ThatBoyOverYonder
@thatboyoveryonder.bsky.social
Worker, ally, son of a truck driver, socialist, white boy, one of those Midwestern Civil War and WWII history enjoyers who became a labor history enjoyer after reading Howard Zinn when he was like 23.
What alternative? Obama’s administration established the conditions which allowed a figure like Trump to emerge and be politically viable because he bailed out the banks at the expense of underwater homeowners and pushed through a shit insurance industry giveaway instead of actually fighting.
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
What alternative? Obama’s administration established the conditions which allowed a figure like Trump to emerge and be politically viable because he bailed out the banks at the expense of underwater homeowners and pushed through a shit insurance industry giveaway instead of actually fighting.
Please be a joke, or this is galaxy brain levels of hyper-consumerism.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Please be a joke, or this is galaxy brain levels of hyper-consumerism.
I especially like the underlying assumption here that poverty and precarity is an individual failure, or a lack of something other than simply not having money, and not a necessary feature of the existing system in order to discipline the working class and drive down the price of wages.
January 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I especially like the underlying assumption here that poverty and precarity is an individual failure, or a lack of something other than simply not having money, and not a necessary feature of the existing system in order to discipline the working class and drive down the price of wages.
You’re a stupid little child if you think the Democratic Party is capable of bringing a fight to Republicans. All they know how to do is roll over.
January 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
You’re a stupid little child if you think the Democratic Party is capable of bringing a fight to Republicans. All they know how to do is roll over.
Dems don’t want to do anything but maintain the Democratic Party and its donor base. Parties here are not like in Europe, reliant on dues from members who participate in its meetings and elect officers, here it’s a patronage network for factions of the ruling class to staff the state bureaucracy.
January 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Dems don’t want to do anything but maintain the Democratic Party and its donor base. Parties here are not like in Europe, reliant on dues from members who participate in its meetings and elect officers, here it’s a patronage network for factions of the ruling class to staff the state bureaucracy.
They’ve long already been in control. This country has more prisoners on Earth than any other country, either in absolute or in per capita terms. We are already authoritarian, and both parties have ruled and erected the state apparatus being used to shoot people in the streets in broad daylight.
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
They’ve long already been in control. This country has more prisoners on Earth than any other country, either in absolute or in per capita terms. We are already authoritarian, and both parties have ruled and erected the state apparatus being used to shoot people in the streets in broad daylight.
It’s really only liberals who self identify with the Democratic Party that actually still believe in these institutions, everybody else are either cynical opportunists, memeing for the lulz, or otherwise on the outside and apathetic from social death or disenfranchised formally or informally.
January 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
It’s really only liberals who self identify with the Democratic Party that actually still believe in these institutions, everybody else are either cynical opportunists, memeing for the lulz, or otherwise on the outside and apathetic from social death or disenfranchised formally or informally.
There simply aren’t enough soldiers either. Americans are pacified through consumerism and spectacle on the tv, and among the great “middle” will roll over to protect their mortgages. We’re among the most housebroken people on Earth, and whatever happens conditions will still deteriorate.
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
There simply aren’t enough soldiers either. Americans are pacified through consumerism and spectacle on the tv, and among the great “middle” will roll over to protect their mortgages. We’re among the most housebroken people on Earth, and whatever happens conditions will still deteriorate.
They don’t give a fuck one way or the other, really. They don’t believe in these institutions, they don’t really care if Republicans win or lose, they only care grifting the rubes gullible or ignorant or stupid enough to give them money. There is no ideology, there is only the hustle.
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
They don’t give a fuck one way or the other, really. They don’t believe in these institutions, they don’t really care if Republicans win or lose, they only care grifting the rubes gullible or ignorant or stupid enough to give them money. There is no ideology, there is only the hustle.
I’d say a large plurality of people are unaware of this event or otherwise apathetic for a variety of reasons, a large proportion of the remainder simply don’t give a shit because they didn’t know her and it doesn’t affect them, of the remainder MAGA is just using the moment to meme and make you mad
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I’d say a large plurality of people are unaware of this event or otherwise apathetic for a variety of reasons, a large proportion of the remainder simply don’t give a shit because they didn’t know her and it doesn’t affect them, of the remainder MAGA is just using the moment to meme and make you mad
Get the managers! The managers need to do something about this! I am a disgruntled consumer and have rights!
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Get the managers! The managers need to do something about this! I am a disgruntled consumer and have rights!
So the objective fact that there is no correlation between the laws that the people support and the laws the govt passes, regardless of the party in power, is “gullible”? More people didn’t vote than did vote for either candidate, that’s not an indictment on the system as a whole in and of itself?
