It's notable how wrapped around the axle we all get over whether or not to vote for transphobic Dems but then there's only this very small number of them anyway. That's good news and we should accept it. The transphobes are likely expendable. So just expend em!
The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people.
I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate.
I make my case here.
It's really amazing the number of things Matty is either willfully ignoring or displaying ignorance of here. 🧵
1. We didn't interfere with the outcome, we simply cared about it. He totally wants to conflate the two.
2. The candidate who lost is obviously an enemy of democracy.
5. Elections do not and cannot simply reveal and reflect the true preferences of the electorate. (There is SO MUCH political science explaining this.) They're a compromise and a necessary evil. Democracy is the worst system of government except for all the others, right?
6. One of the biggest reasons we're so happy Bolsonaro lost, is the very one Lula is harping on: it was a defeat of foreign influence! Namely, American big tech and social media (Meta). We're celebrating the preservation of their self-governance! Against us, even! Against our fellow Americans!
It's really amazing the number of things Matty is either willfully ignoring or displaying ignorance of here. 🧵
1. We didn't interfere with the outcome, we simply cared about it. He totally wants to conflate the two.
2. The candidate who lost is obviously an enemy of democracy.
3. To the degree that we get to live and let live as separate sovereign nations, that's because we all elect people who respect each other's sovereignty, so, that at least needs to be paid attention to.
4. Countries are fake, they're accidents of geography and history. The people who are voting in the same elections as you aren't doing so because of some legitimate process that decided that you should. In a better world, we'd have a global democracy. And then what would we not care about, Matty?
I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go
Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day.
Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.
Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.
I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this
“Shut up & be happy with the scraps we give you, & let us give up some of your rights to get other votes, because the fascists over will shoot you and we won’t. But don’t worry, we’ll give you more at some vague point in the long arc of history, promise. So long as you aren’t uppity about it.”
It should be said that while paypros and the government are creating age gates for porn sites and banning content like underage or incest roleplay videos, scams are utterly rampant and seems to be permitted.
Meta is also a contributor to the above regulatory effort. I'm just pointing this out.
the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty
This article makes me think of one of my esteemed doctoral Religion advisors, who made the University of Chicago admin angry every year by submitting a proposal to construct a memorial on campus to the worldwide victims of the UChicago Economics Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...
just found out about the taco bell x milk bar collab and i think that's honestly pretty inspired even if i also think "birthday cake flavor" is symptomatic of the West's decadent zombie economy that's just going to circle the drain for the next hundred years
What can Dems actually do about DOGE? A Democratic Congress has a real opportunity to engage in the type of oversight that DOGE has avoided thus far.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...
FFS, we live in a society. If my children die, I MAY be able to keep on living, but I will most likely be a shell of my former self, assuming, again, that I'm even able to keep going at all.
It's all connected and interdependent. Is your heart perhaps 2 or 3 times more important than your liver?
Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity:
“…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.”
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...
We could be investigating the Trump administration for decades. Empires will rise and fall, the sun will burn itself out, and we could still be unraveling all of it.
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms.
Slava fucking Ukraini.
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it.
Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
Important to read our political history correctly, that whenever a politician was labeled as "lacking transparency," that really just meant that they didn't provide the mainstream media with as much monetizable content as they, for whatever reason, expected them to.
This weekend at a political rally for Republican Senator Jon Husted in Ohio, Donald Trump took to the stage to rail against Democrats and transgender people.
He falsely claimed Democrats "mutilize" transgender kids to "make them transgender."
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No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
An irritating thing that judges will do in gerrymandering court cases is do a whole “no I’m a simple country lawyer who don’t understand no fancy statistics” posturing. Fuck you! You should! It’s your goddamn job!
We should probably invest as country/society in more JD-PhD programs. Especially in the age of AI related litigation there’s gonna be a huge demand for a technically literate attorney population.
Was gonna say, happier and with your mouth open, then I realized that that's whitest kids u know, then I realized, I don't care, I'm posting this anyway