"I have friends in New York City, they're so depressed."

Good.

"I woke up feeling sad."

Awesome.

Brey, most of the "Very Serious People TM" in your life, on your TV, that the Madison Avenue boys are telling you that you HAVE to pay attention to and should adopt their ideas? Are highly-paid butlers for rich people.

If you want to know why I have so little respect for "opinion makers" in American life, it's because I know whose opinions they want you to adopt, and why.

It's hard to respect anyone who kisses maggot aristocrat ass for a living - no matter how well it pays.

I mean Mamdani won young men without conceding to the fascists on even a single point.

This entire talking point is bullshit and you are being manipulated.

brey, whenever a shitlib lanyard says "we have to make changes to win over young male voters" what they are really saying to you is "we need to be more nazi to attract 4chan posters because we literally never leave our houses and the only people we know under 40 are "the help" so we honestly don't know anything about young men who aren't /pol posters."

And you should weigh that argument accordingly.

*shrugs*

Honestly, we should let the nazis lean into McCarthyism. it does absolutely NOTHING for anyone under the age of 50 because to most of us, the Cold War is ambiguous and even quite comedic. We didn't grow up hiding under our desks cause Khrushchev might launch nukes. We grew up watching Doctor Strangelove and Rambo movies were the villainy of the US State was firmly inside the subtext. This "everyone is a commie and coming for your stuff" ain't work on us. I hope the nazis keep trying it

The ways in which Trump and Dick Cheney were different are neither numerous, nor relevant. The key to understanding America and why the Trumpenreich even exists, lies in their similarities, not their differences.

If you study American history long enough, you eventually come to the conclusion that the fascism that animated Trumpism, is the same fascism that animated the War on Terror, and McCarthyism, and decades worth of murdering union organizers (both at home, and abroad), and the slavers.

Well, obviously, capitalism must fall. Or we're all getting run off the ecological cliff by a small pack of primarily prot Anglo nazi death cultist billionaires.

But give that this wasn't on the ballot, I will settle for "the nazis lost ever significant race they ran today."

"More people have voted in this election than in the entire 2021 mayor’s race, according to city election data."

Doesn't sound like good news for the corpos and fascists...

So, the US government is threatening to prosecute American grocery stores for offering discounts to people NOT receiving SNAP benefits because of the shutdown.

Why on earth would they be doing that? I dunno, sorta sounds like the Trumpenreich position is "we're gonna starve poor people and blame it on Democrats and if you don't HELP us do that, you're going to jail."

Literally cartoon villainy hours up in here.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/usda-tells-grocery-stores-they-can-t-give-discounts-to-people-hit-by-trump-s-food-stamp-freeze

Stephen Miller's wife is apparently threatening to deport *checks notes* Cenk Ugyar - a US citizen. Because? He called her a liar.

This shit is incredible.

Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi

Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy

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