Mister Magic

Populism punches up in theory and punches down in practice.

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Is doing things to people without their consent bad or not?

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Yes they absolutely were voting for mass deportations. They just thought they would be the special ones.

This is the way. Crush the fascists then sort out the rest.

Three moments broke Trump 2.0: 1) Kimmel and other attempted censorship after Charlie Kirk. Made public see the attack on speech. 2) Minnesota anti-ICE protests, Goode and Pretti killings. Made public see the attack on rights. 3) Iran war. Made public see bad foreign policy affects them directly.

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

In 1964, blue collar support for the dems peaked at 80%. After that, the dems pushed civil rights through, it dropped to 47% in 1968, then 38% in 1972. The workers left the dem party because the dem party first fought for civil rights for black people, then women, then latinos and then queers.

We demand low taxes, especially property and land, because are entitled little shits. But when the same money shows up in check form we are offended at the bribe.

And we've come full circle from Obama wasn't even born here to it doesn't matter if Obama was born here.

Working people have a special responsibility to not be taken in my scams. We are not mere pawns in a political game to be manipulated by others, we have moral agency.

Your facebook friend who never moved out of your hometown and thinks the Cheesecake Factory is fancy voted for Trump because he thought it would make the economy better is voting for Dems in the midterms this year because gas prices are high

how Trump speaks about Somalis is indistinguishable from how a Nazi would speak and yet the Press won’t even cover it. a majority of Americans will never know this was even said.

Is there anything else unifying the states that have done this, anything at all

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen stay exactly the same in your lifetime? I say rubber bands. They were fine back then and they’re fine now.

Y'all also dont know how shitty TV was. Yeah its too expensive now, but shit was bad. Y'all just remember the 5 or 6 good shows.

An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is a textbook example of voter fraud.

These undecided interviews reveal that any person suggesting there's one neat trick that will appeal to them is full of shit. Undecided voters are: 1) People who want to vote R, but know they shouldn't; 2) they're prejudiced & reason backwards; or 3) they simultaneously hold contradictory positions

Despite the recent backsliding, LGBTQ rights are objectively much much better. Cities are MUCH safer than they were in the 1990s.

historic corruption

I love shit like this, because it's very obviously made up nonsense if you have literally any memory of 2020 whatsoever, and proves that a whole lot of people on here don't want to actually affect real change; they want to fucking larp as revolutionaries.

lol. lmao.

Local convenience store is out of fuel Clerk told me she believed it to be because “our fearless leader is starting fights with countries that supply our oil” Now, I think the reality is much more complex, but this basic catalyst for all the problems and expense of gas right now is just that

Literally one of the central strategies of civil disobedience was to trigger bad acts by the local authorities that would get national news coverage, John Lewis would 100% have live-streamed walking across that bridge if he could have

This should go well for him. The funny thing is I do think we should eat a lot less meat, but lol good luck with this dude.

My message to everyone who voted for Trump or abstained in 2024 who is rushing to support Democrats this cycle: Welcome back, dummies.

To be fair to Vivek, all he did was look out at the Republican Party and reasonably assume they’d line up behind his sleaziness, lack of character, and degenerate sense of self-entitlement because they’ve been doing just that for the past decade. He just forgot he’s not white.

WHERE THE FUCK WAS THIS ENERGY FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS? WE TOLD YOU BACK IN 2016 (2015 EVEN!) THAT GIVING INTO TRUMP WAS SURRENDERING YOUR DECENCY. BUT NOOOOOOOO YOU HAD TO HAVE YOUR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

"There's zero difference between Pete Buttigieg and Donald Trump" is one of those takes that sounds knowledgeable and spicy but it's actually just stupid.

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"armies don't fight for abstractions." -- The losing army