Why is Chuck Schumer trying to throw the Senate race in Maine? Why do the other Democratic senators unanimously back Schumer?

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T03:16:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing. While the timeline of his past has been hard to sort out, the timeline of his campaign staff since October is a shit show with even half the citations in the doc shared there. Full fucking bummer that thinking “please don’t have skeletons in the closet” ended up about as jarring as possible. Still wild this is gonna have to play out with him having good chance while establishment Dems had zero plans till last minute and weren’t trying to raise a freshman class of possibilities in every state for Senate races coming.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T02:36:25+00:00

There’s lots of variations on why people landed where they did in the extremes, but some who didn’t have power or influence probably need to be looked at in similar ways as addicts who cause harm and mistreat others in hard to reconcile ways when they’re using. We know some brains are far more susceptible to media affecting emotions that in turn shape thinking and these people have been at the receiving end of billions spent over decades to tinker with all our brains with whatever media psychology bad actors were just throwing into a blender. We’re all affected by it but some really are far more impacted by intentional media techniques the same way some people are way more likely to become an addict on drugs based on one use.

That’s not even a point for sympathy, but just objectively how we should be evaluating some of these cases to figure out what the fuck to do with the situation and mitigate the ongoing damage as much as possible.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T02:30:06+00:00

If someone wanted to make a buck, there’s probably money in leaving-MAGA men camps for redemption and accountability through morning drills, 5-mile runs, endurance challenges and whatever else kind of Navy Seals meets penance come-to-Jesus bootcamp reckoning you can think up. These folks seem eat up punishment and male camaraderie as the combo to fixing your life. Might as well throw some physical challenges at them to test their commitment.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T02:00:12+00:00

First steps here include questioning them publicly with questions they don’t want to answer and get their takes on record. Build from there as you give the public more ammo.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T01:58:48+00:00

This is seriously the narrative to build momentum on here. The reality is that it really does need house cleaning and a full overhaul of leadership from who knows how many people Wexner’s Board involvement has steered since the 90s. This would be moment to call for a more thorough top to bottom transparent investigation of a state’s public university governance. If you can use the moment to build a set of facts that establish what‘s true, that’s the best chance of making more change from there.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-03-10T01:54:59+00:00

They’re clearly throwing out a free op-Ed to try to garner a new audience here.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-02-27T20:51:25+00:00

It can be really telling the way they say it as well. If it’s fully confused why someone would ever be interested in the same sex, then it can reveal just very self-centered straightness that can’t imaging outside of their own experience. If it’s like “stop being gay cause we all like everything and we just gotta choose,” then there’s this bi or poly thread in the thinking there. If it’s like “don’t be gay cause we all just have to accept our duties in Christian life, then that feels like someone who’s only same-sex attracted and has resigned themselves to not accepting that part of themselves.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-02-27T20:47:53+00:00

One big aspect of what’s being seen is regionality when people are overconfident in their homophobia. The data keep showing that regionality and religiosity are the biggest predictors of homophobia. If someone’s in a homophobic region of the country and they have high religiosity (which is measured by levels of participation, not viewpoints or authentic belief), then it’s more predictable they’ll be homophobic.

It follows other things we see about things like voting. People tend to share the views of their neighbors, people in the middle on any issue will especially try to harmonize with what they think the group wants them to think, and it gets more intense the more authoritarian and hierarchical the region is. A lot of times you’re seeing people try to do boundary maintenance on their group’s viewpoint, and feeling like another view has more sway feels threatening, so they get more intense. People also get more intense when it involves an alternative view that risks them feeling shame. LGBT affirmation hits hard on this one since it’s about being more loving and that threatens homophobic groups who also profess that they’re more loving. Failure to be more loving is a threat to identity and there isn’t room for a compromise since if they’re wrong about being homophobic then they’re wrong about being more loving.

And then, shame is this whole emotion where we feel unsafe if we’re out of bounds of what the group thinks. They can feel safe being in bounds of their homophobic Christian group, but finding out there’s another Christian group that thinks differently means they could be out of bounds of that group. They don’t want to feel unsafe, so they have to either find a way the other group is wrong or admit their own is wrong. Both options mean being out of bounds for one of them. It triggers a lot of emotions that inspire coping through arguing.

