“The Party Should Throw Them a Party” by @resnikoff https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-should-throw-them-a-party
// excellent on the need for thick ties between real-life humans to build coalitions and realities resilient to a captured, fickle parasocial online
@ItsThatDeafGuy the advice stands.
when history is on the march, run.
This post is all I’ve done with my life.
way, way ahead of me is @ouguoc! https://mastodon.online/@ouguoc/109520757654139083
his growing scandal will become known as elongate.
one path by which this event may mark the end of the American century is that whatever vestiges of a soft power / aspirational advantage the United States still had over China are lost.
if the indispensable nation is going to be a venal autocracy anyway, China may seem a lot more attractive than the United States. alliances and inclinations of the US’ erstwhile foreign partners may quickly reconfigure themselves to that.
“We're still the same country that we were on Monday. We just have changed our form of government.” #HeatherCoxRichardson https://youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo
i feel like some random kidney cell still kidneying in the body of a thing that just blew its own head off.
from #ThomasFrank https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html
(the piece is badly titled.)
Text: Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump's appeal - and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn't figure him out.
“How Harris Lost the Working Class” by @davidsirota https://jacobin.com/2024/11/harris-trump-election-democrats-workers
during the 1920s and 1930s, “fascist” was a descriptive term, referring to particular political movements and politicians.
by the 1960s, those movements and politicians were so fringe, so widely considered beyond acceptability, the term became a mere epithet.
in the 2020s, it is descriptive again.
liberal elites are constrained by manners — which they understand as scruples — from fully adopting, endorsing, or even tolerating certain cultural signifiers perceived as working class.
right-wing elites have no such scruples, so are able to adopt any cultural signifiers that help them win power.
( a response to @jbouie https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lakezrwdj72w )
"How Baltimore Locals Beat A Right-Wing Media Tycoon" #MarcieJones https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-baltimore-locals-beat-a-right
you really didn’t have to remind me.
Screenshot of e-mail summary, from Starbucks Rewards, “Your Stars are expiring soon”
it isn’t “sad” this makes me feel.
Screenshot of e-mail from the “Harris Fight Fund” beginning with “Steve, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed about the outcome of the presidential election. But, as I said on Wednesday, we can’t ever give up.” and ending “If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately” followed by gigantic buttons to donate $127, $191, etc
people act like i’m not resisting because all i do is sit on the couch and watch tv and eat junk food.
what they don’t notice is i’m eating Cheetos.
to salve the wound, Trump / Elon can console Zelensky that while, sure, there will be territorial concessions and no NATO membership, there won’t really be much of a NATO anyway so that’s not giving up all that much, is it?
to salve the wound, Trump / Elon can console Zelensky that while, sure, there will be territorial concessions and no NATO membership, there won’t really be much of a NATO anyway so that’s not giving up all that much, is it?
[new draft post] It's the parasocials, stupid https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/08/its-the-parasocials-stupid/index.html
