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executive editor, barbell quarterly@swolecialism.bsky.social |
Continue to be bemused by the confident assertion from many media outlets and assorted elites that the way to preserve democracy is for the elites to get together and overrule democratic process
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NoHomers Diary
@nohomers.bsky.social
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I want to be bemused, I'm something else less fun by it. Hopefully this idiotic fever passes.
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MurkyMurk
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They already do since Citizens United; that's the actual issue
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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It’s the biggest way you can tell these people are mad engagement is down and no one is listening to them, all the sudden their voice matters more than what the primary voters wanted.
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Deadbeat Cat Dad
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some animals are more equal than others after all
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Summer mode Adam
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It’s the play they ran last time when they cleared the deck for Biden in the 2020 primary, why not try it again? You could argue they’ve been in elite override mode since 2016
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The Next Day
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Ah yes, we should listen to the sage and sober advice of the political and media elites currently running around with their hair on fire because of a bad debate performance.
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Dialectical horse bones
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To the extent that I have much agreement with the 2010s populists, I think that both Trump and Biden for very different reasons and with very different levels of validity drive media elites absolutely nuts because they’re not Their Choice
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Bresnan - Remember Folks!: The Sun Sucks (and so do I)
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It's not Authoritarianism if I agree with it!
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Peter M. Cunningham
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Interestingly also DSA’s stance!
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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It's what the people would want
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Bob Booten
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Money is the only speech that counts.
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Nick Garcia
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It is instructive who they think should avail themselves of the democratic process and in what circumstances. Democrat has a bad night at an unusually early CNN debate: Removal by elite institutions. Republican tries to overturn election: Somehow, trial by new democratic election.
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ChristofPierson
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That’s what they’re used to. And they’re used to elites getting away with it.
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Mr Dr Bae
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They've been training for this moment since 9/11, if not the Millennium.
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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Your feelings about Donald Trump and Joe Biden aside, it'd be nice if there was at least some recognition that these men were the clear choice of their respective primary voters
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