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• Post #4040529

  Naw, let's just be clear on this point right - I never said the Guardian's US imprint was good, and I was not talking about the UK Guardian, which has "British media disease" throught and through, but rather the US IMPRINT of The Guardian - which might as well be an entire separate paper. See for example the vast discrepancy between how trans rights are handled in the UK edition and the US edition. The sad truth is the US Guardian imprint is "the best of a HORRIBLE MS med...

• Post #3842947

  I mean the Democratic Party is either going to adopt a new deal liberalism style platform, or it's going to get cored out from the inside by progressives who will. That much is already a foregone conclusion. What we're waiting to find out is if "the center" (read Vichy Democrats and neoliberal ghouls) is prepared to throw yet ANOTHER election to stop the will of the people from being enacted. They already did it twice so I can't say they won't go "fine then NOBODY...

• Post #1471791

  Anyway, if the nazis don't shoot him, Mamdani will be president some day. There's just something about him that makes liberals listen to the VERY SAME THINGS they've been ignoring for decades. I dunno why, but the base likes him like they have never liked any other Berniecrat - including AOC. If they don't ratfuck him into oblivion, he simply won't be stopped; so I hope he's the real deal, for all our sakes.

• Post #1441302

  So look, Marx wrote about this, and in all my years studying history I have never found this analysis to be wrong: the goal of the capitalist is NOT to sell you a product. That's penny-ante shit. No matter what they say about the market deciding or competition that's not what they want - they build monopolies for a reason, they buy governments for a reason and it's not to ensure a fair competitive environment for all investors and producers lemme assure you. (ct)

• Post #1437493

  Naw I mean on its own this is gonna go away. Because the Catholic right are winger theocratic fascists and so is the Evangelical right. But again - if Trump and the fundies keep doubling down, I dunno that this is negotiable. There are not a lot of "rules" most Catholics won't break but straight up blasphemous idolatry - casting yourself as Jesus the Messiah, is probably one of them. Arguing with the Pope certainly ain't good either; ignoring him was an option...

• Post #1383121

  Naw, the "cultists" part is just as important as the "nazis" and the "billionaires" parts. Google the term TESCREAL and I apologize in advance for the sleepless nights you're about to have once you realize that YES these guys are unhinged nazi cultists like Nina told you, but ALSO? They have enough wealth to buy the power necessary to actually TRY THIS SHIT. People always tell me the guy who can't make a car that doesn&#...

• Post #1379812

  No seriously - don't come to the World Cup. In fact, don't come to America. And stop buying shit off our corporations because whether you know it or not the very same billionaire nazi cultists who own those corporations are the ones making your life suck by ensuring America elects and empowers Hitler(s). You are essentially funding the hellworld, when you buy our products - me too, all of us.

• Post #1374732

  I mean I'm endorsing "Storm the Winter Palace" in the Michigan Dem Senate primary but gun to my head it's pretty obvious El-Sayed is the only person you can vote for in that race - assuming you were gonna vote and not storm the winter palace that is.

• Post #1374731

  I mean I'm joking but I'm not really joking? If your position is that Piker is vaguely a terrorist because he happens to share the opinion that Israel is a settler colonial state with militias our corrupt government has labeled "terrorist groups" (more on this in the reply) then you are more or less saying "you like AIR? You breathe AIR? You know who else BREATHED AIR? Yeah HITLER you monster!" And I think that is very funny.

• Post #1374730

  "I mean when you think about it, Hitler was a man who gave speeches. And Hasan Piker is both a man, and sometimes gives speeches so of course it's fair to say Hasan Piker is a lot like Hitler. Why are you laughing at me, I'm doing a very serious politics her-"

• Post #1374727

  Like, man, don't you people pay an army of lanyards to tell you how to talk? Here's a hint, the next time you're gonna deploy a clever witticism about Trump, ask yourself "if this was the title of a new rap album, would that be hype?" If the answer is yes? Go back to workshopping it. If I'm Trump? I have "Mar-a-Lago Mafia" merch on my websites by noon tomorrow.

• Post #1374726

  Someone tell Jon Ossoff that "Mar-A-Lago Mafia" sounds, for lack of better terms, cool and edgy. Please just, stop... the word "fascists" is right there buddy.

• Post #1374724

  Just remember, courage isn't not being afraid - it's being afraid, and doing the right thing anyway.

• Post #1374720

  I mean I don't actually think they think they're gonna create the AI god, or that trillions of artificial minds and no humans is the end stage goal of humanity. I think you tell yourself you believe those things when you want to say it doesn't matter that you're slaughtering billions of people for five pennies a share. And if you tell yourself that enough times, you start to sorta believe it. Nobody is the villain in their own internal monologue.

• Post #1357166

  I mean we might be at war. I dunno, do you? Most disturbingly, does the White House know whether or not we're at war? Cause it is very unclear based on what Trump and his minions are saying. Is the Straight open? Are ships being fired on? Who fucking knows because our media doesn't even have foreign bureaus anymore so I guess we just have to take Pete Hegseth's word for it - you know, the dumbest Crusader liar prick alive. This is amazing. I love 2026.

• Post #1357162

  *shrugs* I mean are you surprised that folks who looked at a boiling planet, and the scientific data that showed if we keep doing capitalism, particularly fossil fuel capitalism, billions and billions of people are going to to die and said "fuck that it's worth it, how dare you suggest I stop" would invent their own morality to justify it - because no existing morality could?

• Post #1338989

  Brey, when this is all over, I don't want to hear any shit about amnesty for collaborators. Everyone in the media, making excuses for media companies they might like to work for some day, but this isn't "we felt forced to comply by an unhinged president." This is literally helping the Pork Reich cover up its crimes against humanity. People swing for shit like this. https://www.commondreams.org/news/youtube-tiktok-cecot-video

• Post #1321786

  "Turkey has described Benjamin Netanyahu as the 'Hitler of our time' after the Israeli Prime Minister shared a post on X criticising Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" That awkward moment when Gollum Hitler makes a really good point about Dumbo Hitler but you don't really want to say anything nice about Gollum Hitler even if he happens to be right about Dumbo Hitler.

• Post #1314940

  "Feeling off? Your secrets could be making you stressed" Or, and hear me out - you have constructed the torment nexus and grafted it on top of the society around me in the form of capitalism, colonialism, and fascist police state oppression, the entire planet is on fire, and I am pretty sure the people in charge are gonna let us all die so Elon Musk can keep pretending capitalism is sustainable till he inevitably od's on Krokodil in a Thai hash bar, and THAT'S...

• Post #1281708

  Naw I mean at this point I probably need to see you A) win some elections and then B) not murder brown infants after doing so, for me to be in a "trust" position again. So I dunno why any of you bother trying to convince me - you literally cannot meet the preconditions I will require without A) getting power and then B) not doing fascism with that power. I'm a dead token as far as your efforts to drum up the vote. I'd just leave me alone and plow more fruitful...

• Post #1281707

  Like, some of y'all are big mad that I'm not going for "we're the kinder, gentler baby murderers" and man... I dunno what to tell ya. Sounds like a "you" problem to me. Find your happy place cause the mountain does not move for you.

• Post #1281705

  I mean you want me to give a little? Okay, here's my give: I'm cynical, but at my heart I'm an optimist. I'm dumb enough to vote for your Party on the off chance the promises you make to me about helping marginalized people, ending the imperialism, and reigning in capital are real and actionable, and I'm even dumb enough to forgive you for building the police state if you promise to dismantle it. I know you're liars but I can't HELP but ta...

• Post #1281704

  I mean saying the Democratic Party establishes policy positions via focus groups and polling, so called "popularism" is also bullshit and just tells me you read and take Matty Yglesias seriously for some unkown reason. What about the polling showing the Dem base overwhelmingly supports free public healthcare? What about the polling showing the Dem base supports an arms embargo on Israel? Would you like me to keep going because I literally can do this all fucking day.

• Post #1281703

  (No I was a lot more concerned about nominating Biden during the 2020 primaries; which I felt might lead to a loss. I was not aware that Biden would let Sanders write half his platform (and then break every single promise he made) at the time. I was however quite clear once Biden became the candidate and the platform was released that he couldn't lose. This is because he pretended to care what marginalized ppl and progressives thought and if the Dems do that they cannot lose. They just r...

• Post #1215799

  lol, dis gud. https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-parody-video

• Post #1199097

  I dunno, y'all ain't even got the "weekend Fedi" excuse for the nonsense that went on in my replies last night cause it was Monday. I just need y'all to be aware that hating Trump and his fascist cult is easy mode; if that's all we got in common, sooner or later you'll be shouting about how I'm a foreign asset or "just as bad as MAGA" or some other deeply insulting shit that shows you're a unhinged mortg...

• Post #1182866

  "Islanders' fundraiser for convicted cop causes stir" I'll bet... what in the holy fuck?

• Post #1169429

  There is some shitlib in my replies positing that a mandatory draft is both "good for kids" and also "antifascism." Come get your mans before I choke the life out of him through sheer force of will.

• Post #1118369

  Okay I mean I also hate rich people but given how capitalism functions, if you got rich people, you eventually gonna have nazis so the distinction is tenuous at best.

• Post #1108236

  I mean Trump is definitely not doing any of the things he just said he'd do. You know who DOES get their oil, throught the Straight? China. So let's picture this scenario in our head right now - a Chinese oil tanker is coming through the straight having paid a discounted fee to Iran - you are telling me Trump is ordering the US Navy to board or even fire on a Chinese oil tanker? And you figure China is just gonna let him? This is nonsense.