Umang Malik 🇺🇦

We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

my correct view is that LA is not the second most important american city because LA is not a real city at all. It’s a bunch of really big highway rest stops that calls itself a city. You can’t be a city when there’s parts of your urban region with 1 hour bus headways.

the humans yearn to level up on the skill tree

this one spicy
umangmalik.substack.com/p/god-i-miss...

No we are not going back down this road. Trump is the enemy. Talk about him. Make him poison, and everything he's ever done poison, and everyone who ever supported him poison. They wrecked America, pile the debris on their heads until they're crushed.

In 2025, "When they go low, we go high!" is the equivalent of taking a big swig of whiskey to "get rid" of the flu. It's no longer relevant.

Different time. Different strategy. We adapt to the time or perish, holding on to nostalgia.

you can survive getting rabies guys just lift weights and eat meat

twas the fringe probably. shirt looks nerdy as fuck too

nintendo bringing back streetpass and putting it on phones would solve the loneliness crisis. you heard it here first

the shit that pretends to be your girlfriend is fucking evil

>entire democratic world horrified by Trump, views as cautionary tale

>liberals act decisively to counter far-right

>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association

>global democratic resurgence


Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example

he’s right

every tech ceo from musk to zuck has just been trying to rip off Steve Jobs. The entire culture of Silicon Valley is just a bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes. But none of them can really match up. Mostly for lack of sex appeal.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

New substack post. This one’s about why we’re all so stuck in the face of Trump’s onslaught.

https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Free trade is good. Lower prices are good. Abundance is good. Tariffs and higher prices are bad. It’s not patriotic to shoot your economy in the foot because you’re mad that some jobs are going to other countries (esp when we have such low unemployment). Trump’s tariffs will make America poorer.

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Ethan Klein gives the lie to all the right-wing grifters who “left the left” and ostensibly got radicalized cause of cancel culture or whatever.

Bro was gaslit by the world’s most insincere and hateful communist for a year, yet still never abandoned his progressive values.

youtu.be/ZSUDHx-1_ww?...

It’s a valid criticism that Democratic messaging is unacceptably weak right now. But if I look at your post history and all I see six+ months before the election is about how you voted Jill Stein because Biden is an evil genocidaire, stfu. You people can teach us nothing about effective messaging.

it’s me, i’m the genius who will synthesize Yglesias Thought and Stancil Thought

You'd think this would finally expose the double standard. But perception is reality in the populist age, so the skewed perception that social & legacy media painted of Harris is what people remember.

That's why populist idiots will still attack her for being "to the right of trump" even now. /end

Ofc, then Trimp actually does what he says he will, and the ostensibly neurotic Democrats are proven correct— he *did* actually have a fascist agenda, and the center-right positions being projected onto him were just that: wishful thinking at best, deliberate apologia at worst.

Trump is just being crazy and wacky lol, don’t take him too seriously. But his opponent must be taken seriously, because that's unbiased, somehow.

So Harris's proposals get compared to ppl’s baseless assumptions of what Trump is “actually" going to do, rather than what he *says* he's going to do.

So when Harris says she'll prosecute trafficking orgs & crack down on fake asylum claims, she's seen as "running to the right of Trump;" because her positions are NOT ACTUALLY being compared to his promises of unconstitutionally ending birthright citizenship or militarily policing the border.

Legacy *and* social media coverage of 2024 followed the same pattern: *every word* from the Democrat was taken completely seriously, and only compared to other sane people. Meanwhile, Trump was graded on a curve: "take him seriously but not literally," as his supporters say.

One reason Trump is popular rn is because he's so careless with words that you can just project whatever beliefs onto him that are most convenient for you.

Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)

ok i see, so jstlk confirmed it also? I think he has to address that then. If he doesn’t have good evidence that chaeiry’s claim of nonconsent is false, that’s unacceptable and morally abhorrent imo. ig we’ll see how that one plays out

ofc more information could come out to change this. and all bets are off if new/more recent leaks arise. That turns a single mistake into a confirmed pattern, and at that point the sex therapy should probably be court-mandated.

imo i think the sex therapy thing *is* a bit ridiculous; i tend to believe him that his hypersexuality has receded since starting medication. The claim seems consistent w changes in his stream & behavior around that time (cutting ties with “BPD women,” being more private regd his relationships etc)

She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.