theyre on to us

In "The Workers' Way to Freedom," Pannekoek warns that socialists in power often become "delegates of the capitalist class." When we hold office under capitalism, the pressure to manage the status quo, rather than transform it, is immense. 🧵 1/4

i often think about this review

how we got here

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Look at these numbers dude For the first time ever, a majority of Dems consider themselves progressives first, Democrats second If we don't try to run a progressive (and hopefully DSA!) candidate in every Dem primary, then we're a dead movement

Notice how Labour being anti-trans and copying dumbass Conservative policy and rhetoric hasn’t made them any more popular? Take notes centrist Dems. Being the worst of both worlds doesn’t make you “sensible,” it just makes you an ass.

Literally lol’ed fuck the haters this site rules

the thing that angers me the most is that i know my heart and my soul have been so hardened and damaged by the last decade that they’ll never fully recover. certain levels of peace and happiness just aren’t really available to me anymore and probably never will be again.

Correct. It is caustic for me to live my entire adult life having to hate these people. It is traumatic to live my entire adult life seeing how weakly even our allies respond to murder and fascism. Even if we win, we will bear these scars forever. I hate them for doing this to us.

do not join the federalist society, do not attend federalist society events, do not sit on federalist society panels, do not be polite to federalist society members, do not give tenure to federalist society members, do not publish their works

some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

Republicans are scum

Lorena O’Neil@lorenaoneil.com · last yr.

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

The White House doesn’t care about Garcia’s legal status because they’re not enforcing immigration law—they’re conducting ethnic cleansing. They can’t justify their actions legally, but they don’t think they need to.

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

You feckless coward. You should've passed the torch 10 years ago. Now we all die because of you selfish old fucks that couldn't face retirement. Now we face concentration camps and a fascist in total control of the govt. FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK

I’m sick and tired of whiny leaders of the only opposition with the power do anything using their time and space in the halls of power to pin all the responsibility on anyone but themselves. If you don’t want to do anything, retire and make your money like all your friends in political consulting.

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 2y ago

Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.

the problem with fascists is that the thing that made them fascists is abandoning reason in favor of indulgence in recreational cruelty. that means any attempt to engage with them in good faith just becomes another opportunity to indulge in cruelty, in bad faith. so they're permalocked

It’s very funny how for a week Dem leaders and media were like “We shouldn’t do the resistance thing this time” only to have Trump smash the country in the face and kick it right back up again. For some reason it’s the most powerful people who have the hardest time remembering this isn’t all a game

if both parties are the same you shouldn't notice any major policy shifts between administrations, and yet

Political press: "We'll have to see if the American people will tolerate a president who regularly violates the law" Trump: *immediately violates the law* Political press: "Today, in an extraordinary display of his unconventional leadership style, Trump defied legal norms"

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after