I see takes like this all the time, and it’s really just the triumph of a completely atomized politics of fandom. Voting isn’t fundamentally about what happens to Harris next year, it’s about what happens to *everyone*-who gets abortion care and who gets asylum and who gets a tax cut.

Trump promises an "Operation Aurora" that will involve federal forces doing deportation raids in all areas of the country, including blue ones like California. He then proposes the death penalty for migrants who repeatedly come back into the country after being deported.

it really is remarkable to see trump saying directly to these people “i think you are vermin who should be removed from the country or thrown into prison” and their response is “oh you can’t take him seriously”

young men backing trump out of nihilism, normalization and a sense that he is entertaining actually tracks

seems like trump’s single biggest advantage is that a bunch of voters memory-holed his actual presidency in favor of an imaginary one where all was good and harmonious www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

the main reason i don’t argue with people about voting on the internet is that if you don’t feel any particular obligation to exercise your right to self-government — if you don’t see it as simply a fundamental task of citizenship — then there’s nothing i can say to persuade you otherwise

I'm finally playing Red Dead Redemption II after bouncing off of it hard years ago and no game has captured the feeling of "god damn it, my HAT" and putting the thing back on in the middle of a firefight before you kill the motherfucker who shot it off.