filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So you’re saying we should just give them every opportunity to throw sand in the gears and drag shit out for eternity. 1110
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Oh, so you hate unions that look out for their membership, then?” /s 030
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Was going to say, there’s one at the Brooklyn IKEA. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This might sound crazy, but electoral politics is a team sport where numbers really matter. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We get it bud, you just want to watch our city burn. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The classic example of a floor is ~24%, which was Nixon on the eve of his resignation. 1110
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Right, it’s motivation to come to an agreement quickly so you can get the fuck home. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Shit’s expensive, and nobody actually wants to foot the bill. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The issue seems less that June is necessarily “representative” of the left, but rather that this kind of rhetoric is apparently not enough to make someone persona non grata in leftist circles. 040
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I guess my question is, how does one separate 10/7 from its aftermath without implicitly putting a greater value on the suffering of the victims of 10/7? 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Same for any New York State Off-Track Betting location. 020
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This particular problem is a function of suburbanites trending ever more reactionary, and doesn’t have a whole lot to do with PMC socdems in the city. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“It’s like my dad always said: incumbency is next to godliness.” 110
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Whoa, you’re telling me “we’re ever so slightly less reactionary than the local GOP” might not be a winning strategy in perpetuity? 140
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It took Tom Gulotta absolutely tanking the county’s finances for Suozzi to break a 30 year GOP hold on Nassau County executive back in 2002. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Same re: a pistol to the head at point blank range. 040
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At the time I’d have agreed with you, but in hindsight it seems like the mob was actually more responsible supplying and regulating gambling than the alternative. 140
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...urbandictionary.comUrban Dictionary: smol beansmol bean: someone who is innocent and/or adorable most commonly used in fandoms 000
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Great, but lying to ourselves and pretending the inevitable backlash will come solely because of the big corporations and not because a large number of people genuinely prefer something worse is a losing strategy. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So you are in fact arguing that smol bean consumers substantially lack agency, and are therefore unthinkingly subject to the whims of advertisers. Not that they’re lazy and prefer the convenience of letting others think for them, but that they genuinely lack the ability to think for themselves. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is exactly like the (asinine) argument that emissions are solely the fault of the oil majors, and that smol bean consumer choices to consume more are irrelevant! If we want things to be better, we need to organically change consumer preferences! 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The synthesis position is that the advertising would be much less effective if there wasn’t already a critical mass of auto buyers who want massive, fuck-off vehicles. 210
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How is it any less of a dullard’s idea than “consumers lack any agency, and unthinkingly do what the ads tell them to like sheep”? 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“The American consumer is a smol bean without agency, cursed to unthinkingly follow what the ads tell them to.” 020
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 04/10/2026God, I fucking hate median voters. 011
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Really seems like the worst time yet to start hitching one’s wagon to Trump et al, but what the fuck do I know? 180
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Didn’t she write a piece arguing the East Wing was no great loss? 110
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comJim Carrey Says Oh, Come On!Alt: Jim Carrey Says Oh, Come On! 0290
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dude is ugly because he’s the kind of person who thinks paying the slightest attention to his own appearance is effeminate. 0150
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sure, but I can replace the helmet if it breaks. 000
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’ve just always erred on the side of “the ground is harder than my head”, and it’s served me well, particularly the time a pedestrian walked absentmindedly into a bike path, I panic braked, and promptly went over the bars. 221
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Meh, idk if the catharsis is worth the inevitable backlash. 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really interesting how quick you are to respond to every reply but this one. 260
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are you suggesting that the scale of destruction and mass death is comparable? 010
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The problem is that the alternative has been “submit to the whip hand and hope it becomes benevolent”, which clearly hasn’t worked terribly well either. 090
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Those big, burly blue-collar workers that you’re expecting to clamor for socialism are far more reactionary than the PMC libs you hate. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because you want to believe there’s some trove of heretofore unactivated leftist voters that just need to hear the right words, and you prefer that comfortable delusion to reality. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good ground game and a lot of luck. But good luck is never guaranteed. There’s no formula that 100% ensures victory. 100
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He’s suggesting that simply adopting the policy positions you (and I) prefer will not guarantee our desired outcome, and will likely result in more electoral losses because the actual electorate is very different from Bluesky. 110
filtertron-tele.bsky.social @filtertron-tele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Buddy, when about a third of the electorate is actively evil and another third seemingly lacks object permanence, it takes a hell of a lot more than “competence” to win elections. 230
