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Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

Democrats are such fucking losers. Republicans can firebomb their house and they'll go on the news saying "both sides are bad! I oppose all violence!" They tried to kill your fucking family, man. They tried to burn them to death. And you're messaging centrism? Shame.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

once we oust this current trump administration we will have to force democratic politicians to treat everyone in his administration like the hague treated germany post WW2

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 7 days ago • 1116 comments

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery theonion.com/pete-he...

submitted 9 days ago • 357 comments

the best competitor in great british baking show history is the redheaded guy who threw away his baked alaska. nobody else in the history of the show has had the guts to stand up to paul hollywood, the world's reddist toddler

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

if you really believe trump is a fascist threat to democracy (I do, though I think he's far weaker than people act like he is), you should be glad he is insanely crashing the US economy! It is far, far preferable for the economy to crash than for it to continue growing stably under a fascist.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately for the corporations who bet everything on a Trump cultural victory, the actual wealthy consumer class is now Woke white families in deep blue citites/burbs. (this is not liberalism apologia, just materialism at work)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing more pathetic than a Massachusetts conservative. Imagine living in one of the most developed places on earth, with long life spans and tremendous wealth, and wishing your government was more like Mississippi's.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

submitted 19 days ago • 399 comments

Conservatives astutely reframed "holding the powerful responsible for thei beliefs and actions" as "cancel culture" and got the public to agree their betters should be immune from criticism.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

FWIW I would far prefer the fascists to be stupid drunken pedophiles than competent actors. (Reader, every conservative is a stupid pedophile)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

when we get the white house back, these people are going to have to go to prison. i keep saying it, but it's going to be critically important. even discussing this with a foreign leader comes about as close as you get to treasonous without swinging from a gallows.

submitted 22 days ago • 58 comments

a key feature of nazi germany was the privatization of genocide. Popular history would have you believe the Nazi economy was centrally planned towards war. This is incorrect. Massive swaths of the economy, military and otherwise, were privatized. The Holocaust generated a lot of corporate profits.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Critically important to understand that the Columbia admins who are going to give Israel direct control over entire departments, and who already annihilated student speech rights and ruined lives, in facilitation of genocide voted for Harris. Liberal institutionalists are bloodthirsty ghouls.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Can someone good at investments give me advice? I put my entire life savings into frozen orange juice commodity futures and I've lost everything

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Can someone good at investments give me advice? I put my entire life savings into frozen orange juice commodity futures and I've lost everything

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

crime will continue to drop. Police will continue to be funded more because conservatives will continue to lie about crime soring. This will continue until the social fabric is so traumatized by police brutality and povery that crime does actually start rising again.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

someone once told me capitalism was good because "the person who figures out how to solve world hunger will become a billionaire" reader, how do you become a billionaire by feeding people who have no money?

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Important to remember that STEM people should be used like tools but they themselves should not have any say in how society functions

submitted 31 days ago • 22 comments

Every conservative is individually a danger the children. Every last conservative supports this.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Can someone please help my car company is dying? And before you suggest it, I have already tried publically using the power of the state to ruin my trans daughter's life and it didn't help.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of very liberal college admins decided since 2016 that they would rather appease insane fascist donors than protect students. Corey Robin has made some excellent points about this on his blog - the real threat to liberalism is liberals choosing to brutally repress Palestinian students.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I don't really blame anyone for arguing that democrats need to adopt their policy agenda in order to win. It's an obvious and compelling argument!... Unless the democrats did adopt your exact policy preferences and lost badly. Then it's not compelling.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Stuff like this is pretty clearly just more privatization. We are all going to have to pay a weather subscription service now, a long-time goal of conservatives, rather than have free reports from the government. That sucks, but it's not like a government attack on the concept of reality.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

On Thursday, I went to the Boston Ballet’s opening night of Swan Lake. I’ve been a Swan Lake fanatic for probably the last ten years, inspired in large part by my ballet background and obsession with the Black Swan Pas De Deux, and playing the Act IV Finale in high school orchestra.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Universally, reactionaries will pretend that: (1) we tried progressive policy (2) it failed (3) that is why everything sucks now. In reality, we have rarely if every tried progressive policy for long enough to let it fail, and things suck because of that! Applies to #metoo, blm, drug reform, etc

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments