Blue Collar/Working Class has long since become an aesthetic to most. A guy who owns a construction company and makes six figures is working class because he wears work boots and jeans. A barista at a coffee shop is a member of the elite because Pronouns and Big City

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Not that I would support it (I'm not a New Yorker anyways) but it seems like there's a pretty clear lane open in this race for a "We see you, we hear you, and we have an overcomplicated neoliberal solution to your problems but at least it's not Evil Socialism" type liberal.

Could Cuomo have responded to Mamdani's obvious popularity by adopting some left leaning policies himself? Of course! But to the Centrist the only answer is always leftward punching and rightward lurching, so into the gutter he goes.

I wonder if at this point interpreting this as "illiteracy" is useful rather than as deliberate, tendentious readings of popular fiction.

the core fascist proposition is that "your" country is being both endangered & contaminated by the non-white, the racially inferior, & sexual deviants. that effeminate elites & intellectuals are allowing this to happen. & that to survive you must surrender control to men of violence

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

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2) Republicans use polls to shape strategy, not to shape their positions.

Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked.

@anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also

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It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

I dont understand how some gay furries hate women when its these same women drawing your asshole the size of the milkyway. Sit down if you still can and shut up.

Mitch McConnell got called Darth Vader a lot so I figure thats who he was referring to.

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@larryglickman.bsky.social wrote a whole article in @bostonreview.bsky.social about the history of the idea of being from the government & wanting help, and how it was turned by the conservative movement:

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I think this gets at the heart of it, that it's safe to say that FDR himself understood American participation in the war against Nazi Germany as a principled crusade against fascism. Those who succeeded him with his untimely death, however.

Which is why I never like seeing those posts that have a picture of the D-Day landing and like, "The Original Antifa" or whatever.

Half the guys on that Higgins Boat had opinions about Black people that would have seared off Hitler's eyebrows.

Reagan was first elected in 1980. Democrat Bill Clinton spent the 90s gutting welfare. Taxes are lower and immigration laws harsher than they've been in 100 years. Still we all know that when they say we should "move to the center" the NYT means "move to the right". The last 40 years didn't happen.

I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

I’m putting “purity test” on the big board of bullshit terms right next to “polarized.” Terms that, when you hear them, the odds the person using them is talking bullshit approaches 100%.

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the default position in the media is that conservatives are real americans and anyone who disagrees is out of the mainstream

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