kitrosser@heidikitrosser.bsky.social · last mo.

Focusing here just on UE theory since it’s the topic of this week’s opinions that I know best: This is not about a legal movement winning the “battle of ideas.” It’s about a movement prevailing despite their ideas being pummeled again and again. What has prevailed is pure power, borne of 1/2

He would have become far too powerful

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein@deepcuts.blog · last mo.

"I always did want a motorcycle." —H. P. Lovecraft to Lillian D. Clark, 24 Aug 1925, LNY 184

It’s darkly funny seeing this exact script be passed around between progressives and moderates every election depending on who wins the primary. Trading vote blue no matter who for fuck your shitty candidate back and forth for all eternity.

Dinosaur Bob@dinosaurbob.bsky.social · last mo.

Destroy and smear him? If so called progressives didn’t understand there was a general election they’d have to win beyond the primary, that’s on them. We tried to tell ya’ll.

Mamdani also does an excellent job of connecting his incremental gains to an ideological project. That’s part of the sauce.

kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈@itskylelucas.com · last mo.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

I try to follow the most cringe resistlibs and the most cringe leftists and gleam divine truth from their interactions

If horror has a hero, it’s Bruce Campbell. Today we celebrate the birth of an enduring actor, producer, and legend. Happy birthday, sir, and thanks for changing the face (especially the chin) of the genre. We love you!

LLuM Actually Man is a goddamn hero

Teefa@tifaret.bsky.social · last mo.

Introducing LLuM Actually Man Issue No 1 (of 500000000)

Disclosure Day was dumb as hell I’m sorry Steven

He-Man movie ruled, sorry

the faux-feminism of harassing a random dude for writing for a specific niche audience and calling it misogynistic out of context - then when the guy apologizes because he's normal and doesn't want to upset people you declare it a great victory because you participated in a pointless social murder.

Tara Haelle@tarahaelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UPDATE: The journalist explained and apologized, and I’m genuinely impressed. Here are his three Threads posts and my reply to them.

I truly don’t understand the normielib fixation with disputing the reality of the affordability crisis. Is it just the vacuous reasoning of the middle class who can’t empathize? Excessive negative polarization from center Dems promising tax cuts as their remedy?

There’s truth to this, but then you scroll down to the first follow up and it’s more “wake up sheeple the economy is great!!” It’s the weirdest hill to die on.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The dirty secret of modern progressive politics is that the abandoned viewpoint of “workers should be paid generously for their labor” is the true progressive position, while “affordability” is a slopulist slogan that promises more consumer consumption to the most consumerist society in history

This is next level rage bait. People on this website are masters of the craft, they make it look effortless.

I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it

The fundamental truth missing in Bluesky discourse is that sometimes two things can be true. I need everyone to internalize that

We need another quarantine so everyone can watch the same two documentaries again and bring the country together, if only a moment