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Azure Raphael@trai70.bsky.social |
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Sometimes I write, rarely finish. I believe in public service. Library assistant. Retired bartender, carpenter. Father of 3 amazing adults. Mostly cat memes
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Elad Nehorai
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Azure Raphael
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Team block here. 🙂 Life is too short to engage belligerent morons. Block early and often.
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L O L G O P
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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.
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Courtney Milan
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I'm not interested in arguing with people who have been doing this. Please understand that the thing I think you're accomplishing, wittingly or not, is making people with stories feel like they can't come forward.
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Azure Raphael
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It's like a kind of performance art.
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Azure Raphael
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Right there with you 👊
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Azure Raphael
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Are you running for president? 😏
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Azure Raphael
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Maybe too much time on twitter, not enough among his colleagues?
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Azure Raphael
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🙄
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Azure Raphael
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Thanks for sharing!
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Azure Raphael
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Curious about this...
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Azure Raphael
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My friend (sadly, also passed) wasn't a gambler (unless you count her romantic life) but she did love experiences.
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Azure Raphael
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I have it on good authority that there is a bunch of very good food available in Vegas, and not all of it at buffets. I'm much more of a foodie than a gambler. 😇
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Azure Raphael
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Mildly interesting fact: the one and only time I've been to Vegas was when my best friend from college turned 30. She had invited a bunch of people and they had a plan to hit all the major buffets. On day 3 I was like "Y'all have fun, I'll be in the bar." I did enjoy the Bellagio buffet tho.
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Azure Raphael
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Ford's pardon didn't happen in a vacuum. He did it because someone in party leadership assured him it was the right thing to do. The Party made a calculation that They needed Nixon off the hook more than We needed public accountability for crimes.
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Azure Raphael
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...who retains support from a lot of people with some strange, paranoid ideas. 😶
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Azure Raphael
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They keep getting all these fun toys, and they're chomping at the bit for an excuse to play with them on people
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Azure Raphael
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I keep banging on about this. Local elections matter more than flashy national ones. You can't control the county Board of Commissioners anywhere except where you live, and their decisions effect you directly.
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Azure Raphael
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Why is it that the worst people are also the loudest? 😶
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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I just. The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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The Helsinki library is like the apotheosis of Library As Useful Public Space. I am in awe.
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Azure Raphael
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Harry and Meagan would have to move again 😐
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David Avallone
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When people say “it’s never been this bad” I can tell their understanding of American history goes back 20 years, max.
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Azure Raphael
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Without question.
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Azure Raphael
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They courts have made it clear they aren't interested in saving us from ourselves vis-a-vis Trump. We're going to have to vote in numbers that send a clear and concise message to GOP grifters.
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Azure Raphael
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For what it's worth: some of us still have faith in the framework, if not some of the people implementing the policies. I actually think the cracks we're seeing in the system are the inevitable failure of the system behind the system: the invisible hand of the wealthy becoming visible.
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Azure Raphael
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Once evidence is "discovered" isn't it a matter of outlook record at that point? Can you reverse discovery?
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A.R. Moxon
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I think the biggest problem we face isn't actually the practical steps. I think it's the collective determination to take those steps, because we know that those steps carry cost, and too many of us (including all too often me), would rather avoid cost. We must speak our determination.
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Azure Raphael
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Read "This Town" by Mark Leibovitch. A lot of career politicians (a phrase that definitely shouldn't exist!) benefited for years on private collegiality while engaging in public debate. It's been performative bullshit for decades, but some of them are still trying to pretend.
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Azure Raphael
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"They just ignore the rules, we can't do that! We can't fight like that!" "Can you fight at all?" 😶
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Azure Raphael
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Imagine a world where common people had power to influence the powerful, to make them take notice... like if we could all just collectively stop working and shut stuff down, maybe walk around in a line with signs...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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A good way to challenge the authority of an illegitimate institution is to find an issue where their authority is unpopular and difficult to enforce and openly defy them on it.
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Azure Raphael
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*drunk As in: I wish I was
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Azure Raphael
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Drink with power...
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Azure Raphael
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There absolutely will be people saying "Morons want to kill themselves in homemade planes? Let them!" and I'm here to remind them that things falling from the sky often fall onto other things, like houses, or schools.
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Azure Raphael
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I feel certain the person who made that list has NEVER had their feelings hurt by someone smarter than them pointing out the obvious. Never. Also: they are definitely fun at parties. 😏
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Azure Raphael
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I have a fair few questions about that list, but I suspect none of the answers would be satisfying 🤔
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Azure Raphael
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Looking at that page, wondering mildly what I might have said to upset them... probably something unfavorable about Musk, AI, or Crypto. Maybe all three. 😏
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Azure Raphael
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Lol. Folks who love to complain about luddites often forget that they were right.
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Azure Raphael
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Not knowing you personally, I'm still willing to bet you have a great laugh 😇
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Joanne Freeman
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Welp.
I think we’ll hear about presidential immunity from SCOTUS today.
The fact that this is an open question is stunningly wrong-headed.
You certainly can’t claim the founders wanted it.
Or rather, you can.
But you’d be wrong.
Here’s a brief explaining why.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Azure Raphael
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They don't believe it will happen to THEM. They're accustomed to pre-internet fog-of-war immunity where a sleazy operative could make a backroom deal and be functionally anonymous.
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Azure Raphael
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At this point, the people who are still listening to him are doing it out of habit. He doesn't have anything interesting to say, but he says stuff constantly, knowing he'll be insulated from any consequences. If we all just agreed to ignore him, he'd die of attention starvation in a week.
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Azure Raphael
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Here's the thing about Maher: he understands TV, not politics. He surrounds himself with people who are smarter than him and let's them talk, which makes him look clever. He loves Anne Coulter because she drives engagement, the only thing he cares about. He loves controversy for the same reason.
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Shiv Ramdas
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Azure Raphael
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Wait, you mean to tell me a bunch of affluent men weren't prepared to admit they didn't know everything already? /s
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Azure Raphael
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I've been following you since the bad place was less bad (and actually kinda fun) and it's not because you engage in groupthink. The older I get, the more I need smart people who help me challenge my assumptions. Thanks, and also for a few laughs along the way.
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Azure Raphael
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Where was this? I have a little experience with county-level party here in NC, and it was pretty frustrating.
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Azure Raphael
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To be fair, some of us still can't believe we have to point out things that feel self-evident like: don't elect a flagrantly corrupt scofflaw, or freedom of religion implies freedom from religion 😐
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Pwnallthethings
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100% in all seriousness, one justice for every circuit, plus a new circuit for administrative law
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