ivysorta
@ivysorta.bsky.social
leftist, not anti-liberal
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
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A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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Since this wuss can't bother to open up- no, this is not true, and I do not mean "It is not the most accurate phrasing of a statement", I mean that it is a lie. The Nazis were, at best, inspired by reading about Westward Expansion in the form of trashy translated paperbacks.
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Since this wuss can't bother to open up- no, this is not true, and I do not mean "It is not the most accurate phrasing of a statement", I mean that it is a lie. The Nazis were, at best, inspired by reading about Westward Expansion in the form of trashy translated paperbacks.
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Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
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An alternate way to think about 'idiotperialism' is that it is actually just gender-affirming-foreign-policy-care for a bunch of overgrown man-babies worried about how people will perceive the size of their own little MANPADs unless they go do some manly war stuff.
We frankly need a term for these neo-imperialist dreams that fail to take into account that it isn't 1600 and so end up throwing away a million lives and all the tanks seizing some farms in Ukraine, or wasting time with Venezuelan oil.
I propose 'Idiotperialism.'
I propose 'Idiotperialism.'
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
An alternate way to think about 'idiotperialism' is that it is actually just gender-affirming-foreign-policy-care for a bunch of overgrown man-babies worried about how people will perceive the size of their own little MANPADs unless they go do some manly war stuff.
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Every time Axios or Politico posts bait
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Every time Axios or Politico posts bait
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The Venezuela attack is about getting oil the same way that rape is about getting laid
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
The Venezuela attack is about getting oil the same way that rape is about getting laid
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The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
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If the oil companies aren't actually on board, then the real reason this happened is that Trump and Hegseth were getting bored not using all their cool weapons, and Rubio steered them toward a target he liked (Latin American leftists) as opposed to one he didn't (Greenland)
Trump is trying to strongarm the oil industry into supporting his war and they're like this deal sucks
it's exactly the other way around from the "war for oil" theory lol
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
it's exactly the other way around from the "war for oil" theory lol
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
If the oil companies aren't actually on board, then the real reason this happened is that Trump and Hegseth were getting bored not using all their cool weapons, and Rubio steered them toward a target he liked (Latin American leftists) as opposed to one he didn't (Greenland)
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I hesitate to attribute strategy to Trump campaigns but, to the extent there was a method to the madness, he catered to the anti-interventionist right *and* took advantage of perennial leftist credulity on foreign policy, where they regard Dems as "just as bad as Republicans."
"even if doing so strains the anti-interventionist identity once central to his political brand."
He was never an "anti-interventionist" and people writing things like this are at great risk of being scammed by the wallet inspector.
He was never an "anti-interventionist" and people writing things like this are at great risk of being scammed by the wallet inspector.
Once a critic of overseas entanglements, President Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, raising questions about whether his “America First” doctrine is being redefined.
January 4, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I hesitate to attribute strategy to Trump campaigns but, to the extent there was a method to the madness, he catered to the anti-interventionist right *and* took advantage of perennial leftist credulity on foreign policy, where they regard Dems as "just as bad as Republicans."
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god is this a fucking mood. aside from being a bit more in favor of free trade and a bit mre skeptical oof unions (and given how they fucked us over who wouldn't be) my politics haven't changed much, but the so called leftists keep failing or just being idiots so much it's made the label repellent.
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
god is this a fucking mood. aside from being a bit more in favor of free trade and a bit mre skeptical oof unions (and given how they fucked us over who wouldn't be) my politics haven't changed much, but the so called leftists keep failing or just being idiots so much it's made the label repellent.
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we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
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you mean to tell me every republican who has ever blamed new wars on democrats was a bullshit artist dimwitted motherfucker who should have been, at the very best, shunned and ignored by all of humanity? Gee whiz guys
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM
you mean to tell me every republican who has ever blamed new wars on democrats was a bullshit artist dimwitted motherfucker who should have been, at the very best, shunned and ignored by all of humanity? Gee whiz guys
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Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
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Gasoline cars are so gross what do you mean we're burning fossil fuels right where people are standing and walking and breathing
January 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Gasoline cars are so gross what do you mean we're burning fossil fuels right where people are standing and walking and breathing
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There's not a lot online that pisses me off more than the pop leftist simplification of Marx's thought to 'capitalism bad'. Thing is, there were actual 'capitalism bad' people back then, but a lot of them were reactionary nostalgics for feudalism and many of them were bitterly antisemitic
January 2, 2026 at 3:31 AM
There's not a lot online that pisses me off more than the pop leftist simplification of Marx's thought to 'capitalism bad'. Thing is, there were actual 'capitalism bad' people back then, but a lot of them were reactionary nostalgics for feudalism and many of them were bitterly antisemitic
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It makes no sense in pop politics world view of “socialism is when the government does things, capitalism is when the market does things”, but a regulation which protects rentier landlords is as unsocialist as a market which exploits workers
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 AM
It makes no sense in pop politics world view of “socialism is when the government does things, capitalism is when the market does things”, but a regulation which protects rentier landlords is as unsocialist as a market which exploits workers
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the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
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It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
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The problem with a lot of DemSoc echoes of Bernie is they don't respect much of the center-left coalition and, generally, are bad at politics. Mamdani has essentially rejected this and despite the DSA tag, is operating as an old school New Deal Dem as *any honest and earnest* urban Democrat would.
I think people are underestimating how much Mamdani, even more so than your average elected leftist, see it as his top priority to not be seen as a failed mayor. He is not going to be another Brandon Johnson, I’d wager
January 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The problem with a lot of DemSoc echoes of Bernie is they don't respect much of the center-left coalition and, generally, are bad at politics. Mamdani has essentially rejected this and despite the DSA tag, is operating as an old school New Deal Dem as *any honest and earnest* urban Democrat would.
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There is still no data showing that Waymo trips are replacing car trips.
If they’re replacing walking, biking, and bus, crashes are going up!
If they’re replacing walking, biking, and bus, crashes are going up!
Interesting data (from Waymo) showing that robotaxis are significantly safer than the average human driver. This is likely because they respect traffic rules. An NYT op-ed by a neurosurgeon calls for a broader adoption as a public health measure. Thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
There is still no data showing that Waymo trips are replacing car trips.
If they’re replacing walking, biking, and bus, crashes are going up!
If they’re replacing walking, biking, and bus, crashes are going up!
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any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
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A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.
"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.
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This is the exact situation where regulatory intervention is warranted. And yet.
“In simple terms: a heavier car offers diminishing safety benefits to the person inside it, while imposing rapidly increasing risk on everyone else.” (Graph from The Economist)
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is the exact situation where regulatory intervention is warranted. And yet.
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i've been saying it for years. US building regulations result in inferior housing
housing with a poor quality of life
housing that is not meant to be lived in long term
we should change that
housing with a poor quality of life
housing that is not meant to be lived in long term
we should change that
December 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i've been saying it for years. US building regulations result in inferior housing
housing with a poor quality of life
housing that is not meant to be lived in long term
we should change that
housing with a poor quality of life
housing that is not meant to be lived in long term
we should change that
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The source for this meme is stored in documents/memes, on my own computer, I don't even need the internet to access it, revolutionary stuff
December 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The source for this meme is stored in documents/memes, on my own computer, I don't even need the internet to access it, revolutionary stuff