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Michael M

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That's the key to understanding the sincerity. I'm probably closest to them in (ha) constitution and habit. I'm an engineer that hates watching control systems start oscillating wildly, like a rocket engine suddenly wobbling in multiple directions at once. It's this "Oh shit oh shit" sensibility.

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Michael M's avatar Michael M @bedwyr.bsky.social
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I guess that's conservative of a sort. Maybe in the same way someone telling you, Seth, that we really need a new system and how bad can the replacement be <immediate historian thousand yard stare>.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Agree entirely. These are folks who in the 80s and 90s thought "the radical left" was an illiberal threat to American democracy (they were wrong, but whatevs) and so they railed against it...now they recognize that our historical equilibrium is under massive stress and strain from the right.

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