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RNtropy@rntropy.bsky.social |
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Was @madmadmadmadRN on The Old Place before it went to hell. Still that on Mastodon. Trying something new in many senses.
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Daniel Feldman
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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.
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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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RNtropy
@rntropy.bsky.social
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To the extent that it is true, I think it's because, on average, Boomers got progressively *richer* throughout their lives. Wealth is a far better predictor of political ideology than age is.
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RNtropy
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Same (though I just turned 44). I'm beginning to think the conventional wisdom about people becoming more conservative as they age is limited to the baby Boomers / silent generation, if it's true at all.
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RNtropy
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Also, at the time Japan was known for manufacturing cheap, low quality, low value add products. Portraying the Japanese as being technically incompetent would have played into this stereotype. Ironic, given how much Japan would come to dominate advanced electronics in the following decades.
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RNtropy
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Whereas Rs are the child who gets endlessly praised and celebrated for things like not being fired from a job within one month of starting or doing their own laundry every now and again.
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RNtropy
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I don't want to minimize the peril of this moment, but I feel like the most apt analogy for how the press treats D and R politicians differently is that Ds are the hyper overachieving child who doesn't get recognized no matter how much they accomplish...
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.
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Mitchell Epner
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But now Chief Justice Roberts has (to his everlasting shame) enabled fascism by taking away the prospect for criminal prosecution. I hope Roberts receives total consciousness on his deathbed and goes to his grave knowing that his entire legacy will be as a minion of evil.
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ryan cooper
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report on the GOP freak running for NC gov: "he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from 2000 to 2007, including a charge that the center presented falsified certification documents to state inspectors." www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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ryan cooper
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not an argument so much as an observation that the elite DC media is de facto in the tank for Trump just like they were in 2016
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RNtropy
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What size bonus will he extract for this Sterling performance?
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Adam Sharp
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
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A list of eight cute animal rhymes to say farewell... 8. In a while, crocodile 7. Toodle-oo, kangaroo 6. Ciao for now, Jersey cow 5. Why you still here, white-tailed deer 4. Just piss off, luna moth 3. Go to hell, red gazelle 2. Kiss my hole, woodland vole 1. Off you fuck, crested duck
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RNtropy
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Dolly would be an amazing Governor General
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RNtropy
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Probably too late for the US to get in on this system, though.
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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RNtropy
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To me, the most interesting set up is independent countries that used to be part of the British Empire (e.g. Canada and Australia) that continue to use the British Monarch as the Head of State via an appointed Governor General.
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Sarah Posner
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I've written for years about the Christian right's calls for "spiritual warfare" against demonic enemies of Christian America. They used to claim their struggle is against "powers and principalities" not "flesh and blood," citing Ephesians 6:12. But it was still dangerous. Now we see how.
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RNtropy
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Really am starting to feel that there is no group with less commitment to American Democracy and less sense of self-preservation than the Meet the Press crowd. Cynicism and idiocy in equal measure!
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RNtropy
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Love the contradiction between saying both "I know nothing about Project 2025" and "I disagree with some of the things they are saying". The or press will just ignore the logical impossibility and reprint as "Trump disavows Project 2025".
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Perfect example of this phenomenon. Every reporter who regurgitates Trump's denial that he somehow doesn't know who the Heritage Foundation is will make them laugh and laugh and laugh at how gullible the DC elites are. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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RNtropy
@rntropy.bsky.social
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Talk to your kids about approval voting and proportional representation today.
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RNtropy
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ISTM there is an abundance of both logical arguments and empirical evidence that First Past the Post is the worst voting system imaginable. Unfortunately, it also seems to be the easiest for most people to understand despite its manifest flaws, so we're stuck with it.
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Micah
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this is the point I keep making and I don’t want to be making it but it’s correct no matter how much the opposition sucks and how much this feels like the same old uninspiring message, the danger of letting Republicans hold power is getting worse they are bad and must be defeated every time
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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lmao first past the post is so stupid. What a country
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RNtropy
@rntropy.bsky.social
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"Conservative" has not been an accurate description of the American Right for a very long time. These people don't want to conserve anything. Any journalist who talks about the American Right in 2024 without using the terms "Reactionary" and/or "Radical" is doing their readers a disservice.
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RNtropy
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*You're
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RNtropy
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I believe it's "Kirt Stanner" but your supposed to say "Prime Minister Sir Stanner"
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RNtropy
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Good
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The Washington Post
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The Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the authority of the pope and liberal reforms made by the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
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RNtropy
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When you're a SCOTUS justice they let you do it.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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every supreme court ruling these days
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Paul Krugman
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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Way back in 2021 White House economists argued that the inflation surge resembled the spike after WWII and could be ended without major pain. They were right! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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RNtropy
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If the accuracy of predictions are proportional to the amount of skin in the game the predictors have, no one should be more on the nose than those former members of the USSR or Warsaw Pact who are next up on Putin's list of countries to invade and annex.
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RNtropy
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Something I would love to know is what the intelligence services of Ukraine and the Eastern European NATO / EU member countries think of the US election at this point.
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RNtropy
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Referring to him as "Prime Minister Sir Starmer" in perpetuity just to troll.
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RNtropy
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Lol. I can't believe they think we give a shit what they want us to call him.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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Pwnallthethings
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Tbf we also have our "ask electors to pick" and "ask congress to count" cosplay, which tbqh we should really move past, because while it's all fun and games as weird cosplay, we've found out to our detriment what happens when folks refuse to dress up and act it out
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Pwnallthethings
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also "if/when you lose, there's no lame duck season, the next guy arrives tomorrow at 10am" is a big UK W vs the US system, we should totes get rid of that
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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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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Very Serious People can't resolve the cognitive dissonance involved in the knowledge that Trump was involved with Epstein's pedo ring and so pretend its a conspiracy theory or didn't happen. Trump inexplicably gave the guy who let Epstein skate a cabinet post! All out in the open!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I don't think "Trump will ban porn if he gets elected" is a winning message with the entire electorate but it probably is a winning message if you want to damper the enthusiasm of the already-only- marginally-committed-to-voting Barstool/Manosphere frat dudes for Trump.
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RNtropy
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I wish more people knew that New York Times article, you don't have to give them your hard-earned money. Many local libraries Will "loan" you a digital subscription that gives you total access for up to three days.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
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RNtropy
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To be fair, saying "corrupt police officer" is like "flying airplane". The adjective is inherent in the noun.
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RNtropy
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It's like some strange inversion of the Is-Ought Fallacy: "Because things *should* be a certain way, things must actually be that way."
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RNtropy
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Personally, I would love to see an explainer titled "Swing Voters: Who Are These Freaks?"
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