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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

a good metaphor for politics is when you have a drill for boring holes in a board, and you find a hard board, and you immediately give up

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

recalling that the actual quote from Max Weber about "slow boring" is 180 degrees away from limp dishrag centrism. he explicitly says you have to be a hero who reaches for the impossible

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

that is the other thing. in order to stop the natural and organic reaction against ICE’s fascist occupation, you would need an oppressive force even more violent and tyrannical than ICE itself bsky.app/profile/gold...

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

I do not feel the need to engage with this argument morally because, as a political strategy, "impose Democratic Centralism on everyone left-of-center" is about as viable as "achieve true communism in our time".

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

“everyone shut up and let your neighbors be kidnapped and murdered in the street. a substack guy thinks that might slightly increase Democrats’ odds of winning the next election”

annabellelecter.bsky.social
@annabellelecter.bsky.social

Oh right, he signed that dumb Atlantic Monthly letter and was forced to become a highbrow racist weirdo with equally tedious fans. Is that what people who use 'Centrists' as a slur are going on about? Why not just call him a highbrow racist weirdo?