Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Someone murdered a mid to high level employee of [health insurance company, bank, other boogeyman of capitalism] in cold blood so naturally I wanted to check in here to see how normally people are acting about it 050
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My identity? I’ll tell ya. Voter. A voter from the University of Michigan. 040
Reposted by Thag Simmonsjoanna @nutsandgum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“Is casting a dark-skinned Black woman as Helen of Troy actually racist,” a relatively short Reddit thread never closed by mods, most everyone thinks it’s stupid and it peters out quickly 0162
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I’ve surprisingly managed to convince at least a small handful of leftists to admit President Bernie wouldn’t have passed M4A. They do this motte and bailey thing where they say it still matters that he would have “pushed” for it 081
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 19/07/2026If you don’t properly manage your Zynventory you might be faced with an unwanted Zynterregnum. 120
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026“Money in politics” is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Better learn to deal with it 120
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I'll echo Jaime Harrison's point that blaming AIPAC, like "the Establishment," has become a substitute for making an actual argument. 0141
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026As far as I can tell based on modern accounts, 90% of peoples' college experience today is essentially paying a lot of money to use Tik Tok and ChatGPT in a private room that isn't in their parents' house. 010
Reposted by Thag Simmonsinternettheo2.bsky.social @internettheo2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026What if lady he sexually assaulted wasn’t in fact a lady but rather the country of Israel in wig and he did it to stop war they always do. 092
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026At that point it was clear, whether he beat Collins or not, or whether more bad stuff eventually came out or not, that this guy was always going to be a massive drag on the Democrat's brand and unfortunately I think we're not done paying the price. 150
Reposted by Thag SimmonsDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle emphasizing that every element in a story should be necessary, while irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a gun is included in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as being fired at some later point. The principle that all elements mus 1020847
Reposted by Thag SimmonsWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026So ya Trump never faced any repercussions for stonewalling on the Epstein files and 'Epstein Class' has become a generalized term which most people using it would not even include him as part of. 621144
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Ok I’m really tired of hearing about Platner. Let’s fucking close this book forever and move on 071
Reposted by Thag Simmonstmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I think it would be really funny if after all this we ended up with someone born in 1955 as the candidate 1102
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026There's a little black cat that's been lounging on our back porch. We put some water out for him and now he's firmly designated our house as his property. He will not rest until he's sleeping on our bed 060
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026You have to be getting paid by someone to defend Platner at this point 1102
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The working class aesthetics thing doesn't even seem to work. "They're a bunch of dumb chuds so of course they want to vote for a dumb chud!" Elites think working class people are too dumb to conceptualize someone running the country who isn't like them. 020
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The arc of the groin of politics bends towards smoothness. 051
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 07/07/2026There are a ton of people who wouldn’t have to do all this backpedaling if they’d simply decided to not go scorched earth over an election in another state 030
Reposted by Thag SimmonsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026There's this whole constellation of people who owe their careers to the endless attention and affirmation you can receive complaining about The Democratic Establishment. But there are, it turns out, much worse things in politics than The Democratic Establishment 442751
Reposted by Thag SimmonsCentrist Madness Election Center @centristmadness.bsky.social · 06/07/2026You wouldn’t believe it now but “the guy with the Nazi tattoo should drop out of the race” was an extremely controversial, eventually even contrarian position. People got real mad at you for saying it! 629268
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Yeah I once talked myself down about AI with this realization. AI can review 10k pages of documents and get some wrong conclusions but it may be better than 10 humans doing that. And you review the AI’s work the same way you would the humans’ work. 1213
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 02/07/2026People are mad at the Democrats because they haven’t done enough to fight Trump, which is why they’re voting for DSA members who believe the real enemy is the capitalist Epstein Class establishment in which Trump is just a visiting side character. 2187
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There's an important principle where if there are multiple plausible explanations for someone's behavior, you don't assume the worst explanation. This is a critical underpinning of modern law and the functionality of a liberal society and it's being increasingly lost due to social media. 140
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Emphasizing "working class" issues is seen as something noble by the broader left, but it actually represents a dismissive attitude. They think working class people are too dumb to care about any political issues not related to their jobs. 1153
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Throw it on the growing pile of evidence that "working class" messaging and aesthetics does not appeal to the working class. It actually appeals to upper class people. 57325
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A disproportionate amount of all this garbage originates from KIippenstein. He'll laugh at a 78 year old Democrat slightly tripping on stairs and then whenever Trump shits his pants on camera or slurs out "aughallualalehh" he'll ignore that and post a clip of him praising Mamdani or something. 1183
Reposted by Thag Simmons412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 26/06/2026jumping in on the new personality quiz 1016625
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026We need huge, bold, structural change. We're tired of half-assed solutions that do nothing to address the root causes of problems. We're throwing incrementalism out the window. We are doing...um, let's see. Right. We're freezing rent for a subset of the population. 230
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Have I ever talked about how populism is explained by people thinking politics works like a movie script? 312929
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The inverse of this is pretty much the political reasoning of NYC DSA members 040
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 25/06/2026If you tasked me to beat a "terrible" basketball team and I lost, and then you said "well it was because you failed to put LeBron James and Steph Curry out there!" was that really a bad team I was playing? 110
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The only metric you can use to define a “good politician” is them winning elections. The proof is in the pudding. If someone is winning elections then that means your idea of what a good politician is was wrong. 691
Reposted by Thag SimmonsRet @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. 2890062874
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I think it's unreasonable that some prominent US politicians and their leftists supporters have a more extreme opinion on Hamas than a significant number of people in Gaza actually being bombed by Israel 141
Reposted by Thag SimmonsCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026this leaves liberals to the left of the American public (like me) in an awkward position where i have to defend "socialists" against dumb accusations while simultaneously keeping a close eye on them to make sure they don't get any funny ideas 1136315
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I think a lot of the appeal of communism to young men is the implicit idea that it will set them up with a state-supplied girlfriend 030
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026We were supposed to stop Trump by ending capitalism or poverty or bringing world peace or whatever but simply trying to convince people to vote against him was unrealistic and naive 0112
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Sorry that pressing the Make Fun of Liberals Button is getting diminishing returns. 0111
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 19/06/2026A meteor barreling towards Earth probably is the only thing that would get leftists to actually firebomb a Walmart 1202
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It would kind of be a full circle thing if Michelle Obama decided to run because Trump hosted that chud fighter who called her a man, after Trump ran because Obama roasted him at the WHCD. 0164
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026For some reason posts from leftists complaining about "Zionists" get a lot of action over on the Groyper app. Strange coincidence probably 1112
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It feels like Charlie Kirk died longer than 9 months ago because he amassed a posthumous meme legacy that typically takes several years to develop. 040
Thag Simmons @dhsanders.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Couldn't be any negative consequences of associating the entire group of ruling elites with a shadowy cabal of wealthy Jewish people. Nope, no downsides detected. I'm sure this will work out great for progressivism. 021
