"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.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/01/katie-miller-podcast-meltdown

I dunno man, this might be unraveling on him. I been saying for a while that the courts appear to be moving as if they know Trump wants to remove them from the separation of powers, so they're pantomiming a justice system in the hopes that after he's gone, the judiciary itself can be restored. They don't WANT a fight with him because they'll lose.

Except all of a sudden, now they DO want a fight with him. Something has changed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/judge-ruling-trump-citizenship-proof-vote

"I needed a job"

So do crack dealers; did you consider becoming a crack dealer? Because morally, I think that's probably more excusable than mercing children half a world away for oil companies and weapons contractors.

Every unhoused person in America is basically somebody who said "I'd rather suffer than murder for rich people" and yet you look down on THEM...

says a lot about why this country is the way it is.

Naw man, if you used to work for the CIA, my advice is to simply not tell me that. I'm not gonna think you're cool and awesome; I'm gonna think you strangle brown labor organizers to death with piano wire for fascist American corporations. I'd keep that to myself, if I was you.

I mean, I suspect, and deeply hope, that somewhere, right now, Prince Andy is sitting in his underwear with his hands in his head asking himself how "that little girl" could destroy him from beyond the grave.

And I hope it hurts. And I hope he still has hell to look forward to, even if I don't believe in hell because I've been to New Mexico and I'm pretty sure the universe doesn't need two of them.

I don't believe it is ultimately possible for people to "trust their government." I think if you build heirarchies of power, the kind of people who want to exercise power for their own ends are gonna end up in charge. The only government the labor class can trust, is a government comprised of the entire labor class - not representitives, direct democracy.

And as such, I'm done with fancy lads in funny suits. And I hope, some day soon, the rest of my people will be done with them too.

Naw, it's the fancy lads in funny suits principle.

See, for like 10,000 years of human history, so basically all of it, fancy lads in funny suits have been coming to my people and explaining to us how we have to do terrible things, usually against our best interests, for powerful people. And for whatever reason, my people keep falling for it.

I got nothing in principle against communism, but in practice, it's more fancy lads in funny suits telling me and mine to sacrifice for "important ppl"

I say this to explain how I simply do not believe you can go through life with a literal fucking SS tattoo you have apparently been making little effort to hide, and not know what you're doing.

Sooner or later, someone is gonna pull you aside and say "this is what that means" and if you're not a PIECE OF DOGSHIT you will do what needs to be done to rectify it.

If I can understand that at 14, buddy can understand it in his 30's.

Finally, a kindly neighbor pulls me aside and says, in no uncertain terms, that nobody wanted to hear my bullshit about world war 1 versus world war 2, the only people wearing Iron Cross jewelry were fucking nazis, and the only reason I hadn't gotten a massive beatdown is the neighborhood knew I was a good kid (unlike my father) and they were all hoping I'd grow up a little faster.

I took it off right there. I threw it in the street. Really, my broke ass just paid 20 bucks for it but whatever.

So, I get it home, put it on my again, very skinhead-esque bomber jacket, and I'm feeling like the smartest donkey on the block. My parents, who definitely know better, say nothing.

This goes on for about, 10 days, maybe two weeks. I'm tooling about a majority nonwhite neighborhood with an iron cross, just daring anyone to question me and my "rights."

Anyway, I say all that as a way of explaining why, again, at the age of 13, maybe just barely turned 14, I was standing in a head shop, forking over a Jackson for... an Iron Cross.

Now in my head, this was edgy but okay, because it's not a swastika, and the Iron Cross was a symbol of fascist terror from WW1, not necessarily WW2. But on some level, I was aware I'd get a reaction out of people. My logic was, and forgive 14 year old me, "it's a free country; I'm allowed."