Having good taste as a kid means you think Storm Eagle has the best Maverick stage theme music.
Having good taste as an adult means knowing it's Sting Chameleon.
Attaining true nirvana means you know Sigma Stage 1 is the best music in the X series.
like what's going to happen with the libs getting radicalized again this time? because this is like the 10th time this has happened in my lifetime and every single time they get bored and go back to punching left since it's easy
the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
Only fucking morons look at the electoral and judicial landscape vis a vie the people suffering under empire here and abroad and think we have anything approaching “effective forms of politics”
a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
Believing in electoralism or winning every election ever while only appointing good philosopher kings as POTUS is far more unrealistic than anything a socialist is advocating.
is retreating into fantasy and nihilism bad? you just acknowledged we can't really do anything. is impotent anger just too cringe? I'm so sorry bro. did someone do a doomerism. are you gonna cry
is retreating into fantasy and nihilism bad? you just acknowledged we can't really do anything. is impotent anger just too cringe? I'm so sorry bro. did someone do a doomerism. are you gonna cry
Also if you are a political coalition that actually cares about your diverse constituency, you might also want to articulate a plan for what happens if Trump takes power, both in terms of challenging him and protecting the vulnerable.
The last time people went to go protest a Supreme Court decision there was an immediate, bipartsan effort to use tax player dollars to put snipers on Samuel Alito's roof while our favorite pundits went "Brett Kavanaugh has a family :( :(. His daughter must be so scared :( :("
This whole thread is good, and this, to my mind, is the key point: actions like this are an attempt to pretend that the game is over, when the ball is very much still in play. Trump's faction is gambling because they're standing on a knife edge. It doesn't have to work.
-My last thought- these are not the actions of someone who has already won. Let me tell you what evil men in the fullness of their power do. They do nothing. They do nothing because they need to do nothing, because the world they built around them does their cruelty for them.
Resist inevitability. It doesn't exist. It's an invention of people trying to convince you to shut up and go along so that they don't have to fight you, because fighting is hard and there's generally a very good possibility that they'll lose
Think last night’s HOTD may be my favorite episode of the series so far. I think I like the episodes in between the big F&B events - so much focus on character and themes which hold the bigger setpieces together.
even the rallying around a then-78-and-already-showing-signs-of-decline biden in 2020 was careless! they were as concerned (or more) with keeping bernie or warren out of leadership as they were with removing trump.
Barack Obama’s main hobbies are emerging from retirement to share a Spotify playlist curated by 20 year old queer interns and to tell the people that a better world is not possible.
the truth is a tremendous number of powerful people have been extremely careless with that power for a very long time in regards to the threat posed by donald trump specifically and the revanchist right generally. and they are *just now* realizing the problem several years late and panicking
The Democrats entire bet is that they can poach Trump voters over Roe and by embracing Israel and shitting on trans people. And when that doesn’t work out liberals are going to blame the NYT and the media et al instead of this obviously terrible campaign strategy. They should fire the DNC.
