I am personally not yelling at anyone but I feel this is disingenuous because lots of this is responding to Yglesias arguing that people need to go back to Twitter because Bluesky is an echo chamber or there is a need to argue with Nazis or whatever

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.

They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

I think people are trying to apply cultural scripts that don't fit the facts. Nuzzi isn't a victim of RFK or Lizza. She was the agent of the wrongdoing at play here and faced basically zero consequences (a year off, a book deal, a Vanity Fair gig). This isn't an Unfairly Maligned Woman story.

Easier is not usually better. This is the lie we've been sold by capitalism and colonialism. Use this thing, built with suffering and exploitation, to avoid pain. To avoid struggle. To avoid living. Dissociate through life: game, scroll, consume.

Every day, it breaks my heart seeing us like this

I hate his ass but that looks fake

Those lips that dont stop 🤢🤢🤢🤢

My biggest surprise about living through a resurgence of fascism is just how dumb it is.

Ok so is the Trump administration trying to put pull up bars in airports?????? The fuck