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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 8h

You heard of Choosin' Texas well y'all gonna be Losin' Texas lmao, gottem

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 14h

like the tone Rees-Mogg takes like he's explaining this concept to a defiant college freshman.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 16h

Adding to this by saying that had Trump fizzled out as a joke candidacy in 2015, the legacy of the '16 election would be "what in god's name were Dems thinking by clearing the decks for Clinton?". I think the WI-MI-PA loss that cycle was baked in due to NAFTA bad blood.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 17h

For Harris you have a candidate with a mediocre campaigning history who failed to distance herself from The Guy Who Made Prices Go Up and Trump still came within 2 points of losing to her. DeSantis would have steamrolled.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 17h

Eh, I see it as the reverse. Trump nearly lost two elections that should have been layups, and Clinton's unpopularity over NAFTA plus the 25-year smear campaign against her should have been better acknowledged by Dem leadership. She was damaged goods, he nearly lost to her anyway.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

youtu.be/XV1XOhH5nXk - new video talking about the demons in Frieren, alignment charts in fantasy vis-a-vis race, and the completely different set of speculative fiction that the demons are really inspired by.

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Stop Treating Frieren's Demons Like Classic Fantasy

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Communism" is another one of those concepts to them where they do hate it for what it is but it's also a symbol for other paranoias and you can't be sure whether they're using the literal or symbolic sense at any given point.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kind of makes me wish I was back in college (St. Joseph's University, Jesuit school that mandated 3 each of Philosophy and Theology courses for all undergrad degree programs, resented it as a freshman and appreciate it all the more the older I get).

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we mock Dems and politicians broadly for focusing on "kitchen table issues" but this is what it looks like when you stray from that, references that half to 3/4 of voters aren't going to recognize let alone respond to.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fun fact is Rick Telesz owns the farm where Willow, the Bidens' cat, came from.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did for Deep Cut what Octo Expansion did for Off the Hook though I'll give it that. I care about Shiver and Frye now (Big Man was always the man).

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Raiders was kind of disappointing in the end. I can appreciate what they were going for but it really just feels like it could've been a DLC at the end of the day.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't read it but I have my agent summarize it and read it back to me at 2.5x speed.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like the information integration theory, the sense of self is just a byproduct of enough *stuff* being integrated together by the brain, it's why brainwaves are more chaotic when you're awake: not chaotic because you're awake but you're awake because of the chaos.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He went the other way and claimed it was basically cultural deficiency bordering on racial deficiency. Then he decided to run for governor of an infamously blue collar state.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Isn't there also an Albania in Georgia?

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You have to consider the infospace in market terms as well. Participating is better than not participating but not long after you start participating you'll find you hit equilibrium unless you've found the mystery low-hanging-fruit issue where raising salience from zero gets it instantly solved.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 30/09/2026

I think I'm just wired differently, but so many activists seem to think that the challenge is "getting the message out there" rather than "cutting through the noise, avoiding being ignorable".

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Compromise and ban all engineering majors and all philosophy majors from executive roles

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stole this meme in 2022

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And remember that the "good" side of Israeli politics is to... want to keep it that way, as opposed to expulsion-then-annexation.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah there are days when every decision feels like trying to lift an anvil.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is basically my opinion and I get branded as an AI Booster by some for it. Like I'm closer to the Ed Zitron spectrum of things I just think the moral panic has lost all containment here.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's just like the dog in The End of Oak Street. It'll figure it out its fine.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yup, this is the face of a guy who's committed a full philosophical sui. dead-man's eyes.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Specifically it's more that bad ideas will fail out but that can be on a long timescale and with a loooot of preventable suffering in between. On a long enough timescale all dictatorships fall but that's cold comfort to the victims of the Great Leap Forward, say.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

assume link is in bio otherwise what's he doing

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lower mid-Atlantic, at least shoreward, is basically the South yeah. Maryland's government had to be coup'd by Lincoln to prevent Washington from being surrounded right off in the Civil War.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There have always been some northern whites who were culturally confederate, that's who the Copperheads were. What's been different in the last 40 years is how many rural whites nationwide are pressed into cultural confedaratism

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The accurate statement of Trump's "acumen" is that he nearly bungled two elections that should've been layups and that a different Republican could have won 2020 (that was the phase where most world leaders were seeing a boost rather than the late-pandemic era).

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With recent developments at Xbox they are probably putting these studios on a real schedule. We'll see how that collides with usual Bethesda timelines.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Leopards eating faces remains the only appropriate framing. This can be framed as more tragic than callously funny but it's still the right call.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've heard that even if he hadn't intervened someone up the chain would have realized what he did. The Soviet nuclear command structure meant that the findings from his station wouldn't have gone straight to the Football, as it were.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a janky game and getting to the real finale is mean (those gold cards are so rough to find) but it's really emblematic of those early 3D games that have charming jank.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

also the phenomenon that drove pre-brainrot Dave Chappelle to walk away from a golden deal with Comedy Central. May be doing harm because I'm drawing the wrong audience.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the problem for a national center-left strategy re: Mamdani is that first part. That kind of credibility and enthusiasm on the left will turn off centrists or energize rightists in places less liberal than NYC. But he has something to illustrate that's more than "go left to win" imo.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani is a good example, he built unimpeachable credibility with the Progressive Left first, has governed mostly technocratically/deliverist but has been effectively communicating those gains and seen his approvals rise after starting off damaged by the divisive mayoral race.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The author has a strong point about how Popularism/Deliverism failed: Biden too focused on delivering real wins, and there was discourse about why those didn't land. The danger is to assume Delivery doesn't work though and instead that Starmer and Biden were ass at messaging.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*I* don't want the Democratic party to become what it would take to be competitive in rural America again, as it's crystal clear it's not the economics, it's their retrograde social views. Same time our constitutional structure means you can't just write off large swathes of the country.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes. The "independent" schtick won't last long, either the Dem brand moves right to accommodate these types of candidates or voters will start to understand that I Means D. However a party that could conceivably caucus with either would build a real brand.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"you can do better" "Yes I can, but I really like doing worse"

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They needed to commit to Reylo from film 1 if they wanted it to come off as anything other than what you said. Like if she had been really tempted by the Dark Side before meeting him then you have grounds for her to sympathize more, "there but for God's grace go i" sort of deal.

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They also made sure to position the camp a certain distance from water so that the human waste wouldn't get in the water but it was still convenient to fetch.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Three websites. (1) Millennial poasters who left old Twitter and bounced off Mastodon; (2) MSNBC retirees graduating from Facebook; (3) Brazilians

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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We shall do some fat blunts and live in a van down by the river.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.

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