In addition there used to be this program that kept a large US operated global logistics chain running, that could be transferred to emergencies when needed. Was called 'USAID'.

Belief is a function of sustained engagement and reinforcement more than it is a function of any deliberate / evidence based cognitive process.

I'd believe in horseshoe theory less if it wasn't proven correct every fucking time

Just putting this side by side with the "courting Liz Cheney" bit below and reminding people how many shitty comments were made every time establishment Dems even greeted a Republican in a hallway.

?????

Doesn't seem bizarre to me. At most, I might argue with the specific rank & ordering.

this makes more sense if you understand that the hard left doesn’t really object to the social conservatism of Republican voters at all. They literally do not care about social issues. They dislike “corporate” Dems became they remind them of people with laptop jobs/middle managers. That’s it

Or maybe you're just bigots who think being an ally is just a hashtag.

You threw every marginalized community including the entire country of Palestine under the bus because Liz Cheney was a better human than you.

The left is exactly like Trump: transactional, hypocritical, and cowardly.

Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Joined May '23 To everyone accusing me of not reading her statement: I did and even the most charitable reading sucks. Greene is an unrepentant fascist engaged in a blatant attempt to launder her reputation under the guise of anti-Trumpism. Statements like this directly facilitate that and Omar should know better. Omar argued Greene and others are discovering that Trump "never really had any principles outside of uplifting his ego." m credit for that, the fact that they've had this wake-up call to ,the fact that they've had this wake-up call to finally seeing this con man, this corrupt, chaotic man, for what he is, the fact that they understand that he never really had any principles outside of uplifting his ego," she said. Omar continued by saying Democrats should embrace people like Greene, encouraging other MAGA followers to ditch Trump. I think is an important thing for us to put our arms around and say Yes, then now let's figure out how do we save our country from the disaster that this man is creating?" she said. 2 Primary Maria Cantwe... @openthe... 21m Al Hater I dunno man, I think a former refugee and principled woman of faith like Omar has probably had to forgive a *ton* of people over the years, this doesn't seem out of character. Also, we could use the votes

cheney Top Latest Primary Maria Cantwe... @openthesc... 5h Replied to Zach Rosenberg Al Hater Was going to the birthplace of the GOP with Republican politician and nepo-royalty Liz Cheney something that a progressive campaign would do?

You gotta be fuckin kidding me.

Man there’s literally an entire game show based around the idea people can’t tell you the price of household goods they purchase TODAY. Human beings are not hyperrational stores of price data, especially over years of time! Good lord.

Lot of hit dogs hollering in the replies

Will is being relatively optimistic, in that he believe(s) that the pessimism of the Biden Economy could be tied to media coverage and online vibes, where if you accept a materialist framing, it's impossible to see it as anything except a wholesale rejection of progressive economic policy.

I mean I have been trying to find any political reading of this other than "Angela Merkel austerity thought forever" and I think the most plausible progressive outcome I can cook up is "Angela Merkel austerity thought forever, but leftistly"

the good news is that we’re going to test if worsening material conditions causes worsening political moods, hopefully better calibrated!

that is also the bad news.

The guy in the second post spent all of Feb 2022 gushing about how brave the Russian protestors accomplishing jack shit were but had nothing to say about the Ukrainian civilians who stared down Russian tanks in Kherson as the Russians occupied the city

"phyrexian in both construction and spirit" [geiger counter noises] sephirothposting detected, sephirothposting detected, deploy emergency grass supply

also I know nothing about this person, but they were 100% on the "AI is spiritually Israeli" train that was going around a while back

Screenshot of a 4Chan post: Anonymous less makey threads more takey meds

Mutual aid is not good.

this is a holdover from twitter, along with one other thing unfortunately that goes farther than what sky is saying

initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news

Don't tell us what it is! Now you have to come up with a new one.

insofar as Bluesky runs on data centers, yes

the incentive structure that trained her & all her followers to reflexively align with any proposition that appealed to the current omnicause in the right way, of course

anyone who gets out in front of the herd fast enough & with enough followers is automatically verified, that's just how it works

incredible that they could find the resources for this in a [checks notes] open-air prison camp that has [checks more notes] been carpet-bombed to oblivion [checks back of hand] twice. and that they could do this while being [removes shirt to reveal extensive additional notes like in Memento] dead.

you just have to make sure not to redeem them

I have seen WAY too many people talk themselves into a weird twisted rationale of “I don’t care if I’m being scammed as long as there’s a chance I’m helping someone!”

Meanwhile they’re “helping” notorious crime rings that probably do far worse things than tricking people out of their money 🙃

likely thinking that even getting scammed is okay so long as she can use it as an example of her dedication to the Palestinian cause. "I just *care* too much to waste time looking into this!"

Yeah, this was very crime shaped

Obviously, the takeaway is that our next Democratic nominee has to be named Bob America

Either Molly Shah is a willing co-conspirator in these scams, or she's the dumbest, most gullible rube on the planet.

We are well past the point where incompetence and malice are functionally indistinguishable from each other here.