Yeah it's depressing.

This is always such a weird argument to me. Why is the viability cutoff for socialism somewhere between 10 and 100 million? Why isn't it between like 500 million or 1 billion? What's the law of nature at work here? How do capitalists explain this?

Not their worst atrocity but Israel completely destroying Regina Spektor's brain needs to be added to their list of war crimes

Friendship over

People keep comparing Manchin to Fetterman but there's a big difference. As soon as Fetterman stroked out and lurched right progressives stopped supporting him. Centrists, meanwhile, insisted that we needed to play ball with Manchin for like 15 years

I graciously cast my vote anyway but the point stands - next time liberals want to whine about cooperation with the left, just point them to this thread :)

learn how bluesky works grandpa

If of course you do not reply you lose any right to complain about anyone else's vote for the foreseeable future since you were unwilling to do such a trivial thing for such a huge potential payoff...

If 500 posters reply with "Carl your criticism of liberalism is reasonable and my complaints about you are wildly overstated" I will drive down the road and vote to gerrymander Virginia for Democrats right now. Polls close at 7 so you have about 1.5 hours!

Nah I think there's personal beef

AOC absolutely should not endorse. As a rule, socialists should never endorse capitalists, racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, or any other reactionary.

Yet another reason why every modern politician needs an official Online Drama consultant to help them avoid these kinds of landmines

Now that Peter Thiel's backing for the neo-nazi Weev is out in the open maybe you'll understand why some of us oldheads were skeptical about AOC's judgment a while back

NEW: The Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg complains that people in independent media "talk about everything but are experts in nothing".

But in 2019, Yair was quite open about his complete lack of credentials in journalism:
www.peoplesline.org/p/mainstream...

As an impartial bystander, I'm going to have to jump in here and declare Gleich the winner of this argument

Did a manual count and about .8% of this audience is black.

Depending on your assumptions you'd expect about 25-50% of a Democratic audience in Tulsa to be black, so Pete should be pulling in 30-60x more black Tulsans than he actually is.

A sprint would be more impressive but yeah give this thing a solar panel and it'll run to the next galaxy

Don't forget Noah Smith!

I'd love to see him interview Matt Bruenig just because the dual-autist chemistry would be so outrageously awkward

It's wild to look back on this incident in 2026 and realize that THIS was the thing that compelled Max Berger to go out of his way to write a "maybe Omar is a little antisemitic" article

It's genuinely baffling to me how many people pretend that this part just doesn't exist

People need to stop thinking about politics in these interpersonal "partnership" metaphors. Liberalism is not your wife, your coworker, or your neighbor. Your role is not to treat it like some person you're buttering up. I care about real people; I do not give a damn about liberalism.

My goal is to defeat fascism and liberalism. If anti-socialist liberals also want to defeat fascism then that is good news for socialists, but I can't force them to and if they decide they don't want to then that's on them. I'm not going to sabotage my own politics to bargain for their help.

I've honestly run out of ways to tell these liberal snakes that I have zero interest in being their "coalition partner." I am not some toxic ally or some sneaky wrecker, I am openly saying that I have zero interest in working with people who take every chance they can get to destroy my politics!

Landlords are already licking their lips. UBI doesn't solve the private property problem, but it does heighten the contradictions of capitalism by transforming an economic problem (living wage rates) into an overtly political problem (UBI rates).

Probably all of it. UBI doesn't solve the problem of bourgeois control of the means of production. But it does heighten the contradictions of capitalism by turning an economic problem (living wage rates) Into an overtly political problem (UBI rates).

Huh? Who control the means of production is a distinct question from how workers access goods and services. My position is that workers should control the means of production and should leverage their power to decommodify the economy by eliminating markets and/or wage income.

Love CM Punk but hope he loses at Wrestlemania. They need to manage his workload so that he doesn't get burnt out again. And Reigns is at his best when he's a dominant champion. Give him another multi-year run and let Punk move down the card and elevate younger talent.

One of the funnier things about the Trump era is that losers like this guy have convinced themselves that they're power players in international politics