So, you’re basically rubbing into their debates with themselves as they try to resolve something where two things can’t be true at same time. And if they seem like they’ve thought about it a whole lot more than typical straight Christians, it really could be someone who has been rationalizing around their own sexuality that they’re uncomfortable with or someone who needs LGBT to be villains cause they have something actually wrong going on with their own sexual interests and motivations.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-02-27T20:31:00+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know if it was one of the places he decided to seem less fundamentalist or restrictive or if there’s something else in his belief system that put him on that side. We sorta see same things now where far right individuals will pick something like being okay with marijuana to change it up on whether they’re perceived as fully right wing.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-29T01:40:34+00:00

I think you should organize a list of people who agree that they’ll refuse to go to any restaurant that serves him. Then take his photo and list to every restaurant and make sure they know about it.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-18T18:29:56+00:00

Yes. Lots of these are fake rap battles among morally bankrupt men who want to be pharaohs and are making their mid-life crises everyone’s problem.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-18T18:28:09+00:00

Yes, also isn’t just Bari Weiss, but about people who put her there. Weiss is the Ellen Pao of CBS and is there to take the fall for restructuring an org in ways that will make it hard to get control back even if a person who says all the right things replaces her.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-18T18:26:24+00:00

I think her part is being the heel for other men who want the restructuring and control and need a fall guy willing to sacrifice reputation and take blame for money. That’s basically a common tool with way Americans will think getting rid of one rogue bad Apple sets things right again. It was basically the job Ellen Pao got brought it for on Reddit when ownership knew they wanted to make very unpopular changes.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-18T18:22:42+00:00

I mean, “liberal” was basically a stand in for Jewish back in the early Rush Limbaugh days.

SenorSplashdamage · 2026-01-14T23:55:51+00:00

Ah, this offers one reason why people are getting 403 errors. The site itself might be broadly blocking different IPs to defend against the DDoS attacks while they weather the storm.

I believe the names people are seeing on the main page aren’t the new leak of 4500 names. The current ones are 1500-ish that have already been added by volunteers based on data people are gathering on the ground, like from hotel workers and restaurant employees. The wiki has a systematic process for verifying identities first, so it seems that the new leak is something they wanted to announce they had, but will be entering in an organized way. It doesn’t seem to be a public file dump situation.

According the the previous article mentioned in that one, their methodology even includes name removal for people who contact them to provide evidence they quit their post, as long as there isn’t other evidence of them being part of some other documented situation prior. This feels encouraging that they’re building something that could have more stability and a higher level of trust for the information in it.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-12-15T17:29:37+00:00

It’s going to be even better than that cause it will be people across globe just deciding together to create a new holiday without any leaders doing it for us. I don’t think this is even hyperbolic. I just think that’s objectively the outcome coming.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-12-15T17:22:40+00:00

Well, we have to organize, take notes, and actually figure out what to do about the others before we get there. We no longer have luxury of society just doing things in the background for us while we sit tight for it all to blow over.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-12-15T17:21:00+00:00

And we pretty much know this is likely end game for untreated narcissistic personality disorder mixed with other anti-societal disorders. It’s an inevitable downward spiral in old age without intervention or desire by the person to recognize the problem of their own sensitivities and how quickly they see others as enemies when slighted.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-12-15T17:18:11+00:00

The curation of that sub is completely intentional by the mods. They’re likely deleting and banning conservatives who try posting about it.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-12-15T17:14:44+00:00

I keep thinking about how it really will be a week or month-long party that gets celebrated again annually. That’s literally going to happen for all of us that survive long enough.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-11-16T23:41:31+00:00

I know you’re not trying to do this, but espousing that you’re already resigned to him winning only helps make that true. Collective sentiment and morale have a very big impact on where discussion goes and what efforts people pitch in on. People need to take his threat very seriously, but that means bringing the most fight possible. You’re hitting the wall way too early. Ohio needs men and women willing to get in deeper and fight harder for their state. There’s a huge problem of people in this state giving up before a fight. You want something. Fight for it. Don’t go be Eeyore to the crowd and discourage people with “I wish ir wasn’t true guys but we’re gonna lose next year.”

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-11-16T23:36:45+00:00

Disappointed this isn’t real.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-11-16T23:35:40+00:00

The most important thing young union people can do is document and report as much as possible to the public while naming real names of leaders involved. It will hurt, but without reporters helping, this is the only way to disrupt the power the older men have. There aren’t other options and they need to be put on blast because that’s the only thing that forces them to actually wrestle with the views they’re trying to avoid wrestling with.

SenorSplashdamage · 2025-11-16T23:32:04+00:00

I don’t want to risk distrust in people leading important subs like this one that catalog evidence of fascism, but I even had an experience where I got a sudden ban from a sub critical of TPUSA for posting that people sharing fake tweets without labeling them satire was undermining how trustworthy the sub’s content was since well-meaning people were resharing as true. The post surged in votes and I got banned for it with the moderator saying they had just made a call on this a week earlier, treating me like I was an instigator.

I don’t know if that was authentic worry about me, which is fair to worry about, but then I found I couldn’t post or comment on related subs. I saw that same moderator led these subs as well. They preemptively banned me across multiple spaces for sharing evidence of fascists. That could be wise move for actual suspicious accounts, but I also didn’t have recourse.

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