Unbelievably correct diagnosis of how the left is thus far fumbling the anti-AI lane in politics. Really disheartening stuff. We should already *at a minimum* have draft laws, white papers, policy proposals. Educating people about the very plausible risks to democracy.

You don’t “recruit” a presidential candidate. This falsely posits socialist politics as something contrived by insiders and org leaders. Socialism’s national ascendancy must be *mass* constructed, it isn’t a backroom decision on the basis of A or B candidates’ moral “superiority”

Even most smart people don’t grasp how just radical and off putting this is to normies. The idea that this seat is owed to gay person—presumably forever—with no substantive ideological or political debate, simply because it includes famous gay neighborhoods is impossibly extreme.

Village mindset. Many leftists are chiefly concerned with looking inward and regulating the belief and behavior of “the community,” meaning an imagined community of other leftists. In such a hypothetical group, one might reasonably assume that Obama is viewed unfavorably, while

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own

Vance Boelter killed Melissa Hortman. Police let her die. Any Hennepin County Attorney candidate seeking the DFL endorsement needs to commit to investigating these negligent officers and pursuing any and all legal recourse.

Data Centers are a complicated issue. I have to weigh my hatred of Big Tech vs my desire to see rural communities destroyed

“People have asked me why I don’t just drop the price again, but I refuse to give my home away cheaply just because of the ridiculous economic climate we’re in.” Remember that struggling young people should just pick up more work, and lose the avocado toast, but older people

I think it’s unironically great that Our Revolution endorsed the billionaire YIMBY candidate. Policy positions are what matter and he’s the only one serious about taking on prop 13.

I have full confidence that Western civilization will survive -- in Tehran and Beijing if not in Europe and North America.

Unrepresentative like a primary skewed to outside money over Minnesota voters? Both systems have problems but I'll take my neighbors or Angie's PAC money any day.

I haven’t yet been able to bring myself to read this, but if we’re gonna do this insane thing where we do not live in a society and instead allow “personal choice” in things like vaccination and owning guns then it needs to come with personal responsibility. Your unvaccinated kid

No you don't see My Culture is uniquely collectivist and therefore suited to socialism which makes class conflict unnecessary. Therefore we can just nationalize some industries and parcel them out to my friends and extended family members to run and boom. Socialism established.

Says a lot that the Green Party nominee is to the right of a billionaire on trans rights and abortion.

A warrant is meaningless if cops are unwilling to bring other cops to justice. We all must confront this. It’s why they committed the crime and walked away from the scene in the first place, all the calls about ICE assaults went ignored

This is incredible reporting. Mapping one cop's driving like an epidemic is perfect

This is the extremism that has given the Dems an extreme reputation. It's not left-wing cultural positions that were never adopted, it's the idea that the very word "genocide" is racist and antisemitic, and innumerable other extreme views on identity politics that they embraced.