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The issue here is that liberals think it *has* to take generations to fix things, because it took generations to fix things before, but it takes this long because people keep doing the thing we know for sure fails, which is compromise with reaction
polite transphobia is still transphobia institutional racism with a smiley face and a half hearted apology is still institutional racism fuck the optics and focus on the actual goddamned fucking problems you goddamned useless fucking libs
February 18, 2026 at 5:11 AM
The issue here is that liberals think it *has* to take generations to fix things, because it took generations to fix things before, but it takes this long because people keep doing the thing we know for sure fails, which is compromise with reaction
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we dont want to go back to having our neighbors deported quietly under cover of darkness either the problem isnt the fucking optics the problem is the fucking policies
February 17, 2026 at 2:36 AM
we dont want to go back to having our neighbors deported quietly under cover of darkness either the problem isnt the fucking optics the problem is the fucking policies
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I'll hate the voters any day of the week. Doesn't take much courage to hate the voters.
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I'll hate the voters any day of the week. Doesn't take much courage to hate the voters.
Given that Newsom is *demonstrably* to the right of both Biden and Harris (whom, despite not being perfect on trans rights, didn't stake out an explicit anti-trans position), on trans rights, what makes you think a Pres Newsom is a given to revert things to the January 20th, 2025 status quo?
A List of trans rights:
1. Passport sex (Biden/Kamala protected; Trump destroyed)
2. Carceral rights (Id.);
3. Asylum rights (Id.);
4. Healthcare (Id.)
But “who cares about democrats policy on trans rights! Let’s not talk about Hunter Shaefer betraying trans rights & focus on Zelda cosplay” is A+!
1. Passport sex (Biden/Kamala protected; Trump destroyed)
2. Carceral rights (Id.);
3. Asylum rights (Id.);
4. Healthcare (Id.)
But “who cares about democrats policy on trans rights! Let’s not talk about Hunter Shaefer betraying trans rights & focus on Zelda cosplay” is A+!
February 18, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Given that Newsom is *demonstrably* to the right of both Biden and Harris (whom, despite not being perfect on trans rights, didn't stake out an explicit anti-trans position), on trans rights, what makes you think a Pres Newsom is a given to revert things to the January 20th, 2025 status quo?
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Newsom opposes Trump, which is important and should be emulated.
He doesn't do enough to oppose Trumpism, though, and he lacks all principles and judgment, which is why he slobbered all over Shapiro and Bannon.
Other, better people also oppose Trump, or can learn to oppose Trump more.
He doesn't do enough to oppose Trumpism, though, and he lacks all principles and judgment, which is why he slobbered all over Shapiro and Bannon.
Other, better people also oppose Trump, or can learn to oppose Trump more.
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Newsom opposes Trump, which is important and should be emulated.
He doesn't do enough to oppose Trumpism, though, and he lacks all principles and judgment, which is why he slobbered all over Shapiro and Bannon.
Other, better people also oppose Trump, or can learn to oppose Trump more.
He doesn't do enough to oppose Trumpism, though, and he lacks all principles and judgment, which is why he slobbered all over Shapiro and Bannon.
Other, better people also oppose Trump, or can learn to oppose Trump more.
The problem is that he agrees with Trumpism on several key axes.
I’m personally not a big fan of the guy, but like I said to @gregsargent.bsky.social months ago, he’s really found the correct formula for opposing Trump - both rhetorically and substantively. And the main thing Dem voters want right now is ANTI-TRUMPISM.
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The problem is that he agrees with Trumpism on several key axes.
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he was eagerly posting about bringing *Elon Musk* back into the tent when he had his falling out with Trump, something that is at least as transphobic as what Newsom's done
we have GOT to stop letting people get away with pretending Ro Khanna is left-wing
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM
he was eagerly posting about bringing *Elon Musk* back into the tent when he had his falling out with Trump, something that is at least as transphobic as what Newsom's done
this is so funny and weird to say about someone who started down down 3 touchdowns in the 4th quarter and lost by a failed 2 pt conversion
I wouldnt sweat it too much, the previous loser always leads in polls like this just from name recognition. Shell fade when the actual primaries start as people pay closer attention (also because she is terrible at campaigning)
February 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
this is so funny and weird to say about someone who started down down 3 touchdowns in the 4th quarter and lost by a failed 2 pt conversion
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It was good when we told these voters to go fuck themselves and threatened to shoot them in the face if they kept resisting with violence.
What an easy question? “You hate voters who think separate but equal is good?”
Yes because I’m not a loser
Yes because I’m not a loser
February 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It was good when we told these voters to go fuck themselves and threatened to shoot them in the face if they kept resisting with violence.
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"Labour officials spent 2024 and 2025 offering voters what they thought they wanted—based on growing support for the fascist party—and it created a remarkable collapse that could (will) lead to a wipeout for Labour in upcoming elections." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
A Blaring Warning for the Democratic Party From Across the Pond
Popularism has been tried in the UK, and it has failed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"Labour officials spent 2024 and 2025 offering voters what they thought they wanted—based on growing support for the fascist party—and it created a remarkable collapse that could (will) lead to a wipeout for Labour in upcoming elections." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
People really underindex on Comedy Central as a fascist radicalization vector
February 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
People really underindex on Comedy Central as a fascist radicalization vector
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The thing that has kept AOC sane while maintaining her populist flair is that she is a Latina from NYC who worked in the service sector and accordingly is under no obligation to pretend that she’s in an identity-affirming Chevrolet Silverado commercial at all times
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
The thing that has kept AOC sane while maintaining her populist flair is that she is a Latina from NYC who worked in the service sector and accordingly is under no obligation to pretend that she’s in an identity-affirming Chevrolet Silverado commercial at all times
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The main thread of connective tissue between Sandersite progs and consultant-poisoned centrists, allowing one to so easily become the other (e.g. Fetterman and Platner), is a desire to downplay, deny, or reverse this one inconvenient truth
At some point you have to stop fighting the wind and lean with it.
