Game theory here: milquetoast presidencies like Kamala Harris’s would’ve been, while obviously better while in power, lay the groundwork for far-right politics by failing to solve the big issues and letting social progressivism be the face of that failure

one thing I notice about the literacy crisis is that people will say words that sound like the word they want but mean something completely different because the focus is on sound and not spelling for example I just heard someone say the word confiscate when they meant compensate

my policy has become no quarter, scorched earth: not only forbidden, but i tell them if they ever plan to use AI for any human intellectual work in the future, they need to admit to themselves they are a mentally self-enfeebled person, morally weak, and a disappointment to god

I've seen so much death on here and other platforms over the past two years, so many mangled bodies, so much gruesome inhumanity inflicted on Palestinians. It's moved me immensely. It's not digital. People are living and dying this hell. How the fuck has it not moved elites more.

The Democratic Party has made several mistakes these last 10 years but the biggest one (to me at least) has been relying heavily on current and former Republicans for political advice

like many things in 2020, this should have been a valuable lesson and turning point for us, but instead we memeified it into "nature is healing" jokes and then completely forgot about it once we sufficiently divorced them from their origin

"Silicon Valley is intentionally destroying the social fabric for profit" was the big elephant in the room of the last decade and nobody wanted to address it because their employees had pronouns in their email signatures

Hasn’t this country been at war for decades? Don’t our politicians brag about “maximum lethality”?

IDF soldiers keep saying publicly that they are routinely killing people at aid sites

Trump & Co understand that liberal institutions, long divorced from Labor or any of their radical elements, don’t have the language of solidarity. As they’re increasingly run by PR flacks, resume polishers and lawyers they are totally atomized and thus easy to pick off one by one

all other problems are this problem. all other discourse is a distraction from this

No one knows what is or isn't possible politically. Anyone who says they do is lying x.com/kenklippenstei…

People need to realize the Supreme Court has spent MOST of its history being a terrible institution that just rubber-stamps horrendous corruption, malfeasance, and violations of rights, and was only kind of functional as a pro-rule of law institution from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

you simply can't maintain a system that constantly makes honest decent people feel like they must be idiots for not defrauding their neighbors

One of the (many) benefits of dense urbanism is that old mills/warehouses are flexible enough in aesthetics and location to be converted into apts/social spaces/etc. What can you do with an ugly data center out on the county road when it outlives its (already dubious) usefulness?

New political strategy: support things that are true so that when the truth eventually comes out you are both popular and credible

the people constantly whining about how they want a cohesive high-trust society literally cannot understand it when they see one

All this on behalf of the Communists? All this on behalf of the Socialists? All this on behalf of the unionists? All this on behalf of the Jews? All this on behalf of me?

Confederate statues should've been like this