Reposted by neuron activationHappiness Uzumaki @sonofether.bsky.social · 14hI love how there is a brand of liberal/leftist who gets mad at me for saying Trump voters are dumb and evil when clearly the man they enthusiastically voted for agrees with me. 49122
Reposted by neuron activationPerfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 22hYes, but you're forgetting the key point that Democrats are responsible for things Republicans do. If not, well, that would mean voters and non-voters are responsible for the people they choose to put in office and we can't have that. 16212
Reposted by neuron activationrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026the thing about Ossoff is that he genuinely hates these people for what they've done 1598293
Reposted by neuron activationObvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The thing about being a liberal or progressive in the South is you do not entertain The Noble Savage/Trump Supporter in a Diner thought whatsoever. 323125
Reposted by neuron activationWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311625281
Reposted by neuron activationJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When this group of goons is ousted, and I do think they will be, there is going to be tremendous media noise about finding common ground and coming together. Absolutely not. I will not forget the people who helped hammer at the foundations of civil society and helped imprison and kill my neighbors. 314338
Reposted by neuron activationMillie(let) @gyro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"polls are very in our favor" used to be a faux pas in left-leaning circles because of the assumption it will make people complacent. Now, however, I think we are in a different situation: We need to convince fatalists who gave up to start trying again. Push, and this era will give way. 0267
Reposted by neuron activationZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I am asking you to consider the possibility that a Dem Senate majority will protect trans rights better than a Republican one will, even if it includes some problematic members. 717213
Reposted by neuron activationjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible. 101002124
Reposted by neuron activationVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Accepting for the sake of argument the premise that Democrats are too ineffectual to do anything: what does that say about you? Your plan is to bitch about the Democrats 519816
Reposted by neuron activationStardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026my uncle (hes white) is from bumfuck PA as an appalachian guy. and was poor. so i dont always agree with him but one time as a kid i talked about how exploited rural people are before he placed a finger on my mouth and said "they're exploiting themself." my time in southern VA and TX do confirm. 1253
Reposted by neuron activationKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This whole, "everything I don't like is Israeli," thing people keep doing is getting closer and closer to just being mask off Nazis. And Sunrise doing it is making a bid for a red-brown ecofascist alliance based on shared conspiratorial thinking blaming Israel for everything they don't like. 321345
Reposted by neuron activationellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/10/2026“He just has a miserable life and wants to feel above someone” well it ain’t gonna be me, and I’m glad he has a miserable life. He deserves it for hating people like me. I still remember how to be angry on my own behalf, unlike you 31079
Reposted by neuron activationMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry 391979394
Reposted by neuron activationgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it 151642226
Reposted by neuron activationgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 774163838
Reposted by neuron activationellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 06/10/2026As a gentile it’s been horrifying and dispiriting over the past ten years to watch the left as a whole decide there’s one specific minority group they get to apply all negative stereotypes you’d get ostracized for for literally anyone else to, & gaslight anyone who points this out 17917
Reposted by neuron activationMetro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What? 158938101
Reposted by neuron activationWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The lesson of Brazil is you have to make sure none of them can ever come back 1747366
Reposted by neuron activationStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them. 14795180
Reposted by neuron activation👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brazil is strongly indicating that just beating the fascists at the ballot box is not enough. You have to ensure that the cancer of fascism does not return again. Hungary’s model may be better - put them *all* in jail and rip out their support structures root and branch. 26116
Reposted by neuron activationJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 04/10/2026i think the median voter needs to have their face violently rubbed in the shit. it doesn't work on dogs but i do think we should act like even these subhumans are capable of the extended reasoning involved that would make them feel some culpability for their actions, even if it's not true 0275
Reposted by neuron activationWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much. 942062
Reposted by neuron activationuosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“But Dana, it was because of Gaza” Before 10/7 they were saying you should withhold votes for democrats because Biden wasn’t forgiving student debt fast enough. Before that they said his policy of four free covid tests per household was eugenics. There is nothing you can say or do. 1224651
Reposted by neuron activationrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it is possible to be propagandized by things which are true. 543329
Reposted by neuron activationrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i think a better way to say this is "the law shall be such that you can destroy them" 636340
Reposted by neuron activationWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes! What we’re seeing is the spread of a pervasive social norm where constant lurid expressions of misery and pessimism are de rigueur. People can’t see it because they’re part of it. But it’s obvious when you talk to groups who have every reason to be pessimistic, and they don’t have it. 1028026
Reposted by neuron activationrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 441668287
Reposted by neuron activationrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility 191494238
Reposted by neuron activationSnowden St. @snowden.st · 27/09/2026you can’t stop them from trying, but we can do the work right now to help other folks not help their conservative friends from owning this world-renowned destruction of government under “conservative principles.” Let them make their bed with the hounds. 134030
Reposted by neuron activationBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming. 843524628
Reposted by neuron activationJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562270533
Reposted by neuron activationDavid @crookedknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Why does the far right keep gaining in the polls? What can we do?" "Maybe prosecute them for all the crimes they film themselves committing?" "What can we dooooooooo?" 1568
Reposted by neuron activationBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Former Trump supporter in media and/or politics? Opinion discarded. It's that easy and nothing of value will be lost. You helped create the dumbest stove-touching in living memory. Sit there and shut up while we try to clean up after you 111362177
Reposted by neuron activationBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors 81902409
Reposted by neuron activationcredenza @credenzamostro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026my friend has been saying this since 2021 242857
Reposted by neuron activationJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460311485
Reposted by neuron activationDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling. 33928778
Reposted by neuron activationEnd Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026(To the state) Cmon, maintain your monopoly on the use of force 516017
Reposted by neuron activationJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 21/09/2026relevant to prevalence of anti-data-center sentiment you GOTTA remember that seven in 10 americans oppose the construction of a magical wizard tower that cures cancer and gives everyone blowjobs if it's within 500 miles of property they own 3297
Reposted by neuron activationEffy, Walker Among Sunflowers @mseffy.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026One of the really annoying things about American politics on Bluesky is that every election gets treated as if it were a nationwide contest and you have people comparing politicians from very different states, running for statewide offices, as if their statements ought to be identical. 1017028
Reposted by neuron activationEuan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove 4300114
Reposted by neuron activationSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago. 6870126
Reposted by neuron activationCowb0t 𓅃 @cowb0t.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's very difficult to comprehend how monumentally stupid this all is. It's like thinking about how big space is. 192
Reposted by neuron activationDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish. 81707238
Reposted by neuron activationAriellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026they're fucking heroes and it brings tears to my fucking eyes to think about it and it makes me mad as hell that people ignore and minimize what they have accomplished for us in that nightmare of a year 2025 111414
Reposted by neuron activationAriellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If the Democrats were going to throw us under the bus, it would have been this session. I was expecting it to happen. I was watching and waiting to get legislated out of fucking existence for most of 2025. But they did not fold, they stood for my rights to the last, they killed every single attempt 216631
