ralphie hythloday, jr
@offutopic.bsky.social
He/him. Trying to write sometimes. Go lakers.
If everyone read Marx, Beauvoir, and Pettit, we’d be in a better world.
If everyone read Marx, Beauvoir, and Pettit, we’d be in a better world.
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The awful outcomes *are because of* the “election-winning positions”. Ability to deliver and promises made are linked!
Sure! It seems like they did a good job of adopting election-winning positions but while in office have not delivered good policy outcomes.
That’s why it’s good to have popular views on cultural issues and technocratically sound economic policy.
What’s your take?
That’s why it’s good to have popular views on cultural issues and technocratically sound economic policy.
What’s your take?
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The awful outcomes *are because of* the “election-winning positions”. Ability to deliver and promises made are linked!
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What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
The “i believe voters are idiots, but leftistly” takes are gonna take years off my life
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The “i believe voters are idiots, but leftistly” takes are gonna take years off my life
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Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
Let Mamdani show that progressive governance works by, wait for it, governing well! Provide a visible model of effectiveness that others can follow.
And maybe call it something catchy, like Propaganda of the Deed
And maybe call it something catchy, like Propaganda of the Deed
A big part of why Mamdani won is that he actually seemed like he was interested in doing the job of mayor, and I would appreciate it if people let him focus on what is already going to be an uphill battle without demanding that he also declare war on the Democratic party.
AOC has been playing inside ball to climb the national dem party for years and this is why a lot of NY DSA now hates her; Mamdani barely just won over the NY machine, he has good reasons to not immediately start fights with the state party before he is even in power and has his people staffed.
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Let Mamdani show that progressive governance works by, wait for it, governing well! Provide a visible model of effectiveness that others can follow.
And maybe call it something catchy, like Propaganda of the Deed
And maybe call it something catchy, like Propaganda of the Deed
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
This is true and ironic considering that “we might actually make a machine, which is owned by somebody, sentient” is actually an incredible moral argument against AI research
at this point i think a lot of people have negatively polarized themselves into cartesian dualism out of spite
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This is true and ironic considering that “we might actually make a machine, which is owned by somebody, sentient” is actually an incredible moral argument against AI research
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Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.
There's something just so vulgar about modern evangelical megachurches.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.
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I am reminded of how Olivia Nuzzi's evidence for Biden's senility was that he didn't remember who she was. The kind of narcissism that gets you promoted to the upper ranks of U.S. political journalism.
The prose is incoherent & the only way to make it through a paragraph is to rely on the North Star or her self-pitying narcissism. The gist of this graf is “strangers obsess about me, must be because I work so hard,” but it is almost immediate lost in the morass of “typed on notes app while hiking”
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am reminded of how Olivia Nuzzi's evidence for Biden's senility was that he didn't remember who she was. The kind of narcissism that gets you promoted to the upper ranks of U.S. political journalism.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Donate to Diana to ensure that Zohran's successor is a committed socialist!
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This guy clearly has no problem with just lying to your face and I think you're a fucking idiot if you pay money to read his substack.
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This guy clearly has no problem with just lying to your face and I think you're a fucking idiot if you pay money to read his substack.
GOD this is, like, high school level writing, somehow both tedious and grating
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
GOD this is, like, high school level writing, somehow both tedious and grating
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The asari are just woke Bene Gesserit
The asari are just woke Bene Gesserit
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
[disc horse bot voice]
The asari are just woke Bene Gesserit
The asari are just woke Bene Gesserit
MTG is and will remain, until the end of her days, an enemy of liberty, equality, and justice. At present, she is a useful enemy, pitting herself against a more immediately threatening force. Anyone who confuses this momentary detente with camaraderie is a dolt or a coward.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Dana Bash: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show"
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
MTG is and will remain, until the end of her days, an enemy of liberty, equality, and justice. At present, she is a useful enemy, pitting herself against a more immediately threatening force. Anyone who confuses this momentary detente with camaraderie is a dolt or a coward.
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New York and LA should offer an equivalent to Israeli birthright trips to every theatre kid in the lower 48
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
New York and LA should offer an equivalent to Israeli birthright trips to every theatre kid in the lower 48
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I believe the purpose of education is to help everyone create a healthy, informed, curious, and compassionate society.
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I believe the purpose of education is to help everyone create a healthy, informed, curious, and compassionate society.
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This means that the 2016 election was just a political version of Challengers (2024)
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This means that the 2016 election was just a political version of Challengers (2024)
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nuzzi is in the club
the media protects the club members
nobody in the club can ever be wrong
people like jake tapper, maggie haberman, ben smith, etc are the club
nuzzi must be protected. its like the mafia or corrupt police.
the media protects the club members
nobody in the club can ever be wrong
people like jake tapper, maggie haberman, ben smith, etc are the club
nuzzi must be protected. its like the mafia or corrupt police.
Why is the NYT participating in Nuzzi's rehabilitation campaign?
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
nuzzi is in the club
the media protects the club members
nobody in the club can ever be wrong
people like jake tapper, maggie haberman, ben smith, etc are the club
nuzzi must be protected. its like the mafia or corrupt police.
the media protects the club members
nobody in the club can ever be wrong
people like jake tapper, maggie haberman, ben smith, etc are the club
nuzzi must be protected. its like the mafia or corrupt police.
Have been mulling this over, and it seems to me that AI is the ultimate technology at the End of History. The prevailing ideology is secured by automated reproduction of itself, drowning out alternatives by sheer volume. Creative expression, too, is eliminated in favor of reheated consumption.
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Have been mulling this over, and it seems to me that AI is the ultimate technology at the End of History. The prevailing ideology is secured by automated reproduction of itself, drowning out alternatives by sheer volume. Creative expression, too, is eliminated in favor of reheated consumption.
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Boston sports franchise removes the phrase "White Power" from its website: defector.com/boston-sport...
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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One simple police reform is to have lawsuit payments come out of police budgets.
Behave or defund yourself.
Behave or defund yourself.
BREAKING: The City Council voted unanimously to pay $17M to a man who spent 27 years in prison after he was convicted of a double murder he did not commit, bringing the total cost of settling 9 lawsuits naming disgraced former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara to $112M, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
Cost to Resolve Lawsuits Tied to Disgraced Ex-CPD Detective Tops $112M, with 44 Lawsuits Pending
Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $285.3 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including wrongful convictions and improper pursuits — ...
news.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
One simple police reform is to have lawsuit payments come out of police budgets.
Behave or defund yourself.
Behave or defund yourself.
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Every anarchist in America in the last century hasn't caused as much *financial* damage as this one cop. That's an entire fucking school district budget and yet millions of Democrats will scream in your face that this is a holy and sacred institution without which we would immediately collapse in to
BREAKING: The City Council voted unanimously to pay $17M to a man who spent 27 years in prison after he was convicted of a double murder he did not commit, bringing the total cost of settling 9 lawsuits naming disgraced former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara to $112M, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
Cost to Resolve Lawsuits Tied to Disgraced Ex-CPD Detective Tops $112M, with 44 Lawsuits Pending
Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $285.3 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including wrongful convictions and improper pursuits — ...
news.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Every anarchist in America in the last century hasn't caused as much *financial* damage as this one cop. That's an entire fucking school district budget and yet millions of Democrats will scream in your face that this is a holy and sacred institution without which we would immediately collapse in to