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Kaelik
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I was talking about Dave weigel's posts that Michael quote tweeted.
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he/him. Communist.
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Kaelik
@kaelik.bsky.social
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I was talking about Dave weigel's posts that Michael quote tweeted.
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Prisonculture
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Kaelik
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It's not hypothetical that he posted whining about how he doesn't want anyone advocating for court packing. It's just a realness he made.
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Peter
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i think it’s just a reminder of how insufficient he is. if you’re on the fence and asking yourself “is this a guy I’m going to go to bat for right now?” and see this shit, it might just break your resolve
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Michael
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regardless of what happens with the nomination, i will say this generation of dems--biden, pelosi, shumer, durbin, clyburn--have kindled a deep-seated hatred in me for them and their leadership, which is quite a feat given that i'm a lifelong dem who's voted, volunteered, and donated for 24 years
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Peter
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the implied premise here is that the decline in Biden’s polling numbers is being driven by the media coverage rather than the debate itself. but several awful polls came in the days immediately following the debate. the debate itself was the problem
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Peter
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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.
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Sean
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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
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Tough part for his campaign is that the reason he can do the job (unelected bureaucrats can do all the real work so it’s fine if the president is a vegetable) isn’t something they can say out loud
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Kaelik
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I'm not bending over backwards. All I did was say his take sucked and then you started pretending he did a different take then he did.
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Prisonculture
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I find it interesting that people who correctly point out 45 is a pathological liar are pretending that they don't notice Biden's cognitive decline. If you're honest, you can say 'yes it's clear that he is in cognitive decline, HE'S 81 and I still think that he needs to be the nominee for x reasons'
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they/them might be giants ☭
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Scratching my head trying to understand the desire to take a sensible, moderate position between human emancipation from exploitation and the extinction of the species and the deaths of everyone you love as civilization sputters and dies over several bitter decades of ruin.
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Kaelik
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I promise that if elected I will take the side against the united states. I'll wage a war to defeat the United States global empire, thus doing what bin laden could never do.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Kaelik
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I mean I was absolutely never going to use the word "Sir" to describe anyone even once. But I reserve to call him whatever the fuck I want.
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Jacob Bacharach
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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Things Biden could do that would take attention away from the debate and his age: (1) Call for expanding the Supreme Court (2) Announce that he's ending or strictly conditioning military aid to Israel until the war in Gaza ends
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JW Mason
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This is remarkable - Labour actually got substantially more votes (both absolutely and as a share if votes cast) under Corbyn in 2017 than it did yesterday.
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Alex P. 👹
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imo "representative democracy" is best understood as a system that allows elites to vie for power bloodslessly often it's in little people's best interests to maintain that since the nearest alternative is us dying in pointless dynastic wars but when the right-wing party just wants mass death…
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Alex P. 👹
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a thing these conserva-monarchist freaks do kinda get right is that the "sovereign" — whether a person or the state as a whole — is basically just a designated monster the "monopoly on violence" is just a brutality machine that we pretend is saving us from some kind of nebulous *other* violence
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I can do it with a broken horse
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they've *lost* half a million votes since 2019!
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Alex P. 👹
@saddestrobots.bsky.social
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this is bad for the tories but also all the damage they did is absolutely gonna stick, and that in turn will also eventually sink starmer's labour it's just impossible for centrist manager types to fix a country faster than right-wing manager types can loot it
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Kaelik
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They could just not try to pass a law and rule for 7 years. But I bet they get a failed vote triggering an election when they try to pass a law making it illegal to be trans.
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Kaelik
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Do not dm the answer to Sarah! Post in the replies so I can listen too.
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Nate O
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The next five years are going to be a continuation of austerity, anti-trans and anti-migrant policies
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Michael
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agree and boy do i have the podcast for you if you feel this way
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it's gita time
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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Kendrick shouldn’t be president but he should be allowed to determine the Democratic Party nominee
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Len Damico
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kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”
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Matt Seybold
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“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9
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mayonnaise boy
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This is what I don’t understand about American politics. It feels like Democrats fight like hell over a very small sliver of the voter demographics who mostly don’t like them anyways, and completely ignore a much larger pool of voters who would be an easier sell.
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Kaelik
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weird and offputting as Trump, but maybe in ways that Ross likes)
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Kaelik
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I think Ross would be perfectly happy with a Joe Manchin presidency because he could try to wait out Trump's death and then the GOP could crush Manchin after he fucked up everying up and pissed everyone off with a dignified fascist dictator. (in his head, in reality, the next dictator will be as
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Prisonculture
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I think that an insidious mistruth that is spread during Presidential elections in particular is that most of the people who do vote are planning to be engaged in other politics beyond voting on a regular basis. Pick the enemy you want to fight is belied by the fact that most won't fight that enemy.
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Prisonculture
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What happens usually is that folks quickly move on to scolding the fighters for the next 4 years. "It's just the first year of the term" "you need to get them a Congress to work with" "protest in the most toothless way possible"
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Luke O'Neil
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This old brain dead genocidal bitch loves to get rolled by Netanyahu once a week to keep the Palestinian blood flowing
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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It’s not gonna happen but it would be insanely funny if Biden loses then does Exactly to the letter the same things Trump did after Election Day 2020, with the exact same measures and same death toll and all, then have the right scream about how wrong that was, after years of saying Jan. 6 was cool
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Kaelik
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They are going to govern exactly like all center left parties do, and like they promised: persecute all trans people and migrants and do literally nothing to help poor people.
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Gregory Hays
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Max Kennerly
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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Matt Novak
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Happy fourth
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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gotta be honest I haven’t been paying close attention but from I’ve picked up on from random skeets, the UK Labour Party is about to win a historic victory against a bafflingly stupid Conservative Party, so that the Labour Party can outlaw bud light for being too woke and gay as fuck?
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Kaelik
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Describe the solution to the problem that applies in both the star wars analogy to the Bush admin, and the real world present day fascist takeover.
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Kaelik
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So when I posted about how Yoda helped the fascists, it was a response to the figurative point about the figurative analogy, but you demand that everyone who says "this is bad" has to immediately outline the solution or else they actually love bad things doesn't work, because there is no way to
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Kaelik
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To secure power. But it does not lend itself to elucidating solutions to the problems which apply back into the real world in such a direct way.
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Kaelik
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Provide a solution to the metaphorical problem and also, translate that solution into a solution in the problem in the real world. Lucas's writing about how a society falls to fascism can identify some problems like the Jedi losing track of their purpose, and fear mongering about a war being used
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Kaelik
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You are the one that said my one post was a lot of words. I'm sorry I didn't slow down and explain like to a five year old that sometimes analogies to fictional media are used to demonstrate a problem, but that usually the metaphor, because of its difference from the literal, does not easily
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Kaelik
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Me looking around at a world where powerful and rich men abuse women in almost every profession that has them: This is caused by the unique problems in the minds of artists. It's the artists that are the problem, not patriarchy.
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Don Moynihan
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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Kaelik
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"In this case" I was responding to a post about Yoda. If you want a comprehensive analysis of what people should do to fight fascism in the modern day US, I have them elsewhere, but I promise they use a lot more words then one bluesky post allows, so it may be too much for you.
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