@socraticmethodman.bsky.social
Rational Man in a Post-Rational World. Militant Secular Humanist.
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The mainstream press has the same problem as the Democratic Party: it treats the Republican Party as a normal political party, rather than as an anti-Enlightenment, segregationist death cult. You should not work with them on anything, you should defeat them because all their ideas suck.
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There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.
The answer is they don’t like the US, they like the Confederacy. Explicit, codified, unashamed racism ruled by oligarchic elites. Strict social codes and mores that buttress the entire thing who themselves were built on misremembered imagined histories.
February 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.
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Bush stealing the election and 9/11 happening was the one-two punch that really fucked up this whole century. Trying to come to terms with the fact that my life peaked when I was 10.
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
February 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Bush stealing the election and 9/11 happening was the one-two punch that really fucked up this whole century. Trying to come to terms with the fact that my life peaked when I was 10.
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krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance
February 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance
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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Breaking Points is such a strange program. They will have Emily Faschinsky on and act like she is a reasonable Conservative. Then at night she will go on Megyn Kelly where she lets her freak flag fly.
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Breaking Points is such a strange program. They will have Emily Faschinsky on and act like she is a reasonable Conservative. Then at night she will go on Megyn Kelly where she lets her freak flag fly.
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The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
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Carney should launch a Super Awesome Board of the Best Peace Ever, just to irritate him.
January 23, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Carney should launch a Super Awesome Board of the Best Peace Ever, just to irritate him.
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the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
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They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 PM
They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops
Here’s a great idea let’s have Archie Bunker speak at the economic thing.
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Here’s a great idea let’s have Archie Bunker speak at the economic thing.
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
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Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
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Democratic consultants looking at the UK's Labour Party: "Yeah, let's do what they're doing!" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The high cost of rolling over on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Democratic consultants looking at the UK's Labour Party: "Yeah, let's do what they're doing!" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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When the racist meme becomes national policy
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
When the racist meme becomes national policy
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Every time Homan is being interviewed, the follow-up question should always be, "If i paid you $50,000 right now, would your answer change?"
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Every time Homan is being interviewed, the follow-up question should always be, "If i paid you $50,000 right now, would your answer change?"
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
John Mearsheimer and Glenn Greenwald are on suicide watch today.
January 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
John Mearsheimer and Glenn Greenwald are on suicide watch today.
The Tim Walz story just shows Democrats are held to higher standards than Republicans. Other people did crimes and he owned up to it and ended his campaign. Republicans and business criminals can do crimes and are held to no standards whatsoever.
January 5, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The Tim Walz story just shows Democrats are held to higher standards than Republicans. Other people did crimes and he owned up to it and ended his campaign. Republicans and business criminals can do crimes and are held to no standards whatsoever.
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Yeah this guy should not just be thrown out of office, but thrown out of the country entirely
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Yeah this guy should not just be thrown out of office, but thrown out of the country entirely
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I am just going to leave this resolution on the table with an invitation to debate :
Yesterday's blatantly illegal military strike and abduction of another country's head of state will go down as the single most historically consequential action taken by either of the Trump administrations to date
Yesterday's blatantly illegal military strike and abduction of another country's head of state will go down as the single most historically consequential action taken by either of the Trump administrations to date
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I am just going to leave this resolution on the table with an invitation to debate :
Yesterday's blatantly illegal military strike and abduction of another country's head of state will go down as the single most historically consequential action taken by either of the Trump administrations to date
Yesterday's blatantly illegal military strike and abduction of another country's head of state will go down as the single most historically consequential action taken by either of the Trump administrations to date
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We're the country that made Trump president twice, can't hide from that
yeah like this sucks but we, Yankees, are going to eat a lot of shit as and when the world justifiably hardens against us, and it will not be pleasant and it will not feel entirely fair
finding out that I am apparently responsible for all US imperialism, ever
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
We're the country that made Trump president twice, can't hide from that