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You know a politics is a dead end when they’re clinging to ancient grudges with the tenacity of the elves of Lothlorien. If your ideology had any juice, you’d have fresher grudges!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

The left needs to work with liberals because a) the left is mostly liberals even if people pretend they aren't and b) the number of people who are committed to leftist politics is absolutely tiny.

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

People who support Israel are going to believe that the Bibas family was killed by Hamas and people who support Palestine are going to believe they were killed by Israeli air strikes and honestly I don’t see the point of debating how a baby died when the baby is dead

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

This kind of asset fire-selling is always shortsighted but especially so when it’s the fucking government. This will be hard to undo, and we’ll all be poorer served (and poorer) for it

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Vibes are bad. When people are fired up like this, they lash out, and usually cooler heads are dwindling

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Lots of conservatives axiomatically believe that the federal bureaucracy is unnecessary. Core worldview stuff. Really hard for them to grapple with evidence that it’s mostly good/useful.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Of course. The deep state is firing the 1000 good, useful bureaucrats and not the 1000 useless ones we imagined exist

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It couldn't possibly have been that wingnuts were wrong about the jobs federal employees do, so clearly it's a plot to make them look bad. God these people are such babies.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

LOL, LMAO

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This is “success” being used as the model to remake our federal government into a tool to oppress over half the population and immiserate everyone.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon and DOGE aren't going to get kicked out at whatever point because they're ideologically opposed to what they're doing. They're gonna get kicked out because they're absolute idiots and it's gonna piss enough people off.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

They're trying to fire the probies because they're among the few people you can (maybe, if you squint really hard) legally fire

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

It said the deadline was Monday at midnight, it implies something will happen if you miss it but does not state what.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

So the actual email does not say anything about resignation, huh

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

“Twitter is not real life” they say, as twitter nazis including the richest man in the world tear down the government around them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Big balls set up a server incorrectly (because lets be clear her setting up an e-mail server is apparently too much for these "technical geniuses") so the e-mail goes to spam for most agencies, continued to e-mail Article III judges, and Elon's whole "you get resigned if you don't" isn't in it.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

run against your NIMBY city councilmember

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

So much horrific shit happenign that I missed this. Odds are that they are turning it into a recruitment tool instead of shutting it down though. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

A few salutes, some arm bands, and burning down a model synagouge and all of a sudden the wokesters call you a Nazi.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Especially in OR-2 since that is the part of the state that felt so oppressed that they wanted to secede and swear fealty to Boise.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

i am finding it extremely satisfying to read all the stories of republican congresscritters trying to bluster through and getting chewed and booed the fuck out

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

I wish we lived in a world where Bernie had not with 100 percent name recognition and loads of money not eaten shit in a mostly-fair fight in 2020 but we do not.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

A lot of baffling arguments in this thread, but I think what it all comes down to is trying to litigate geopolitics via the lens of American intra-coalitional identity politics signalling. Same frame that leads to deciding that Ukraine is doing imperialism against Russia by not surrendering.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

People love finding excuses to celebrate socially transgressive violence, the political analysis is mostly post facto justification.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 6 hours ago • 315 comments

Lol There's two ways they can do this, one that will result in a whole bunch of eye rolling and grumbling before a "yeah fine as you know boss I sent some emails and shit last week whatever" and another that results in a lot of people saying "fuck you you aren't my supervisor"

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

oh just fucking fantastic

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

without getting into Luigi defense, I'm not really sure this guy's ideology was that well defined; he seems like the type ready to embrace a new identity every few months. he may well be happy to settle on leftism now that it's been handed to him!

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

an accurate description of donald trump's character is per se libel. an accurate description of his policies is a call for revolution. one of his great superpowers is that he generates self-censoring facts.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

So they gotta walk this back or otherwise uh gonna be a total disaster

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

every right wing party in the western world especially anglophone countries, probably has a groypheized staffer class at the moment, especially young ones

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments