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Ned Flanders Fields@duidefensela.bsky.social |
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Just a lawyer fighting against the state in the criminal legal system on behalf of those accused of crimes.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Tell the Republicans to stop. We can't do that. That's discipline. That's like telling Gene Krupa not to go boom boom bam bam bam boom boom bam bam bam boom boom boom ba ba ba.
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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The sitting democratic government 👇🏾
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natty leaux
@evangaylion.bsky.social
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this is a post about voting for Joe Biden
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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My amicus brief argued to bring back Dwarves as a class
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Biden is an institutionalist. More than anything else he believes in the institutions of governmnent and the decorum that attaches.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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That's close.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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But I lower the threshhold for both candidates. I lower the total number of potential votes for both.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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I don't mean to come across as angry. I am, but not at you and not at good faith actors. I honestly want to know why people believe that mathematically not voting for biden equals a vote for trump.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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That ignores the democrats complicity. Chaotic Neutral by Ed Burmila makes a pretty good case that Clinton got right wing policies enacted that Raygun never could have.
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Ned Flanders Fields
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I do. Neither of the major party candidates has shown that they will advance those principles. And I have a more concrete issue than abstract principles. I have two draft age boys. I see both candidates hurtling the US to a war. I see both candidates making my kids life worse. Can't vote for that.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Not completely random. I'd say my vote is completely independent every separate election. No candidate is entitled to my vote. Who I voted for last election doesn't carry over from election to election. I think assuming this allows the Democrats to ignore the left and veer right to pursue votes.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Mr Rogers, I appreciate your efforts to explain this to me. Thank you for your time. I'm sorry. I still don't get it.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Its either +1 to a candidate or not +1 to a candidate. Not +1 doesn't = -1 to that candidate. Or a +1 to the other candidate.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Again that assumes to start 10 people owe a vote to A and 10 owe a vote to B. 0 owe a vote to any candidate. There are 20 potential votes for each camdidate. If I withhold mine, there are now 19 potential votes for each candidate.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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No one is changing their vote. That asumes each person owes a candidate their vote.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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If I was only absenting my vote from one. I am absenting my vote from both. I am decreasing the pool both can draw votes from by 1. The relative difference to get past the post is still 1. Neither had my vote to begin with.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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The winner now needs one less vote to carry him past the post too.
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Ned Flanders Fields
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If I withhold my vote aren't I just reducing the number of possible votes to both candidates. In your scenario of 20 people voting, if one withholds his vote, then there are only 19 potential votes available to both candidates.
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Ned Flanders Fields
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Biden starts from 0 votes. Trump starts from 0 votes. Each person who votes for one of those adds a vote. It doesn't carry over from the previous election. There's no normally. I don't owe my vote to a particular party's candidate ever. And he has no right to count on my vote.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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I'm not trying to be obtuse, but can you show me the math on how not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump?
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
@kennedytcooper.bsky.social
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The god of possibility has died
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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Israel has killed unprecedented numbers of UN staff and aid workers in Gaza and now wants to blame them for not distributing aid.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Starmers right in the sense that the government steals peoples dignity in the process of accessing aid. In the words of The Clash, You have the right to food money Providing of course you Don't mind a little Investigation, humiliation And if you cross your fingers Rehabilitation. Know Your Rights
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Bo Thompson
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I have been homeless. In the sweltering days and frigid nights, with a stomach that did not growl but howled, there was never a time I was offered food, water, or shelter and said "No thanks, it doesn't satisfy unless I earn it." People do not keep score with necessities. Survival is not a game.
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Low Quality Facts
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Wow, that's crazy.
patreon.com/lowqualityfa...
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Neither Miller or ORourke were funny after they became conservatives.
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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The angles are positively Lovecraftian.
