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Don't follow me I'm lost

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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in case you weren’t aware of what happened the last time the Democrats dropped their candidate in July

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto...

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Theists see the end of the world as a good thing. This is their end goal the return of the messiah.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about The last time I ever thought about shitter.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Mastodon is read only for me.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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If you had an idea they wouldn't do it anyway.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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My mom had concerns 🫤

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Ron Hogan's avatar Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social
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“We need a strong institution that sits outside of electoral politics, that is not at the mercy of right wing courts, that has its own inherent form of power that can be exercised on behalf of the public good, that will naturally work towards progressive goals.… [T]hat is the labor movement.”

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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I registered as an independent after that stupid bs.

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rahaeli 's avatar rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
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The last week of news in the US has been full of examples of the fifty-year organized fascist campaign to use tiny amounts of power in order to achieve their fascist goals paying off in fucking horrifying outcomes while everyone else sat around with their thumbs up their asses.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Community organizers, voter registration drives.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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If only there was some kinda way to organize people. ya know kinda like a union or something. Maybe that’s why the other side is trying to crush unions.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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They want drama, they want ratings, engagement and panic.

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Andrew Otis Weiss's avatar Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social
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whichever reporter tried to frame daily naps as a bad thing need to be cancelled and shamed so ferociously that they quit the biz, change their name, and become a goat herder in the Balkans we must be united and merciless in this

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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I don't own anything but an old car and have no money so I tell them to fuck off. YMMV

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Vote for Biden get Kamala Harris as backup for free.

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skelly 's avatar skelly @iid.bsky.social
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I know this is a boring point to make but it fucking kills me that one side is saying "we'll bring back 12 hour days, child labor, and Jim Crow" and the other side is saying "you can continue to grill on Sundays with your neighbors, who might look different to you" and it's a 50/50 split

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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All this shit get handwaved away and meanwhile these politics of expediency allows the right to walk right to the edge of their ideal world. It’s just incredibly myopic.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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for these people the mere presence of any nonwhite person, and especially any black person, in a desired and prestigious position is on its face evidence of anti-white discrimination and unfair preferences.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.

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Linda Holmes's avatar Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social
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Well, I also think people really like that idea of meritocracy when it means history suggests people like them have more merit than everybody else. Overrepresentation in elite spaces becomes evidence of superiority. It’s hard to convince them to give that up.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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If I was World Emperor and wanted to put more limits on free speech, “people who push anti vax filth” would be public enemy number one.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I just realized that I haven’t had to think about Ted Cruz in ages, which is I guess a small mercy in a dark time

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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The Democratic Party Battle Flag.

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Nicole Sullivan's avatar Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social
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Dems haven’t built a bench of younger politicians and treat the newcomers like rabble rousers. They should be welcoming AOC and crew as the lifeblood they are, but instead the run octogenarians and stifle opportunities for every other generation

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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And red states like Texas are wonderful places! Why should we surrender them to the other side?

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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We elected Ann Richards for governor and the backlash is still ongoing.

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Mekka Okereke's avatar Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com
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There's no country on earth with a bigger differential in voting access by race. The most impacted group is Black voters. Etc For Black folk, the US has always been authoritarian by any reasonable definition. Even now, more US folk are mad about me spitting these facts, than the facts themselves.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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to reiterate, I absolutely don’t blame anyone for feeling helpless and depressed right now - it’s an utterly rational way to feel - but I am saying that it’s gonna be important for us to do what we can to help motivate others to maintain hope in this moment

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Ross Douchehat, shut the hell up. As always.

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Democrats don't do passion or energy.

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Sean's avatar Sean @publichealth.bsky.social
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republicans have always attacked AOC relentlessly because they recognize how dangerous she is to them and their party. she gets how power works, as well as the value of coalition building. she's great

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Bob Booten's avatar Bob Booten @bobooten.bsky.social
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Money is the only speech that counts.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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David Brooks might just as well be socialism, he is so publicly owned.

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