remember when this Type of Guy used to claim legalizing weed would win voters over for generations

i like the reveal at the end of the article that they can't just grow whatever crops americans want to buy because then they'd have to compete with competent businessmen in california instead of just collecting subsidies

if the koch brothers are smart they'd have a guy whose job is to manage a thousand sockpuppet patreon/substack/twitch accounts to rain anonymous money on anyone telling their fellow leftists not to vote.

it's probably not a coincidence that "i am so leftist i cannot support america's left of center party" is an opinion held by like 0.1% of americans but like 30% of successful american leftist infotainers

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it's honestly really bizarre!

i'm pretty sure he used to actually pretend to be Black. like he wrote jacobin's 2016 article about how low turnout in primaries means it's misleading to say that Black people prefer HRC over Bernie jacobin.com/2016/06/hill...

most of the administration isn't fanatical enough to *intentionally* enter the Cool Zone. they just want to grift. even Miller must realize that Warlord Period America probably won't end well for Jewish Hitler.

a lot of people on bsky are asking how nonviolent protests can win in the face of shameless amoral goons, and this is part of the answer to that

hitler backed down partially on aktion t4 in the face of nonviolent protests. and this administration has has a lot less Goon State Capacity than hitler did

there are plenty of ICE goons willing to usher in Warlord Period America by murdering every dissident, but it's hard to imagine them continuing to take orders from Andrew Lloyd Webber's biggest fan under those circumstances

i actually think it *is* weird that there's a government agency waging a masked crusade against one specific medium-size american city. maybe even surprising

(i guess the alternative is that DMs stay unencrypted and all ATP servers still receive them anyway, in which case anyone with a weekend and hosting fees to spare can read everybody else's bluesky DMs?)

they never promised Signal, but a goal of ATP is that anybody should be able to run their own ATP server and have it be compatible with the main bluesky instance. so either DMs require either something like Signal, or else you can't *really* run your own Bluesky

when i was a kid american o'teps were usually chuds ("we were slaves too, why do they get special treatment" etc.); it's interesting that they all seem to be left-coded on social media now

it's a broadly generalizable tendency: when people claim the Irish discovered america they're being o'teps. the hunan university professor whose claims are accurately summarized below? you better believe that's a zhou-tep.