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SANTA CLAUS
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THIS: They didn't call the trillion-dollar Wall St. Bailouts 'Socialism'. They don't call nearly one-trillion in oil & gas subsidies 'Socialism'. They don't call the billions in farmer bailouts 'Socialism'. But, health care, wages, food for poor people? 'SOCIALISM!' ~Justin Kanew
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Either "easy does it, number two." "Slow and steady Mr. Sulu." Or "PUNCH IT, MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!"
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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Need to keep pulling this thread
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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys
@shaneivey.bsky.social
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That is not dead
Which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons
Even death may die
But not the Delta Green Humble Bundle, apparently
It festers on for another week
Supposed to end today
But no
I may need to work on my rhyming
Pay what thou wilt
www.humblebundle.com/books/delta-...
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Spacenerd19
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Transphobia out there destroying lives. Fuck everyone involved. Every voter, every politician, and an especially big fuck you to the “anonymous tipster” who outed the poor girl. www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...
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Ned Flanders Fields
@duidefensela.bsky.social
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Love Greyhawk. Been playing there, through different editions, for 40 years.
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Citizen.Coping
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Oklahoma introduced a bill to ban no-fault divorce. The Texas GOP added similar to its 2022/24 platform. U.S. House Speaker and others have spoken out against divorce. "If this sounds outlandish, it’s worth looking at how rhetorical attacks on abortion, birth control, and IVF have become reality."
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Radley Balko
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The takeaway from this piece is that (a) Trump is drawing people to white evangelical Christianity, even as most religions lose adherents, but (b) for most of the newly converted, Donald Trump is more central to their faith than Jesus Christ.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Elana Levin
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Straight people do not know about PrEP. Their doctors do not tell them. The ads are so targeted to LGBTQ people they don’t even notice them.
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Anna Merlan
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I wrote a new one for WIRED about what the hell is going on with infowars and the new business Alex jones is shilling on air: www.wired.com/story/alex-j...
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Pixel Pushers Union 512
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Faine Greenwood
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French protesters are threatening to shit in the Seine before the Olympics, which is among the most French threats I've ever heard
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Seth Skorkowsky
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There's probably a clever message I could make how Gamers wishing to expand their knowledge need to break outside of only the Fantasy Genre, but honestly, I was simply having fun altering some images to put off doing the laundry I should to be doing.
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Ethnolectures
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Actually some things happened like a journalist died because her car was filled with bombs
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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We got some stuff going on today at Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Nobody's going to mistake me for Kate Wagner, now or ever, but after 20 years of wanting to I wrote a thing about architecture and our present day "utopia" where wealth determines whether your basic need for shelter is met. www.patreon.com/posts/what-k...
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Ed Burmila
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A long time ago I wrote a thing about how the speech that absolutely destroyed Charles Lindbergh, who up to that time was treated as a demigod, would scarcely register now. You read 10 worse and more vituperative expressions of the same ideas every day now. thebaffler.com/latest/back-...
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Happy 80th anniversary of when Americans, Canadians, and Britons charged the beaches at Normandy to have dialogue with the Nazis
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Best of Hasbara
@bestofhasbara.bsky.social
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Islamophobe who doesn’t know that Jesus is a prophet in Islam spray paints “Allahu Akbar … Fuck Jesus” on a church and people fall for it
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Best of Hasbara
@bestofhasbara.bsky.social
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You’ll never guess who bombed a “safe area” again
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Chris Geidner
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Finally, Judge Kyle Duncan quoted @stephenking.bsky.social to close his dissent, and Judge Jacques Wiener was *pissed* on King's behalf. First image is from Duncan and second is Wiener's response, from the majority opinion.
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SANTA CLAUS
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MEDICARE ADVANTAGE IS BAD Public Citizen notes it's "one of the ripest sources for profit for insurers," the privately run plans "delay & deny necessary care to seniors," "limit access to care," and overbill the federal government by making patients appear sicker than they are. MEDICARE FOR ALL NOW!
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Kashana
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I wrote a heist novel about a Black woman who, after falling behind on her student loan payments, gets harassed so bad by debt police that she joins up with two friends to try and take out her student loan company. Summer 2025!
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