What a nightmare.
02.12.2025 15:19
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What a nightmare.
Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.
I’ll forever be grateful for my liberal arts education. I wish everyone had the chance to learn and explore the way I did. Education is (should be) about more than employability, but LA is good for that too!!
Hard to understand how violent this is. There were people here that were wiped out aggressively and this celebrates that.
If there is daylight between this administration’s propaganda and that of the third reich, you would not be able to slide a greeting card through it.
Administrative burdens and an enhanced police state go hand in hand to push the poor into deeper poverty while the rich get infinitely richer. Poverty is not an accident, and this bill widens the gap *on purpose*. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
“Who’s going to do all our labor?” is not the reason you should have a problem with ICE and deportations.
Being a laborer is not the extent of worth of Mexicans living in America
People have the right to just BE. It doesn’t have to benefit you
If the positions “everyone should have healthcare, education, food, and housing” and “we should kill democracy and instead be ruled by billionaires within a violently enforced racial hierarchy” are equally extreme for you then neither centrist nor “moderate” are words I would use to describe you.
Congress? You awake?
Happy Mother's Day. It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
Also, universities aren't 'dependent' on federal funds. It's a partnership between the government and universities to fund pathbreaking health, scientific, engineering, and countless other innovations, and just as importantly, to train the scientific workforce. We're all sunk if this collapses.
Yes, it’s the best
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
I have a hard time with the way we let Bill Clinton still be a thing.
If Books Could Kill!
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
Probably an unpopular opinion but alot of times “the left talks down to regular people” translates to “I refuse to read or learn how anything works but you need to weigh my trash ass dipshit opinion equally to entire entire fields of experts.”
Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this?
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
We have actual Nazis at the highest joysticks of power, and these op ed clowns are still writing these “intolerant left is to blame” pieces. I swear to god I’m losing my shit.
None of these pieces, none of them, say explicitly what perspectives are left out. Why is that? Why is no one specific?
He should be remembered by his utter spinelessness and ineffective party leadership when democracy needed him most.
Reading some of these news stories about regular right wing people people freaking out with regret. It really does confirm just how dumb people are man.
“I voted for border security (?) but now we all lost our jobs.”
Motherfucker they announced all of this shit. All of it.
NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall.
That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.
Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan
"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
