Democrat. “A liberal with Marxist chops”, researching southern history. they/them, 22. Call me Erin or Luma! Obsessed with my friends. priv:
@LumaCloakroom
okay i’ve got a new-ish influx of followers so. hiiiiii! i’m erin! you can also call me luma. idrc. i’m a deeply autistic nonbinary person (this is liable to change). i am -also- a history phd student, studying the 19th and 20th centuries in the us south.
leftists are like stupid centrist swing voters where they refuse to believe that republicans will do the things they say they’re going to do and then when it happens they blame the democrats
my jaw dropped. this has everything. pedocon theory, religious nuttery, patriarchy. it's a perfect half-minute reminder of why everyone hates the republican party. absolutely brutal.
the democratic party did not really fight this trend. that is bad enough. more worrying to me is that i do not think it would have mattered if it tried. public opinion doesn’t work that way.
@asubparusername
his older stuff about certain electoral systems is still a really good intro for literal children but almost everything else is a disaster even by that metric. i don’t get how he has an audience of people over 12
@souljagoytellem
They did the same thing in the run-up to 2016 too
deportations were super high under Obama and they just pretended it wasn’t happening
The Miss Korea competition asked the contestants "If the deepfake version of you is more attractive than you, how would you get rid of the gap between the deepfake version and you". This, their birth rate in the trenches, banning epidurals, yea Korea is COOKED.
@ryanlcooper
Need to stress here that Midgley was also the guy who invented CFC’s lmao
He’s not just /an/ evil scientist he’s like the environmental Mengele
@MingAutocrat
my favourite bit is that the senate committee whose job was to analyze this shit basically just told stevenson “fraud happens in every texas election, maybe you should just lock in next time”
@_glorianas
I think any discussion of “how do we stop this” is going to have to deal with men as the principal actors (who will need a different kind of help) but they’re not like
the primary -victim- of this phenomenon! It’s the girls and women!!
@RottenInDenmark
I’m gonna take a different tack and say that every variety of this book has done so much emotional damage to every kid whose parents forced them to read it
@opinonhaver
there would be less objection to their tactics if there was any evidence that they had stopped even a single particle of carbon being released
@lefttwick
frats are like sex crime central in a way that should preemptively make them illegal
banning them would not end the problems but it would probably make it better
@NickTagliaferro
SC political history bc like: Charles Pickney, John C. Calhoun, secession, Ben Tillman, Cotton Ed, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms
just a cavalcade of reactionaries and hatemongerers
@wiay204
@lefttwick
The tweet is fake but the actual sentiment is real. The same week the IRA was announced a bunch of republicans flipped against a veterans’ healthcare bill they had passed a few days ago (it went back to the senate for procedural reasons) because they were so mad at Biden
a side effect of everyone becoming more individualistic is the increased social acceptability of random acts of cruelty. we have rejected the idea of kindness towards strangers if that requires even the slightest commitment to literally anything at all.
@worsematt
i think we’ll get a push away from the masculine-coded unions? but teachers’ unions, the SEIU, culinary, etc. those will be a strong part of the coalition for a while
@aquaimperium8
Bro did you not see the post-credits scene when Einstein turns directly to the camera and thanks Oppenheimer for building the bomb because it meant American could protect freedom and liberty
guys please. it’ll be like adam kinzinger in a mickey mouse post like veterans affairs or the small business administration. i am BEGGING you for a drop of political literacy
Nearly 30 minutes later, she returns to this question: "You asked me what's the difference between Joe Biden and me...I'm going to have a Republican in my Cabinet. Because I don't feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea."
ofc it is self-serving for me, someone who loves the democratic party, to simply throw up my hands and say “well the voters are hitler” but sometimes the voters really are just slavering to induce terror among immigrants
@seaweedanxiety
the flint water crisis is kind of a perfect shibboleth for whether a person’s understanding of reality comes from following actual news about stuff or whether it's a set of inchoate half-remembered aesthetic tropes gleaned from too much time on social media
a really good example of this was the late 1960’s crime issue. it was a deeply racialized issue that the gop manufactured to try and discredit poc’s social legitimacy and create a terror regime. attempted alternative dem framings failed to gain any traction with the public
@hecubian_devil
if the problem is a housing shortage, that’s something that doesn’t need the abolition of capitalism to solve. it doesn’t even require an attack on capitalism’s logic at all.
@opinonhaver
Jefferson is probably the worst example of this in history
His literal argument was that slavery was a great moral evil, but "lol what do you guys want me to do with all these slaves I own, come on" at the same time he was advocating a republic of farmers
@csilverandgold
winred is practically a scam engine. they got into the small donor game late and trump used it to commit 1% of all credit card fraud in the united states. this is not an exaggeration.
those of us who are pro-immigration, for throwing open the borders, who love immigrants, we must swim in this current of reaction. but changing it might be beyond our capacity for now. such is the nature of political waves
@BoxElderDust
“there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
@JohnWakefieId
manchin killing the ctc because he thought black families were using the money to buy drugs while voting for massive clean energy subsidies in the IRA is like the apex of the death of material politics
This point would be better if that critique was actually in the article. Anywhere. At all.
But it’s not and y’all trying to backtrack after it turns out this was unpopular by almost everyone
@rowanfornow
the overall median voter's policy preferences and ideological/cultural attitudes look a lot more like your average Democratic House member's than the average Republican's, but the functional median is skewed right by at least 3 or 4 points by our institutional design
@seaweedanxiety
this happened during covid too! they thought it would hurt blue states so they didn’t come up with a national plan and only started making one when death numbers increased in red states!
If he wins next month’s election, Donald Trump would be the oldest person in U.S. history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose new details about his physical or mental well-being.
@OldDreyfusard
Grover Cleveland’s response to the Panic of 1893 is a suzerain move; an economic crisis in some country you don’t care about causes a depression in yours, but you do nothing about it to save budget
@sanosreptla
maïs soufflé feels like courriel électronique one of those words the language authorities make up to avoid the loanword and then everyone just says email lol
there is no election where i would vote for a republican over a democrat. Jesus Christ could be reborn and run as a republican and i would vote for the democratic candidate with all my heart
Tliab vs Romney discourse is overrated, because it has an obvious answer
Assume Kshama Sawant was a Democrat, would you vote for her or for Phil Scott?
@opinonhaver
ik we know like nothing definite about the Bronze Age Collapse bc it changes all the time but “collapsing supply lines made complex technology impossible to manufacture” is in like literally all of them lmao