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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

I don’t particularly like living in the “leadup to” paragraph

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

If someone had bumped off Lowtax in 99, the entire arc of the 21st century might've been different. This is somehow an objective statement of fact

how!! are there only!! precisely!!! sixteen men who have defined!!!! everything about the world!!!!! for the last twenty years!!!!!!

As cynical as I am, it’s still been pretty unmooring to realize the degree to which their social reality does actually determine our material reality.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

End the horror

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

He was just a regular person, and that’s fine! So am I. So are you. So are most people. We do not deserve to be murdered by the state and our reputations slandered by fucking idiots, and that’s something most of us can agree on

Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Hey can we walk that one back? No? That's a permanent? Oh, okay then.

It does feel like we're all going insane. We *know* he's implicated in Epstein's abuse. He's lashing out, in a misogynistic way, when questioned about it. We know. Why isn't every news stations 24hour coverage of the president being a child abuser? It should be wall-to-wall

An image of a person looking out a window at the man deciding whether to pull the lever in the trolley problem

nothing is wrong. there is no problem. but you can’t help but think that man outside the trolley window appears to have a lot on his mind.

Jean-Luc Picard in his civies frowning at his laptop and clutching his pearls

Reading any given headline this week like

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

So like there's no way all of this wasn't already common knowledge within elite circles prior to 2016 right

Because you know the play is going to be all of those fuckers pretending like Trump was some sneaky mastermind who duped the country and they cannot be allowed to escape judgment like that.