Numbers Fuckstein Stan

This is similar to people coping about low turnout. There was a large amount of persuasion, unless you believe that somehow the Harris non voters will magically come back in 2026?

I really don't think this is the case btw.

The shifts had *some* downballot lag, but not a whole lot. There was a legitimate massive right shift among minorities (which has also happened in other anglophone nations!) The problem is a lot deeper.

Rwandan Genocide leaders were prosecuted by the UN, but death penalty was forbidden. Same for the Khmer Rouge! It's pretty clear that there is a wide ranging agreement in real life that killing is wrong, but this doesn't exist online (because it incentivizes bad behavior)

Obviously Assad is far worse than any CEO could be, unless you're a full on utilitarian consequentialist (and even then Assad wins and it's not particularly close).

But I think it's worth mentioning that a right to live is agreed upon internationally!

It is downright despicable to me. Maybe I am too much of a pacifist at heart, but the rot has spread far too wide online where this is celebrated by people of all stripes. Is there any room for people who are just anti-death?

You cannot claim to be on the side of good and widely celebrate the taking of a life by a line vigilante. You cannot claim to be on the side of good as you rehabilitate one of the worst - one of the most fundamentally evil acts imaginable.

I am filled with nothing but complete disgust and contempt for the level of rehabilitation I am seeing towards a murderer on my twitter TL. I know I only use this acc when I want to rant to a smaller audience, but it cannot be understated how much this disgusts me.

I really hate how a lot of accounts on twitter deflect from left-wing antisemitism by posting a groyper account or such.

There really has been an explosion of left-wing antisemitism, both on twitter and in real life over the past few years! In fact, it's basically been impossible to ignore!

Late night posting is the best because it's when I go on random tangents and find crazy shit.

Still thinking about the time I found out Jefferson wanted to aid the Nguyen dynasty comeback during the Tay Son rebellion over Vietnamese rice, which only failed due to communication errors.

We all knew this, but seeing it actually play out in live form (plus commentary from my dad) is fucking insane. Literally an entirely different reality.

Update on this: apparently there's a conspiracy theory that AOC is pregnant? The right wing ecosystem is WEIRD

My Dad has Fox News on (back for Thanksgiving) and I'm struck by how unintellectual it is compared to what I'm used to. Maybe it's because I only engage with print news, but the difference is wild.

I just realized I'm turning into an unc: went to a house party yesterday, going to another one today and I'm feeling very drained.

Damn, is this what it's like to get older?

Zoomers are incredibly risk averse, in basically every behavior. I think this is mostly the fault of social media: everyone can see your failures! The actual risk hasn't changed, but the perception of risk definitely has imo.

I need to flesh these thoughts out more, probably tomorrow.

@mckay4senate.bsky.social recently @'d me on this (which makes sense, we've talked about this at length), and he has been thinking about it.

I'm not sure that this pattern is due to increased risk per se, but rather a much lower risk tolerance among zoomers now.

To win as a party we have to appeal to the median voter. Luckily, the median voter thinks about politics so little that we can just lie and not have to change anything

The trouble is creating a convincing lie: I thought Walz would be a good example of this, but he ended up with negative favorables.

One primary benefit of bluesky is just the complete lack of bots. Truly refreshing to not see onlyfans spam and llms populate the top of every comment section.

Libertarians (and I mean true libertarians, not mises caucus people) are heirs to an American progressive tradition that split off over a century ago. In this sense, they are long-lost cousins of progressives.

In general, this is the part I hate about left-liberal twitter. There is a general sense of holier-than-thou mobbing if you say something slightly unorthodox, hence why I avoid that (and most genuinely controversial views).

I think it's good, important, and needed to have some heterodox views!

A benefit of being a profoundly small account again is that I can go back to saying anything I want.

I can unleash 10000 bad takes and nobody would know. On Twitter, I could be mobbed. Here? There's nobody to even hear my call to the void.

My favorite rhetorical thing is when people switch from "company" (places they like) to "corporation" (places they don't like). It's just legitimately funny because they tend to be so blatant about it.

Bluesky seems pleasant enough (and a main benefit is that I can scream into the void), but the UI is taking me a bit to get used to. The default font, spacing, ect just seems slightly *off*?

Tbf I think that with Mastodon too, but I only ever lurk there under a different acc name.

Young Sheldon is one of the most beautiful pieces of Trotskyist media I have ever seen.

no i will not elaborate further.

Moved here from the other site (handle was @numfuksteinstan, username numbers fuckstein stan). Not going to post here just yet, but may in the future depending on what happens over there. I guess if we shared the same space, rt this?