Giant Ground Sloth

Will Chamberlain finally deleted the post

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

We’re not seeing an empirical dispute of crime stats or a debate about what constitutes “crime under control. We’re seeing federal military occupation of US cities.

What the targets have in common is not crime rates, it’s voting against the president’s party.

Journalistic malpractice.

Honored he took time out of his they're-eating-the-cats-they're-eating-the-dogs schedule to shitpost on yet another app.

JD Vance on X: "Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! https://t.co/5cgjyMF8su" / X Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! https://t.co/5cgjyMF8su

yes

x.com/JDVance/stat...

Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties Thorn, a non-profit that provides detection and moderation software related to child safety, said they canceled their contract with X after the platform stopped paying them.

Isn't this app more your speed?

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

I think this discounts how lazy the shittiest people are though

real?

if you can excuse lenin and mao for slavery and genocide then what are your opinions on thomas jefferson?

Just factor in that every movie starts 25 min after the listed time and it's fine.

and that led to... Napoleon.

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Pro-mole propaganda. No molehill ever got so large.

"538 team gets canned by ABC on the same night Trump officially dips into net negative approval" is a hell of headline for any media journalist

Strength requires callousness.

"we are going to explode the deficit with tax cuts while raising tariffs to new levels and give everyone a new check while firing the entire civil service including DOD"

how the fuck is this a coherent ideology?

Kansas Farmer, Topeka, Kansas, February 20, 1896

Your questions seemed rhetorical

The AP's frivolous and demented lawsuit is nothing more than a blatant PR stunt masquerading as a first amendment case. They are clearly suffering from a severe, debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted their peanut-sized brains. We will defeat them in court just like we crushed their leftist reporters at the ballot box." - Steven Cheung

When confronted with a lawsuit alleging viewpoint discrimination, do not insist you did it because they are leftists

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

man it's so rich to be told that leftists "warned libs about this" when the entire past year was libs screaming about how dangerous it was going to be to reelect trump and leftists replying "yeah i don't care"

Leftists don’t have much power, but it seems popular enough on Bluesky to insist we face a binary choice between fascism and illiberal socialism.

If the choice is anti-MAGA vs pro-MAGA, then I’m 100% anti-MAGA

“white male mediocrity” becoming a Dem catchphrase is the sound of us never winning another election

I think there’s an implicit difference on the purpose of low-context speech to the broad public. Some people think it’s not the place for real debate, but the place for rhetorical effect where consequentialism is most important.

Back in inter-war Europe many people thought you either had to be a communist (basically a Stalinist at the time) or a fascist.

The mushy “reject both extremes” liberals were entirely correct, and eventually overwhelmingly victorious.

That really didn’t work out too well for the French

This is exactly backasswards imo, we are in such a position of profound civic rot because we think that rules and service and public good are for losers. Our media's poisonous cynicism means we don't aspire to better or expect better from those who serve us.

Corruption is normalized.

Meanwhile it is ironic to criticize the liberal Chait for punching left and weakening Dems in the context of Republican attacks.

The primary practical purpose of popular leftism at present seems to be attacking Dems as well as validating Republican narratives against them!

Chait seems pretty insignificant next to the churning right wing media machine. It would have been better if mainstream left-of-center opinion had shut down excesses and left attacks on norms of liberalism earlier.