Alan Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐

Abundance & new liberal shill, foreign policy enjoyer, American pragmatism believer.

CaptainMeap elsewhere.

"Cynicism is the death of wisdom."

[Alan Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐 @CaptainMeap]

"We will be ashamed of what we did here, one day. And at least, if that came true, it would mean things had got better. A better tomorrow, bought with a succession of compromised todays."

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

I’ve actually been thinking about this recently due to people disingenuously defending terrible modern Star Trek shows by saying Star Trek was “always woke”

I think the big difference is a) tone and b) writing ability. Star Trek was fundamentally about different groups coming together in harmony. It was a series that preached Boomer Liberalism, where one day we can all come together and put aside our differences, even with literal alien species

Modern Star Trek is still “left wing” but the writers are all Los Angeles progressives, so the tone of Modern Trek is bitter, violent, and mean spirited and diversity in Modern Trek often carries an undertone about how the majority population will always brutalize minorities. It took hopeful and optimistic diversity and changed it into a violent, nihilistic left-wing screed that really has very little in common with the philosophy of pre-2010 Star Trek

Example: In modern Star Trek the Romulan Empire was destroyed (a JJ Abrams plot twist that I hate). In traditional Star Trek the Romulan refugees would have been welcomed by the Federation and there would have been an integration of their people, despite past hostility. In Modern Star Trek, the Romulans are oppressed immigrants who are neglected by Star Fleet because the writers inexplicably turned the Federation into some kind of MAGA analogy.

It’s not surprising that kind-hearted Booker Liberalism can be enjoyed by conservatives without sparking a violent backlash, whereas everyone hates violent and bitter progressives nihilism. It is not actually the same belief system despite both nominally being left of center

As for writing ability, Star Trek was always at its worst when it was too on the nose with its messaging. Modern progressive writers are excessively on the nose with their messaging literally all the time and lecture the viewer nonstop to a much greater extent than Star Trek shows from the ‘90s did

[Hal Goetz🥥 @goetz_hal]

The skeleton key to understanding the last ten years of American politics is realizing that trump *is* moderate for a modern Republican. He tacked to middle on their worst issues: gay marriage, privatizing Social Security, privatizing Medicare, and a national abortion ban.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The greatest trick the Bernie/Warren/AOC faction has pulled off since 2024 is benefitting from rage at the people who propped up Biden when *they were the ones most determined to prop him up*

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

The College Board has overnight dumbed down its AP tests and inflated passing rate, and seemingly no one is paying attention

[Strategic Trends @StrategicTrends]

Most of the coolest job postings I've seen are on USA Jobs, it just sucks that it takes upwards of a year to hear back from any of these applications.

Oh well, the CCP persists, therefore so must I.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Trying to make the tent larger rather than smaller might be a good idea

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

What’s missing in a lot of post-Obama searches for a great communicator is that in his most famous speeches Obama actually articulated heterodox positions, he *wasn’t* just a great expositor of ideas everyone in the party agreed with.

https://t.co/ImkxWD59ue

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

Something I really like about America is how uncomfortable we are about servants. People who do services do not *serve you*. They *do tasks*. They are a professional, working independently, and below nobody. This is not common around the world, and is to America’s credit.

[Rightwingism Appalachia @Rw_Appalachia]

The 2028 Democratic Primary: “Kamala is a girl boss but Gavin Newsom is just soooo hot”

The 2028 Republican Primary:

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I continue to not understand the leftist plan to win power by persuading moderate Democrats to become Republicans. How does that work?

[Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider]

In the darkest hours of my open source days (~2016 battle for Aleppo) I raised my and the team's spirits by maintaining a "Twinks of Hezbollah" folder with all the strangest metrosexual Iraqi militiamen we would come across

[Cal 🏆 @SpIinterCaI]

No way this is permanent cause no company nowadays has the balls to have a logo that looks interesting,

[MakroArt @makro_art]

Look I don't like bethesda much lately either but this is the first cool logo any company has made since 2008

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Progressives have pretty good timing to have these primary wins in what's likely to be a D +7 cycle. Like you can underperform by 5 points or whatever and still win a lot of places. And most people just look at the Ws and Ls, not the margins.

[Josh Kalla @j_kalla]

I am not an AAUP member, but I think it is a really bad idea for the American Association of University Professors to be endorsing candidates, especially in a factional Democratic primary.

[The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213]

Even though Jackson is very progressive, I am fine with him as the nominee because he

1. Has proved he can win in red seats - he won a very red State Senate seat in 2022! After he left office, the next Democrat lost by 30 points

2. He primarily campaigns against Republicans

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Dems are gonna take the House and gain senate seats but it’s notable how badly Democrats are underperforming the “get people who don’t like Trump to vote for the other party” line right now.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

Haley Stevens talks about policy all the time. And, in fact, she's famously one of the most effective younger legislators in Congress. You simply haven't encoded her policy stances in memory because she is a woman. There is research on this effect.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

1. This sucks and Democrats desperately need to enact a national gerrymandering ban and open the door to DC/PR/USVI statehood

2. Can’t do any of that until you win first on a badly slanted field which requires significant policy moderation

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

One thing to remember is that people liked the boring liberals Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and they have not particularly liked any of our other presidents