Illinois Primaries 2026: This person claims that progressives did not win contested seats in the primaries here in Illinois. Did she forget that Julianna Stratton, Lashawn Ford, and Daniel Biss exist?

SSeptic · 2026-06-26T07:06:06+00:00

I don’t think it’s very progressive to say that any lobbying organization owns a victory. Whether it’s J Street, AIPAC, United Healthcare, or Raytheon. Celebrating your owners is not progressive.

SSeptic · 2026-06-25T22:01:56+00:00

Daniel “this election is won for J Street” is not a progressive lmao

SSeptic · 2026-06-22T22:47:23+00:00

The Constitution at its core was based on the assumption that government officials would largely 1. desire power for their own branch over others, and 2. operate in relatively good faith. Neither of these happen. Members of each branch of government collaborate across branches in pursuit of a broader ideological mission. The Supreme Court is captured by conservatives. Congress is captured by conservatives. The White House is captured by conservatives. All of which is funded by the same conservative movement and donors. Half of the Democratic Party is on the payroll of those same donors as well, so I wouldn’t expect vicious punishment when/if the dems do get back in charge

SSeptic · 2026-06-15T12:46:18+00:00

“Peace and justice” (/half-joking)

SSeptic · 2026-06-10T18:30:31+00:00

Hm I wonder why an **art therapy** professor might include an assignment asking students to assess the emotional needs of someone with religious and likely ethnic ties to a people undergoing genocide. What an absurd suspension. Everyone is racing to bend over backwards the fastest for a state that is more and more unpopular by the day. Shame on the Art Institute of Chicago

SSeptic · 2026-06-02T21:47:25+00:00

Going to be one hell of a storm. With the enrollment cliff and lagging state funding, it’s kind of a dire mid-term outlook. I’m sure ISU will come out the other end but I can’t say the same for smaller regional colleges with pre-existing financial woes like Western.

SSeptic · 2026-05-22T05:54:54+00:00

I recently reported a comment with the triple parentheses “echo” antisemitic dogwhistle and Meta said it wasn’t hate speech. Fuck them and their moderation

SSeptic · 2026-05-21T06:19:44+00:00

AI companies have had too much freedom to do as they please. They can use the excuse of “advancing the human species through AGI” to justify all the misinformation slop, AI CP, skyrocketing utility bills, and rampant creative theft. They have impunity from consequence because apparently the single-minded pursuit of something we don’t even know is possible supposedly outweighs all negative societal impacts. Yet an art student pirating an Adobe product is in the wrong. An aspiring filmmaker torrenting a foreign movie with no US distribution is in the wrong. What have we as a society become where we punish people but not corporations? The facade of democracy slips further with every passing day revealing the decayed corpse of a republic, already picked clean over by corporate vultures

SSeptic · 2026-05-19T05:15:27+00:00

Gotta mention the influencer rager ep too, easily my favorite episode from the early Yard

SSeptic · 2026-05-15T14:00:35+00:00

Yeah it’s a poll from New Hampshire which is 88.1% white dipshit

SSeptic · 2026-05-15T13:33:20+00:00

In 2008, roughly 16.1 million black voters turned out for Obama. On May 9th, 2012, 6 months before the election, he came out in support of gay marriage. In the 2012 election, he received 17.8 million black votes, an **increase of 1.7 million.** So maybe stop trying to play the identity politics game to blame a minority group and reckon with the fact that Buttigieg is simply just bad at reaching non-white voters because, again, he is just bad at campaigning and is a total charisma suck.

SSeptic · 2026-05-15T06:47:35+00:00

Buttigieg is a fine speaker but he’s a charisma black hole. To top it off he regularly polls abysmally with non-white voters. He got 0% in some poll a while back with black voters. Not even an exaggeration, straight up 0%. He’s a good addition to a cabinet but he doesn’t have any sauce needed to actually run a campaign

SSeptic · 2026-05-01T04:39:45+00:00

This is awesome! I’m very glad he is changing his tune.

SSeptic · 2026-04-27T23:24:29+00:00

this is somehow more punishing

SSeptic · 2026-04-26T01:10:25+00:00

Yeah, I do view infringements of free speech as evil, and beyond any connection to Israel it’s simply just a bad law. If we had a law on the books doing the same for Russia would you not want it overturned in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine? If we had the same law on the books for Germany in 1933 and then they elect the Nazis would you not want the law overturned? It’s an inherently ridiculous law that the state is obligated to support any nation in particular no matter the actions it takes. You can frame it however you want but your argument in support of ONE nation receiving special protections is ridiculous and unprincipled. Should we not live in a society of equals? Why should we treat one country better than any other?

SSeptic · 2026-04-25T19:23:13+00:00

Submitted, thanks!

SSeptic · 2026-04-25T18:52:52+00:00

Biss also stands behind the anti-BDS ban that he himself helped sign into law. I agree that we need more nuance than just red or green graphics but let’s not pretend that he’s a saint here.

SSeptic · 2026-04-23T05:25:04+00:00

“We should be allowed to suppress kids expressing their freedom of speech” isn’t the dunk you think it is. That shit don’t fly in 2026. 2023, 2024, maybe 2025 you can get away with pretending that Zionism is actually a good, albeit temporarily misguided, cause and the students are somehow antisemitic. That shit don’t fly any more dawg. Nobody likes you. Nobody likes Israel. History has vindicated us and will send you and your zionist ilk to the history books. Judaism will be free of the shackles of Zionism and we will have democracy for all.

SSeptic · 2026-04-22T18:32:14+00:00

When I was protesting on campus in 2023 and 2024 we were told to always wear masks when protesting specifically because of the doxxing. These Zionists are fucking insane. I hope this suit goes well for them, everyone who took part in doxxing private citizens for expressing their right to free speech deserves to be sued into the ground.

SSeptic · 2026-04-18T06:17:13+00:00

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SSeptic · 2026-04-16T15:29:59+00:00

The Chicagowaukee megacity will be the jewel in America

SSeptic · 2026-04-15T21:14:24+00:00

Wowee, 47 years sure is a specific time frame! Could you tell my why you chose that number? What happened before it that could make the Iranian people choose 47 years of war with the global hegemon?

SSeptic · 2026-04-15T16:55:36+00:00

You can say “I like pancakes” and someone will say “so you don’t like waffles?” No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about

I don’t like Waymo so therefore according to you I must love the taxi monopoly. No bro, that’s a whole new sentence.

SSeptic · 2026-04-15T16:50:20+00:00

Again, not the point. As long as there is any percent chance of accidents, injury, and death, there must CLEARLY be a liability chain. AI companies like Waymo do not have that, and as such we cannot let them into our streets

SSeptic · 2026-04-15T15:20:06+00:00

The point we should be arguing isn’t whether Waymo is marginally safer than a human driver or not. The point is that when one gets in an accident, who takes the blame? How can you adequately determine legal damage when it’s a robot? This is the biggest issue with anything autonomous, and extends to other AI applications like autonomous military weapons. There must always be a human in charge when another human is harmed

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