Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Agreed, but part of this is that lobbyists are really good at their jobs. I don't think the median GOP Congressman had a take on data centers before last year, but they were certainly willing to adopt the position of capital as gospel. 101
Reposted by Dubbsdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the received wisdom of the dnc superfan is not nearly as unshakeable as they would have you believe. as a rule most don't believe in anything other than mirroring the establishment. move the establishment and they will play ball immediately 1042938
Reposted by Dubbsmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164881221
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Talarico should stake out a strongly pro-trans position because it is the morally right thing to do, but even from a cynical, strategic standpoint, what's the point of trying to "moderate" on the issue when Musk et al. are going to spend $100m claiming you're strongly pro-trans anyway? 131
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know there are no laws anymore (to the extent that the laws ever applied to the elite), but how is this not a bribe? 000
Reposted by DubbsBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Fraud is so awesome in this country I can understand why everyone does it. You can make a billion dollars doing fraud and then a court will be like "Hang on there pal...pay a $100M fine but DON'T do it again" 393243383
Reposted by DubbsApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally 723113507
Reposted by DubbsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026For Musk, "government fraud and waste" is a single mom on food stamps who misses a box on a 600-page form because she's exhausted from working three jobs to make rent - not a no-bid contractor trousering billions in public funds for projects that overcharge and underdeliver. 41/ 229171
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Some people who are ostensibly Democrats really just want to go back to the status quo without the fascism, as if the previous status quo wasn't the immediate precursor to the fascism. 000
Reposted by DubbsMicah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker 1004022563
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Even this, ultimately, was a grift. Is there anyone on the right who holds any principals more dear than "I should be rich"? 000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026These are rookie numbers, we need to pump these numbers way up. 000
Reposted by DubbsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026Anyone who believes in markets must also tacitly believe that successful market participants *don't* believe in markets. They should understand that capitalists hate capitalism, that every pirate yearns to be an admiral. 17/ 29730
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You had to figure these goons would come for libraries eventually. I'm trying to figure out what the most unassailable public good is that they'll inevitably come for. It wasn't schools. It's probably trash pick up. Laying down a marker here that they'll come for trash pickup. 000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Putting aside "the idea of rank corruption taking down a presidency is crazy," it's very funny watching this realization dawn on this moron years after the rest of us. 000
Reposted by DubbsSenadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Every 80 minutes, someone is sexually assaulted while getting a ride from a company like Uber. Speaker Mike Johnson is adding an amendment to HR 8870 to shield these corporations from liability. I'm proud to stand with 284 other women state legislators to demand safety for passengers and drivers. 112630
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I know we're all pushing back on this because it's dangerous MAHA pipeline nonsense, but I'd look to push back on it because you're a moron if you didn't know two decades ago that Cheetos are not especially great for you. 120
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This is why I've always found being a "moderate" to be profoundly embarassing - the center isn't real. It's a transient thing defined entirely by the people who *aren't* in it. 010
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Anecdotally, this fits the theory of elections that it is less effective to try to convince members of the other party to vote for you than it is to convince them to stay home (while exciting members of your own party to come out). 002
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A critical mass of Americans believe that the middle must be the wisest position by nature of the fact that it is the middle and it's killing us. It rewards moving the Overton window, which Republicans have been excellent at. 021
Reposted by DubbsSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Now that we've been through this whole process basically twice, I think it's fair to say that there is no policy too forceful, draconian, or oppressive to end southern racism. 110612
Reposted by DubbsChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The other thing I didn't mention, which is the Republicans' biggest asset: if they take control of the government & fail, they've still succeeded at making the government fail. 213113
Reposted by DubbsCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Virginia's public referendum blocked by a court ruling on the timing of legislature votes but Florida can redistrict on a whim without even *trying* to amend their constitution i don't know what you're supposed to do in a country where one party just sometimes isn't bound by the law 64865214
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026It becomes increasingly clear that the scheming viziers cooked up the ballroom thing as a make-work program for the big guy. The keys they jingle in front of him. 000
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026At this point, Thomas and Alito have to know the other seven votes are going in favor of birthright. By all rights, this probably gives them a pass to do the same, and it would be the politically smart play. The only reason I can think for them to still vote against is corruption. 100
Reposted by Dubbsgeekysteven @geekysteven.com · 30/03/2026your grandparents voting for reagan 120155362927
Reposted by DubbsWarren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026How can this go on for another 3 years? 197106793834
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Begging China for help is so funny because China's long-term strategy very much seems to be predicated on letting America eat itself. 000
Reposted by DubbsDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich 532129628
Reposted by DubbsScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Listen I know the President is a sex criminal but he did this because he’s a Republican President and this is what Republican presidents do 517226
Reposted by Dubbsrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026really a good sign about OpenAI's own prediction of its trajectory that it is lunging at the killbot, mass surveillance and porn use cases before a lawyer could even read the contracts 11813107
Reposted by Dubbskrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants 13591951370
Reposted by DubbsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/02/2026George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️ 7844761448
Reposted by DubbsPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich 460203596521
Reposted by DubbsAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about 248100871886
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026"The DOW is over 50,000" is "let them eat cake," right? 000
Reposted by DubbsQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026They still can cook on X The Everything App 305949651
Reposted by DubbsThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/02/2026Trump’s best friend Jeff Epstein was worried about Trump’s dementia way back in 2017. How bad do you think it is now? 10031091143
Reposted by DubbsScott Patrick, PhD @neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice. 23267162644
Reposted by DubbsCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear 2753521503
Dubbs @somecallmedubbs.bsky.social · 29/01/2026"I fear losing my dignity more than I fear losing my life" is bars. 000
Reposted by DubbsCross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 12/01/2026the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion. 814177985
