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Some people just want their turn to wear the boot.
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rmcunliffe.bsky.social
People who pride themselves on tiptoeing over language, who talk about words as violence and the importance of listening and lived experience, will suddenly just go "no, we don't believe you, you're the one misinterpreting those words, we're going to use them anyway".

But only when it comes to Jews
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Trofim Lysenko be like
Tweet by Matthew Lutz: "Bayesianism is an ugly incoherent kludge and it's embarrassing how many smart people are enamored with it."
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
I sincerely want to ask her “what would have been an effective plan to deal with the opposition?”

But I can’t enter a conversation like that from my main account, and there’d be no reason for her to answer my tiny alt.
Tweet by Cassie Pritchard about statistics showing strong racial hiring bias at Yale: “It's pretty striking, and while I understand the progressive impulse to say some version of "this didn't happen," or "who cares," I think you need to look at this to have a full and correct analysis of why, e.g., academia (humanities esp) is under relentless right-wing attack” Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian_d....1h Of course the right has hated universities for a long time, but the extent to which the humanities have come under fire from many liberals and moderates seems to have scaled up basically simultaneously with DEl practices at elite schools Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian_d... •1h ... Now, does this mean schools were wrong to do it? Not necessarily; that depends on your priorities. But it seems clear to me there was really no expectation of how this would generate opposition and retaliation, and no plan to deal with it Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian_d....1h ... As always, my message to the left is that if you want to do the Right Thing, however you see that-and certainly a lot of progressives at universities decided "hiring as few cis white men as possible" was Right—please actually plan for *how* to deal with opposition! Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian d...•1h S ... It's just very frustrating. And I understand it's hard to admit "we're doing employment discrimination on the basis of race; we believe it to be morally correct" because it's both illegal and highly unpopular, but it means 1) you can't defend your position & win people over... Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian S S... ...and 2) you can't plan correctly for how to head off your opposition, because you can't even *admit* that there *will* be opposition, because you can't openly admit what you're *doing*. Cassie Pritchard & @hecubian _d....1h S... I think there's a lesson in here about the strategic pitfalls of trying to get one over on the dumb chuds, the pitfalls of acting covertly while denying everything publicly. It's not that it can't be done, but, goodness, you've got to coordinate better *internally*
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
Doing an illegal thing is morally correct, but they failed at the omertà.
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
On age and sex discrimination
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
“Oddly practical ideas”
Tweet by Jacobin magazine: “Socialist writer Charles Fourier died on this day 188 years ago. Nearly two centuries later, his insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas still seem shockingly modern.” Wikipedia article: “Fourier considered trade, which he associated with Jews, the "source of all evil", and advocated that Jews be forced to perform farm work in the phalansteries.[11] By the end of his life, Fourier advocated the return of Jews to Palestine with the assistance of the Rothschilds.[12]”
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Opinions on generative AI.
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
#CallaWalsh
Tweet by @CallaWalsh above a video of Zohran Mamdani meeting Donald Trump in the White House: “Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. Zohran is a national socialist.”
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
Opinions on swastikas.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
I wonder what changed.
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
11 months, 3 days, 20 hours, and 23 minutes elapsed between Nancy’s posts.
Screenshots of three tweets, two by Nancy Mace. On November 24 “Boots” tweets @NancyMace: “you're going to be against gay rights as soon as it becomes socially advantageous” On 4:37 PM • 11/24/24 : Nancy Mace @NancyMace “Votes for gay marriage twice in fact” On 1PM 10/28/25 : Nancy Mace @NancyMace “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Nominating morons because The Base is mad at The Establishment seems to have been very successful for the Republican Party.
Tweet by Lakshya Jain: “This is the funniest possible way for this all to unfold. The Tea Party in 2010 had this exact dynamic. I very much doubt Mills is *34 points* down, but if Democrats decide to nominate morons because The Base is mad at The Establishment, they have a ~0% chance at a majority.” Beneath this, Lakshta quotes another tweet about a poll showing that Graham Platner leads Janet Mills in the Maine Senate primary election, though the poll was taken prior to the news that Graham Platner has a tattoo of the Nazi SS Totenkopf insignia.
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
From what I’ve seen, those tattoos will be fashionable 15 months from now.
Tweet by @agraybee : “I say this as someone who used to listen to every episode when it was released: 15 months from now Graham Platner will not be a senator, but you'll still be the people who defended a nazi tattoo.”
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
If you want violence, do it yourself.
Tweet by Aidan Simardone with the caption “No Kings keeps talking about non-violence...” Above an image of Kwame Ture saying, “In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none.”
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Yeah, good luck with that.
Tweet by Democratic Socialists official account: DSA supports the mass mobilizations against Donald Trump. As socialists we must be clear: defeating Trump and his administration means defeating the whole capitalist, imperialist system. Join DSA to help build the movement for a better world.
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Screenshot of a Guardian news article, headline: “German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds” Poster of “Er Is Weider Da” / “Look Who’s Back” , the German movie where Adolf Hitler inadvertently time-travels to 2015 Germany, where he becomes a popular social media star.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Tough choice, tbh
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
Yes, I do see a pattern in which politicians you criticize.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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russellcohn.bsky.social
Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
If my memory serves me correctly, Hamilton addressed this exact scenario in Federalist 28 & 29.

avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
Tweet from Paris Schultz: From Judge Perry's oral comments: "Not even Alexander Hamilton could have envisioned one states militia to be used against another states residents because the President wants to punish those with views other than his own."
October 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Fair point, but if what you want is success in governance then perhaps socialism is not for you.
October 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
themtoo.bsky.social
Extraordinary things are happening in England.

Well, maybe that’s not exactly the right word since it’s not so out of the ordinary.
October 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
themtoo.bsky.social
Opinions on presidents ignoring court orders.
October 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM