Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the thing that really annoys me a lot about Wilhoit's Law is that it is trivial -- really, utterly trivial -- to find progressives who behave in accordance with it. And the more you look at supposed "laws" of how conservatives and fascists supposedly behave and see the same, the more you see 4437 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This leads to a credibility gap: to put it crudely, why should anyone trust AI safety analysis when y'all are partying with SPECTER and cashing checks from Blofeld? Why should anyone take analysis of lone wolf/PLA misuse of open-weight models seriously when there's no similar analysis of XAI? 626651 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine. 726145 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People are like "Why can't Hakeem Jeffries meet with Donald Trump and Mamdani can?" and the reason is stuff like this. If you're viewed as being part of the Dem establishment, you're viewed as having a connection with this kind of behavior. 2385 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/ 253672796 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents mean it. They believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly." www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 7484164 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Jealousy, by Edvard Munch, 1895 251361 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/04/2026Joseph Weizenbaum describes the clock as the first "autonomous machine": a tool that was no longer a prosthesis for our bodies, but which modeled something totally external from ourselves. The clock, he points out, overturned our relationship with tools: we came to serve it, rather than vise versa 18513 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Study of the Heads of Two Old Men, by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th c, 📸 by @adampantozzi 71338206 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15/04/2026There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous 472063423 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/04/2026Ritchie Neal "disemboweled a central policy goal of the Democratic Party for decades for wholly corrupt reasons and then didn’t even get anything at the end of the process." prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...prospect.orgA Retrospective on Bidenomics - The American ProspectJoe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal. 4407 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Bush started the Iraq war by falsely claiming Iraq had nuclear materials. Will Tump end the Iran war by falsely claiming that Iran doesn't have them? 1361061 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/02/2026once again pointing out that Trump vs. US is a treasonous decision--the Supreme Court equivalent of January 6--and the justices who voted for it have forfeited any claim to legitimacy (or indeed due process) whatsoever 262368519 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/02/2026we gotta vote in people who will destroy the fascist Cathedral 746837 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialolive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 04/02/2026If the next President is not just "a Democrat" but someone committed to aggressively cutting back the gains made by the far right, rebuilding state capacity, and beginning a generational process of reaffirming trust in the state, this all ends in a shooting war in the streets. 428741 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialolive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 04/02/2026What the online leftist fails to grasp is that, no, the entire game is not already lost and what the online liberal fails to grasp is that it does not matter whether or not the next President is a literal fascist, but that it is someone who can successfully halt and reverse this process. 533958 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The question is what precautions here look like. To me, it seems clear there needs to be an effort to track DHS goons close to the election and to be prepared to put (lawful!) crowds outside of (the legal limit of) polling places in key districts to discourage any ICE shenanigans or intimidation. 219541 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialTravis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I usually sum this up as form over function. Believers in "norms" often acted as if by following all the "forms" the norm would hold and they would be viewed as credible. What we are seeing clearly was it was all performance and they failed to maintain the actual "function" of laws, ethics, and< 111 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2025this is one of the things that's most viscerally like, un- or even anti-keynesian about the way the goals of capital-A Abundance are structured 5569 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Also be prepared for the fact that this could be for all the marbles. Be prepared to pass rapid impeachment and removal of Trump & Vance, to swear in Jeffries as Acting President, and request Spanberger and Moore to send in the VA and MD National Guard. 0161 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025John Roberts is not "rebuking" Donald Trump. He's bending the knee. If you listen to what Roberts is *not* saying, you'll see he's telling Trump exactly what he wants to hear. We've seen this before from another Chief Justice, in Marbury v. Madison. My latest in @thenation.comthenation.comHow a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald TrumpRoberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee. 761457434 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialAllen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 14/03/2025asknature.org/strategy/bra...asknature.orgInformation Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNatureDespite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time. 0115 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/03/2025here is the thing, if you are thinking pragmatically, the response to trans health bans is to change the subject! “these people are targeting children so they can con you into stealing your social security and health care.” easy peasy! need a specific answer: “keep the government out of my family.” 434513560 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025an accurate description of donald trump's character is per se libel. an accurate description of his policies is a call for revolution. one of his great superpowers is that he generates self-censoring facts. 9628124 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If enough of them would agree to go into hiding for a while democrats could put an end to this nightmare. Just crawl under a rock for your country, for humanity. 010 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/01/2025This goes hard 312102281764 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I don’t know precisely what Trump will say in his inaugural, but it will certainly be a bunch of insincere nonsense, delivered with ulterior motives. That’s enough for Democrats to offer a useful prebuttal—if they want to. www.offmessage.net/p/prebut-don... 1320231 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Here’s a way for Dems to give an ethical form of populism and demagoguery a trial run: instead of playing savvy games vis a vis RFK, try just saying what makes him repulsive: he’s a scumbag who preys on innocent people and has cost many of them their lives.offmessage.netMore On Ethical PopulismThe sweet spot lies in demagogic appeals that can withstand factual scrutiny. 301361273 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2024what i fundamentally do not understand about this is that when we observe actual campaigns what we clearly see is that perceived moderation is only modestly about substance and a great deal about affect and appearance 351408152 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/08/2024Seeing Like a Matt. The intellectual blind spots of anti-anti-neoliberalism. www.programmablemutter.com/p/seeing-lik...programmablemutter.comSeeing Like a MattThe intellectual blind spots of anti-anti-neoliberalism 86423 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 25/07/2024The thing these burnout leftist morons don't understand is that a big part of the reason the pro-Hamas shit pisses me off is *because this shit really fucking matters* 10541 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialkilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 22/07/2024jesus if things keep up at this pace trump is gonna start shopping around for incels to shoot him in the ear again 1967568 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/07/2024righteous fury always tries to be as effective as possible, whereas wrapping your rudeness in ideology doesn't, which makes it easier to tell the difference between the two than a lot of people realize 1365 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/07/2024This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant. Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does. For this reason, hope is what is needed right now. www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/the-reframe.comA Fool's HopeHow to be hopeful people in this age of deliberate ignorance, empty optimism, lazy cynicism, and manufactured despair. A more useful definition of hope than these false ones we're offered. 720867 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/07/2024hey Joe I am aware of some Laws that are not being faithfully executed can you please intervene on my behalf thanks 2797 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/06/2024And rightly so: The GOP is now a cult. The Democrats are a coalition. Cults don't chance and won't respond to external pressures. Coalitions are fragile and have to be nimble. That's just how it is for now. 10629 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialJohn Barron Harkonnen @sigill.bsky.social · 29/06/2024This guy called it 5816 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/06/2024For real though if I was a poor ass Toad living in the Mushroom Kingdom and saw Mario playing tennis with Bowser I’d be like “despite their pretend disagreements there really is only the uniparty” 211063212 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 13/05/2024Democrats have had a hard time adjusting to the the new right over many years now. And I think an unappreciated reason is that their impulse to chase the median vote typically wins out, even when doing so runs them into the pitfall of right-wing sabotage.offmessage.netCan Democrats Ever Learn From Experience?When the "safe" middle path leads directly into a brick wall of right-wing sabotage, liberals will march down it anyhow. 49322 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19/12/2023The incentives here for Bibi/Likud are just fantastic. 1) If Trump is president, you get whatever you want. 2) If a Democrat is president, you get whatever you want from Congress while his coalition peels apart over Israel and Trump comes back. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/u...nytimes.comHow Much Is Biden’s Support of Israel Hurting Him With Young Voters?Donald Trump leads him among those 18 to 29, a new poll shows. 21445128 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialHelen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 16/12/2023Wittgenstein was dying of cancer, and his friends (including GEM Anscombe) came too late to say goodbye as he had already fallen into a coma and died shortly after. But he relayed this message to them, "Tell them I've had a wonderful life." Philippa Foot (Anscombe's friend) had this to say about it 68824 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/12/2023i think these two charts explain basically 80 to 90 percent of the behavior of republican and democratic lawmakers 32583124 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/12/202384 Dems voted for Rep. Stefanik's cynical, overreaching amendment calling for the firing of university presidents. Great statement from Rep. Nadler: "But mostly, I'm voting against this resolution because the cynicism of it makes me sick." nadler.house.gov/news/documen... The 84: 36568138 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/12/2023the entire strategy is to delay the trial until after the election or some Trumpist judge can swoop in and save him and it's working. Baffling why the Very Smart Lawyers continue chuckling at Trump's legal filings when by all appearences the strategy is working perfectly so far? 96010 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialSarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Arabic folklore has these small demons who attack your feet if you don't cover them when you sleep... 432598522 0