Ethan

The one guy who could have voted for this with 0 regrets is Ossoff and he didn’t.

A lot of folks tend to over-conspirscize about things like this when no, the mods are just dumb

two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame

None of this is my fault, don’t doom in my mentions, don’t be a bitch, kick the shit out of everyone in our way until you see daylight, hope this helps

anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.

yes, exactly. i understand why they would make this choice, and i can even respect it. but it is career ending, because you don’t have the nerves for what will have to come next.

correction: they are all retiring, announced or not

it's genuinely mind-boggling how this went from the best maneuver of Schumer's tenure to a complete omnishambling humiliation of the whole caucus in two days

Slotkin is a Democrat, Collins is not. Thanks for playing!

Slotkin out now with a statement saying she is a No

fully funding SNAP a year out is what makes this a potential ceasefire not a surrender. it takes starvation off the table as potential stakes.

Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

'liberals will just roll over and die because their principles say that they have to surrender.' hey why are they rolling that big cigar cutter out in front of the white house

simon bazelon's essential idea is that progressives must tactically vote for racists so that worse racists can win in red districts, so that that exclusively racist caucus can then reverse the trends which obligated progressives to vote against their preferences

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if you're too dim to understand the concept of "american democracy has enemies foreign *and* domestic" why the hell are you here

bukele has agency. he can say no! he can *still* say no. he can say no when he is asked on january 20, 2029. the problem comes after that.

i think the concept of an accomplice isn’t so hard to explain, is it?

a thing to think about in the future is that this is something a democratic congress will need to reign in, and we desperately need more democratic congressional reps to actually take the time to learn and understand how technology works, wyden isn't going to live forever

i think it would be good to warn enemies of american democracy -- foreign *and* domestic -- of the consequences of breaching that trust.

i think that the Democrats should triangulate in trans kids by accusing Republicans of being pedophiles

i have seen a lot of people calling this cope. it is, to a certain extent, but let me give you some short profiles of voters i personally know in idaho:

Dems *can’t* fold. Not anymore. Folding and getting nothing is a tacit admission that the shutdown and what pain it caused is all on us. We are in this now, and we’ve got to see it through.

People becoming rich off building affordable housing are creating affordable housing.

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

got a lot of responses to this which were 'surely they can find someone in China with the skills to do this' and the thing is, that's just not how government or intelligence services operate. I want you to consider a US example in counterpart.

There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history.

Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

considering his parents divorced when he was three and his father (who lived truly an bizarre, dare I say, Pynchonian life) cut him, his mom, and his sister off financially, I kinda believe this