how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

So the billionaire CEO of the all-powerful spy and advanced warfare software company is basically Ted Kaczynski? That's interesting.

no one having a job seems like a very normal thing to say. i assume there will also be no rent, no utility bills, no grocery bills, etc. and we'll also be receiving UBI so we can do what we please? this all sounds very normal and cool. very well thought out.

Not... what I would have thought of upon reading the phrase "the woke right"

But by horseshoe theory, and a child's definition of "woke" as "activist conspiracy theorists I don't like", it makes sense

In your nightmare headcanon, who is President?

I was actually thinking she might run herself.

Especially if the D 2028 nom and (knocks on wood for 5 minutes straight) winner is a man, say, Pritzker/Beshear/Walz

The theory would be only Rs can run a woman viably, like only Nixon could go to China

Just wait. You will be surprised, depressed and astonished. Off the top of my head: A ground war in Venezuela, A ground war in Nigeria, Epstein files drop and filks face consequences, Epstein files drop like wet fart with no real consequences, Israel starts invading more neighbors, Russia uses nukes

The likelihood that something new happens in the next couple weeks that obliterates this as anything other than an "extremely online" grievance is approaching 100%

If you think the most significant political thing that happened in November is not the off-year elections, you're simply wrong.

what if the firehose of fascist shit isn't wiping out the memory of the electorate? what if it's just hitting different things? and idk it seems like a persisting problem to me that dems aren't in lockstep with and fully tied to no kings, possibly the biggest social movement in american history

that one I found especially striking because dems are barely acknowledging that issue, and even on bluesky, the supposed deranged leftwing bubble, it is maybe a b-tier issue for people to post about, very much eclipsed by ice raids

things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes

I guess the other thing I'll say is that by january 2025 I was like "america is over. america is full of placid cucks who will let their country go to fascists without a fight" because the bulk of the country and the media didn't care about doge taking over payments infrastructure, and i was wrong

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery