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Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Getting away from "means testing" in general is a good thing.
The justified complaint of the middle class is that if you act normal, you suddenly get punished in every aspect of life.
In the same way, universal public option is better than the current Medicaid/Medicare thing.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
This attitude is the hugest mistake. Enormous swaths of the country hated peak-Woke. Not just Republicans.
Do not try to repeat that. We got a blue wave because voters want to repudiate Trump, especially around inflation, not because they decided the Biden era was good.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
One thing anti-immigrant conservatives never contend with is the worst ideas they find most culturally destabilizing are our own
You can’t blame Drag Queen Story Hour or woke on open borders. Those are pure homegrown American Anglosphere products
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Hyper-polarization and obstruction were Republican techniques adopted in 1994 and have carried through to the modern day. Go back and look at Bush 43 + Trump I terms - littered w/examples of Dems being bipartisan. Do the same w/Clinton+Obama+Biden. Not the same thing. Do better.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
I'll admit racism is a helluva drug. I was a Detroit firefighter for 34 years. I watched a lot of guys I've worked with for decades expose themselves as racists when Obama became the president.
Yet, there are some people that I really like and possibly considered friends, change in front of me.
Recently, a DFD colleague exposed himself in a post after Abdul El-Sayed won here in Michigan.
He explained why he thought that Muslims and foreign born citizens weren't good for America and should never hold political office.
I never expected this from this guy because we were always on a good, friendly basis. I'd even call him a friend. I really respected him. Hell, he even had a black girlfriend/fiance for years.
So, this is a whole lot of disappointing for me.
I thought he was different. Then he posted this hateful post.
I'm sure he doesn't give a F*ck about me saying this or being disappointed.
We must remember that racists can only hide for so long before they reveal to you who they really are.
Some disappointments don't come easy.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Два крупнейших научных общества США потребовали защитить политзаключенного математика Азата Мифтахова, рассказавшего о пытках в колонии storage.googleapis.com/plmrp…
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Critics of horseshoe theory trying to figure out how they’ve ended up on the same side as both far left and far right pro-Russia sex pests for the millionth time.
The strongest test of a theory is its predictive power.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Absolutely insane update: it's now confirmed that the close friend of Huang was in fact an asset of a Beijing intelligence agency, the MSS.
Trump was briefed and chose to do nothing about it.
Unreal: a close friend of Nvidia's Jensen Huang was uncovered as a Chinese intelligence asset tasked with steering advanced Nvidia AI chips into the hands of Beijing.
Trump was briefed about the findings a year ago.
He chose to do nothing.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
In China today, you can’t say Mao was a dictator while Joshua Wong gets cast as a villain. It’s all upside down, I write: indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
James Talarico traces 50 years of trickle-down back to one 1971 document, the Powell memo, a corporate blueprint to buy power
“In fact, you can, you can pinpoint this one document called the Powell memo, 1971.”
“But if you read this memo, it's basically a blueprint for how corporate interests can start to dismantle the Great Society and the New Deal”
“They're going to spend massive amounts of money in our politics, buying politicians in both parties, elevate corporate voices in media, appoint sympathetic judges.”
“And that has really been the story of the last 50 years in this country, last five decades.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
This is correct substantively and rhetorically. In a catastrophically misguided attempt to avoid the perception that the law was being unequally applied, Biden and Merrick Garland didn't prosecute a rampantly criminal administration, which set the stage for a far more rampantly criminal Trump 2, which would have been avoided had the law been equally applied.
Elite impunity is the skeleton key to understanding what went wrong in this country. It touches everything. For instance, if AI executives thought they might be criminally prosecuted for what their AI does (or how they pirated its training data), AI would be a hell of a lot safer.
"I don’t want Jared Kushner to be investigated because he’s the president’s son-in-law. I want him investigated because he’s potentially laundered and embezzled $2 billion dollars in funds from the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I don’t want Stephen Miller investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who’s at the center of the Trump brain trust. I want him investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who has violated the due-process rights of millions of people and, potentially, directly violated court orders. I don’t want Pete Hegseth investigated because he’s a toxic psychopath who is unqualified to lead America’s military forces. I want him investigated because he’s a fucking murderer who needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, either in this country or The Hague." thenation.com/article/politi…
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
I find it fascinating to see how many people woke up to the realization that California has a liquid labour market and no non competes. This is one of the most amazing things that creates enormous amount of innovation over there. I'm not sure what miracle created that environment, but it's amazing. I wish more countries had the balls.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
I deadass hate shit like this.. Americans have been fucked so bad psychologically by the government and Billionaires/Corporations that they believe universal Healthcare, child care, and affordable housing isn't achievable when other countries have shown the blueprint for it
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
i think a complaint im noticing a lot from older people is "younger people aren't taking our dishonest, consequence-free, misinformation-dense, hypernormalised society very seriously"
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Oh can we do this with every Wanye, Eigenrobot, et al style silly ass quasi intellectual “marketplace of ideas/it’s just a thought experiment” thing. Excellent bit. Carry on please.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
Here's the thing about abolishing the chud's right to vote, as well, that's obviously going to annoy chuds, but it's entirely true: Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. It would be incredible including the thing itself.
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
This is just bad faith nonsense and should be dismissed as such. Bus riders in New York are overwhelmingly working class and low income. Stats are from @RidersAlliance:
ALT Who relies on transit? 70% of NYC transit riders are people of color 55% of bus riders are immigrants Bus riders’ average income is less than $30,000 per year NYC households with cars earn twice what transit-dependent households earn 40% of essential workers ride the bus Less than one third of subway stations are accessible, shutting half a million people out of the system
Ivan Medvedev retweeted
I think Dems need to start framing it not as "retaliation" but as like, anti-corruption or something. Because this administration is just unspeakably, comically, corrupt.
C-SPAN: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Democrats winning the Senate
"I do hope that the Democrats don't view this as a mandate to retaliate... I hope that the Democrats look at this and say, this is opportunity to lead to find solutions. And if we're going to find solutions, they have to be for the country. They can't just be for our party."
