@heatpumpsam.bsky.social
Break the ratchet. Team electron. 100% capital gains tax
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Some should do one, and others should do the other. jwmason.org/slackwire/so...
Hot take: people saying
1) "this is tactically well-calibrated going to make a big difference for immigrants and rapid responders" vs.
2) "this is not good enough, we need to abolish ICE, and we can't trust D leadership"
Are both correct, and both groups play an important part of our ecosystem.
1) "this is tactically well-calibrated going to make a big difference for immigrants and rapid responders" vs.
2) "this is not good enough, we need to abolish ICE, and we can't trust D leadership"
Are both correct, and both groups play an important part of our ecosystem.
February 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Some should do one, and others should do the other. jwmason.org/slackwire/so...
Being fine with palling around with the Cheneys is proof that the term reactionary centrist is a redundant term. All centrists are active collaborators. Don't be fooled.
February 6, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Being fine with palling around with the Cheneys is proof that the term reactionary centrist is a redundant term. All centrists are active collaborators. Don't be fooled.
Wow! Dave Roberts complains about reactionary centrist but is clearly one himself. He is clearly pro genocide and a fascist collaborator.
January 31, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Wow! Dave Roberts complains about reactionary centrist but is clearly one himself. He is clearly pro genocide and a fascist collaborator.
Seriously it is the lumens and not the LEDs that are the problem. And no I am not just being pedantic.
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Seriously it is the lumens and not the LEDs that are the problem. And no I am not just being pedantic.
And who will be these gatekeepers? What are the criteria do you suggest? Do you think you yourself qualify? Who keeps them accountable. While you would say that you would exclude fascists would you really exclude all of them? While you may appear to criticize reactionary centrism you also clearly..
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
And who will be these gatekeepers? What are the criteria do you suggest? Do you think you yourself qualify? Who keeps them accountable. While you would say that you would exclude fascists would you really exclude all of them? While you may appear to criticize reactionary centrism you also clearly..
Oh FFS how is it a dictatorship when an opposition leader that colludes with a foreign power to promote regime change remains free. The Senate, electoral college and citizens United are not democratic in the slightest. The first sentence unfortunately undermines the rest of the article.
Venezuela under Maduro is essentially a dictatorship. But a lot of countries have awful, authoritarian governments—Turkey under Erdoğan, Hungary under Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia with its modern-day slavery—and we do not launch military assaults on them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-war-...
No War with Venezuela!
Like George W. Bush before him, Donald Trump is trying to sell an illegal, indefensible assault on an oil-rich nation. Don’t fall for it.
www.currentaffairs.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Oh FFS how is it a dictatorship when an opposition leader that colludes with a foreign power to promote regime change remains free. The Senate, electoral college and citizens United are not democratic in the slightest. The first sentence unfortunately undermines the rest of the article.
Mute me if you want. You can easily say yes I disagree with EJ. As things get worse there will really be only two sides those who want to cooperate and feed everyone while reducing emissions and those who say fuck it every one or every arbitrary group for themselves. The only way for the former ...
And had you looked more closely, you'd have seen Eliot has me blocked. Do yourself a favour and find out about those you want to criticise - without evidence, you've nothing to say.
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Mute me if you want. You can easily say yes I disagree with EJ. As things get worse there will really be only two sides those who want to cooperate and feed everyone while reducing emissions and those who say fuck it every one or every arbitrary group for themselves. The only way for the former ...
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It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
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Green economic populism fights fascism by rooting green progress in working class life
—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants
—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants
—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon
—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants
—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants
—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon
October 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Green economic populism fights fascism by rooting green progress in working class life
—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants
—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants
—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon
—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants
—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants
—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon
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wild of him to read One Piece and not realize that he's one of these freaks:
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
wild of him to read One Piece and not realize that he's one of these freaks:
What do you propose be done? Ban all uses of machine learning or stop caring about freedom for fascists? If the former we have to consider what else you would be banning (photo shop, all digital controls). If the latter you should really not be engaged with something called liberal currents.
We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What do you propose be done? Ban all uses of machine learning or stop caring about freedom for fascists? If the former we have to consider what else you would be banning (photo shop, all digital controls). If the latter you should really not be engaged with something called liberal currents.
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There's a tremendous amount of insight in this post from @himself.bsky.social on power as coordination. As he notes, absolute power is a contradiction in terms, because someone who's absolutely unconstrained can make no commitments and so can't give orders. www.programmablemutter.com/p/repost-abs...
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
There's a tremendous amount of insight in this post from @himself.bsky.social on power as coordination. As he notes, absolute power is a contradiction in terms, because someone who's absolutely unconstrained can make no commitments and so can't give orders. www.programmablemutter.com/p/repost-abs...
You know who you sound like with this (complimentary). Now say his name three times.
