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A This Is Our Current Political Reality fact too many deny: no matter how much your candidate ought to win, if they'll draw more votes against them than another of your party's candidates would—and they don't have the overwhelming support that other candidate does—they'll lose.
Does that mean
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Does that mean
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I once voted for a candidate in a primary because I thought they could win, instead of the candidate I preferred. I regret that vote terribly. how can a candidate win if people don't prefer them?
non-preferred candidates shouldn't get votes. don't even rank candidates you don't prefer.
non-preferred candidates shouldn't get votes. don't even rank candidates you don't prefer.
the protestors who were shot and killed in the Boston Massacre were all armed.
February 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
the protestors who were shot and killed in the Boston Massacre were all armed.
a bernie bro won in a rightwing Texas district? hm. a moderate would have lost. that's a lesson for the dnc.
February 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
a bernie bro won in a rightwing Texas district? hm. a moderate would have lost. that's a lesson for the dnc.
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1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.
republicans spent 10 years warning "you'll own nothing and be happy" so they voted for the party of "you'll own nothing and be miserable or just die"
January 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
republicans spent 10 years warning "you'll own nothing and be happy" so they voted for the party of "you'll own nothing and be miserable or just die"
ICE took Liam's hat away from him when they sent him to a concentration camp just like the nazis took dolls and shoes away from little jewish children when they sent them to concentration camps.
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 PM
ICE took Liam's hat away from him when they sent him to a concentration camp just like the nazis took dolls and shoes away from little jewish children when they sent them to concentration camps.
lol. nied says the dnc hasn't been fighting "african american" women.
you know, nobody calls me a romanian-american or a hungarian-american even though my family came to america in the 1900s. black people's families have been in america much longer and suffered more for this country than mine.
you know, nobody calls me a romanian-american or a hungarian-american even though my family came to america in the 1900s. black people's families have been in america much longer and suffered more for this country than mine.
Democrats haven't been fighting African American women.
January 30, 2026 at 9:33 PM
lol. nied says the dnc hasn't been fighting "african american" women.
you know, nobody calls me a romanian-american or a hungarian-american even though my family came to america in the 1900s. black people's families have been in america much longer and suffered more for this country than mine.
you know, nobody calls me a romanian-american or a hungarian-american even though my family came to america in the 1900s. black people's families have been in america much longer and suffered more for this country than mine.
distractions are over folks.
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 AM
distractions are over folks.
why do republicans think a society that will torture little kids in concentration camps is good for them?
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 AM
why do republicans think a society that will torture little kids in concentration camps is good for them?
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Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
January 28, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
I would like a real general strike that doesn't end until demands are met, not a 1 day holiday on a Friday.
January 30, 2026 at 5:49 AM
I would like a real general strike that doesn't end until demands are met, not a 1 day holiday on a Friday.
the baby boomer's parents were right, tv did rot their brains
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
the baby boomer's parents were right, tv did rot their brains
we need somebody to ask Obama why he thought supporting the oldest president in the history of this country was a good idea when he knew trump would still be around in 2024.
January 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM
we need somebody to ask Obama why he thought supporting the oldest president in the history of this country was a good idea when he knew trump would still be around in 2024.
the ruling class knows american voters are dumb as shit now so they'll never let voting change anything ever again.
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 AM
the ruling class knows american voters are dumb as shit now so they'll never let voting change anything ever again.
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Dead kids didn’t matter. Endless school shootings didn’t matter. But a single liberal with a firearm? That broke the GOP.
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Dead kids didn’t matter. Endless school shootings didn’t matter. But a single liberal with a firearm? That broke the GOP.
since ICE let their agents mask up to hide their identities while they break America's constitution, we must hold each and every ICE and border patrol to account for their crimes against America. put them all in jail.
January 28, 2026 at 8:13 PM
since ICE let their agents mask up to hide their identities while they break America's constitution, we must hold each and every ICE and border patrol to account for their crimes against America. put them all in jail.
I used to think that we lived in the future and our past history of slavery, war, and oppression of the masses by ignorant wealthy people was in the past.
but no. we retain the same culture in the present that we had 500 years ago. technology has advanced, but culture lags behind technology.
but no. we retain the same culture in the present that we had 500 years ago. technology has advanced, but culture lags behind technology.
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I used to think that we lived in the future and our past history of slavery, war, and oppression of the masses by ignorant wealthy people was in the past.
but no. we retain the same culture in the present that we had 500 years ago. technology has advanced, but culture lags behind technology.
but no. we retain the same culture in the present that we had 500 years ago. technology has advanced, but culture lags behind technology.
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Watched the Jimmy Kimmel monologue about the Pretti shooting out of interest and had to tap out when he said "I'm convinced now the only people who can stop this are on the Right." I can think of no better sentence that condemns liberal centrism as a political strategy
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Watched the Jimmy Kimmel monologue about the Pretti shooting out of interest and had to tap out when he said "I'm convinced now the only people who can stop this are on the Right." I can think of no better sentence that condemns liberal centrism as a political strategy
they are hiring abusers to kill caregivers
January 26, 2026 at 8:27 AM
they are hiring abusers to kill caregivers
what's your favorite fantasy tv show? I'll start, mine is Law & Order SVU.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
what's your favorite fantasy tv show? I'll start, mine is Law & Order SVU.
the internet is great for sharing information, but terrible for storing information. we are truly in a dark age right now, most of what we see on the internet will not be accessible to future historians.
It's incredibly disheartening to go to a former employer's site to find stories you've written from 10-15 years ago and they're just ... not there.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
the internet is great for sharing information, but terrible for storing information. we are truly in a dark age right now, most of what we see on the internet will not be accessible to future historians.
saw a video of some ice guy bragging that he only had a high school education. sounded young, probably 20s. if Bernie had won the primary in 2016 then that kid would have gone to college to learn, to meet people, make connections, and figure out what he wanted to contribute to society.
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
saw a video of some ice guy bragging that he only had a high school education. sounded young, probably 20s. if Bernie had won the primary in 2016 then that kid would have gone to college to learn, to meet people, make connections, and figure out what he wanted to contribute to society.
you'll eat one piece of chicken, one piece of broccoli, one corn tortilla, and one piece of apple and be happy
January 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
you'll eat one piece of chicken, one piece of broccoli, one corn tortilla, and one piece of apple and be happy
some are calling the nobel peace prize a participation trophy. I don't see it that way. it's a spoil of war against the post ww2 world order. it's a representation of how he's made the liberals submit to him. saying it's machado's changes nothing because they gave it to a worm who already submitted.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
some are calling the nobel peace prize a participation trophy. I don't see it that way. it's a spoil of war against the post ww2 world order. it's a representation of how he's made the liberals submit to him. saying it's machado's changes nothing because they gave it to a worm who already submitted.
I can only conclude that machado was never really an opposition leader in Venezuela. she was a part of the Maduro regime and her job was to gather dissenters and neuter them.
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 AM
I can only conclude that machado was never really an opposition leader in Venezuela. she was a part of the Maduro regime and her job was to gather dissenters and neuter them.
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A depressing spectacle that's honestly just deserts to the Novel committee for giving it to Machado as an attempt to split the baby with right wingers who begged for it to go to Trump
I mean I *knew* that the whole plan was for Machado to go to the White House and physically give Trump her Nobel Prize and yet I still feel like I’m disassociating that it happened.
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
A depressing spectacle that's honestly just deserts to the Novel committee for giving it to Machado as an attempt to split the baby with right wingers who begged for it to go to Trump