Markets are best at the decentralized satiation of complex particular desires & preferences. And thus wherever a corporation/state couldn't rent seek, central plan, enshittify, etc, shit improved incredibly since 1986. Every single consumer electronic. Clothing is better. Even sex is better.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.

people rightly horrified at "i dont wipe my ass" but dont sleep on "pooping gets me off"

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

"say what you want about the taliban at least they know what a woman is"

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last mo.

It really is fascinating how Bindel tossed in with the NatCons at Compact Magazine:

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

theintercept.com

the point of contrived moral dilemmas like the trolley problem is to trick people into entertaining the thought of committing atrocities everything about these scenarios is imaginary and improbable and designed to make you accept bureaucratic murder as a banal inevitability

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 24h ago

One reason I don’t like the trolley problem is because are we supposing people can’t get out of the way

To the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.

PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d ago

You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.

maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam

Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.

newrepublic.com

Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Oh so we're just doing old school medieval European antisemitism now. No sugar coating, no dog whistles, just "Jews are the devil," right there on main. Very cool. Awesome. Love that for us.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

“Fund the police” was very cute, very clever, until your popularity with Black male voters dropped and the police unions endorsed the guy who launched January 6 anyway

Tongue in cheek. But in all seriousness, this really is the Trump/Hegseth/MAGA/Manosphere theory of war. Both in the literal sense that cartoonish displays of try-hard toughness are key to defeating enemies, and in the meta sense that their war effort prioritizes memes for their domestic audience.

Uncle Tifa@labboypro.bsky.social · 24h ago

"Mister international relations professor, you just don't understand modern warfare"

This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

This is what a decade of Trumpism has encouraged -- a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Colorado who's unsure of how many people he's killed but positive that his Jewish opponent is a tool of Satan. These people were in the tent before, but the rest of the party seemed embarrassed about them. No more!

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

franco and pinochet are fascism without the whiff of gas chambers

People frequently make this claim and the evidence is comparing like a Master Electrician to a typical college grad, but you don't become a Master Electrician straight out of trade school! The path to the "good" trade jobs in many markets are often highly constrained by cronyism and nepotism

atomic bog@jessicapancakes.bsky.social · yesterday

ok but its also a better financial investment right now by a HUGE margin

Not sure if any of you saw this @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social essay, but it fits into what you’re discussing here, and the piece has stuck with me. It’s about the pornification of right-wing politics, with both gendered and racial aspects.

The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything

Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.

liberalcurrents.com

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

This is a good example of the way appeals like “we’re going to protect women whether they like it or not” garnered support from a majority of white women voters; the hypothetical pedestal promises visibility and value in a way that’s otherwise denied.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

as disturbing as these terrorposts are, remember that this cosplay james bond airhead started out as a dimestore ragebait troll and is only a somebody because fascism elevates nobodies he is maga in miniature: a loser who rose through party ranks to become a mover; a mediocrity playing make believe

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

It has always annoyed me that people on the right could openly post shit like this on their public social media and like, it never gets reported on. Like this should be a big deal!

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Many say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

you don't have shame? don't worry we'll be ashamed for you

Betsy Humphrey@betsyvt.bsky.social · yesterday

They may be shameless, but shunning, booing and not accepting them into public spaces is the correct response.

That one sect of dominators want to sexually exploit and degrade women & the other wants to lock their sexuality up are simply different wishes from among the supreme class of dominating men. Neither want women to be free, & that's plenty for an effective political coalition.

That's right; "domination" is a state in which the dominated's will, wishes, or agency is entirely subordinated to the will, wishes, or agency of the dominator. The unity of the pervert & the preacher is on social & political arrangements facilitating that state for women.

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.