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I stopped listening to Last Podcast on the Left when they signed with Spotify - have they been radicalized? They sometimes seemed like they were on the Dave Anthony/Gareth Reynolds path.

Angela Nagle's name just popped into my head... is she dead? Did she go full open fash?

The vast majority of Bernie supporters aren't in favor of overthrowing the government.

I'm not going to argue that the millions of Bernie primary voters would sign up for the Red Guard tomorrow morning... but people in general hate the government and politicians. That's like 75% of the appeal of the elderly guy who has pretty much just gotten worse politically over the course of his life - he's human and he genuinely appears to care about other humans. You could definitely juke the question (while still being true about 'overthrowing' the government) to get 55-60% to say yes. "Replace it with a parliamentary democracy" or even "split the country into multiple nation-states."

The worst reply guys are the ones who took US Government in high school and vaguely remember some stuff from civics class but have decided that reading Ezra Klein and DailyKOS for eight years made them political masterminds.

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1335324346005524483

It's such pure ideology that even the most rigid capitalist understands that the best thing you could do for the American economy is float people with a shit ton of money to stimulate demand and they won't do it. The thing that would save and enhance your beloved free market 'Murrican capitalism and you just won't do it, you fucking worms.

My visceral distaste is growing for people who are following the Trump election suits like they're the Super Bowl, they're getting to skin-crawling territory.

Just... he lost. You're going to have to go back to ignoring politics or find something else to obsess over. You had four good years of screenshotting grifter tweets and sharing them with a reaction gif of a Black woman, cherish the memory but move on.

Very much a "say what you will about national socialism" moment with MAGA chuds compared to #resistance chuds right now.

Neighbors a few hundred yards away have to be 85+ - they had at least 20 people over.

I understand being all out of fucks at that age, but there are better last meals than turkey and far better ways to die than COVID.

Said as commiseration, fine, but as just about anything else, yeah, fuck off.

Relocation demands enough privilege to (partially or totally) cut family and social ties or such dire straits that they've been forcibly cut or you have no choice but to do so. My father was an only child of working class parents - it was always in the cards that he/my immediate family would play a major role in their elder care. 'Just relocate' isn't an easy option in that scenario unless you've got money to cover the care or so few prospects that you have no choice (or you hate your parents).

Enormous caveats about being privileged Americans and shit cascading downhill from the global north as situations worsen, etc. but a couple of friends (with no money to speak of - one plays online poker professionally, the other makes a living translating Arabic somehow) have moved to Mexico and love it. The poker player is in Mexico City and the translator somewhere on the coast.

With cartels and us sitting on top of them and all, I'm in no way sure I'd pick Mexico myself but there are parts of the developing world that I'm suspicious won't be worse for a working class person than the US in 10-15 years.

Looking at the future, it's incredibly bleak. Self-talk positivity might have its place but it's no more rational than pessimism (and arguably less).

The best case scenario is that the left builds local and then state power over the next 20-30 years, grabbing a few more House seats here and there, and maybe then becomes a real force in national politics. (20-30 is... generous.) Thing is... there might not be a civil American society as we know it to save by then. We're past the tipping point on climate change already - a generation ahead, we're past the tipping point on food riots and wars over potable water.

I haven’t been drinking since lockdown - I drink to become social, drinking alone has always felt pointless.

I got a to go margarita yesterday and felt like shit afterward. Not like unexpected buzz shit or anything, just bad. Hoping it was some bad mix and not that no booze for however many months has brought out a latent allergy or something. I already gave up most of my vices, I don’t want to have start betting on cockfights to feel alive.

Biggest flaw of Reddit/the Reddit style - it anonymizes people as personalities (because topics die so quickly and don’t come back up) stifling quality forum drama.

At one place I used to frequent, one of the super posters got married to another super poster... then she cheated on him with a Wonkette writer who was also a poster.

For several months you had to awkwardly watch all three continue to post, never quite acknowledging it but in an argument you always have “you got cucked by a blogger, probably because you have rage issues” in the back pocket as a trump card.

Quality shit like that just doesn’t happen with Reddit’s twitter/forum hybrid model.

Imagine being such a loser you’re deeply invested in the quality and conduct of Trump’s lawyers and following 80 lawyers on Twitter so you can be the first to repost their bon mots about judges saying mean things.

Imagine offering up your life to your liege Beto. He was a Rep no one gave a shit about, ran a good Senate campaign and then embarrassed himself running for President. How do you even craft this fantasy?

https://twitter.com/pickme_chooseme/status/1330685326646538241?s=21

TV shows used to be so much more efficient. The first two episodes of the OC would be a three season arc if it was a Netflix Original.

I hear Yung Chomsky is more of a Hung Chomsky.

We already had the third wave of ska. Pickituppickituppickitup.

The increasing number of ska jokes I'm seeing around lead me to believe there will be a fourth wave in the next few years. The virgin fedora will fall to the chad pork-pie.

“laissez-faire market socialism”

I was dumb enough to Google this phrase - there's a sort of tangential problem there that's interesting, which is that part of the mission has to be training people out of the 'perpetual growth' capitalist mindset. It's so deeply ingrained in us as westerners/Americans that even people who are ostensibly allied to socialism start jumping through hoops to explain how to keep capitalism's rapaciousness going forever because nothing else is conceivable.

Yes, but how many people actually give a shit about a movie made by a singer whose biggest hit came more than a decade ago (ie is it trending). Do the people tweeting actually give a shit or are they just delighting in an opportunity to scold.

Those were the questions I asked, not about the movie or the casting.

This is the 11PM news/local crime app problem - violent crime is bad. We all agree on that. Inundating people with 20 minutes of rape and murder every night before bed, or sending a notification for every minor crime isn't about usefully informing anyone, it's about keeping them tired and scared.

Twitter's trending bar exists just to further beat down and exhaust the reader.

'Sia elicits controversy by casting non-autistic actor in autistic role.'

How many people actually give a shit? How many people tweeting about it are, themselves, autistic and how many people tweeting about it are just scolds with nothing better to do? How many people even knew Sia was making a movie before they were treated to this supposed controversy in the fucking trending bar?