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Liberals stop hating & eroding liberalism challenge. Difficulty: impossible

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

call me old fashioned but think if you want to call yourself a popularist, you should actually advocate for things that are popular.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

for all you wondering if the guardian was gonna change its tune after dumping the observer. nope. they're back on their transphobic bullshit again. denying science, pushing alternate facts, and medical disinformation.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

the issue is that leftist Joe Rogan is just Chapo.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I have a hard time blaming people who taken in by a heavily orchestrated all-channels horseshit campaign. If every TV they turned on, every radio station they tuned into and every paper they opened was telling them it was vital to push the button, then of course lots of us would push the button.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Right because they know they can't win a battle over policy by convincing anyone of the merits of their policy. So the strategy has always been arguing that other people like it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yglesias refuses to update his priors with data. It's lazy When the Garcia news broke, these people said that "raising the salience" of immigration would be bad for Dems. But addressing the issue decreased Trump's approval and support for deportations, in both experiments and observational data.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Somehow seems that despite all the big success stories of politics over the last three decades, we're averse to concluding "people who appear to believe in something sincerely are popular, being the kind of person perceived as someone who would say anything to get elected is unpopular"

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

"Ms. Rachel sparked controversy last month when a 3-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her legs in an airstrike danced and sang in one of her videos." How can anybody write this and not feel insane, lol.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"CentristFest" off to a predictable start: —Condescending ("Politics" isn't changing people's minds, it's treating them like Unchangeable Rubes) —No conviction (if polls say people don't like something, why fight for it?) —Lies (Don't Say Gay bill actually polled negatively)

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I’m not alone in this revelation or anything but it would be great if Democrats actually noticed Republicans aren’t getting agitated and defensive about taco trucks or raising the debt. They’re getting agitated and defensive when you point out their budget bill will kill people.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Ukrainians, of course, don't conscript, under 25s. I'd be interested in the polling on national service but for, say, 25-40s or 50s - 65s. You know, the age groups which are actually serving in Europe's largest land war since WW2. Suspect we'd see very different (and outraged) responses

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Today is the day that my friend Andrew is travelling to the hospital ahead of his emergency surgery on Thursday. He has a 16 hour train journey to get through! If all goes well to stabilise him, then comes the more specialist surgery in Germany. If you can help, even with a share, please do.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Martin Luther King: How the greatest activist of his generation was stripped of his political meaning by the American right and turned into a can't-we-all-get-along funko doll.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

It's fascinating how every election the right of the Democrats (and UK Labour come to that) just bring out a big report which says "what if we just did the things which are inour comfort zone?"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This group exists for the specific purpose of trying to get Dems to throw trans people under the bus.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

She's 100% coming for lesbians eventually

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

It's sort of fascinating how the Dem's response to losing in 2024 is just to sort of pretend Liz Warren of Bernie Sanders won in 2020. Like they picked the most moderate candidate in 2020. They lost in 2024 on a campaign that regularly acted as a booster for Liz Cheyne.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Groups like the ADL are, at least in part, upset that many fewer young Americans see Israel as a liberal democracy today than saw it that way 10 or 20 years ago, so their solution is to associate the state of Israel with creeping illiberalism in the US, too, which will surely solve the problem.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont. A Palestinian six-year-old was murdered by his pro-Israel landlord. A Texas woman was indicted for trying to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian girl. We don't have to make this comparison to condemn what happened in Boulder on Sunday. We really don't.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 3 days ago • 860 comments

This makes it sound like some unreconcilable contradiction as opposed to a nakedly cynical use of antisemitism as a fig leaf

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

US: AIDS Action Baltimore needs you to read this thread, understand how the proposed change would politicize science, then submit a comment protesting it here.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

People wanting taxes raised on people who aren't them is pretty normal actually, especially given that rich people are getting more and more money in the current economic settlement.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We've already made too many concessions across the education system, including at university level, to the demands of employers seemingly unwilling to invest adequately in their own workplace training.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

imo at some point people treating public opinion like a wild irrational animal by yelling 'omg the PUBLIC wants CONTRADICTORY THINGS' every time a poll comes out are doing much more to reinforce the political dynamics they're complaining about than they realise

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments