Felonius Tooth

you can't have a democracy built exclusively around doing and saying whatever it takes to win if everyone is a strategist no one is a citizen

All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.

The opportunity to argue about observable reality with someone actively demonstrating their unwillingness to observe it is not as attractive a proposition or as necessary an activity as many people seem to believe.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

i dont think republicans understand that id actually rather have my taxes go to the wellbeing of illegal immigrants who work and help the country rather than into corporate bailouts and endless forever wars

Yep. @premthakker.bsky.social nails it here

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Any Democrat suggesting that there is any political mission other than bringing all elected Republicans to justice for their participation in an insurrectionist hate group needs to be booed and hissed without cease until they can be fired at the next available opportunity

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this is why people like me get frustrated w dems. you have been handed some of the most villainous people - trump, noem, hegseth, mullin - that look and act more vile than something out of a comic book rogue's gallery. and you dont act, you dont criticize. its why "complicity" seems so likely.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

the democrats, especially senate democrats, are really just the dumbest republicans are trying to preside over the end of america and you're like "we can still work with them" shut the fuck up

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

jail

Yep. The reality right now is that there aren't *any* actual debates over jurisprudence, interpretation, and so forth, because SCOTUS itself doesn't have any. The majority decides cases solely on personal preference and does not leave behind a consistent rationale for doing so.

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

sometimes the issues people care about are not real, but the people you hurt by playing along always are

"[N]ow that John Gannon has had the experience he intended to come to others, John Gannon feels sorry for himself; now that the supremacist narrative has come for him, he feels betrayed by the narrative. He can’t understand how this country would behave in exactly the way he wanted it to behave."

yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...

The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.

El-Sayed on RFK JR: It goes back to the fact that they appointed a guy who takes his kids swimming in Schitt's Creek. I find it personally offensive that my dude works out in jeans. Either he is not really working out or he just has massive calluses on the inside of his legs. It is not right

Dear Ma and Pa MAGA, YOU did this. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/dear-maga-...

Genuine LOL

Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.

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I swear, man, the way so many people trust tech exec hype is like none of you ever owned a Powerglove or U-force.

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

I realize that my genetically engineered super wasps may kill all humans. But investors have put a lot of funding into this so we just have to keep increasing their capabilities. Look, if my super wasps don't end civilization, someone else's might, so we need to stay at the forefront of this tech.

"I know they don't support separate drinking fountains in New York and California and other coastal states but if a Democrat needs to back separate but equal facilities in Alabama to win, progressives should just hold their tongues" - how you sound defending Democrats opposing trans equality

If the republicans came out saying some fucking crazy shit like “we need to sacrifice 100 poor people into the giant blender to appease god” democratic leaders would be like “outrageous! 100 is WAY too high a number!”

democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero

a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts

just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party. if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

One guy has a trifecta he's using to hide cops who killed our neighbors for protesting goons putting churro ladies in concentration camps. The other says stupid shit occasionally on a Twitch stream, where he spends like 90% of his waking time. I want my party's leader to fight only the first guy.

Annie Andrews: "What she [Darline Graham] said there was that her healthcare plan is, 'you should work hard until you die' ... I believe Darline's parents deserved better."

any democrat “denouncing” hasan piker is only showing theyre going to let republicans lead them around chasing after bull shit. its pathetic and we dont have time for it

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.

if you want a hard truth that youre not allowed to speak in the media, i have one: you have to be dumb as dog shit to actually be a conservative

refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move

"Seems to me that when you insist that you aren’t in that group, or take pains to demonstrate that you aren’t in that group, you appease the bully’s premise that the person in that group deserves abuse."