Abdul won, and everybody should be rallying around him. It’s important that we defeat Rogers and take back the Senate to effectively end Trump’s second term. Ignore anybody telling you otherwise. We can get back to fighting with each other after the general election.

It will never cease to amaze me how we had a panic over Mamdani far more intense than the one over a Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner, even including the last-minute collapse of Platner's campaign in the face of literal rape allegations.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 14h ago

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

I know it's awfully cliché, but...Steve Jobs. Steve fucking Jobs went into this rabbit hole and died of a preventable type of cancer *because* he went into the homeopathy bullshit. The dude had no problems affording any kind of healthcare, had he wanted it!

Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d ago

She was a close friend of the family and she's gone directly because of the same societal goddamn poison thats now MAHA. Fuck AOC for entertaining this shit it's not a goddamn "unaffordable healthcare" issue, they had enough to get proper treatment, it's a fucking deranged idiot crank issue

The Jan. 6 attackers’ victory looks short lived. They got an anti-Constitution leader and their criminal convictions undone (though some got arrested for new offenses). But Team Trump’s failing at authoritarian consolidation. Still, they won. Some got jobs in a new secret police. It’s awfully dark.

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

nytimes.com

what level of terminally online is it when you just forget that actually not everyone on your phone knows you and trusts you

Batman, it's because Batman. But Batman as a premise is...weird, like, a great man—a vigilante, truthfully—who disregards a corrupt society and enforces his own law because that society is corrupt? I don't see a liberal or socialist way to adapt Batman, no matter how you look at it.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just heard an interview with Nolan and he was talking about the Ancient Greek law of hospitality and how it applies to us now and how society depends on us taking care of each other, and please, tell me about how Nolan is a conservative filmmaker again.

Saying this about discworld like it has some serious bearing on reality is very weird. Libertarians who think Atlas Shrugged outweighs all of economics, are in fact wrong and they shouldn't believe that. Fiction is not a good source of true facts about the world.

The chad "I believe very very hard in the things I believe in" versus the virgin "I actually have in-depth knowledge of the subject matter at hand," I suppose.

Adina M. Yoffie@adinayoffie.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is one of these things that social media has shown more clearly than anything else. Oh, I studied history at universities for a decade, but you went to three DSA meetings and read five X threads, so I guess we’re the same?

As long as you avoid 4 or 5 hot topics or have the appropriate views on them, then yes. However, if you’re someone who say posts about the Middle East and don’t think Israel is the most evil think since ever then this place can be as bad as X. There’s a couple of other issues the same.

How you reached a certain conclusion matters almost as much as the conclusion you've reached. The method speaks volumes, perhaps moreso than the result, about your thought process, worldview, biases, faults, and so forth.

Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2d ago

This was Dan Olson’s disagreement with Hbomberguy on the topic of flat earthers. Hbomberguy’s video had the thesis “ the Earth isn’t flat but you’re right that there’s something wrong with society” and then Dan responded “you’re seeing common ground that isn’t there, they’re insane and dangerous”

Honestly, filtering for, "the Nazis were bad, Stalin was bad, the correct side won WWII" is the easiest way to filter out 90+% of bad faith interlocutors if only everyone was honest about their views but the fascists and tankies know this and so sometimes falsify their opinions strategically.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

WWII propaganda is good actually

Humans handle everything with which they interact as a social construct. Our most basic needs, food, urination, defecation, sex, they are enveloped in layers and layers of social constructs. Something is a "social construct"? Sure, and the water is wet, I suppose.

I'm not going to be gaslit anymore about whether this guy is an anti-Semite. Everyone who defends him is also incredibly suspect.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

Just a tip, run far away from anyone who says you need to “take your country back” especially if it’s from a nebulous cabal of boogiemen that they can amend when the situations suits them.

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

In the worst case scenario, he's the kind of ally who'd tell the secret police where you live because you are insufficiently loyal to the great cause. You do you, but I'm not giving this guy the time of day. We do not, in fact, need our own Joe Rogan. Especially when he acts just like Joe Rogan.

Obviously a line exists. You knew perfectly well MTG, Platner, Tucker Carlson and the like are disingenuous and not to be invited into the big tent. I can't see how Piker is that different. In the BEST case scenario, he's a conspiracy theorist who occasionally celebrates people being killed.

"I want the cheapest thing that does not instantly shatter" is probably the correct buying decision for 90% of crap as well. There is a very solid tier of stuff right above Shein level where it just works and also costs almost no money and that's where the demand is.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

the only revolution realistically on the table in this country is a fascist one whether its proud boys or red-painted fascists doesn't matter, you still have angry men with vigilante fantasies getting free reign to act out the worst impulses of our"hollywood action movies are real life" ass culture

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d ago

I highly recommend reading this if you want to know exactly how a revolution in this country would go, who would be fighting it, and the moral character of the kinds of leftist who arm themselves www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

dawg this takes like two computers you do not need a data center for this

@migas7.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Remember that time the Supreme Court had a man murdered for literally no reason? "Yes, the evidence seems to exonerate the suspect. Yes, both the prosecutor and the victim's family oppose the execution. However, we simply desire to kill this man."

Supreme Court rejects final request to halt execution of Marcellus Williams

A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state to proceed with its plan to execute him.

pbs.org

Good, it can fuck right off.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

They either think (a) winning the elections forever is actually, genuinely possible, or (b) they don't believe in elections and democracy. And as always there's obligatory (c), they're just an internet troll who doesn't mean anything they write.

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 4d ago

On both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.

On both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.

People want a Wicker Man to make the harvest good again. I think we should put the Nazi guys who deserve to be burned alive in the Wicker Man.

wilp@youaretraffic.bsky.social · 5d ago

if voters think democrats are weak on crime, one weird trick to fix it and other problems would be burying miller under the jail

Unfortunately no. I don't think we will see America being the ally it once was ever again in our lifetimes, even if Trump goes. He's dealt an unimaginable blow to US reputation and reliability.

Dr Paul Lee@drpaullee.bsky.social · 4d ago

When Trump goes, or is deposed, do you imagine all those countries he's pissed off will come back to the US? I doubt it.

So I'm really engrossed in American Bluesky obviously because a lot of the people I follow are American, but uh I actually happen to be Turkish(-Canadian). But I don't post a lot about Turkish politics, and to be entirely honest, I don't like that. There are a few reasons, though.

capitalism is when things I don't like exist

Mei, lvl. 38 Warlock of the Expensive Paper@meithemouse.bsky.social · 6d ago

I do think a lot of folks really don't understand that Capitalism is, in fact, a specific kind of economic structure, and not the original sin of mankind. (Redacted cause it's more illustrative of an issue in left-of-center politics and not the posters in particular)

There's a "flirting outside of dating apps is immoral norm" among Gen Z? Holy shit am I glad I'm neither Gen Z or in the Anglosphere, that shit is depressing as all hell. So brainwashed by capitalism that even flirtation and love has to be a product. No concept of organic relationships.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think we should combine philosophy BlueSky's position that "flirting can be unintentional" with the emerging Gen Z norm that "flirting outside of dating apps is immoral" to create the most neurotic generation ever before seen.