iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sometimes it turns something into a link even when you had the space there in the first place. I think the coding here is still a bit wonky.

000

The conspiracy theorizing and cultiness have become very similar. That was my point.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was referring to.

100

Again, I am not your trained poodle and I'm not going to do your homework for you. If you're not familiar with the history of the organization, you can go learn about that yourself. I gave you examples and also referred you to the post I was replying to. I'm done.

000

Did you read the comment I was replying to?

100

I literally did, and if you can't read your notifications to see that, that's a you problem. Either way, I'm done here.

000

Then you haven't done your homework on the DSA as an organization, which is also on you. You're doing really well here.

100

You also didn't bother to read the post I was replying to, which would have helped. That's on you.

100

Also, try CONTEXT CLUES. Remember those from elementary school reading class? See the post I was replying to? About CONSPIRACY THEORIES? Think MAYBE that's what I was talking about? Honestly, how some of you manage to breathe on your own is beyond me.

000

I think you'll find I just did, not that you didn't decide to define it for me without having any clue what I meant first. Which, by the way... is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. Well done proving my point.

100

Don't put words in my mouth, pal. I said we're their mirror "in many ways," which I did not elucidate. The left is just as culty as the right, and if you disagree, all that tells me is that you don't know enough about cults in the cultiest country on earth. Maybe go read a book.

Also? Look at the DSA's authoritarian nonsense. Look at left-wing purity BS. There, that's three right off the top of my head. All pretty culty.

100

I'm not here to jump through hoops for you, pal. But I will say that the knee-jerk blind loyalty to the idea that YOUR side is immune to the illness that has overtaken your opponent is a big one. And you and everyone else who's replied to this comment has exhibited it.

200

It's really not. Also note I said "in many ways," which people are missing, and that the typical response from folks who either don't want to admit it or don't even want to stop to think about it is... exactly the one you gave.

Oh, honey. No. You're adorable, but no. There are folks on here, especially women, who fell in love with their candidate (as Dems often do) and can't deal, and spent yesterday losing their shit. If you missed it, count yourself lucky. They literally will excuse ANYTHING to defend him.

No. Not all. Some. Maybe even many. But nowhere near all. That's my issue with your statement.

100

Dude. If you haven't seen it in the last 24 hours, I don't know where you've been. I'm not the Platner Stan whisperer. But they've definitely been screaming on this site. And there is nothing they will not excuse, which should scare everyone on the left.

120

I'm not talking about Platner. I'm talking about his followers--and a lot of other folks on the left who have no self-awareness of how culty they sound. Evidence in the responses to my comment, just for a start.

I didn't say "equally as bad." I said there's a mirror image. bsky.app/profile/inth...

So I guess you haven't seen the hordes of people on here who are willing to make any excuse for Platner over the last couple days? Just like the red hats in 2016? And that's just one cultish behavior over the last few years. Stay in denial all you like, but it's much better to wake up to reality.

People being totally okay with Nazi tattoos is a pretty solid start.

000

He'd have been the next Fetterman.

0110

The left likes to think we're "better" than the right, but at this point we're really just its mirror image in many ways, unfortunately.

791

Amazing how folks keep acting like these charts mean a damn thing. Are you going to haul out your tarot cards next? (They might actually be more accurate.)

000

Or... most of your folks don't want to be in a cult at all, so you need to play a totally different game, just like the sign says.

000

The MAGA parallel is the most appalling part of the whole thing to me. Way too many folks on here won't give up their political boyfriend and would vote for him even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue...and can't—or won't—see the obvious, alarming parallel.

010

I'm pretty sure the dipshit who recruited him will never work in Democratic politics again after this.

Username checks out, as they say over on Reddit.

010

You're also ignoring the Aspen Institute, Third Way, People's Policy Project, Roosevelt Institute, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, National Women’s Law Center, the Brookings Institution, New America Foundation... five minutes with Google found me all these.

000

You're ignoring that a) I didn't disagree with your idea but with your wording and b) those counterweights exist. The Center for American Progress, People for the American Way, Institute for Policy Studies, Urban Institute, among others, already exist. You just haven't heard of them.

Plenty of us never believed, because we took one look at a Nazi tattoo, knew what it meant, and said, "How about 'Oh, hell no'?"

0110

Most lawyers choose their words more carefully.

100

You didn't say "create an institutition to advance ideals," though. You said we need an org like the Federalist Society, which most of us on the left consider a blight on American society. See the difference? Because I sure do, and so will others, and we'll reject it every time.

000

Maybe, but as Tom likes to say, "What works for them will not work for you." I don't think the left would WANT a Fed Society—I know I wouldn't—because it's undemocratic. Same with Sinclair.

000

We elect the folks in the parties. They know their jobs and the people they represent. I fail to see how that's not democratic. Splitting hairs does us no good and only foments unrest in the name of...what, exactly? You want more of this? You're welcome to it, somewhere else. Include me out.

020

For the last decade, I have been wishing wholeheartedly for smoke-filled rooms to make a comeback. You're not going to convince me I'm wrong about this, or that democracy wasn't better served by them given the proto-fascist hellscape we've been living in since that idiot came down the escalator.

Nah. He's cooked. The support he needs has already disavowed him and the money along with it.

020

2016 repeats itself, only without the base that makes it possible for him to stay in--though a lot of BlueMAGA folks on here sure are doing their best to re-create that part, too.

000

When he finds out the money is gone, he'll have no hostages left.

020

Oh, look. Another one who thinks if he repeats his nonsense often enough, that makes it true.

000

And yet the parties (both of them) chose candidates for a century and nobody had a problem with it. We were better off. They did a better job because they understood the assignment--AND they vetted their folks.