SleepingGiant
@sleepinggiant69.bsky.social
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" Fighting for a liberal socialism that knows how to fight Queer as fuck. He/him/they
Massive Republican L! Get fucked losers!
Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 20h agoDecision Desk HQ projects No wins the Missouri Amendment 4 - Require Congressional District Approval for Constitutional Amendments, Ban Foreign Contributions, and Penalize Petition Fraud #DecisionMade: 8:16 PM EDT
i love that there is a guy who makes people so mad that him saying "fiction is fictional" yields "OH MY GOD UR SO DUMB FICTION IS AT LEAST LOOSELY BASED IN REALITY UNLIKE ECONOMICS"
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
Like a decade ago, I thought that, despite being a liberal, I would be uniquely situated to interact with marxists, because I have read quite a lot of Marx and I'm quite sympathetic to much of it. Sadly, I didn't account for the complication that marxists don't actually read Marx
"there's nothing we can do" says the limp noodle who caved under zero fucking pressure
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
Reminds me of my friend who thinks climate change is gonna destroy us in ten years if we don't do anything, but she refuses to make any personal changes to help the environment cause "it's not on her to fix it"
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2d agoI swear to god "professes to be radical left, but spends most of their time complaining about the cost of cheeseburgers and that their household wares are too cheaply made" is an unholy political chimera forged in the consumerist heart of American society to torment me, specifically
I swear to god "professes to be radical left, but spends most of their time complaining about the cost of cheeseburgers and that their household wares are too cheaply made" is an unholy political chimera forged in the consumerist heart of American society to torment me, specifically
Extremely related point: people don’t want to pay more for quality, they want to be cheap and complain!
Reconstruction 3 Enthusiast@squalortoballer.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is why flying is bad now. People will say they want full service airlines and wax nostaligic about the golden age of jet travel (when it was unaffordable), but revealed preferences are that people choose the lowest up front price option when spending their own money.
Blaming this on villainous far-away capitalists is what the kids call “cope.”
Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.
Consumers used to select their purchases from what was available at local stores, which were stocked with goods chosen by professional buyers looking for quality and value.
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.
You want to fight ICE? Don't strap up. Go talk to your neighbors, get into a Signal chat together, talk to immigrant communities about vulnerable spots, start making a list of known ICE cars. Start learning how to quickly identify a potential undercover car. They're easy to see once you know how.
Please take my word for this: absolutely nothing makes ICE angrier than being legally, lawfully monitored by concerned citizens. It makes it much harder for them to use their lazy snatch-and-grab tactics, and they cannot do much about it. It turns their own violent methods against them.
Guys, the best weapons to protect your neighbors from ICE are NOT GUNS They are CAMERAS, WHISTLES, and a well-organized RAPID RESPONSE AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SYSTEM. ICE is better-armed than you'll ever be. But they like to rely on secrecy, and you can make it much harder for them to be secret.
Hank Green obviously should have used normal Google results (which haven't worked for the better part of a decade) to help him research. The last thing I'd want him to use is more effective research tools
Guys, Platner was the left-wing candidate in Maine. The weird attempt to retcon this away is really irritating.
The Left should have some deep moments of reflection and 'what the Hell is wrong with us, we need to stop this shit now' over Gabbard, Fetterman, RFK, Williamson, and Platner but it won't because you don't join the modern Left for self-reflection.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 5d agoGuys, Platner was the left-wing candidate in Maine. The weird attempt to retcon this away is really irritating.
My ideology cannot fail, it can only be failed. Also in this specific case people got caught up by gender and it bit them in the ass.
"with some troubled moments" Begging media people like Nate to stop downplaying the actions Puka, AN ADULT MAN, willingly took! He assaulted a woman and made multiple antisemitic comments. Calling them "troubled moments" is like calling a pile of dog shit an "interesting artistic expression"
Nate Atkins@nateatkins.bsky.social · 5d agoOn Puka Nacua, the star of Rams training camp, and the transformation in his life that has to take place right now: www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
the Carpetbagger of the Mag Mile (carpetmagger?) going full Protocols was certainly very offensive, but the armies of people on this website who are presumably literate in English pretending that they suddenly don't understand what it means for an election to be "bought" might be even more so
This is sore loser shit. AIPAC didn't like Biss, either, they just liked you even less. And they aren't powerful enough to buy an election anywhere. Keep this up and you're gonna go into full triple parenthesis conspiracy territory.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 6d agoAIPAC may have bought our election in Illinois, but we're not going to let that happen in Michigan. 5 days left to make them panic. Vote for Abdul on or before August 4th.
Kat Abu had this one shining moment where she was genuinely admirable and she's squandering all of it by being an entitled sore loser chasing donations from weird dirtbag leftists.
“A shadowy cabal of Jewish paymasters are controlling our leaders from the shadows” was the thesis of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They can’t even keep their anti-semitism original!
No one should feel bad about that. I have the authority to make that declaration.
but tell me again how it's "libshit" to think how unhinged people are being about this man
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d agoWell some nutjob of some description definitely thought they were doing something hardcore here
The only thing scary about Puka is the fact everyone is willing to look past the fact he assaulted a woman this year because he "looks scary on the field"
Nate Atkins@nateatkins.bsky.social · 6d agoPuka Nacua has been the superstar of Rams training camp so far. He’s looking and moving a little bit different, which is scary. And yesterday was the most I’ve seen him open up on what has to happen in his personal life to make his dreams a reality: www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
Im always reluctant to lock in any predictions given how insane our current moment is, but right now "the cyclosporiasis outbreak is eclipsed by the amount of pantshitting observed in GOP strategists October-November 2026" definitely feels *on the table*
