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Eating a bowl of mozzarella sticks while high and just basking in the decadence of it all. Some time to unwind.

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don't want to be too Freudian but let's be honest, too many people's understanding of authoritarianism is the woman who was the dictator of the first 18 years of their life

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

man it's so rich to be told that leftists "warned libs about this" when the entire past year was libs screaming about how dangerous it was going to be to reelect trump and leftists replying "yeah i don't care"

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

there is a fundamental contradiction between "home as affordable shelter" and "homes as appreciating assets." in order for the latter to be true, prices must go continually up, which requires some combo of supply restrictions & subsidies, and also tends to produce this:

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Recent Youtube Posts by Democrats. — A Thread —

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

This is comorbid with the fact that Americans can't imagine dramatic change when electing a fascist. Either everything will carry on as usual or the apocalypse, with little space between because no one other than immigrants can remember the kind of major upheaval that results in new party systems.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Where my fellow woke jock masculinity enthusiasts at?

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No wonder the entire coup/government shutdown effort feels rushed, it's being done by someone who is zonked out 24/7 on weapons-grade narcotics and a sundowning grandpa.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A failure of the USPS will have dramatically larger negative effects for 1. Rural people and 2. Older people, both of whom are more Trump-voting than the urban core Americans who will be least affected. Like, even assuming it doesn't lose the GOP support, it would lose them votes in senior deaths.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Next time a Democrat tells you Republicans are going to do something, and the Republican says no they won't, BELIEVE THE DEMOCRAT

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw someone posting a clip of Jacky Rosen saying "We're doing what we can, but we're in the minority" only to have that poster claim that DEMOCRATS ARE COMPLICT. This is the shit I'm talking about. If you're still blaming Democrats at this point, you're an idiot.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

If you operate under the assumption that people who were running foreign policy at that time, most of whom were alive for WWII, saw a Nazi-level threat from the Soviet Union, which was very actively trying to set up proxies to overturn democracies in favor of USSR vassals, their decisions make sense

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is basic intersectional coalition building that Dems are actually pretty good at, and it is very funny how many self-proclaimed leftists claim that it's "dirty pool" and then turn around and claim the be the real intersectional group, unlike those liberal Dems.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

people in ukraine have been fighting and dying and living with constant bombing raids for the better part of 2 years and here in america voters throw an epic tantrum and basically toss aside generations of hard-won reform because the think the guy who chauffeurs their taco bell order is overpaid

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

the promise of bidenism was that things were going to go back to Normal, and the hope was that people would choose Normal over fascism. it turns out people don't like Normal--or at least, not enough. we have got to promise not just a return to "the way things were"--but a new future.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Vance’s grotesqueness aside, the whole thing is one of the most horrific acts of betrayal ever committed by a democratic state against another. Just a moral abomination and a permanent stain on everyone who supports it

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

The primary difference between liberalism and anarchism/libertarianism really is as simple as the latter wanting the largest actor in the Balance of Powers to be the individual and the former realizing that's patently unattainable and absurd, so we should create conditions for institutions instead.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 3 days ago • 518 comments

you don't talk about stuff like eggs or long lines at national parks because those are more important than the coup against the rule of law. you talk about that stuff because getting low information americans mad at Trump about that stuff is a precondition to getting them to care about the big stuff

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

April 1st is the day of two special elections in the House (both GOP territory in FL) and the WI SCOTUS seat, so it could alternatively be the day we get some pretty definitive proof if this Trump admin is already caustically unpopular.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Americans do not understand the incredible crisis consuming all components of their government at once. Thousands of jobs lost, projects on hold, desks unmanned, services stopped, basic safety neglected. Total chaos. Stuff is going to start breaking down, maybe catastrophically.

submitted 4 days ago • 158 comments

Among CEOs and legacy media owners? Sure. But among the actual populace? We're already seeing the cracks as Musk's BS creates clear losers out of several Trump constituencies.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Which is why we need to boost the electoral power of cities! apply-liberally.ghost.io/to-build-lib...

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My children will grow up in a diminished America, and that enrages me more than any other fact. But so help me God, they will not grow up in a fascist one, and I will rely on any and every necessary liberal tradition to see that through.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Increasingly persuasive liberal argument against income inequality is that once it goes past a certain point, even if the overall level of wealth is higher for everyone, the wealthiest become a threat to the Balance of Powers in economy, government, and society by their very existence.

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more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Bought some chili powder at the Thai store near our house, and it provides the perfect level of heat when it's this cold out.

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The US has, foolishly and annoyingly for us who live here, abdicated any chance at this being an American century. But Russia and China are also weak and verging on breaking. If Europe so chooses, a free Ukraine can help propel us all into a European century.

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