they end up back here, and their brains are by then so rotted and twitterfied that they think since we are the people who bought a wapo subscription in 2015 after reading one of their articles it hurts them more when the fact theyre a shadow of who they were is functionally pushed in their face

turns out the rabid hogs they lowered themselves to dont watch, dont subscribe, and never actually cared about real information that was just "more open" to RW stances, they just wanted slop, and they get plenty of that free. musk suppresses their links and the nazis hound them, and then

there has been no stop to the multi-decade decline in cable news viewership, while major legacy news media of all forms continue to hemorrhage while being openly reliant on social media for much of their 'reporting' - they tried licking boots harder and bowing to the cult-of-dumb but big whoopsie!

theres clearly a panic setting in because a certain flavor of politics that used to be roughly 98% of all mainstream political punditry and major columns had the floor fall out beneath them so quickly its still entrenched near societal levers of power and is Wile E Coyote just realizing hes falling

we are certainly neurotic and annoying on bluesky but we are also overwhelmingly the people that legacy pundits and columnists built audiences out of, which means on some level our rejection hurts more, while we are also more likely to be right about that article being dogshit

people who immerse themselves in malignant stupidity regularly and have spent years insisting that the malignant stupidity isnt malignant or stupid, and their ability to effectively analyze politics, behavior, even basic moral clarity has suffered as a result

this is something i think is actually much more reasonable for people to balk at and refuse to introspect on, but a fair amount of the "i wrote a bad article and ragequit bluesky when people told me that" phenomenon is that its just plainly true that The Era of The Idiot is rubbing off on a lot of

spike lee you and the pope are the same age please stop this madness

also why would the chicago pope be a knicks fan

working on a simple but clearly needed guide:

good - 'lol the pope is subtweeting the trump admin and its catholic cabinet members, pretty funny'

bad - 'i had a custom "pope" jersey made that i wear to sporting events. yes the leader of the homophobic pedophile factory, that pope. what?'

this level of coordination and attempts at narrative manipulation, though ineffective and low-intelligence, is still more coordinated public effort than leadership shows for any issue or topic that could ever remotely improve americans lives, which is sadly why party approval is still dogshit

every few weeks youll notice when a dozen senate dems w/ the same consultants get a memo because theyll use extremely similar verbiage, over the same few days, in response to everything. remember when a bunch were saying "fuck" for like 10 days and then just as quickly stopped doing that?

real reason the jeffries/schumer wing hates 'weird' is they like some fascist GOP policies and want that to remain normal + acceptable and you should remember that as the least charismatic dems this week suspiciously focus on the verbiage of trump individually being "mentally unwell"

i like that you guys keep doing these articles because in every single one the author comes off as an out of touch freak in severe need of therapy, while widening pikers audience and making him look even more normal by comparison

"he didnt condemn hamas" in 2026 is freak behavior keep doing it!

it was accidentally a poll of the 38 y/o bluesky stereotype AND the 50s-early 60s gen X college educated reaganite centrist libs, and it didnt matter at all

i have a feeling that a poll of mainers with slightly less 38 year olds with BAs and slightly more 45 year olds with a diploma and maybe trade school, and platners gap probably widens further

when i looked into that survey, it was very interesting in a way thats very positive for platner; they didnt get nearly enough 40-49 y/os, and like 60% of the respondents had degrees... but it meant it was basically a poll of liberal bluesky users, and platner still put up big margins

i really like them showing how the town has created basically a little emergency response team complete with a wheelbarrow full of crowbars and shit

Operation Epsteins Fury: Schrodingers Strai(gh)t of Hormussy

the more time that goes on the more i think it looks sillier with hindsight that we didnt expect america to become what it is today when we didnt *immediately* pass sweeping gun legislation after sandyhook

viewed as simply a norm; theoretically if there was an impact related to its worth as ammo for propaganda id think the farther you get from the initial change, less valuable it becomes, depending on how large or small the change/barrier/inconvenience itself was of course

well, im being general there; legislation in augusta itself i think would not likely be effected, but if some bolder, more laborious idea was going through a statewide referendum, i think its at least unhelpful - it would be interesting to see how much time for minor inconvenience to instead be

to me the parallel of climate change policy like that would be to try to reduce medicare fraud by focusing exclusively on finding it being done by patients themselves

i wasnt a big fan of our plastic bag law - a couple other states that did it i remember found no real change to plastic bag use, and the only way the taxpayer experiences it is "the grocery store brought back shitty paper bags and they cost 5 cents now" imo makes passing more impactful leg. harder

when you are so anti-nazi and hate nazis so much that you end up promoting the maine wire, a right wing propaganda outlet run by and funded by *actual* nazis

if you tell me that my "fuck you go die" messaging towards everyone under 40 in my party and my "haha FAFO r-word" messaging towards everyone else is not effective in converting voters you are literally Super HitlerStalin and also hate women probably

when i insist on a big tent but that tent also can only fit the people in this room and any white supremacists that dont like trump, and my main argument/stance is something that *only* appeals to the people *already in this room clapping*

technically regular maga is more big tent than bluemaga, because maga's only real requirement is a cult loyalty to trump and against all decency, whereas bluemaga demands loyalty to "the party" occupying a narrow band of cynical centrist views that change constantly and are anathema to 65% of people

yes and no; technically in response to bookers ridiculous back patting rant/speech, but broadly just that 2 years later bluemaga is even smarmier and dumber than before but cant grasp that they lose to regular maga bc regular maga doesnt make "half our base is terrible" its main/only narrative!

we're really lucky there were some brave people in america in the late 18th century because frankly right not 85% of the GOP and a solid 50% of dem voters would love nothing more than to kiss the feet of a king or queen ruling them. absolute peasant-brains, really embarrassing "yes milord!" shit

2024 remains the paradoxical election: an election so important that every one of the millions of 2020 dem voters disillusioned with the xenophobic, genocide supporting campaign are literally all the antichrist, but not important enough for harris to actually try to win