Democrats are the party of Women and Queer folks.
We may as well be honest about it.
Democrats are the party of Women and Queer folks.
We may as well be honest about it.
February 17, 2026 at 8:51 AM
The main thread of connective tissue between Sandersite progs and consultant-poisoned centrists, allowing one to so easily become the other (e.g. Fetterman and Platner), is a desire to downplay, deny, or reverse this one inconvenient truth
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a core part of my own thinking has long been that hierarchical social systems are built on the psychic wage of hierarchy as much as they are on any merely material rewards. finally putting those thoughts on paper:
on dominance, and submission.
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
on dominance, and submission.
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
Chapter 5.3: The Psychic Wage | Samantha Hancox-Li
Get more from Samantha Hancox-Li on Patreon
www.patreon.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
a core part of my own thinking has long been that hierarchical social systems are built on the psychic wage of hierarchy as much as they are on any merely material rewards. finally putting those thoughts on paper:
on dominance, and submission.
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
on dominance, and submission.
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law.
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
February 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law.
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
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Oh, the other serious answer to this is that I really do think national borders are a source of enormous toxicity and that actually winning is going to require addressing that, in some way that absolutely no one is ready for lol
good thread from adam that i think gets at a core question: do we have a theory of victory?
national politics, especially when there doesn't seem to be a theory of victory. you can see the negative effects of constantly being an state of arousal here on this platform, in many respects. this is not warhammer 40k, where people can indefinitely exist in a "long war" against chaos.
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Oh, the other serious answer to this is that I really do think national borders are a source of enormous toxicity and that actually winning is going to require addressing that, in some way that absolutely no one is ready for lol
That's only if you're willing to keep playing by the rules
This also isn't warhammer 40K where you can say "oh that's a bad narrative" and change the story, like.
Losing the 2016 election was a catastrophe that we will still be feeling 20 years from now. Every election for the rest of your life will be about cleaning up after losing the 2016 election.
Losing the 2016 election was a catastrophe that we will still be feeling 20 years from now. Every election for the rest of your life will be about cleaning up after losing the 2016 election.
February 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
That's only if you're willing to keep playing by the rules
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So long as we don't pretend the Long '90s is the utopia to retvrn to, sure.
We have to accept that mediating material and cultural conflict administratively and judicially — instead of politically — was post-New Deal cope, not a sustainable equilibrium that should be brought back.
We have to accept that mediating material and cultural conflict administratively and judicially — instead of politically — was post-New Deal cope, not a sustainable equilibrium that should be brought back.
February 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
So long as we don't pretend the Long '90s is the utopia to retvrn to, sure.
We have to accept that mediating material and cultural conflict administratively and judicially — instead of politically — was post-New Deal cope, not a sustainable equilibrium that should be brought back.
We have to accept that mediating material and cultural conflict administratively and judicially — instead of politically — was post-New Deal cope, not a sustainable equilibrium that should be brought back.
yeah you'll need the commies for this, genuinely. We'll be lucky to *not* get an armed White (in both senses) uprising doing this. Not that we shouldn't, but this is to me well into the "revolution" part of the spectrum
2) Breaking the feudal hangovers in the economy, on the tactical level this means breaking up rent seeking businesses like car dealerships, pushing back on the idea that business owners are better than anyone else, and strengthening labor unions. (Musk’s cult of personality should have been a joke)
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
yeah you'll need the commies for this, genuinely. We'll be lucky to *not* get an armed White (in both senses) uprising doing this. Not that we shouldn't, but this is to me well into the "revolution" part of the spectrum
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Basically some type of liberal vanguard rule featuring heavy state suppression of reactionary politics, and the total destruction of their entire political economy.
Anything short of that and they’ll eventually stomp us out and destroy the planet.
Anything short of that and they’ll eventually stomp us out and destroy the planet.
February 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Basically some type of liberal vanguard rule featuring heavy state suppression of reactionary politics, and the total destruction of their entire political economy.
Anything short of that and they’ll eventually stomp us out and destroy the planet.
Anything short of that and they’ll eventually stomp us out and destroy the planet.
If you oppose Groyper Gavin, the last thing you want is for it to become a proxy for "i won't vote for any non leftist"
Because they're actually justifying why they're not gonna vote for Pritzker or anyone else uncool just like they refused to vote for the cringe non fascist candidate in the past three presidential elections
February 17, 2026 at 11:35 AM
If you oppose Groyper Gavin, the last thing you want is for it to become a proxy for "i won't vote for any non leftist"
Did anyone predict Starmer destroying UK Labour before he did it? And yet you want to literally run back that strategy.
At least Starmer didn't make a point to advertise how much he agreed with the Tories.
At least Starmer didn't make a point to advertise how much he agreed with the Tories.
The Democrats are not Labour! The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour. The Democrats are not Labour!
1: yes, in fact. as long as there are fascists you have to keep fighting them. this is not complicated.
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
February 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Did anyone predict Starmer destroying UK Labour before he did it? And yet you want to literally run back that strategy.
At least Starmer didn't make a point to advertise how much he agreed with the Tories.
At least Starmer didn't make a point to advertise how much he agreed with the Tories.
Maybe America's cis majority should be more concerned about the consequences of elections, because if they were they wouldn't hinge their vote on trans kids playing sports.
I don't know how to explain to people that elections have consequences beyond their specific pet issue, and that not caring about those consequences is actually pretty shitty.
February 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Maybe America's cis majority should be more concerned about the consequences of elections, because if they were they wouldn't hinge their vote on trans kids playing sports.