"We are no longer constrained by the respectability politics of yore because we’re not facing the Republican Party of yore. The fighting spirit of online millennial posters has finally leapt off the screen and into real life, and the Democratic Party is reaping the benefits." - ThreadSky

marisakabas.bsky.social • 185 days ago

"We are no longer constrained by the respectability politics of yore because we’re not facing the Republican Party of yore. The fighting spirit of online millennial posters has finally leapt off the screen and into real life, and the Democratic Party is reaping the benefits."

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leahshaffer.bsky.social•185 days ago

Yay! Let the eldritch millennials off leash, we are mean in the best way.

davidmack.bsky.social•185 days ago

The party's new mantra should be “When they go low, we stomp on their fascist necks.”

scottpearson.bsky.social•185 days ago

With high heels.

davidmack.bsky.social•185 days ago

What you wear to a curb-stomping is your business, Scott.

mattpt55.bsky.social•185 days ago

yanno, I had this thought the other day, semi related, that the first true expression of this was the Dean campaign and that Kerry and the DNC killed it dead....Kerry being the only candidate IIRC to lose the popular vote this century...and now that I google, back to '92 apparently... still stings..

jeof.bsky.social•185 days ago

This makes me feel completely vindcitated vs those saying "of course you realize that shitposting on social media is doing absolutely nothing right?"

I'm only partly kidding and I don't confine my activism or efforts to posting but when I see the P and VP candidates using ideas I first saw here....

marisakabas.bsky.social•185 days ago

yes! posting actually *can* be real life

jeof.bsky.social•185 days ago

People who doubt this need to look at Musk & Thiel saying right out loud that Elon should buy Twitter because it was providing a rare, non-right-wing-filtered platform for progressives and it "must die". They knew how dangerous to them and Trump it was, even while others were, and are, in denial.

wyobronco.bsky.social•185 days ago

But you have to be about more than who has the better insults, it doesn’t have to be a rush to the bottom. Remember the wrestling a pig analogy

nicholasventure.bsky.social•185 days ago

poyoboyo.bsky.social•185 days ago

they go low, we call them out and laugh at them is a much better premise than we go high. great piece! i sent the video of lil john to my hs bestie because it was so middle school! lmao

marisakabas.bsky.social•185 days ago

thanks for reading!

kimoco.bsky.social•185 days ago

As a boomer, I am thrilled about this turn of events!

daviddaniel.bsky.social•185 days ago

Love it: Millennials helping usher in the first Gen X president. (And while Walz is on the cusp, Harris is definitely Gen X, as she was born after the Keanu Demarcation, 9/2/1964).

anajones.bsky.social•185 days ago

Shitpost like the wind!

bobsyouruncle.bsky.social•185 days ago

As much as I enjoyed her speech I can’t get the image of Michelle hugging a war criminal out of my head. Yuck. wtf she was thinking.
I’m glad the new kids have taken over.

sammywhammy59.bsky.social•185 days ago

well she's married to one i think she sleeps fairly easily

bobsyouruncle.bsky.social•185 days ago

Yet another reason I’m pretty much done with her

shabbytigers.bsky.social•185 days ago

fair assessment vibewise, but speaking as a genxer whose cohort is more or less being skipped i really couldn’t care less who’s doing it as long as they’re doing it. the whole generation thing is some kinda pure ideology

marisakabas.bsky.social•185 days ago

Excluding Palestinian speakers "feels like one spot where the old guard pulled rank, and the traditional party attitudes towards the US/Israel relationship superseded an opportunity for Harris/Walz to distinguish themselves from the current administration on a dire issue that isn’t going away."

ryanhindinger.bsky.social•185 days ago

I really think this is about clean messaging. Everything about this DNC has been domestically focused. Joy v. J6. Normal v. Weird. The situation in Gaza and our governments’ current & historical fuckups there are huge, but the DNC isn’t that platform and it has to be coordinated to do ONE thing.

dickardo.bsky.social•185 days ago

I would love to believe this but the pictures of everyone trying to be cute for the camera while covering their ears to not hear the names of murdered kids were all painfully millennial.

anxioudacity.bsky.social•185 days ago

Are those the ones where someone was shouting them into people’s faces with bullhorns?

rk70534.bsky.social•185 days ago

If one can't handle hearing names of murdered children being shouted into your ears, you shouldn't be in politics.

There's this strange demand that people in politics should be allowed to live utterly sheltered lives.

thomasfuchs.at•185 days ago

They also have a lot of old guard pulling rank in tech and other areas, e.g. the support for KOSA.

murph612.bsky.social•185 days ago

So much for inclusion and “everybody in the big tent”. Infuriating. And the videos of attendees mocking protesters reading names of deceased is vile and won’t create more new voters once that gets around.

ww8u.bsky.social•185 days ago

I have always thought when they go low we should go to that elevation.

indyfromspace.bsky.social•185 days ago

So, so good

marisakabas.bsky.social•185 days ago

thanks, sarah!!

kevincarson1.bsky.social•184 days ago

It would also be nice if the old "reach across the aisle" approach to getting legislation through Congress were replaced by "rip em a new asshole."
Maybe if Obama had taken that approach in 2009 we wouldn't be in this mess now.

kevincarson1.bsky.social•184 days ago

It was an unfortunate effect of politicians from a ward-heeler background being replaced by managerial-professional types whose first impulse was always to tell the teacher.
Truman and LBJ were pieces of shit in a lot of ways, but they'd have had Mitch McConnell's guts for garters.