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damn, I really thought Bluesky was going a bit over the top. I can see why you struggle to win people over

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Yeah mate, maybe. It seems like it'll be easier to convince dems in power that trans people deserve rights than to convince the median voter to back a vocal pro-trans candidate right now

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yes, that one. Maybe some of the 70 million people voting for him were on board with the Nazi rally, but I'd bet more people never heard about it. Trump said he doesn't know P2025, and some voters believe him. Talarico says he doesn't know about this trans stuff, we hope those voters believe him.

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It definitely could for some voters, that's a worry. But the US system is designed for candidates to pivot to the extremes in primaries and to the centre in the general. it's a bit like Trump pretending to not know about project 2025 right before the election, moderating to snag unengaged voters

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I'm confused, so do you think Dems would make anti-trans policies if elected? given their track record, it seems more reasonable to see the 'moderating' language as a rhetorical pivot rather than a change in policy

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Completely agree - it's not unlike socialist women supporting Labor unionists in the 20's, despite their clear sexism. then, the clear calculation was that material improvements trump the optics. Do you think it's different now?

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electorally - which, if it leads to a loss, would create many other harms for trans folks and others

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who do you think doesn't wish that being objectively correct meant you always won that election?

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Mate, we all wish that were true

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It's a fair point, I just don't think it's true that keeping the focus elsewhere or jumping head first into the 'they're transing kids' debate gives Republicans the same ammunition.

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I agree - the winning track here is making the campaign about something else. But you can't make every argument all the time, ergo the 1234 above

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For sure it's an option, and some candidates will take the unashamedly pro trans stance (so it'll be a real test). that doesn't really answer where you disagree though - do you think people in swing states don't care about it? or that dems are just as bad so it doesn't matter?

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that makes sense - it just seems like there's already enough negative polarisation on trans issues that 'owning their statements' would be harmful. But that's something exit polls will test

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Where do you jump off the argument? 1. One party is always going to be better than the other on trans healthcare 2. being seen to be pro-trans is damaging in swing states 3. silence on these issues meaningfully blunts the attack 4. the race is tight enough for that to matter

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Not beating the 'just read theory' allegations

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You cite sources *in* an argument. A series of quotes does not a case make. Why did 'in your own words' become 'making shit up'?

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... and nor can you, it seems.

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What do you mean by this? is there a cut-off date for discussions?

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trying to be constructive, mate. You may have a good case, but highlighter-on-journal-photocopy won't make it for you

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That's absolutely a modern framing, although if you just tilt it slightly to a rejection of minorities' rights in a non-democratic state (ousting the Sephardim or expelling the Greeks), its clearly the same impulse: We want only the volk to be valued

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You've put a fair amount of effort into making this argument - FWIW, quoting a random selections of Marxist essayists (and youtubers?) is less convincing than just directly putting the case for what you believe in your own words.

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But could it have happened without the war?

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To claim otherwise, you would have to show an alternate path from the period prior to conflict to the post war context that doesn't involve violence. Can you?

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I really am. Even if you choose to ignore the in-group cohesion from defeating an external aggressor, the post-war cooperation environment could not have taken place without the very physical success of one group and against another.

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Damn, why didn't they just skip the violence part then?

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The post second World War multi-state cooperation environment was epiphenomenal to the violence of ww2?

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

nooo haha don't dream of purging political enemies from your society you're so progressive haha

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Of course they *can*, but what's your money Putin personally survives such a back down?

Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Me in undergrad "Constantine called my boy a village? Byzantion, who beat back Alexander the Great's grandfather, shunted the Galatians into Anatolia, threw off the Athenian yoke? a FISHING VILLAGE?"

Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"we can always just kill you, Petey Boy" is probably not something he's had to respond to on these well credentialled podcast panels

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"professionalising individuals without professionalising institutions creates islands" That's a key takeaway anyone involved in Org modernisation would recognise

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Don't forget ditching the penny!

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's always the 1, 2 of compulsory voting and proportional representation. The former keeps the median voter tied to the median citizen, and the latter gives fringe parties a legitimate route to representation without relying on activist voting blocs

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think the Balts, famously on receiving end of the baltic crusades, would probably disagree with being labelled crusaders?

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Which military allies, the Germans? Brits? Americans?? who are the Catholics here?

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Begging people to stop using the one Scandinavian petro-state as a shining example of social democracy. Denmark does it just as well without trillions in resource wealth!

Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Please,,, my son,, he's very ill

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

34 years after Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" was published, Curiosity is *finally* showing me the Mars that Ann, Sax, John, Nadia, Maya and Frank saw - the Mars that has always been in my heart. Thank you, NASA. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

if you're saying professionals make better products than hobbyists, no argument from me. I'm just trying to understand why you're saying professionals get more of a chance to revise a product and not jump to the next thing immediately? More feedback?

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wouldn't doing it for a living force you to jump to the next product faster? Seems like there's endless chances to revise a hobby product, no ship date.

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Neo-Stylitist @lem-sky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'd say you're being a bit proscriptive with the colonial past there, but the actual answer (beaches and beer) wouldn't be super helpful either