Allen Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐

A key reason why I (usually) align with the new liberal/neoliberal wing is that it presents a fundamentally positive-sum view of the world where even difficult issues are ultimately solvable with patience, pragmatism, and good policy This is, I think, simultaneously both optimistic *and true*

This website exploding in rage at an inaccurate summary mis-reporting what Harris actually said, yet which is also simultaneously entirely true, is Blueskyism

well this place is reacting to this about how I expected there's not gonna be 60 senate dems and the GOP won't vote to convict trump no matter what, I dunno what to tell you folks

honestly this just makes me nostalgic for the obama years, I kinda miss everyone constantly losing their minds over the stupidest bullshit imaginable rather than committing 47 front pages worth of crimes on a daily basis

You should have to go to a physical location to bet on sports (or anything else); and that physical location should have to be more than 2,500 feet away from a school, playground, public park, daycare, church, or senior living facility.

I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but it seems really weird how excited people are about Lula kissing a trans-Congresswoman on the cheek as a revolutionary show of support, when Joe Biden wrote the forward to Sarah McBride's book:

I agree with this in broad strokes, but the underlying connective tissue here is more of a character problem: this administration is simply bad at authoritarianism. Their policy judgment and execution has been ham-handed and incompetent because *they* are ham-handed and incompetent

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

are we still doing this and by "this" I mean taking a deliberately vaguely weasel worded statement from a dem pol with a shot at winning in a red state facing a bajillion dollars of "he wants to trans your kids" ads and deliberately twisting it into the most unfavorable interpretation possible

I get why people hate it and are doing their best to ignore it, but it is really important and underrated that Keynes said "in addition to stimulus during downturns, you *also* have to do austerity during boom times", which is becoming increasingly relevant no matter who drove the deficit up

GWOT brain makes Americans think "will take heavy casualties" means "obsolete." Not how big boy war works!

I don’t think the young people (ie if you’re under 25 you don’t really remember Obama) realize just how electric a speaker he is

The implication in ME2 that the cycle is just how they reproduce is as good of an explanation as anything else and much better than the revelations at the end of ME3

also quit saying nationalize without a) laying out the new legal framework to do so (bc it doesn't exist now), b) explaining how that framework wouldn't be abused by the Carlson Admin, and c) why US taxpayers should be on the hook for the CSAM generating hitler robot

The thing is I don’t believe this. Either the admin did it and wants to blame Elon or Elon did it and they’re letting him because they like him.

Turns out that when you constantly tell people in an organization about the transformational effects of becoming a Marine that becomes their primary identity.

lmfao this really is the perfect description of the guy

it's darkly funny that progressives feel weird siding with the founding fathers and MAGA is eager to claim them, because Trump and his minions are the embodiment of everything they despised like everything they hated cohered into a single cancerous blob the final boss of the American Revolution

I know it's cringe to think America does anything better than the Promised Land of (imagined) Europe, but reality is sometimes cringe.

This is what winning looks like. Eventually, the stigma will get so big that it will be like Germany in the 1950s where everyone's dad "was forced into the army and just had some support role."

State saying out loud what I’ve been hearing has been the same, quieter process for senior officers.

actual criminal liability is probably unfortunately limited, but that's an AG problem, you're just reminding ol Nayib that the DoD stands ready to assist the DoJ in carrying out enforcement of any indictment, anywhere in the world, as the previous Admin did across the Caribbean from him

If your belief in nonviolent protest is based on it making you safe as a protestor I have bad news

Like, someone should explain to Americans that - no - prices will not go down, prices will go up but by less and by the same amount wages go up, and someone should explain the French that - no - you cannot retire at 60 when life expectancy is 83 and fertility rates are below population replacement.

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

I’m putting together a team whose job it will be to perform exorcisms on the apparent multitude of people who are possessed by the spirit of Ludendorff

What’s happening here is that everyone understands the most socially convenient thing to believe is “Working people are having a much more difficult time than before.” That’s what will get you the warm approval of the crowd; it *sounds* progressive. But this belief is heavily undercut by data.

Seeing people post the usual assortment of guillotine memes regarding Musk, and while I sympathize, that is not what we need. What we need is a country where no laws will be bent, broken, or amended on behalf of someone who is incredibly wealthy or powerful. A state of no exceptions, if you will.

A modest proposal to build a cube, sufficient to house One (1) billion people, in Marblehead Massachusetts, so as to prevent that town from being a burden to society.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

i say this from time to time but it's really a shame that the ADL has become what it's become, because we sure could use an American organization against Jew-hatred that wasn't badly fumbling its mission. (sit down, Bob Kraft, you're extremely not helping)

Mostly I'm laughing about this but there really is something sick at the heart of our epistemology on this site sometimes. Probably it was always like this, but things aren't true because your ideology demands it. All you have to do is read.

doesn’t explain why le pen is 60% in the French polls

I wish Biden had been a war hawk who shipped thousands of Bradleys to Ukraine. I wish our entire stockpile of 155mm rounds were used on Russian soldiers. There isn’t a single escalatory act NATO members could commit against Russia that I wouldn’t support.