Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 7mI mean, would it be any worse than Scott Brown winning Massachusetts in 2009? 000
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Congress should not get involved in executive duties” then mentions trade and war… FFS our civics education is clearly in dire straits. 1101
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Saying that about *Ohio* in particular is just absurd. 040
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 28/09/20261917 was like that too, except, interestingly, for the two main characters. 060
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Didn’t the Washington Post literally set up a video series to this effect? 1191
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Unable to reverse falling crop yields, the government turns to NASA. 030
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Liberal cosmopolitanism can definitely also capture the imagination. It is a profoundly noble idea, and many have died for it. It just requires liberals to understand the importance of presenting it as such. 091
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Now that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long, long time. 000
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Weren’t the 50% only going to impact a tiny portion of Canada’s exports anyway? 101
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Also, a society founded by slave revolt, and whom it is heavily implied engineered the Doom of Valyria which saved Essos from the rule of bloodthirsty dragon-lords. 030
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 12/08/2026On the other hand, Sherrill and Spanberger blew past the polling levels. It might be a primary phenomenon. 060
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Weren’t the Greek monarchs famously all of Northern European descent? 140
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Yes but only if they add subtitles to the theatrical screenings. 000
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 01/08/2026He was very tall but super skinny. Though as Brad Pitt in Fight Club said that probably just makes him more scrappy. 020
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Didn't the original Combat Evolved not have multiplayer because it was pre-XBOX Live? I'm mainly glad it has co-op cross-platform. 110
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 30/07/2026That’s an Elite, the *enemy* of the Spartans through most of the trilogy. Or are they implying that the tiny human soldier facing him is the Spartan? 070
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I think it’s referring to the Spartan super-soldiers in Halo. Except that the picture shows an Elite alien soldier, which are actually the Spartans’ (and humanity’s) main enemies in the series. 110
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 29/07/20261917 is absolute fire, I enjoyed it even more than Dunkirk. I watch that movie again every couple years. 060
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think the difference is that a lot of Democrats’ unfavorables are from their own voters. 3230
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Fun fact, cricket didn’t actually become that massively popular with the broad Indian public until decades after independence. The national sport was (and technically still is) field hockey, a sport where India won consecutive Olympic golds through the 1930s-1950s. 1221
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I loved Rogue One when it came out but then when I watched it right after finishing Andor S2 it was just so much worse in comparison. Still probably a Top 3 Star Wars movie though, better than any of the prequels or sequels. 080
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A 6% productivity growth delta over pre-pandemic for IT does seem very significant though. 110
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I really liked the movie but that part made me feel like I was going insane 030
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Didn’t Oppenheimer basically literally do this lol 170
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Solar, wind, and nuclear can replace electricity - but for most of the other critical products we rely on (fertilizer, cement, etc.) we’ll need hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future. 100
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 19/07/2026You put very cogently exactly my thoughts that I struggled to get at in my stumbling Letterboxd review. A [small ‘c’] conservative criticism of the far right is exactly correct. 080
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 17/07/2026He gives off the vibes of “small c conservative” but with center-left politics. 030
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 16/07/2026“Coastal and metro areas, where nearly all immigrants settle” - this fellow really is totally disconnected from any semblance of reality isn’t he? 0101
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 14/07/2026And the real loss of territory came not from the defeat at Manzikert, but from all the internal civil wars in the years that followed it… 1362
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The loss to Belgium in 2014 was an actual moral victory IMO. This on the other hand... well, we all saw it. 0110
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I guarantee all of us will forget about the Trump thing in about two seconds if USA wins. 120
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We are generally fine with unfairness during the game where the ref messes up a tough call in the moment, but unfairness *between* games when administrators have ample time and information to correct their mistake strikes us as extremely bizarre. Cultural difference I guess. 040
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Why “even”? CATO is fundamentally more pro-immigrant than most center-left or left-wing think tanks. 120
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Though genuine abolitionism did become very popular through the course of the war, especially among the soldiers. It’s why the Radical Republicans swept the 1866 election. 1220
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I’m sorry but there’s no chance an unbroken line of Starks has ruled from the same castle for 8,000 years. 240
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 30/06/2026For many people right now, despair and doomerism is a more dangerous trap than blissful ignorance. 0245
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Liberal democracy and republicanism don’t always go hand in hand, unfortunately. And I say this as an American who strongly believes in our constitutional republic (when people actually uphold it). 060
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The *entire* stock market lost half its value in 2008-09, and the economy recovered within a few years. A single stock crashing is not going to cause a “century of global economic depression.” 040
Shashank S.B. @leshank94.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Looks like the 2024 Lib Dem vote all went for Burnham tactically? 020