January 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
So the objective fact that there is no correlation between the laws that the people support and the laws the govt passes, regardless of the party in power, is “gullible”? More people didn’t vote than did vote for either candidate, that’s not an indictment on the system as a whole in and of itself?
Objectively, there is no correlation between the policies that the general public supports and the laws that the government passes, regardless of the party in power. Voting is a middle class ritual of disavowal, a practice they perform to clean themselves of the blood on their hands.
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Objectively, there is no correlation between the policies that the general public supports and the laws that the government passes, regardless of the party in power. Voting is a middle class ritual of disavowal, a practice they perform to clean themselves of the blood on their hands.
They can’t accept that their “party” is controlled opposition, and the oligarchs who own it do not give a fuck about winning elections.
January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
They can’t accept that their “party” is controlled opposition, and the oligarchs who own it do not give a fuck about winning elections.
There is no correlation between the policies that the general population supports and the laws that the government passes, regardless of the party in power. Elections are reality tv shows for middle class people more concerned about their mortgages than what’s happening to people they don’t know.
January 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
There is no correlation between the policies that the general population supports and the laws that the government passes, regardless of the party in power. Elections are reality tv shows for middle class people more concerned about their mortgages than what’s happening to people they don’t know.
Yes, relitigating a shit show of a campaign is exactly what is called for here. More people didn’t vote than did vote for either major candidate because we are an underclass of working poor who have been marginalized and disenfranchised, and know intuitively that elections are not about us.
January 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Yes, relitigating a shit show of a campaign is exactly what is called for here. More people didn’t vote than did vote for either major candidate because we are an underclass of working poor who have been marginalized and disenfranchised, and know intuitively that elections are not about us.
Americans do not give a fuck about this. We’ll gnash and wail and put on a show displaying our great sorrow for such a tragic event, and then nothing will happen. Nothing will change. People in this country are much more concerned about their mortgages than someone they don’t know getting shot.
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Americans do not give a fuck about this. We’ll gnash and wail and put on a show displaying our great sorrow for such a tragic event, and then nothing will happen. Nothing will change. People in this country are much more concerned about their mortgages than someone they don’t know getting shot.
He was already impeached twice last time and not a goddamn thing happened. The entire fucking edifice is corrupt and needs to collapse.
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
He was already impeached twice last time and not a goddamn thing happened. The entire fucking edifice is corrupt and needs to collapse.
“We” didn’t do anything. This is not a republic, this is not a democracy. The constituency of this country is the largest corporations, the government is organized by and for them, an it is incapable of reform. Let it go.
January 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“We” didn’t do anything. This is not a republic, this is not a democracy. The constituency of this country is the largest corporations, the government is organized by and for them, an it is incapable of reform. Let it go.
It’s a good thing that doesn’t matter, then.
January 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
It’s a good thing that doesn’t matter, then.
The major parties are front groups and patronage networks for competing factions of the ruling class whose role in the Constitutional order is to staff the imperial bureaucracy, and have had a power sharing agreement on matters of empire for generations.
January 6, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The major parties are front groups and patronage networks for competing factions of the ruling class whose role in the Constitutional order is to staff the imperial bureaucracy, and have had a power sharing agreement on matters of empire for generations.
Yeah, except there is no correlation whatsoever between policies that the people broadly support and the laws that get passed, regardless of which party is in power. The Democrats don’t “rally” anybody, they retroactively justify what the technocrats in the party and the state dictate.
January 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Yeah, except there is no correlation whatsoever between policies that the people broadly support and the laws that get passed, regardless of which party is in power. The Democrats don’t “rally” anybody, they retroactively justify what the technocrats in the party and the state dictate.
You are describing the US.
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
You are describing the US.
Maybe she should have proved that in a series of primaries, rather than the party unilaterally making that choice. More people did not vote than did vote for either major candidate, largely because we’re disenfranchised and have no reason to believe in these institutions.
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Maybe she should have proved that in a series of primaries, rather than the party unilaterally making that choice. More people did not vote than did vote for either major candidate, largely because we’re disenfranchised and have no reason to believe in these institutions.
The entire edifice is corrupt, a greater plurality than either major party is disenfranchised and does not believe in these institutions. Elections, especially those mediated by the major parties, front groups for competing factions of the ruling class, are not going to solve these problems.
January 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
The entire edifice is corrupt, a greater plurality than either major party is disenfranchised and does not believe in these institutions. Elections, especially those mediated by the major parties, front groups for competing factions of the ruling class, are not going to solve these problems.