Literally A Wolf 🇵🇸
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No original thoughts in my head. I am a compendium of internet garbage.
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love yourself enough not to take lectures on why “accelerationism” doesn’t work from people who believe appeasement does
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
love yourself enough not to take lectures on why “accelerationism” doesn’t work from people who believe appeasement does
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19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
March 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
Democrats Do Something Useful Challenge, 2025 Edition
I honestly think Dems have to resist the urge to say "I told you so" and instead ask ourselves how we present an extremely compelling ideological alternative to MAGA/DODGE...not just for one cycle, but for the long term.
That means addressing the decline of American Dream and wealth inequality.
That means addressing the decline of American Dream and wealth inequality.
February 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Democrats Do Something Useful Challenge, 2025 Edition
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It remains the case that the real dividing line across the center-left/left isn’t primarily about policy.
It’s between those who believe some kind of normalcy can be achieved through legal tweaks and technocratic fixes and those who believe our democracy is going to have to be rebuilt the hard way.
It’s between those who believe some kind of normalcy can be achieved through legal tweaks and technocratic fixes and those who believe our democracy is going to have to be rebuilt the hard way.
Two things are true:
This type of weak sauce learned helplessness from Democrats is pathetic.
Yet it’s true that the broad mobilization of civil society we desperately need in order to stop this authoritarian assault will create dangerous, volatile situations. That’s just where we are.
This type of weak sauce learned helplessness from Democrats is pathetic.
Yet it’s true that the broad mobilization of civil society we desperately need in order to stop this authoritarian assault will create dangerous, volatile situations. That’s just where we are.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
February 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It remains the case that the real dividing line across the center-left/left isn’t primarily about policy.
It’s between those who believe some kind of normalcy can be achieved through legal tweaks and technocratic fixes and those who believe our democracy is going to have to be rebuilt the hard way.
It’s between those who believe some kind of normalcy can be achieved through legal tweaks and technocratic fixes and those who believe our democracy is going to have to be rebuilt the hard way.
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There’s a word for people who say they oppose fascists but believe that fascists make a few good points or are right about some things.
(It’s fascists)
(It’s fascists)
"The Nazis had a kernel of truth to in their slogan about how their opponents were not human beings but disposable fake humans" what the fuck is wrong with you
![Screenshot of text:
Like any good insult, the NPC meme served a dual purpose. [Highlighting begins] It contained a kernel of truth about its target. [Highlighting ends] We liberals can be conformist. We can be too afraid to offend. We can be overly deferential to institutions. We can be cowed by the in-group policing we inflict on ourselves and quick to take up the cause of the moment. But the real purpose of the NPC insult was self-congratulation. The right was full of live players. You could see it in their willingness to offend, their mistrust of institutions, their eagerness to debate what liberals would not even say out loud. This became part of the Trumpist right’s self-definition: They were the nonconformists, the coalition that wasn’t made up of automatons. That’s what America needed. Live players.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreiffkywqsegqggmdsyprqvpodus3eglp4o2p2jyp7pymep26yg3loq@jpeg)
February 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There’s a word for people who say they oppose fascists but believe that fascists make a few good points or are right about some things.
(It’s fascists)
(It’s fascists)
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yep. All it leaves is a result depending on the integrity and reach of either side in a conflict, and a dishonest and abusive person is going to come out ahead in the narrative
February 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
yep. All it leaves is a result depending on the integrity and reach of either side in a conflict, and a dishonest and abusive person is going to come out ahead in the narrative
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What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
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We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.
I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened.
It is nonsense.
It is nonsense.
February 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.
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If you saw a person losing a game of chess to a dog, over and over, you would assume the person is losing intentionally, that they are losing on purpose. Probably to make money selling tickets to see the amazing chess playing dog.
Anyway, the dems
Anyway, the dems
February 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If you saw a person losing a game of chess to a dog, over and over, you would assume the person is losing intentionally, that they are losing on purpose. Probably to make money selling tickets to see the amazing chess playing dog.
