Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The dumb thing here is ‘rushing’. Rushing in is about as sure a way to look sus there is. Dems should humbly run good campaigns, hammer Trump on tangible effects (war, gas prices, housing, inflation). That’ll convert the most Of these to real votes. Anything more forceful looks opportunistic 010
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’d say this (and you’ll probably agree): 20 YO me would be SHOCKED I’m making a living making art. Period. 010
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The real prequel is The Sixth Sense…that would make any gifted child become Vader. 001
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yeah would be great if ANYONE @nytimeses.nytimes.com or @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social would actually treat the fact the world’s richest man wants to start a preemptive race war. And insert son Of Nazi Sympathizers 012
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Part of that ‘how dare you tell us’ lives on in the modern conservative movement (along with outright white supremacy in areas) as ‘no one can tell me what to do ever!’ Idiocy. 070
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is what happens when morons put in charge a person who does not understand basic economics. 020
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026While all that is true, I think the basic stupidity of this thinking is: if there’s a trade deficit, we should stop trading and that will stop the deficit. But he doesn’t get that: A) we need markets for our goods and B) Americans like to buy foreign goods. He’s a deeply stupid man. 020
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We should take an average teeth per mouth in state metric before we platform a dullard like Warmke. 000
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The reasons are many— the sheer technical achievement, the vision, the incredible narrative ideas. But above all (and I think this is what drops Scorsese’s jaw) is the sheer courage to cut the narrative to the least it possibly can be and achieve it purely visually is a shocking level of restraint. 020
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026And he should be…there’s so much of both of them in all of it. 010
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I will say this for Jeudy: he has to figure out whatever motivated him against the Broncos (my fave team) where he looked other-worldly and understand what made Michael Jordan great was he played with that chip on his shoulder every moment of his life. Jerry hasn’t done it again. 000
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ah! I only saw the latter two posts reposted. Yes. 100 120
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Which ’cosmopolitan values‘ do you mean. Like…racial equality, valuing education, judging people by the content of their character? Or do you mean, like, sex and the city? 220
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I’m not sure making enemies or purity testing our own side so much is helpful in a war against fascist thugs. Esp those who will brutalize the most vulnerable amongst us and destroy the machinery of state at the whim of ever more power. I do think it’s unseemly but we need everyone, EVERYONE to win. 010
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Yeah maybe, sure. But this is more like what he was for a long time now: 120
Reposted by Dileep RaoDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read: 11034689513661
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Well, it might also redound to what government was doing and that electing people who give voice to that IS the steam valve of democracy rather than violence. What has followed has little to do with Reagan (whose faults are his) and more to do with destruction of the fabric of reality by the rich. 000
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026What people have real trouble with is nuance. Like, tax cuts and economic stimulus were smart in 1981 and overstayed their welcome, like opioids after a hip replacement you then take 25 times a day til you die. Presidents are complex and eras vary. Reagan wasn’t all that great nor was he the devil. 140
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026What is stupid about this is former players who are, perhaps distinguished, but nowhere near the conversation of HoF entry or their number being retired in their name pretending they have any say. He is a popular, well-regarded ex-employee. 000
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Yeah the comeback about pardoning a child rapist should do work though. 010
Dileep Rao @leepers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This was not unlike some stages of the hill climbs in the TdF 010
