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johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Radical liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Liberal democracy's survival requires an implicit threat of violence.
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Remarkable stuff in the texts between Musk and St. Clair in the exhibits to her paternity position. He’s really into making babies!

submitted 6 hours ago • 45 comments

The only thing that makes Russia any more powerful than Mexico is their large (and aging) arsenal of weapons left over from the Soviet period.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 885 comments

Man he really called it

submitted 3 hours ago • 38 comments

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

submitted 4 hours ago • 38 comments

All my homies are chanting “cadaver synod”

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Republicans=Nazis

submitted 2 hours ago • 31 comments

I suspect we're going to get a lot of takes about how Trump was never serious about the mass deportations, but I doubt that's true. They're just too incompetent to play Gestapo

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

I do think some places exist that would print an feature on Elon's drug use while running amok in our government, but in case not, if you're a reporter with enough info to write one or the ability to get that info, @liberalcurrents.com is happy to publish it. email: writers @ liberalcurrents dot com

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 4 hours ago • 267 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 119 comments

One aspect of doing a political purge of the military and civil service is you can't come back in afterwards and just revert to status quo ante policies. A counter-purge becomes a necessity before you can then restore usual norms and protections. The people he's installing can't be left in place.

submitted 8 hours ago • 30 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 22 hours ago • 167 comments

It's so weird that the Kingdom Hearts series exists

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 136 comments

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

you know the tide is starting to turn with these people when you're hearing this kind of shit

submitted 1 day ago • 450 comments

Gotta make a distinction between dooming and regular old analysis, which ultimately comes down to tone and whether you assert that there's nothing anyone can do about it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I know very little about Canadian politics, but what I'm gathering on here is that the Trump is both the news of the day almost 24/7 and also a wedge issue for the CPC. Sounds like they're kinda fucked

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

lol we might be able to take the House this year

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

If bird flu goes pandemic in humans it will probably have a CFR of 15-30%. For reference, the spanish influenza was 2%. COVID was 1%.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments