if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

Really bad: nitpicking other people's responses as insufficient while your own grand plan consists either of shilling for Soviet Communism on Bluesky or advocating for people to point lasers at manned aircraft.

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

It's very funny that the people saying "hey kids, it's cool and good to shine lasers at aircraft flying over populated areas" today are the same people who said a couple of weeks ago that anyone who gives Indivisible their email address is getting black-bagged for sure.

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

defeating ICE the DC way: they must sit through the most boring powerpoint man has ever created

Democracy in action, baby

They look like mall cops chaperoning a high school Halloween dance. It’s beautiful.

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Pro-CCP Christian nationalism is really something

This phenomenon also surfaces at the university level--while right-wing institutions have no compunctions about going after anyone who challenges their views, everyone else is expected to cater to right-wingers at all times and is accused of censorship if they don't.

The left and right are playing by two different sets of rules. The left is constantly trying to win supporters by catering to its perception of what they want. The right just spams them with ragebait until it's sandblasted away their civic trust and made them vulnerable to MAGA-style populism.

And that hints at the real core of the problem, which is that while left-of-center outlets and personalities tend to be at least somewhat conscientious and (more importantly) hypersensitive to bias accusations, right-wingers couldn't care less about appearing biased or even flat-out lying.

Also, the pool of left-of-center media talent is incredibly shallow. A lot of prominent media voices elevated by the left end up constantly tacking to the center to avoid allegations of bias, and in the process, find themselves both-sidesing increasingly bad right-wing behavior.

There is no left-wing Charlie Kirk because the demand for that kind of content broadly does not exist on the left. There aren't leftist content creators debating students at Liberty because a left-wing audience is not going to be as easily entertained by that kind of dollar store sophistry.

And even in the independent media sphere (i.e. content creation on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), people who hold right-wing worldviews are a lot more likely to constantly consume reinforcing content than those on the left. There isn't really a useful left-wing social media ecosystem.

Part of the problem is that billionaires--even ones with nominally left-leaning political views--tend to elevate voices that they like, and the Venn diagram of "voices that the average billionaire likes" and "voices that contribute a productive left-of-center perspective" is two separate circles.

Deus vult!

Democrats spend millions measuring public sentiment; Republicans spend millions shaping it.

The trouble NIMBYs have is that they are almost invariably the least sympathetic people you can possibly imagine. The cleverest YIMBY activist in the world could not invent a less likeable antagonist than the median NIMBY.