Dead Carl

I think the issues are largely separate in that the people complaining about the first are largely people who want to not vote and not be shamed. The sense of crisis wears more on people who are high propensity but low to moderate engagement.

Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez

Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...

If we’re serious about restoring civic virtue, it starts with holding our own side to standards.

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity.

A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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This too is slopulism

It suggests to me that you don’t take bigotry serious if you don’t the intellectual honesty to hold back from spurious but personally advantageous accusations.

To some extent, particularly without any increase in tax rates.

Like cheap liquor, jello shooters, and beer bongs, Marxist analysis is fun in undergrad but it should stay there.

I don’t think “eternal stimulus checks” was ever going to be a viable policy and anything less would be interpreted as decline.

my take is that vibecession was a product of two really nasty global supply shocks (COVID and Ukraine), the general disruption of life from COVID and its aftershocks, ZIRP dying and cheap credit disappearing, and the pop-up COVID welfare state poofing out of existence

Department of State * @StateDept C... "WE DO NOT WANT ALLIES TO BE SHACKLED BY GUILT AND SHAME. We want allies who are proud of their culture, and their heritage - who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us are willing and able to defend it." - SECRETARY RUBIO • U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE 4:52 PM - Feb 14, 2026 • 392.8K Views 1.3K Relevant v L7 4.6K 23K 809 View quotes >

So like, this is extremely close to explicitly saying Germans shouldn’t be ashamed of the Third Reich, right?

I think you answered your own question

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

It’s extraordinarily dangerous twice over: we convince ourselves that we can be popular by enacting the exact policies that just failed to make us popular, AND we alienate people who gambled on our policies by refusing to acknowledge they enacted them

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.

And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

calling this @irhottakes.bsky.social's law: as a default, be suspicious of any doctrine popular on social media that allows you to render a group of people Homo Sacer

“You’re gonna die for a ‘multicultural economic zone?’”

“Someone is.”

elon RTing Nazi slop

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man in the history of humanity is, objectively speaking, just a straight up Nazi

also the next democratic administration needs to throw him in prison

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

Pavlou has bad views, seems pretty dumb, and yet is somehow a transcendental troll.

They could have also kicked him out of the party for any of his many crimes after he lost power.

Popular attitudes towards immigration are deeply skewed and must be altered for the sake of a just society. But in the short term, politicians must work with the electorate we have.

Many Americans are both horrified by what they are seeing and in favor of mass deportation. It’s much easier to convince them that Trump is doing a bad job than that what they want is wrong.

Hillary Clinton: "Give the Ukrainians Tomahawks, give them more missiles for their Patriots, allow them to inflict more damage beyond the border into Russia.

That’s when they actually started thinking about coming to the negotiating table—when Ukraine was able to reach targets inside Russia.

American freedom was purchased by the blood of men far braver and stronger than Elon Musk who crossed oceans for the opportunity to die for a 'multicultural economic zone.'

We are tasked with preserving the freedoms they so dearly purchased and expanding them, if we can, as we can.

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There are not enough neoconfederates in the country to have delivered Trump the election. There are enough people that see the TV businessman instigate an insurrection and can’t reconcile that information and so don’t internalize it.

Even if Biden was willing to break all the norms and pay the political price involved, there’s no guarantee proceedings get anywhere near a conviction before Election Day.