a_mere_vessel 🌹
@VesselMere
As Rumsfeld famously said - "You go to Class War with the working class you have, not the working class you might want or wish to have at a later time."
Leftists worship different Norms and Processes than liberals do, but we sure do fucking worship them all the same. We (rightfully) excoriate liberals as wimps who won’t do what it takes to win, but neither will we!
Former gifted kid was my Halloween costume last year. I just dressed like myself, and when anyone asked me who I was supposed to be I would just look down and say "I was supposed to be a lot of things".
RIP TO THE GOAT! WE LOVE MICHAEL BROOKS AND WE WISH HE WAS STILL AROUND TO COMMENT ON ALL THIS MADNESS AND PROVIDE GUIDANCE AT THIS DARK TIME!
Still doesn’t make sense, 5 years out. Grateful to have had our time together, top of the world. Miss you my friend.
Long (by twitter standards) but absolutely worth your read
This is actually something we need to really grapple with, and there is an answer! One of Trump’s political talents is that he intuits how people actually think: humans rely heavily on categories to sort things and events and people to make rapid decisions And we understand…
I am also just so curious as to what, exactly, these “civil rights was unpopular!” people think the mechanism was by which the CRM achieved success? They seem to think it was implemented upon an unwilling public, by an unwilling government—so, how did it happen??
fwiw Mrs.Vessel_Mere's response to the AOC thing is: "most people aren't gonna be mad about voting for missile interceptors, seems politically fine" and "LEFTISTS NEED TO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP OMG THEY ARE BUILDING CONCENTRATEION CAMPS IN FLORIDA"
when i said that AOC should intervene in DSA factional fights i didn’t realize i was holding the monkey’s paw
what seems very clear to me in all the turmoil is i would LOVE to have 1M1V right now. because a condemnation of AOC directly from the membership would be more powerful, and I think more productively received, than whatever will happen at convention.
Yeah the fact that she voted against the bill is getting lost in the rightful criticism of the very bad statement she made & that's entirely her fault
Everything else aside, arguing against offensive aid to Israel but supporting defensive aid is just bad politics The number of people who understand & care about the distinction is greatly overestimated. And it doesn’t make sense if you truly think they’re committing genocide
If they were paying for their own defense maybe they would spend less money on offense. This explanation is complete bullshit.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Wild concept
Morena has huge majorities in both houses of Mexico's Congress which is why you hear about things like "new reforms" and "new laws" being passed all the time
Mamdani discouraging use of the phrase "globalize the intifada" isn't super great (I have a wordsmithing quibble) but it's also not that bad either. He already clearly explained what it is supposed to mean - and there's no utility to further forcing it down people's throats.
Zohran Mamdani wears a suit, doesn't curse, is positive, and talks policy nonstop.
Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
“Portland’s agenda and discourse is largely being driven by a cohesive bloc of leftists on the council—and at its heart are the socialists.” wweek.com/news/2025/07/1…
In Portland, Oregon, there are effectively two parties: The Democratic Party, controlled by the business lobby, and DSA.
this type of thing is the only redeeming aspect of "ai art," hallucinations of a computer in psychosis