Righteous Gangsterismo

Relevant Andor wisdom for the foreseeable future: “We fight to win. That means we lose and lose and lose - until we’re ready. All you know now is how much you hate. You bank that, you hide that - you keep it alive until you know what to do with it.” Today, we’re at the losing phase. Expect more.

One does reach a point when dealing with fascists that you remember that Germany would have been much easier to defeat in 1936 than 1939 and millions of lives would have been saved.

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

protestant evangelical megachurches and social media platforms pushing endless right wing propaganda are both two key 21st century american technologies of control with a planetary reach and a resilience embodied in how both expand and rely upon the decentralized, productive desire of the willing

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

Only Republicans are allowed to have a weapon. Democrats are just here to get stabbed and shriek for donations to help stop the bleeding so they can survive long enough to let republicans stab them again next week.

A product like this has no pro-social function, and it doesn't need to be reliable. The existence of the tech creates plausible deniability to violate rights even when there is extensive evidence that it is wrong. This is the system working as intended.

This mfr said Gingruch

It’s fine, you just take literally everything he owns and throw them both in prison for 20 years

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.

Talk of UBI must go with talk of nationalizing industry, otherwise we are all ultimately going to be living in a company town and forced to buy everything at the company store... and can't quit or go on strike (can this be why oligarchs like the idea so much)

Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh no are leftists rude? How many tanks do they have? How much of the cops and army. Zero? Wow.

Kushner and Trump didn’t “plant stories about meeting with Jeffries to sow division.” You have to give up on these cathartic storylines that make you feel better about what’s actually happening: the parties, as presently constituted, on behalf of the same wealth and oligarchical classes.

Hey uh the GOP made “normal or ok” irrelevant so we should be doing this to them the moment we manage to get power back. Use the tools of your enemy to defeat them or be prepared to lose forever.

I can assure you that DSA is not backed by the Heritage Foundation. this Bulwark guy is, though

Lost in this discourse about Mangione is that even when UHC reacted to fix the issues he killed over, capital immediately jerked the leash back and made them reverse those changes. While Thompson's killing did reveal how we all really think about these industries, nothing materially changed.

"Imagine you think—as Elon Musk clearly does—that all of human civilization is dependent on maintaining pure-blooded white people as a significant portion of the world’s population, and keeping them in charge of…its most powerful states. What political agenda would follow from that?"

Progressive wins by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes Progressive loses by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes

I love this headline so much. lol Now tell us how El-Sayed has to tack to the right, ya losers, after he won with the full might of the Democratic and AIPAC establishment squawking their heads off plus spending $70 million against him total loser nonsense

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

"they say israel to mean jews just like nazis say the n word to mean black people" it's got to be a fucking bummer for guys like this that this move has lost whatever power it used to have

AES made a persuasive point that progressives should keep pushing in primaries: Haley Stevens is not “electable” if she requires $70 million in PAC spending to compete in a primary. The idea that we call these centrist corporate stooges electable is a joke. They have no organic support.

This stolen money needs to be returned to blue states by the next administration with interest.

any liberal credibly able to call themselves such must at baseline be willing to defend the liberty to advocate for perfectly normal positions like state run health care and social services. even if they were marginally fringe ideas the fuck are you doing here? they're trying to jail people

Indeed yes Elon, we’ll deal with the traitors first… just stand over here against this nice wall.

Again: Keeping socialists out of government is the true goal of Democratic Party leadership. They pretend to tack left until the moment real leftists are safely defeated (same as in the UK with Labour) Viewed through this lens the strategy is comically transparent

Whatever the problem is the answer is never going to be more cops. Not homelessness, not driving laws, not public intoxication (the one kind that is bad), not solving crimes or even stopping them. The only problems cops solve is too many people alive and outside of prison.

There’s something very dystopian about an authoritarian president letting the country know he’s planning on rigging elections and the main takeaway from people is either that he was boring or that they didn’t watch it. Everything feels so out of fucking whack right now.

I hope people are starting to understand that as leftist ideas grow in popularity, as economic conditions worsen, and as opposition to the tech oligarchs grows that the powerful are going to criminalize all of it in order to maintain control. We have to prepare for it because it’s coming.

Any political project which does not have a radical reform of the media landscape as a linchpin cannot be thought of as a serious response to the resurgence of reactionary politics and the polycrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Updated count: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to, or for the CO races are now trailing, a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) (Will update tomorrow)

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

I always like to play fun, silly games with my fascist friends