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Chad Denton
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Didn't even try the "Go into debt, build up your navy, and trap the Ottomans on the Asian side of the strait" strategy SMDH.
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Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: linktr.ee/drownedinink
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Chad Denton
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Didn't even try the "Go into debt, build up your navy, and trap the Ottomans on the Asian side of the strait" strategy SMDH.
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Chad Denton
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Make him play EUROPA UNIVERSALIS.
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Chad Denton
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Same, plus Twitter leftists going "Trump won't implement Project 2025, also the Democrats support it anyway."
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Abe Goldfarb
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MAXXXINE: Well, this made me fucking holler. Pure pleasure, cinema of sensation *and* ideas. There’s a vicious, trenchant critique of American Puritanism in here, as well as a treatise on ambition and low art. But don’t worry, it’s all wrapped in a gleaming, ballistically fucked up Hollywood Giallo.
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Chad Denton
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In seriousness one of the things giving me hope is Trump's supporters are inclined to think the Deep State rigs all elections anyway and that a guy who's running for president just to get out of his legal problems and save his business is a true believer like them.
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Chad Denton
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Could that also have something to do with the really bizarre fact that Democratic candidates in state races now and in 2022 are/were polling much better than Biden?
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Chad Denton
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One of the things I have to keep reminding myself of is that the people claiming that non-response bias isn't that much of a problem anymore are the people whose careers depend on non-response bias not being seen as a problem.
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Chad Denton
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I guess I'm just glad in a sick way that so many people, from nobodies like me to even the notoriously complacent Democratic politicians and donors, are showing signs of being scared, because we fucking should be.
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Chad Denton
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That too, definitely.
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Chad Denton
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Maybe I'm huffing copium as the kids say but it does feel like there's a silver lining here that they're doing this not just because of assholes in the donor class, but because they're sensing the panic and determination among their constituents.
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Chad Denton
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It's really bad. Rationally I still feel like most factors are in Biden's favor - even not calculating in Trump's other legal hurdles and the fact he'll probably be sentenced in September even with the Supreme Court's shenanigans - but my brain keeps "doompilling" me.
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Chad Denton
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My therapist earned his pay trying to talk me down this week. And purely anecdotal but I feel like people are even *more* scared of this election's results than in 2020.
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Chad Denton
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Once I missed a flight and had to take a later one, causing me to have to go to an academic conference the same day I arrived. I literally almost passed out at one point and I was in my 30s.
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Chad Denton
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I like that theory, although I guess I'm a romantic because I still cling to the idea that it's an ancestral memory of the flood that created the Persian Gulf and displaced the ancestors of the Sumerians.
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Sam Brody
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under the first Trump administration, white liberals liked to say “of course WE aren’t bearing the brunt of the policies, but…” the vibe now is that they are truly scared that they will finally experience the America that Native or Black people have always known lay beneath the one they loved
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Taniel
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Clarification: I meant in any past parliamentary election. With more than 90% of seats now attributed, the Greens have won as many seats as Reform UK.
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Chad Denton
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Poland also got rid of its far-right government last year, which embarrassingly I didn't know until relatively recently.
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Chad Denton
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I just know his name sounds like the villain from a '70s James Bond knock-off. "Whatever we do, Keir Starmer must not get the code to the satellite computer."
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Chad Denton
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Glad and not surprised Cathode TV isn't doing the obvious and is instead doing a New Age mysticism/psychic theme, complete with vintage ads from psychic networks.
www.cathodetv.com
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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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Chad Denton
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Last I checked they don't seem willing to do anything about the "raw sewage in the rivers" thing either.
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Chad Denton
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Also I know it's not canvassing but talking to people I know and finding they're as scared and outraged by things as I am, even if they don't agree with me on a lot, has given me hope and catharsis I've never achieved on political social media (and I know it's ironic to say that here).
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Chad Denton
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Plus the recent Supreme Court decisions, which from my admittedly anecdotal experience even has the non-terminally online outraged and scared.
