the full steinbeck quote about how communism is never going to happen in the US because of temporarily embarrassed millionaires playing as radicals

no crabs. no buckets.

Many many people on this site are convinced that Chuck Schumer can't do anything except poison the well now and needs to go exile himself to Siberia. And I hate to break this those people, but the vast majority of voters don't know what a CR even is. Your experience on bluesky is not representative!

The GOP are, in fact, just as bad as the most hacky Dem partisans say that they are

Governor Beshear the Elder literally saved thousands of lives by tricking people into signing up for Obamacare by calling it Kentuckycare, which they all eagerly signed up for so they wouldn’t have to sign up for Obamacare.

at will employment is a two-way street!

The pack of cards gimmick the US used for the most wanted members of the Iraqi regime during the Iraq war was clever. I seriously suggest that you do that, but assign one of 52 specific cards to the most prominent neo-Nazi accounts. You can even give captivedreamer the ace of spades if you want.

literal magical thinking; by changing the symbols we change the things symbolized

*in theory that's how it works

in practice the shitcoin sellers taking over (e.g. fascism) is a known failure mode of democracy and i think the internet and social media might've broken that dynamic (weak stancilism)

Same underlying forces, but electoral competition and the responsibility of governing forces them to touch grass, interact with reality, and actually deliver. The difference between say, Coca-Cola (which does actually have to make and sell the sugar water at a profit) and scam shitcoins

operation giant sucking sound

practically indistinguishable from a conspiracy but I think the invisible hand of their incentives - "this is terrible for the country but incredible content" - coordinating their behavior is more likely.

And more problematic, a conspiracy is easier to disrupt.

I mean, the man was an anarcho-monarchist medievalist and linguistics expert who thought Shakespeare was a hack because the trees moving in Macbeth weren’t actual Dungeons and Dragons style monsters. They don’t make guys like that anymore.

Favorite sign so far