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There is absolutely no overlap to a Venn Diagram of “people who say they want less fighting and bipartisan solutions” and “people who would vote for a Democrat.” There is absolutely no audience for that schtick. Just give it up!

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Exactly - every single person I know who does the “I’m sick of the partisanship and fighting, I just want them to work together to help solve our country’s problems” is a Republican who would “no, not like that” any bipartisan solution to any problem that wasn’t boilerplate GOP policy.

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But it’s also very hard to make any progress on the genuine problems that face our country when the vast majority of your focus is working with the enemies of democracy on corporate friendly deregulation bills to fill those coffers. I talk about this very dynamic more extensively in this thread.

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This is the crux of the problem, of course. Dem leaders see their prime directive as filling the campaign committee and PAC coffers in order to keep the Dem ad and consultant machine fueled, and it’s very hard to do that without working with Republicans on corporate friendly deregulation bills.

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The Long Kiss Good Night, and Good Luck.

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This has always been my take. I think it’s very unlikely to deter most murders. I think it’s extremely likely to deter small dollar banal corruption.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, this trend of people with left of center politics becoming hardcore inflation hawks demanding adherence to the Fed target is as up is down black is white as Republicans being tariff-loving protectionists is. When political scientists say most Americans have no ideology, this is what they mean.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And, of course, Musk isn’t special. No one can have enough money that everyone is willing to look the other way for a shot at a chunk of it. Billionaires are simply too destabilizing for the economy, for the political economy, and for society for them to be allowed to exist.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So the problem is that this is correct, but that it’s on every line for every office so there’s no voting against it. Dems aren’t going to put Musk in prison because they think *they* have a shot at his money if they play nice. Only solution is taking his money so that no one chases after it.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What’s fun here is you just know Paxton and other GOP operatives tried this same line on her so “broken marriage” wasn’t another trope he had to run against and her response must have been something like “absolutely not, for that guy, are you fucking kidding me?!”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean what you can say is that Republicans obviously don’t actually care about improper use of government funds intended to support the families of dead cops, so later when they pretend to as a line of attack on Democrats no one has to take that seriously.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok, it’s not a possible violation it’s a crystal clear one and where’s the bit in the subhed about how he’s doing it standing on the bodies of dead cops the way it’d be there if it was any Dem?

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Same thing you get from the race realists on a slightly different side of the alt-genius crew. They don’t make any arguments that haven’t been carefully, thoughtfully, comprehensively debunked, but demand you dedicate your life to doing so ad nauseum, and then proceed to completely ignore it.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we need to take the Times out of the hands of the Sulzbergers

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Matt "Captain Danger" Stevens @kentallardjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Honest question: When did we decide that universities were supposed to investigate rapes on campus? If there's a murder on campus they call in the cops. If a protest gets out of hand they call in the cops. Why are rapes treated differently?

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💯, and the same goes for Richard Hanania. When people have you nodding along 95% of the time and then drop a turd in the punch bowl, find someone else to nod along to that doesn’t, even if you’re only nodding like 85% of the time. Pooping in the punch is bad, and if you tolerate it, you’re bad.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think a better way to say this is "the law shall be such that you can destroy them"

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Erica Meltzer @ericameltzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I straight up remembered the ending of Breaking Bad being that Walter White died alone in the cabin. That was so clearly the correct ending for the show, that I rewrote the memory in my brain to make that the ending. I was shocked when I rewatched it!

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Oh yeah, I want saying I wouldn’t hire a spiller, just that I wouldn’t even notice a coffee if it wasn’t spilled. The whole discourse is bizarre.

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Yeah, as a guy who was really into the mythology at the time and initially disappointed by the way it ended because of that, a little distance allowed me to see the centrality of the characters and their relationships, which was what made it great. In short I learned to let go, and move on.

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I will say I kinda love (and endorse) the shade throw of listing multi-season anthology series like White Lotus and then being sure to clarify that they’re only talking about the first season of True Detective.

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Seen sixteen in full, another fifteen multiple seasons but not all, and I watch a LOT of television.

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Right. 1. I don’t think I ever had or would bring a drink of any kind to an interview. 2. As someone who interviews candidates, I don’t think I’d even notice unless they spilled it.

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Community *and* Always Sunny. That’s broad taste!

He didn’t deserve to die on his own terms. He deserved to have Jack’s guys take him out back, shoot him, and bury him in the desert, unceremoniously. The only problem with that is it leaves no room for a different fate for Jesse, the moral center of the show.

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15, probably another ten I’ve seen multiple seasons of but couldn’t make the final push.

In ways that actually drove people out of engagement and harmed objectives. I’m not denying either of your experiences but I’m not waxing hypothetical either - we’re talking food that wasn’t delivered & neighborhoods not patrolled because of people who actively sabotaged if they weren’t centered.

I’ve personally seen it deployed - not against me, but against others, multiple times, both during the 2017 formation of the initial resistance that consolidated into Indivisible and again in 2025 in ICEWatch. Both times it was fellow travelers who fractured orgs by treating differences as fascism.

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9. And last but not least, Indy does Atlantis. Classic point-and-click adventure. Probably the one that kicked off a lifetime of gaming.

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7. Probably put more hours into Quake 2 than any other game that released before I turned 18, even if in retrospect it doesn’t quite hold up. 8. Ah, Eve. If it happened between 2016 and today and you read about it, I was probably there and can tell a hell of a story.

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