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It's also a ridiculous discourse because the very simple straightforward answer (that even the fuckin trumpers agree on) is it's a scenario we need to do everything in our power to continue to deter because if it goes down no matter which way it shakes out it's a bad day for everyone

Simultaneously trying to say "it's not our fault, people don't pay attention" and chiding people for insulting voters.

The media was absolutely instrumental in the change from Biden to Harris, media pressure being exerted upon the race, through and in conjunction with donors and Democratic leadership, took the most important choice of the race from the primary voters and executed itself.

[whispers]

the media absolutely put their thumbs on the scale in the 2016 general as well and pretending the comey letter or really any media narrative put forth doesn’t move the needle is doing their work for them

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

I am not v interested in continuing the “the Democrats will betray us on $issue the moment they get into power” B/S because a. There’s no way to falsify it and b. It’s fundamentally rooted in a nihilistic doomerism that nobody believes anything, we’re all gonna get betrayed, nothing matters anyways

anyway let’s check in with keir starmer to see how “conceding to popular prejudice” is working our for the labour party

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

I'm honestly more disappointed in the progressives/leftists who don't seem to know about the Taiwan strategic ambiguity thing and instead heard "based we won't get in a shooting war to defend democracy"

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

damn, i feel bad for these devs i feel like they got omega fucked by that Game Awards commercial

if this game released in beta i feel like it would not have taken the insane reputation hit it did

"the democrats position on trans rights doesn't matter" is an incredible take, no notes.

goodreads now won’t let you read book reviews unless your logged in, so basically nobody will read reviews if I post them anywhere, is there a single social media company that’s made a good product decision in the last decade

Lawful Evil is the funniest alignment. Nothing Le Wacky Wholesome Chungus Chaotic Good bard does will ever be as funny as the guards in Morrowind asking you if you have a license for that murder then pleasantly apologizing for holding you up when you produce said license.

Suboptimal how the Vice President of the United States of America is openly a 4chan nazi who says 4chan nazi shit but because he says it with the tumblr register no one takes it seriously

whatever you think about Waymo they are light-years ahead of Tesla on this front and it is deeply infuriating that folks are still propping up the stock price based on Elon's lies about taking this stuff national

Ah well, nevertheless

Surely, the press will scrutinize Trump for breaking a long standing U.S. policy the same way they did AOC saying um a few times!

I will say that I am skeptical of the sincerity of a person who in the Year of Our Lord 2026 is spending their presumably limited mental energy inventing scenarios where actually it’s Good and Principled that they don’t vote against fascism and also it’s Not Their Fault

Like trumps entire National security team got fawning profiles while AOC is getting critiqued for reiterating what U.S. policy towards Taiwan has been for decades

I really do think this is very instructive of the ratfuckery that any Dem (not just AOC if she does run) is going to face unfortunately and I’m not really sure how you deal with it

"We can't do our ethnic cleansing if you make us follow the 4th Amendment" is a major Republican talking point now

again, there are liberal policy priorities that are literally impossible because of the Constitution: gun control and reform of religious education. we just can't do those things

we need to remind them that this is one of those things for them. you just can't do it. the magic text says so

When you have millionaire Hasan Piker playing video games for income and saying he’ll vote third party in an election against JD Vance I no longer consider him part of a center left coalition I consider him a tool of the right

Here’s the thing I don’t think American leftists’ votes cost us the election, there just aren’t that many of them—I think the problem with them is that they have more conservative politics than regular libs and contribute to an overall project to paint the democrats as worse than republican

i think i would settle for “moratorium on re-litigating the 2016 primary” which is really what so many foreigners on this site want to do.

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

Of all things to criticize AOC about, boilerplate on Taiwan gets people upset?

Sorry tankie leftists, she didn’t say everything bad in the world is America’s fault, and indicated that deterring Chinese imperialism could be good.

Sorry, fake China hawks, she was measured instead of fire-breathing.

This is why the Neverending Sanders Wars were so profoundly bad and why I'm increasingly skeptical on adversarial primaries (which most primaries will be in an environment of social media.)

All the positive and negative feelings need somewhere to go after!

Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon

I have just enough understanding of the science and factory production to know a) not only how absurd it is to build a satellite factory on the moon but also b) how pointless. It's amazing people still report this as anything but idiot fantasy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...