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Chad Denton
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It's like rationally I know these things but the sense of hopelessness and despair is overwhelming, probably because like many people I can't believe he's even running again.
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Alex Blechman
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Chad Denton
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The "fun" thing about clinical depression is that it's real but it's an excuse even people who think of themselves as soft-hearted "IN THIS HOUSE" liberals won't buy. "So I almost forgot to pay rent because the news triggered a week-long depressive episode" doesn't play well.
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Chad Denton
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And the absurdity of claims like young and black voters are defecting to Trump. It's just the nightmare, at least for me, is that things are so desperate and chaotic it's hard to tell when I'm just, as the kids say, doompilling or huffing copium and so easy to doubt my own judgment.
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Chad Denton
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Yeah, aside from non-response bias being a big thing no matter what 365 says, I've noticed things like if you dig into the data Biden's numbers are better among likely voters and the unlikelihood of people in swing states coming out for the Dem Congressional candidates but not Biden in huge numbers.
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Chad Denton
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I'm here! Spending more time here because I probably will end up ditching my Twitter account since the hellsite was finally really messing up my mental health.
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Chad Denton
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Off-topic but yay, you're on Bluesky too.
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Chad Denton
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There's this guy on YouTube who just makes surprisingly good songs based on clips from Red Letter Media's videos and episodes of COLUMBO, and I'm totally here for it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wym0...
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Chad Denton
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Me after reading articles on the election polls.
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Seth Cotlar
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“This amount of coalescing against the far-right by no means looked certain as of a week ago. While it can't just erase Macronists' extraordinarily equivocating 'pox on both houses' rhetoric during the campaign, it does make it a lot harder for the far-right to win on Sunday.”
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Stephen
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Inside You There Are Two Dinosaurs
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Chad Denton
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Of course, you just wouldn't expect the punditocracy to be that...well, yeah, actually you would.
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Chad Denton
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It's just so frustrating because, whatever you think of Biden and his "senior moments", Trump is at least just as bad! And is only three years younger!
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Chad Denton
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The fact no would-be heir to Trump has succeeded or at least risen above their own fiefdom has been bizarre but heartening.
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Chad Denton
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No one seems to be taking into account that he's pretty blatantly running his campaign as a piggy bank for his legal expenses.
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Chad Denton
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Unfortunately for my anxiety he does but they're the only ones who answer calls and reply to texts from unknown numbers.
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Chad Denton
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Yeah, that is something I tell people. I grew up at the geographical heart of the Moral Majority, and with some big exceptions even some Republicans and evangelical Christians I grew up around had a "live and let live" attitude that when it clashed with their political views they dumped those views.
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Chad Denton
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Hugs to Bill too!
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Chad Denton
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Oh, sorry, I stole your hug because I forgot the original thread!
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Chad Denton
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Thank you! I'm not 100% yet but ditching Twitter has improved my mood tremendously. Even the political posts here are more measured and optimistic but realistically so.
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Chad Denton
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I was very confused but very entertained.
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Chad Denton
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And trans issues! Which honestly has been pleasantly surprising.
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Chad Denton
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I've always felt like there was a scary moment in 2020 when they might have gone the way of the European right and support something like socialized health care while having a far-right social program, but aside from occasional anti-corporate murmurings they can't even do that much.
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Chad Denton
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Yeah, my main source of optimism is how the ground isn't as fertile for them as it was for fascists in the mid-20th century. Even in deep red, impoverished areas they're still for the most part getting defeated over school boards and libraries.
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Chad Denton
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That and, while the mid-20th century fascists were generally not the brightest people either, unlike these people they did at least have a sense of what normal people were thinking and actually had anxieties over.
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Faine Greenwood
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Chad Denton
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I can agree with that myself, although I can see the rationale behind the argument that the non-response problem is worse, perhaps MUCH worse, with younger voters than with older ones for obvious reasons, and that would create more of a tilt in favor of Republicans.
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