I think a lot of people stopped listening to the rad libs like Maddow and became disaffected from the Democrats since then. those folks are (at least around me) engaging in more radical acts of resistance than the marching-and-shouting that dominated the public actions of that time. so while buttegieg probably hasn’t shifted much, and might think he’s still talking to those same people, many of them are no longer listening.

I think his audience has shifted

2018 was a different time

tale as old as time

I didn’t see this film until the 2010s, and I couldn’t believe how accurately it lampooned my local scene.

just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s worthless, and charging for content doesn’t make it valuable

nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so.

that’s a lie

if you downvote hard enough, maybe the indigenous people will stop criticizing their oppression

Abolishing Israel would cause the largest genocide in human history

you can’t prove this

stating the fact that voting is not harm reduction is not antielectoralism

Anti-electoralism is mathematically indistinguishable from accelerationism

you’re making that up

this isn’t about accelerationism

it’s a fact, not dogma

pkk is often discussed in anarchist circles as a model for armed resistance.

pearl clutching

dick Cheney endorsed kamala

are you sure it’s good news?

this is just backpedaling bad faith bullshit now

voting is not harm reduction

they’re not exactly the same

no one said what you said they said.