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Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

bouie’s take was that “more training” could be used as a trojan horse to gut, defund, and downsize the agency. I personally think that’s weak and we should just abolish it but he definitely wasn’t just calling for more training

not fucking good enough

i think socialist critiques of america have much to recommend them but yeah these people are more concerned with dickriding China and Xi than actually resisting authoritarian rule. they’d take a victory over the libs ahead of one over MAGA any day

like you can hector America from your keyboard about the need for a Lenin and call Zohran a fake socialist but at some point you need to fucking do something. or win something. Anything. Because the people you’re criticizing are fighting and winning

if anyone has been on big leftist Reddit communities like r/trueanon or r/communism, it’s all this. sneering at no kings and Minneapolis antifascist action for being too lib. it really makes me feel sick and alienated from a community that used to feel positive and engaged back in the Bernie days!

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Everyone who seriously, genuinely considers themselves left of center in any capacity should be actively asking themselves and their immediate colleagues and comrades: "what would a constitutional and political state of affairs look like where these events are made functionally impossible"?

“you Americans” from this guy. hey thanks for encouraging us to kill each other from outside the country. what a profile in courage

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

Ineptitudinous & just now Simon, you posted something just now (since deleted? or maybe I just can't find it? that included this statement: "I realize that things are tense in Minnesota right now, and hard; but l, this community, and the DFL are not the enemy. Trump is, Miller is, ICE is, Putin is. That people there took so much time today to degrade this virtuous mission of ours these last 24 hours since wildly and dangerously off-mission." Simon, the constant text messages from the party-you know, the ones that essentially scam the elderly (cnn.com/interactive/202...—have a really poor track record of delivering resources to candidates, but a tremendous track record of enriching consultants. A recent analysis shows that, of $100 gathered by these text message campaigns, only $1.60 gets to candidates (thenation.com/article/p...). If this is a bad look for institutional Dem fundraising, l'd like to politely suggest that the party commit to no longer doing it. To be sure, I'm in perfect harmony with you on this point: Trump, Miller, ICE, and Putin are the enemies of our party. But do you understand that, with Dem leaders not even deigning to visit Minnesota, we might reasonably infer that the party is less invested in fighting ICE (you know, defending our immigrant neighbors) than Minneapolis activists? Time and again we see Dem institutional leaders fail to use every ounce of their power through every available means to meaningfully obstruct the MAGA regime. (Yeah, including objecting to unanimous consent!). You know, democracy is... actually on the line. More people are going to die. We really just want a party that can pretend to understand these things.

Simon Rosenberg Author 7m Edited Seriously fuck off. Don't lecture me. Do your homework. Understand what we do here. You and your community acted shamefully today. This is not the right place for you. These posts are insulting. The treatment I got today from people in Minnesota was disgusting. You have no idea who I am, what we do here. Some dude sent some email to a list and the pile on happened. It's ridiculous. What we say and do here every day is that we respect one another. We lift each other up not tear each other down. We stay focused on the mission - beating Trump - and not fighting with one another. We are all playing different positions on the same team. Here we demand respect, dignity - something that your community did not give me today. Literally hundreds and hundred of lying, slanderous posts. I have never been been spoken to or attacked by others in our own family in my entire career as I was today - all for just helping. It was shameful behavior. You are an arrogant asshole coming in here for 5 bucks and lecturing me under a pseudonym, too cowardly to use your own name and image, without having any idea what we do and say here every day. So fuck off and good luck. Ineptitudinous just now So you don't have any factual disputes with anything I've asserted?

Ineptitudinous 3m User was temporarily suspended for this comment. Hide So you don't have any factual disputes with anything I've asserted? Simon Rosenberg • just now Holy shit. What a response. I have suspended you from posting. The disrespect, arrogance, and insults just keep coming. Fuck you guys.

I went on Substack to suggest to Simon Rosenberg that there might be some valid reasons for Minneapolis activists to be suspicious of Dem party fundraising. Ooof.

he handled it pretty acceptably, especially considering his past…moments. antifascism has been good for him

extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”

minotaur walks into a bar. bartender says, "you lost, friend". minotaur kills him in a single punch. "now there's no one to pour the beers", says another patron. minotaur tears the man in half. blood everywhere. no one seems to mind. she has found this room before. the labyrinth is playing games now

really dug this one. The regional army commands’ dominance as a decline thesis was compelling. All my homies hate Aspar

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

i refuse to listen but in my head he sounds like drunk mickey mouse

a bunch of drooling thugs who thought they were signing up for the thousand year reich and not an ephemeral regime headed by a senile kleptocrat on death’s door

dead eyed*

he could at least have the decency to sound angry instead of his usual dead eyes monotone. you’d think he was discussing tax deductible charitable donations

the funny thing about all these journos who exalt her as the tribune of the rural Volk is that if they spent more time around actual normal people they’d clock her as a total freak. but they’re so self conscious about their elite status they genuflect before weirdos!

This is why you have to respect mr. Stancil even if he annoys you. He’s an elemental force, like the weather. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. I do like his burning hatred for fascism. You can tolerate the rest!

i hate ai everywhere but i especially despise it in acrobat. it makes me click another stupid fucking button to *highlight* text on mobile bc they replaced it with their shitty summarizer

he was playing kevin o leary

the only law trump’s men enforce is the law of the jungle. also beyond laughable that now literal citizens have to bow and scrape before immigration rent a cops

i fucking hope they are and they garrison some real muscle there. the time for that is now, not after three months of debate in Brussels. He’s going to do it.

sounds like a man who’s already drafted an invasion order, in all honesty