Anyway, the dems
Anyway, the dems
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A small but meaningful part of the damn problem with the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely no meaningful internal party discipline — at least, not aimed at the party’s right. Discipline is only for progressives that are actually on program.
February 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A small but meaningful part of the damn problem with the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely no meaningful internal party discipline — at least, not aimed at the party’s right. Discipline is only for progressives that are actually on program.
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Centrists stop finding common ground with Nazis challenge.
"The Nazis had a kernel of truth to in their slogan about how their opponents were not human beings but disposable fake humans" what the fuck is wrong with you
February 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Centrists stop finding common ground with Nazis challenge.
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Celebrate presidents day by playing Luigi's Mansion for a solid 16 hours
February 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Celebrate presidents day by playing Luigi's Mansion for a solid 16 hours
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technofascists: vaccines are dangerous
also technofascists: you are asking too many questions that have already been answered by my "we used CRISPR to insert DNA from a starfruit and Murray Rothbard into our IVF" hat
also technofascists: you are asking too many questions that have already been answered by my "we used CRISPR to insert DNA from a starfruit and Murray Rothbard into our IVF" hat
February 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
technofascists: vaccines are dangerous
also technofascists: you are asking too many questions that have already been answered by my "we used CRISPR to insert DNA from a starfruit and Murray Rothbard into our IVF" hat
also technofascists: you are asking too many questions that have already been answered by my "we used CRISPR to insert DNA from a starfruit and Murray Rothbard into our IVF" hat
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That would require alienating their corporate constituents, safer to pitch yourself as nicer than the bad guys and just shrug when it doesn't work
January 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
That would require alienating their corporate constituents, safer to pitch yourself as nicer than the bad guys and just shrug when it doesn't work
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this remains a massive problem. a month of rampant law breaking and the constitution in abeyance and still no sign party leadership cares about anything but positioning themselves for the midterms
they don't know what to do because they think winning elections is their job. if they had substantive ideals that they fought for, and winning elections was merely an instrument for achieving those ends, they'd know exactly what to do. they don't even realize this is a problem.
give us a bit of time we've only had three months to prepare! it's not like Trump is a known quantity or that we were handed a complete roadmap for everything ahead in the form of a handy book of policy intentions they released like monologuing villains
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
this remains a massive problem. a month of rampant law breaking and the constitution in abeyance and still no sign party leadership cares about anything but positioning themselves for the midterms
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I will not bring this energy here further but Jonathan Chait is in my opinion an odious human being whose function in our discourse is in no way made less pernicious by virtue of his being so generic and replaceable
February 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I will not bring this energy here further but Jonathan Chait is in my opinion an odious human being whose function in our discourse is in no way made less pernicious by virtue of his being so generic and replaceable
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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
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Trying EVERY Dumbshit Right-Wing Internet Theory Out On The US Government At The Same Time
February 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Trying EVERY Dumbshit Right-Wing Internet Theory Out On The US Government At The Same Time
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Every one should read Command and Control, the laugh-a-minute nonfiction book about all the many times we’ve dropped or lost or forgot or set fire to various nuclear warheads
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Every one should read Command and Control, the laugh-a-minute nonfiction book about all the many times we’ve dropped or lost or forgot or set fire to various nuclear warheads
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I would simply take myself hostage in a kind of Budd Dwyer With a Twist situation, but I guess that’s asking a lot for a non Republican whose official stance is Jesus Has The Wheel
"What leverage do we have?" says Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "They control the House, the Senate and the presidency; it's their government."
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I would simply take myself hostage in a kind of Budd Dwyer With a Twist situation, but I guess that’s asking a lot for a non Republican whose official stance is Jesus Has The Wheel
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anyway remember when the democrats controlled both houses and the executive but couldn't do shit because of [checks] the Senate Parliamentarian? thank god Jesus Was on the Throne then too or we'd really be sorry now
February 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
anyway remember when the democrats controlled both houses and the executive but couldn't do shit because of [checks] the Senate Parliamentarian? thank god Jesus Was on the Throne then too or we'd really be sorry now