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
You know who you sound like with this (complimentary). Now say his name three times.
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fascism maintains power by making everyone too scared to fight back but the truth is there's only a few of them and most of the stuff they're threatening is logistically impossibly at scale. they'll make examples and count on that to cow the rest. Not fighting back is the only way to lose though.
September 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
fascism maintains power by making everyone too scared to fight back but the truth is there's only a few of them and most of the stuff they're threatening is logistically impossibly at scale. they'll make examples and count on that to cow the rest. Not fighting back is the only way to lose though.
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Don't call them hypocrites. They *know* they only permit one type of speech and demand criminalization of the rest. They think that's good. They're openly fascist.
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Don't call them hypocrites. They *know* they only permit one type of speech and demand criminalization of the rest. They think that's good. They're openly fascist.
Correct. I am tired of seeing HP crap everywhere. This should be all replaced by Dungeon Crawler Car and Princess Donut.
If someone's still a fan of HP in 2025 after knowing what JK has said and done there's something wrong there. That's beyond ignorance at that point. I'm so sorry you gotta deal with that crap.
September 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Correct. I am tired of seeing HP crap everywhere. This should be all replaced by Dungeon Crawler Car and Princess Donut.
No tolerance for any one breaking dinner party rules.
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
No tolerance for any one breaking dinner party rules.
That is not at all what EJ is doing. He is pretty explicitly saying nothing can be done about climate change. Fucker is also top 1% of global population doing well for himself off useless things like gambling. Dinner party rules apply here too. If anything Mann is far too kind.
September 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
That is not at all what EJ is doing. He is pretty explicitly saying nothing can be done about climate change. Fucker is also top 1% of global population doing well for himself off useless things like gambling. Dinner party rules apply here too. If anything Mann is far too kind.
For no reason at all, I just remembered that scene in Dungeon Crawler Carl where Carl stabbed that reporter with a pen.
September 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
For no reason at all, I just remembered that scene in Dungeon Crawler Carl where Carl stabbed that reporter with a pen.
The most impactful anti imperialist position one can take while living in the core is F**k cars. Worrying about vague notions of changing opinions is just idealism nonsense.
Zohran Mamdani is now accused of being a "sellout" by tankies and online leftists all because of this interview on MSNBC.
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The most impactful anti imperialist position one can take while living in the core is F**k cars. Worrying about vague notions of changing opinions is just idealism nonsense.
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also can we please stop with the "I'm just telling the unpopular truth here, even though people will hate me for it" crap
Every time some boomer enviro loudly declares this it goes ultra-viral. It is a wildly popular soothing message that you don't need to change anything in your life.
Every time some boomer enviro loudly declares this it goes ultra-viral. It is a wildly popular soothing message that you don't need to change anything in your life.
July 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
also can we please stop with the "I'm just telling the unpopular truth here, even though people will hate me for it" crap
Every time some boomer enviro loudly declares this it goes ultra-viral. It is a wildly popular soothing message that you don't need to change anything in your life.
Every time some boomer enviro loudly declares this it goes ultra-viral. It is a wildly popular soothing message that you don't need to change anything in your life.
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You realise "climate change is inevitable" is absurd when you reword it as "fossil fuels are inevitable" or "Exxon is inevitable" or "Rishi Sunak is inevitable"
It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽
It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽
July 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A reminder: many of the folks behind the "deep green resistance" and "bright green lies" groups are viciously transphobic - a few of the worst performance-fatalists have been promoting them on here recently
@jael.bsky.social covered this in 2022:
www.politico.com/news/2022/02...
@jael.bsky.social covered this in 2022:
www.politico.com/news/2022/02...
How a fight over transgender rights derailed environmentalists in Nevada
Some activists fighting a massive lithium mine project are angry over the involvement of an environmental group they say espouses discriminatory views about transgender people.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
A reminder: many of the folks behind the "deep green resistance" and "bright green lies" groups are viciously transphobic - a few of the worst performance-fatalists have been promoting them on here recently
@jael.bsky.social covered this in 2022:
www.politico.com/news/2022/02...
@jael.bsky.social covered this in 2022:
www.politico.com/news/2022/02...
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I have a new piece in Dissent, thinking through what delivering Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
What Can Zohran Accomplish? - Dissent Magazine
What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.
www.dissentmagazine.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I have a new piece in Dissent, thinking through what delivering Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
It is the cult of the giant resistance heater with more steps.
LLMs are a bit like if people had started building giant coal-burning factories all over the place, except instead of using the coal to produce power they just burned it while promising that at some point all the heat and smoke would be useful for something.
You read this shit and you just wonder how this tech can be legally and widely accessible to people.
futurism.com/commitment-j...
futurism.com/commitment-j...
June 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It is the cult of the giant resistance heater with more steps.