But yeah, Basically the far left reaction to the Hungarian election:

This whole thing was a setup for TV and that any news organization takes this even remotely at face value is going to turn me into the Joker.

Don’t need the cute caveat there

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

Finally, a left-leaning publication that isn't taking his self-proclaimed redemption arc at face value.

again, this guy is a weirdo with extremely fringe views and a very small audience and it is very weird that we keep being asked to pretend he's a cultural titan who Says What The People Think

America is without exaggeration the richest major country in the world. The middle class here, the median American, lives a lifestyle that would astonish 90% of humans alive, and is substantially and noticeably wealthier than even peer economies like in Europe.

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

There are many American Jewish communities that would happily welcome Olivia Reingold, but her particular politics on Jews and non-Jews have forced her to try to win acceptance in the ones that won't, and she is so close to understanding the link between those two facts.

There was a thing on the old site where certain media types would talk about having a primary care doctor as a luxury for the rich. Like, what??

Medicaid requires a PCP referral to see a specialist. You are just a downwardly mobile upper middle class kid with poor executive functioning.

It just clicked for me that the “the average American is living a Dickensian existence, working 3 jobs just to survive, unable to even afford bus fare for a day trip” shit is the mirror image of conservatives’ claims about welfare recipients driving luxury cars and eating lobster every week.

just say Jews, Graham, this is taking forever.

"i made a new inspiring display of international solidarity"
"inspiring display of international solidarity or borat type shit?"
"borat type shit"

Do Christians see Jesus the way Muslims do Muhammad now or something? Did I miss this development?

I thought the Trump image was fine

Absolutely not. We are not doing that.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

What?

Absolutely S-tier, even the cheap ones are good

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

As long as they insist on spelling “Aussie” with a double S like that I’m gonna pronounce it with an S sound not a Z sound. Not my problem

Communism a Spectre

Still wondering this btw

How come mangoes are the only fruit you cut Like That

let me help you: popular social media narratives are wrong. American life is not more precarious than ever, any more than crime is taking over our cities or immigrants are flooding across the border. these are all things we can measure and the measures aren’t ambiguous.

why the vibecession exists: because you can spit out some vapid BS about how precarity is worse than ever despite what the numbers say, you’ll get a bazillion retweets, but if you point out that claim doesn’t make sense or is incoherent or contradicted by data, you get four retweets and yelled at

Ah yes that famous Hebrew word, “bitte”

I keep having to explain to older Jews that Israel’s actions matter, and to younger ones that the hatred and tropes and arguments all predate those actions.

THE POLITICAL STREAMER’S DILEMMA: Righteous anger earns views, but the vast majority of things in the world are too complicated to be blindingly angry about nonstop! The main thing that’s insane and enraging in an uncomplicated way is Donald Trump, and the normie libs are already on top of that.

But they knew they wouldn't be fine.

I asked them why they knew this. It was all social media based vibes.