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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

I was under the impression he was always going to draw more from the Republican cultural pool. All of the do-your-own-research style woo woo healthcare skepticism is strongly right wing coded.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

It may surprise you to learn that women make up almost half of divorcees, so this seems reasonable to me

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 08/08/2024

people will say shit like “no politician is perfect, you’re just choosing an adversary :^)” and then not behave in an adversarial way

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I don't really believe that UNM and campaign protestors are different people or at odds with one another. I think it's good for UNM to lay out precise, long form demands, and it's good for people to show up and prove they are serious and have numbers.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Do you think her record is above this sort of judgement though? The ball is in her court to prove she is less cruel and genocidal than the administration that she is currently a part of. I know I could be won very easily by calling for conditioning aid or saying she will recognize Palestine.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Why wouldn't pushing her toward popular and morally sound positions help her win though? Most protestors are saying "win my vote"

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

You are being obtuse. Loudly showing up to say "we want to vote for you, here is how you can win our support" is the strategy. This is what the uncommitted vote was, and what protesting Harris rallys now is.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

There are a lot of flawed but fair conservatives in US politics. The Democratic party is full of them. If you are so far right that you can't find a home in the dems, you are a morally reprehensible extremist. This was true in 1980 and 2008 and now.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I want you to understand my critique here is your specific framing on this specific thing. You don't have to convince me that Palestine should be free. I'm specifically saying that referring to the only Jew in a group of zionists as "the zionist" is flirting with antisemitism. That's it.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I'm not suggesting there is any parity between their records on Palestine. Shapiro is particularly awful on that front. Im just suggesting you watch the optics of singling out the only Jewish guy in a group of zionists as "the zionist"

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

It's also worth noting that the headline is "hunting the white man" which is an absolutely insane thing to say here

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

This framing is a bit sketchy to me tbh. Walz is a zionist, and the context here kind of feels like you are using zionist as a substitute for Jew.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Is there a way to mute posts that contain puns, just like as a concept?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

The Republican party has been a top to bottom cesspool of monstrous bigots since the civil rights era, and the worst thing trump ever did for the discourse was make people think that he invented racism.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I do think anti-car activists (who're right) wilfully ignore how much of a benefit cars provide. They're pretty great so we have to give people strong incentives to stop using them. But man, car owners who think they're rugged individualists for liking those benefits are just clowns.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

He's not even responding to something Walz said recently? Going 5 years into his twitter history to do this is particularly deranged.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

You’re allowed one day of celebrating that the democrats did something reasonably intelligent then you have to get back to bullying and public shaming so they don’t get complacent

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I went to Vermont last year and marvelled about how a state can have a knickknack based economy.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

That's what you're doing! You haven't even made a counterclaim! I'm directly citing a respected third party medical publication. If you have critiques or other claims, actually make them. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

thelancet.com

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I'm not "just tripling" anything! I'm directly referencing the more conservative estimate from an article in a respected medical journal. You can't just hand waive that away!

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I'm arguing that it's not possible to bomb 80% of a city, destroy hospitals, force people to migrate around, and cut off food access and utilities without causing hundreds of thousands of deaths by a combination of factors. I don't see how someone could disagree.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I'm arguing that bombs kill people and you are disagreeing with me, no idea what this theocratic dictatorship talk is about

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Absolutely astonishing to see someone say this, I'm truly floored by how depraved this is. You are actually arguing that blowing up 80% of the buildings in a dense urban area and bombing refugee camps probably isn't causing casualties.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

This is the lancet, a highly respected medical journal taking a holistic look at the various sources of info and aggregating them to make an estimate. Do you think the thousands of bombs just aren't hitting very many people, or that people usually survive buildings collapsing or something?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

He saw around a -5 to -7 point swing in net popularity between September and November 2023 (look it up). There were hundreds of thousands of left leaning people in the streets across the country, chanting "Joe Biden you can't hide we charge you with genocide." You can't act like that didn't matter.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

