Young Male Voter

Feel like I’m gonna be spamming this for the next few years:

I'll face what it means: it means that as a society we genuinely just don't think rape is that bad of a crime and is roughly comparable to shoplifting or jaywalking.

Gamergate successfully killed gaming.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how much I enjoy having a job (regularly performing labor for money) and having a career (a longer arc of building a resume people respect) and I really resent how much society has done in the last few decades to stigmatize both things for me

The days of an American liberal being defined as "a person who refuses to take their own side in an argument" are over. We're right and we're better and we're not going to pretend otherwise.

I cannot express the hate I hold in my heart for Jared Polis.

the horse has been beaten to death and beyond but it's just staggering how low the standards are for this guy every week he finds a new, creative way to prove himself unfit for office and none of them mattered at all compared to the fucking gas prices

The one-day-all-you-normies-will-work-for-me type.

Republicans need to let go of the red scare shit. Communists will never gain a foothold in the United States both because there are so few of them and because they spend 90% of their time arguing about who is actually a Communist.

Political party youth wings are where all the dogshit gets cooked up, from this kind of performative ultraradical stupidity on the left to "remove the age of consent" in Euro liberal parties to Nazism among conservative youth orgs.

Employment rate in that crowd has gotta be looking like that of 1931 Kansas

wild that centrists are doing "are the wacko libs intolerant for cutting off their conservative parents" discourse on the same day we find out a dem congressional candidate got violently raped while campaigning

I don’t think we’re ever gonna reckon with so much of our present hyperreality hellworld coming directly out of conspiracy theories about Syria but that is where most of it comes from

Three years ago, the terrorist organisation Hamas perpetrated the worst attack against Jewish people since the Holocaust. My statement:

watching a society learn that basically no one considers what everyone else does all day "real work" is very interesting and also very depressing

It is not possible to understate the outright hatred they have for the Blue Country, their one and only wish is to break the Union and do so as bloodily as possible

In the Republican language “California” is one of the worst curse words it is possible to utter

“Oh but he just says shit, clearly he’s just joking, and surely everyone else is as horrified by this as I am” you have never met a Republican

The thing I'm most preemptively mad about is that the news media are probably by and large going to get away with framing their complicity and enabling of Trump as "we were just so afwaid he'd hurt us 😖😖😖" after he's gone when in reality they were getting off on every last second of it.

Also, as long as I've been alive, there's been an American political principle of "eventually there will be a violence orgy from which my side will rise as victors," more frequently from the right but sometimes from the left as "Revolution."

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

Their answer to the trolley problem is literally "let everyone die but as long as I enable it passively, through inaction, my hands are clean" Which, for the umpteenth time, no they are not!

liberal democracy is not a luxury. liberal democracy is the magic beast that ran the table on fascism and communism and totalitarianism. we did not do this by giving up on liberal democracy and embracing evil. we did this by sticking to our most dear principles.

Remember, every single person who ever said "We don't need a President, we need a CEO to run this country like a business" has been proven to be 1000% laughably wrong.

just remember, every time you see one of those "where we honor veterans" signs on a road trip: that town voted for this by like 40 points

Ironically, this is how most Americans think a woman would act as president.

it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"

Men who make their money by talking unscripted and unedited for hours and hours on end are by and large just not worth listening to. I regret to inform you that not all crime is stolen bread crime.

It's always funny (/tragic) when people propose work requirements "to restore the dignity of work". People like working! They don't like having to jump through weird administrative hoops!

I genuinely can't think of a perspective on American politics more thoroughly discredited at this point than "they're unmotivated by genuine convictions, it's all pure greed". Having that take in 2026 should get you put in a home. Do you assholes know how much better off we'd be if that were true?

a fun and telling thing to track will be whether twitch streamer hasan piker or sitting united states congressman max miller receives more mainstream news media coverage between now and the election www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

Washed

The story of COVID breaking our social norms is still basically true but the thing about it is that the real story is one of Americans being decadent wimps instead of the lockdowns being some beyond-the-pale act of tyranny

trump really sounds like a florida retiree in his 80s complaining to his friends in the restaurant that one of them owns OH WAIT