A huge percentage of articles in the Atlantic are just complaints about something the writer finds annoying or problematic, but are utterly banal. Even the transphobia articles basically follow this pattern
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h agoIf I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
the ragnarok lobster guy deleted all his posts about how haley stevens was gonna win. that’s how cold politics is. ragnarok lobster is abandoning you before the polls even close
Apparently this is not a popular opinion, especially with the hard-headed politics knowers. Appealing to shitty people is kind of how you get elected in this country; you can't win with just the votes of decent and upstanding people
pleonasm@pleonasmical.bsky.social · 2d agoPoliticians sometimes have to say unpalatable things to attract voters. As long as they're not adopting these policies, I couldn't care less about pandering, especially because it's not something that generally loses votes
Fantastic article. I especially liked the often-overlooked insight that plenty of Chinese people are just as down on AI as many Americans, and the reminder that we share many of the same problems is welcome, too.
Evan Osnos@eosnos.bsky.social · 2d ago5/5 The contest is not simply over speed. China has too much power in Xi and his cohort; America has too much in Trump and his Silicon Valley allies. The edge will go to the country that resists ideology and corruption—and gives people agency in their future. Read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
People can keep doing his show, he's no worse than like Jake Tapper, but it drives me nuts how many people in DSA think he's good rather than periodically useful and someone we should be ready to dump in a ditch when it helps us.
NOW OUT: I looked at all the states the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to be the new batch of early states and gave a demographic and electoral overview of them, as well as what faction in the Democratic Party will have an edge. LINK: electioncord.com/the-new-earl...
The New Early States in 2028: What Faction Benefits?
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The other thing is the average moderate Democrat is a moderate Democrat because they believe institutions as they exist are amazing and perfect and the bestest thing ever, it's just not an ideology compatible with the current time
it's a low key thermonuclear bomb of truth that some polls show that a majority of Dem voters would support war reparations to Iran
Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 3d agoA growing number of Americans, including 58% of Democrats, say the US should be responsible for some reparations to Iran for war damage - a measurable increase from the previous week.
A lot of lefties will bash liberals because they tend to be more exposed to liberal politicians than most, but the average liberal voter is an intelligent and empathetic person who is invested in bettering the world
I get that people are concerned about this, but the question we should be asking is "can Mike Rogers outrun a D+10 national environment?" I really think the answer is "no", because he couldn't win in 2024, and that was nowhere near as good for Dems
Is there any political party that spends as much time bashing its voters as the Democrats do? This is absurd as a matter of pragmatism (swing-state candidates don't seem to have any special national appeal) but even dumber as a matter of party policy
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3d agoI really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.
Something that's really struck me over the past two years is just how much the average Democrat is a good-faith actor—and how much they dislike seeing Democratic candidates adopt bad-faith positions