You are sidestepping the point I think. Harris just started her campaign, and hasn't even selected a VP. It needs to be made as clear as possible that Biden's cruelty to Palestine was a major factor in his collapse, and that Harris has to do better if she wants a chance to win.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Oh ok my bad I guess he didn't even call invading and bombing that particular refugee camp a red line. That's kind of worse if you ask me 🤷‍♂️

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

1. Source lmao 2. He said invading Rafah (among other things) was a red line, and he supported them doing regardless 3. Yes the UNWRA that is critical to prevent starvation which Israel never presented any evidence for involvement, but which Biden defunded anyway

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Biden continued uninterrupted arms shipments throughout all of this even as Israel has crossed his "red lines", and has defunded UNRWA, demonstrating that his support is unconditional. Saying he is annoyed is not action and he has not used any of the incredible leverage he has.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

You are intentionally pretending there are no options between no assistance and total unconditional assistance, and I'm not taking the bait.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Right so those numbers you posted come from a health ministry that has to confirm reported deaths in a total healthcare collapse. I chose 100k because it represents a conservative estimate in this lancet article that estimates up to 186k.

thelancet.com

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Right so maybe we can push her in a less murderous direction before that day comes by threatening to stay home.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

You don't seem to be familiar with the term "unconditional." Biden has shown, over and over that there is no line they can cross which will make him withhold his military or diplomatic support. He is only calling for ceasefire rhetorically: he is unwilling to use any leverage. This is unconditional.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

The war in Ukraine is awful and I'm not going to diminish it, but calling the destruction of most buildings and infrastructure and slaughter of 100k+ in Gaza "imaginary things" is pretty crass and ghoulish.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

A thought experiment. Let's say you hired someone for a job and he started sexually harassing other employees. If he defended himself by saying "but the other guy you interviewed is a real creep! He would have done way worse harassment than me" would you accept that as a decent excuse?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

This is kind of a ridiculous framing. Biden is the president, he is the one doing genocidal policy right now. How are you going to criticize a guy who isn't president for what you think he would theoretically do when Biden is the actual person in office doing genocide right now?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

This is kind of condescending. I'm 34 and understand that Trump is awful, but Biden has unconditionally supported Israel materially, militarily, and diplomatically through a campaign of mass slaughter unmatched in the 21st century. It is possibly the worst thing a president has done in my lifetime.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

The choice isn't strictly binary in that Kamala could continue Biden's genocidal policies or she could offer an alternative to both of them and condition support Israel if she is pressured into doing so.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

It's pretty reasonable to threaten to withhold your vote unless Harris breaks with Biden's absolutely ghoulish policies on Gaza, and I think we are much better off that there are people trying to force her in a better direction.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

He's really kind of like Joe Biden in that his above average domestic record is overshadowed and undermined by having committed unspeakable atrocities abroad.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

This is a small criticism in the grand scheme of things but can Elon/tesla give anything a non embarrassing name? "Giga casting" is so obnoxious.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

I do, but you have said you like Shapiro, a guy with sexual misconduct coverup issues and a conservative on things like Palestine, the right to protest, unions, and public schools. I assume you are either in favor of those things or not informed.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

Are you a conservative, or have you just never read anything about him?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

Uhhhhhh maybe I need to get into weightlifting... 😏😏😏

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

We're going to need a lot more absolutely vile and sartorially clueless people posting here to give him an environment to work in unfortunately. I don't think it could ever work.

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

2016 was eight years ago my god, how are you people still doing this?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

They also need to win Michigan which had tens of thousands of people who voted noncommitted because of Biden's treatment of Palestine. How many of those people would they lose by picking Shapiro?

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bustinturner.bsky.social @bustinturner.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

There are almost 200,000 people dead in Palestine and he continues to fund, arm, and defend the killers. This is the most hideous foreign policy failure of my lifetime with the possible exception of the Iraq war.

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