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Michael Rader@theoryof.games |
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chaotic good xennial blue team digital strategist. Love climate policy, sci-fi, games, rpgs, Michigan + DC. AKA indie game studio Theory of Games. Immunocompromised + antifascist Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood.
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Michael Rader
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Also this is largely an effect of the structure of our voting systems, i.e. single-member districts with first-past-the-post elections. Duverger's Law is more of a Tendency but I believe it fits the US at this place + time.
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Michael Rader
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You've probably heard this analogy before but old school organizers talk about the political parties like sports stadiums: the activity is a result of who shows up (to play, to watch, to hock trinkets, etc), and it changes (albeit slowly). Parties would be more consistent if there were more of them.
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Michael Rader
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JFC these guys. Every day a new embarassment and yet they just keep doing it
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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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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Jeremy Bearimy
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Reminder that the Heritage Foundation publicly published their plan to invade and establish permanent bases in the Middle East on any pretext, before 9/11.
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Philip Bump
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A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Michael Rader
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see its funny because in an actual fascist intifada I'd be the first to die. because of my lung situation a punch that any normal person could shrug off would probably take me out.
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Michael Rader
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tbc I think Mark Robinson should be canceled and kicked off social media and defeated in the election and never heard from again. Come get me I guess.
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Faine Greenwood
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Keep talking about how Donald Trump is credibly accused of sexually assaulting twelve year old children, with assistance from Epstein.
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Aaron Huertas
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On Earth 2, we're running a political science experiment where elite media outlets attempt to hound a convicted felon out of running for president while wildly speculating about an RNC open convention fantasy draft.
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Michael Rader
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clowns.
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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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Michael Rader
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I spent my last 4th in DC two years ago, sick with COVID (which delayed my move to GA). Columbia Heights was like a war zone for 12 straight hours. No escaping the smoke and noise. Not missing it this year.
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Michael Rader
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Someone checked the Michigan voter file and he voted in 2020 and 2022.
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Michael Rader
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Unreal.
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Don Moynihan
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
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Michael Rader
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He knows perfectly well. The NYT getting played by a christofascist
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Michael Rader
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We're definitely not.
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Michael Rader
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Happy Fourth of July from the New York Times.
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Michael Rader
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I don't regret studying politics because I have an incredible job that I love, but I do regret it for every other reason.
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Michael Rader
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Michael Rader
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(I know the actual Rebellion succeeded because of the sacrifice of countless revolutionaries over decades don't at me)
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Michael Rader
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Yoda trained a generation of Jedi, including the individual largely responsible for restoring democracy to the galaxy. Jabba was a fat greedy moron who was strangled to death by someone using the actual chain he used to enslave her.
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i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever, part 2: the punks.
19,185 words on the history of punk, cyberpunk, and how it's all fake and what it means to be an artist.
if you like it, please share! I could use tips to pay for my diabetic care
docseuss.medium.com/i-am-going-t...
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Michael Rader
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Always appreciate your writing, so I signed up on patreon the other day. Hope it helps a little.
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Michael Rader
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I do not understand the scofflaws agreement among reporters to not talk about this.
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Karl Bode
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the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country
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Michael Rader
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Are you the only op-ed writer who hasn't lost their mind? I think it might be possible.
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Michael Rader
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all my apes are gone :(
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Michael Rader
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Yeah somebody filed it. Not the actual Trump campaign.
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Michael Rader
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This appears to be an official FEC form for someone, but not the actual Trump campaign.
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Michael Rader
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From my texts:
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Michael Rader
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I am so happy that I have a 24/7 stream of neurodivergent video game nerds to distract me from the awfulness of politics this week.
Not sure what my plan is after Saturday. www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
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Michael Rader
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I get very dejected every time I'm reminded that a lot of politics is just fucking primary school, not because politics itself is a dumb game or because policy doesn't matter, but because so many of the humans participating in politics are emotionally still in fucking primary school.
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Michael Rader
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I genuinely don't understand why this hasn't been more widely reported.
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Jonathan Ladd
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The Ford pardon of Nixon would have been totally unnecessary. A million other actions and arguments in American history assume presidents aren't immune. It's a totally new idea, nowhere in text or American tradition. Arguably the least originalist major SCOTUS decision in American history.
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Ed Burmila
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When all of the Proper (legal, political, and institutional) Remedies are off the table it does not take societies long to figure out what the only Remedy they have left is, and I wonder if the Court put any thought into that!
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Dave Levitan
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild
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N. K. Jemisin
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Walter (RIP)
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Holy fuck this reads like a short horror story
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Michael Rader
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How soon after a 2nd Trump inauguration do we start hearing him argue that he should get a third term because he actually won in 2020?
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Michael Rader
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The last week has given everyone brain worms.
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Michael Rader
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Sure, but the only true test as to whether it's an official act or not is to have a Republican president do it and see if SCOTUS upholds.
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Michael Rader
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My thought was order Seal Team Six to occupy the MOHELA offices and delete all their files.
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Michael Rader
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I believed this for a long time as well. Broad preference for liberal policies (in the abstract at least) has been well-established for a long time in polling but I've never seen it translate into anything meaningful electorally.
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Brooke Binkowski
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Everyone has fucking LOST IT
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Michael Rader
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@joshtpm.bsky.social has it right. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Mike the Mad Biologist
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It was very traumatic for Republicans to have Nixon resign in disgrace & then 13 years later have Reagan close to being impeached (what saved him as much as anything was an implicit "he's too senile to have been knowingly involved" argument). Partisan hacks like Roberts have never forgotten this.
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