This approximately right before Contrapoints deleted her account.

There is no amount of power you could give leftists that they will not immediately get drunk on, it's pathetic

The reactions to contrapoints deleting her Twitter account makes it very hard to defend leftists as anything other than the caricatures society paints them as. Who sees this poor woman being tortured by her own community and wants anything to do with it?

I see how other people see the world when I'm drunk

It's not like it lowers my IQ till I'm normal, I'm not that narcissistic

It's inhibition. It's the big dividing line in society no one talks about

I imagine a world where everyone is 2 double Manhattans through the night and it all makes sense

A lot of people are leftist because they recognize that their current society is failing but fail to recognize why their hypothetical utopia would ignite like a goddamn atomic bomb

Tentative support for whatever ideology sees obvious mistakes in advance

I think a positive forecast of the economy was probably justified, there's been serious questions about whether progressive coalitions actually had it in them to govern effectively. Trump's misbehavior, though, should not be surprising and in part I think we deserve it for electing a madman

I think this is a non-insane hypothesis but it is pretty clear that this isn't the ONLY difference between now and 2017

The staffing of Trump 2.0 is totally different and the Republican party is much more cowed than last time. There are other, more defensible explanations

NOW THIS IS ALIGNMENT

This is true enough, but I feel like the ACTUAL danger is that a system that's illegible to the average person will inevitably be prone to sabotage: political arsonists can use the illegible parts as empty nodes where they can lie, pretending there is something insidious, and the lies work

from the other site

Goddamn the posting on the sane parts of this site go fucking hard

Super stimulus and bad equilibria. That's what he's talking about, and the people clowning on it don't understand because they're not from the grey tribe, not from the river

The UH shooter was absolutely tpot adjacent. I hope we mitigate disasters like him, rather than encourage

A funny thing that's revealing about this meme is that this isn't what the story is about.

Walt didn't need to cook meth, he had multiple outs and even after his cancer treatment ended he continued. I think, and I'm being a bit cruel here, but this is maybe a bit analogous to these people

US manufacturing is near all time highs by output, see below left, but it's a shrinking share of the overall economy because everything is growing so fast, see below right. Basically every sector is growing so fast that it makes manufacturing look like it's dying

The US has always been pretty great

The people who flock to this site to escape the toxicity of Twitter seem to be people so hyper-adapted to a specific kind of toxicity that they don't notice the rampant stochastic terrorism going on here. This United Healthcare assassination is REALLY not making Bluesky's case

I would choose blue. Every time, no matter what

"It would go against the theme and song of Civilization that nobody gets left behind, not ultimately left behind, that everyone in dath ilan is joining hands together against outcomes that are bitter in the very end."