Brian Kidwell 🧦

sorta feel like the core central division in conservatism is "hierarchy is inevitable, so it must be made just and virtuous" and "hierarchy is inevitable, so all it does is just and virtuous"

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Pritzker isn't low-IQ because he's not Black. Only Johnson is low-IQ because he's Black.

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Can't believe how good faith of a comment this is

I mean, this very much is consistent with the principles of the modern Republican party

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Image of a bunch of meme drawings from the original post but now it has those dumb guys pointing in front of it

Kind of a masterpiece

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

It’s going to be really hard to convince myself to forgive the many people who supported a racist rapist pedophile who had already attempted a coup

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

of course this has no real basis in modern history, which has demonstrated over and over again that bigotry is a luxury. bigotry is a waste of human potential that you can only get away with when you're *not* in a life or death struggle with an enemy "hellbent" on destroying you

Intriguing choice!

Still trying to guess what will be the archetypal pets.com example in 5-10 years

“10/7 was bad and everything that followed in aftermath was worse” is a perfectly moral and popular position. it’s more or less the American consensus on 9/11.

“The left is promoting political violence by saying we’re fascists, which is why we must conduct a purge of millions”

The effect seems to work in reverse, too. Look at that conservative growth with the abandonment of far-right groups immediately post-war

An interesting range of interpretations here but what jumps out at me most is that sharp economic downturns seem to be associated, with some lag, with the far-right cannibalizing the center-right and thereby threatening democratic systems.

Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.

Ernest Goes to Poundtown

this is every Guy Ritchie film

it would not be the worst outcome if all these guys turned away from talking about politics and drive their low-info listeners back from the polls

comic from webcomicname.com, "different" panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different" panel 2: creature smashes everything panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created