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Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social |
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policy enthusiast and minor internet troll. bête noire of trolleybuses
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Stephen Judkins
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Yeah it's not like some ancient thing! I have a friend who's a mid-millennial like me and fled Bosnia as an elementary school kid and has clear memories of fleeing here and having to learn English! She could have died there!
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Stephen Judkins
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we don't need this
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Stephen Judkins
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I think there are a lot of ways to interpret it, but I have to imagine the parakeets have something to do with the government during the war going on in the real world?
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Stephen Judkins
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really great film!
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Stephen Judkins
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✊
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Stephen Judkins
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No. Fuck you. Not going to happen without a fight
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Stephen Judkins
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There are people who have been kind of inherently charming to people for their entire lives and never learn the skill to identify which things they need to shut the fuck up about. Other, more awkward people have honed this skill
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Stephen Judkins
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Just amazing how Tesla launched the Model Y in 2020 to critical acclaim and mass market success, and instead of iterating on that, Elon pivoted to doing this, making pretend robots, and posting to alienate his most receptive potential customers. Wild
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Stephen Judkins
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I followed up with "is he on drugs" and he said something like "oh yeah, he's fried out of his mind all the time"
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Stephen Judkins
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Swear to god this wasn't a hipster coffee shop moment
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Stephen Judkins
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Ran into an old acquaintance who worked as an engineer Tesla for several years and recently quit to work for another electric propulsion startup. I gingerly asked him why, and he said "Elon is destroying everything good we've built, all the people I liked working with have quit"
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Stephen Judkins
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protects but not binds, etc
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Stephen Judkins
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I don't know about "should have", I think in a hypothetical world where their military wasn't a giant mess behind the scenes it could have worked but they had to learn that lesson in the early days of the war
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Stephen Judkins
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It's so grim that this is all happening for nothing at all. Putin didn't need to do any of this, and he's not even getting what he wanted out of it
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Stephen Judkins
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that's an extremely 1985 vibe
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Matti
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This is one of the things that keeps me going: the whole right-wing project is so close to falling apart, if we can just win.
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Stephen Judkins
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well, actually, this is kind of more a statement than a question, but...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Stephen Judkins
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who the fuck are these people
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Stephen Judkins
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you're thinking too hard about this
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Stephen Judkins
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i'm not taking anything away from this except you're a weirdo who hates this guy for reasons you haven't bothered explaining
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Popehat
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Stephen Judkins
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this is wild behavior
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Stephen Judkins
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My dude I just searched `site:joebiden.com climate` and there are dozens of results?!? Is your complaint seriously about his campaign website? Or are you genuinely ignorant of the legislation he's passed? Online is wild
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Stephen Judkins
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amazing
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Stephen Judkins
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Norms are great, norms are amazing, norms are what stop us from cracking open each other's skulls and feasting on the goo inside. But, sadly, if you're fighting in defense of norms versus someone who's trying to tear them down, you're inherently fighting with one hand tied behind your back
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Stephen Judkins
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great heuristic
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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that the whole project is at serious and maybe fatal risk if trump is imprisoned or loses in the fall and that conservatives on the court have a duty to try to prevent that any way they can, through the most motivated reasoning they can conjure.
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Stephen Judkins
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A better future is *so close* within our grasp. We need to take it
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
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Stephen Judkins
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I think it's a difficult political problem, it's important we build political support for court reform, I am frustrated at many (but not all!) parts of Democratic establishment for not sharing this sense of urgency. But winning as many elections as possible is the most important part of all this
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Stephen Judkins
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Yes. RBG not retiring was fucking stupid and she deserves scorn for it. You can go and scour my twitter timeline and find me saying that at the time. All of these things can simultaneously be true. And I genuinely am trying to take your argument seriously here.
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Stephen Judkins
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Yes. Sure, fine, she fucking sucked ass. She could have had a more inspiring VP candidate, could have had much better geographic strategy, not done her dumb email shit, not be surrounded by dumb incompetent hangers-on, yes, yes. You win, Clinton sucks, more people still should have voted for her
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Stephen Judkins
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Trying to take this claim seriously and not dunk on this person, but: the 2016 election had very close margins thus was overdetermined. There are a dozen different things that could have gone differently that would have changed the result, we can actually all be correct here when assigning blame
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Stephen Judkins
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Yeah turns out we did but also SCOTUS appointments are for life
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Stephen Judkins
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Note that I did not make that claim, but don't let that stop you from the dunks
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Stephen Judkins
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This take is baffling. People were loudly saying this in 2016, large chunks of lefty dissenters maintained it was just a scare tactic, and then the lesser evil lost and the greater evil won and this is the direct result of that. The squishy liberal mind was proven emphatically correct
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Stephen Judkins
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My dude, you need majorities in both houses of congress. What are you even on about here? It's not like an executive action
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Stephen Judkins
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I wonder how one of those sword hellfire missiles would handle the roof of a luxury RV
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Stephen Judkins
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Lots of people really proving my point here
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Stephen Judkins
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Joe Brandon, please drone strike the SCOTUS building before they go home
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Stephen Judkins
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amazing how Republicans came up with a strategy where they figured dumb, low-information leftists would incorrectly assign blame and you ate it him hook, line, and sinker
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Stephen Judkins
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They just lost one in NY's congressional delegation and they're working double time to kick out their most successful member, they are definitely not doing alright
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Stephen Judkins
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The ones with promise, like the DSA, have decided to self-immolate
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Stephen Judkins
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Yeah they don't exist and there doesn't seem to much urgency in building any
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Stephen Judkins
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Virtually no one I am talking about has any idea who Klain or Zients is or even noticed a change
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Stephen Judkins
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Step 1
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Stephen Judkins
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Policy is good and it's what actual improves people's lives and online dorks making fun of it are telling on themselves
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