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Got it, that's a completely accurate assessment. I'd suggest that this applies to parasocial outrage cycles writ large, but it's worthwhile to be reminded of the left's susceptibility specifically.

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I don’t recall the vector you're referring to, but sure, that tracks and is why I only partly attributed the episode to right-wingers. I still don't understand what I am supposed to take away from this comparison.

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Given how many grown ass adults take the wrong lessons from Cuno, I'm skeptical that a child of any level of maturity is likely to get positive lessons out of Disco Elysium.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t know if a targeted harrassment campaign against Lindsay Ellis instigated at least in part by right-wing discord sowers is a helpful point of comparison. Like, what lesson are we supposed to take from that ordeal, and how should we be applying that lesson here?

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very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Horseshoe Theory is a theory in the same sense that gravity is, but I would still caution against taking a deranged right-winger's "I was a Member of the Left" statement at face value. It's such a frequently-used rhetorical strategy as to be cliché.

Donald Trump goes off-script frequently, and he has increasingly let these kinds of comments slip during prepared remarks. This wasn't a stumble, it was an aside. And even if he misread the prompter, why did the audience cheer while he smirked at the prospect?

Listen to the cheering at the comment of "let them take out Los Angeles". He may be flubbing prepared remarks, but he is pretty clearly doing so by ad-libbing with a riff about his (and his audience's) hatred of Californian cities. We don't need to sanewash a demented rant because it was off-script.

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Ah, so your idea of the Framers' intent is "give the partisan obstructionists what they want or let the government fall into chaos". I see now why you skipped the citation I asked for.

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He did though, which is why McConnell refused to hold the vote for confirmation. Under your theory of governance, without a partisan majority in the Senate, the President could he preempted from seating any appointees at all. That's not advice and consent, it's Constitutional subversion

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Can you share the source for that?

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Or, in the case of denying a quorum, NO business is conducted, and everything grinds to a halt. I don’t know why Obama allowed Republicans to invent a pocket veto privilege from whole cloth, but that was a deeply toxic precedent to set for pur government.

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Sure, but I don’t get your point. The procedure is relevant. The Senate was free to hold the hearing and vote the nominee down. The law does not allow them to leave the business of government in a vacuum through inaction. Even cloture/fillibuster obstruction is based on the Senate actually convening

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EA hasn't changed the fundamental dynamic of NGOs using motivated reasoning to maintain inefficient practices, it's just created a system of util-theorizing that can be gamed to rationalize that motivated reasoning.

This is true, but the parallel that comes to mind is crypto boosters who called out the structural problems in global banking. The observation is accurate, but the proposed solution doesn’t fix those problems while introducing a new suite of its own problems.

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John @lexaproluthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is pretty clearly both? Whether you frame it as a power or a duty, though, it was waived by the refusal to hold a hearing. A precedent where the Senate can grind the Executive Branch to a halt without even convening for a vote is utterly dysfunctional, and should never have even been humored.

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If the Senate will not even hold the confirmation hearing and vote down the appointee, they refuse their Constitutional duty and the President continues to have the duty to appoint the officer.

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John @lexaproluthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's not a clause, it's a legal theory. Article 2, Section 2 says: :He... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States"

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Yikes! Think about how you would react to somebody saying this about another ethnic minority, let alone the one actively subject to heightened risk of hate crimes. Postracism is an argument that does not have a strong track record.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Senate had waived its Constitutional privilege to advise and consent by refusing to hold a hearing. Obama should have put her on the bench immediately and neutralized the issue instead of engaging in performative bipartisanship that kept SCOTUS a motivator for GOP voters.

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I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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There's no meat flavoring, just the seasonings. As a savory injection into a sweet treat, Nabisco cooked with this one.

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It's with a heavy heart that I tell you These Whip, Actually. Black pepper and paprika notes paired with maple syrup is a great sweet/savory combination, and the Oreo creme/wafer configuration is ideal for delivering those flavors.

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mister president this is your lawyer, i am imploring you to Keep Posting This Shit

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Thank you for dilligently protecting Jay Leno's hobbies and saving your veto power for bills that regulate pervert glasses. You truly have the interests of the American People at heart...

A sittting senator defamed a career public servant on a national broadcast, and this outlet calls that behavior a "viral mix-up"? Contemptible.

The horse that would like to try cake should get to run the editorial board

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Why is PBS doing advertising for Republicans again?

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If he goes to jail, he's gonna pick a fight with the biggest guy in there and get squashed like a bug immediately

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ofc not, you didn't look like Zohran Mamdani

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I saw Goody Proctor at the Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024

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It kinda worked out because she was able to control so much Biden Admin staffing, but you have to wonder what life would look like if Bernie had dropped out after that heart attack instead of leaning into the snake emoji constituency

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It's giving a monoglot in an American café pretentious calling it a "cwoissan"

When Democrats have the gavels and Republicans start whining about political prosecutions and kangaroo courts, we need to force them to watch this clip like that scene in A Clockwork Orange

This migrant caravan actually includes MS-13's top pediatric endocrinologists, so it's extra dangerous this time

Under what basis? I agree that stripping Elon of every last asset seems normal and good, but what law in the books enables the government to do this? If your argument is that we shouldn't do wealth taxation because we can do this instead, we should have a clear understanding of how.

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Not a realistic copium to smoke, I just wanted to say Blousiana

i am going to become the Joker

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Plausible, but after a decade of curve-fitting the models to predict Republican overperformance and a couple cycles of accurate forecasting, a 2016-style polling miss seems unlikely.

I'm mostly facetious here, but a bullshit October Surprise designed in a lab to boost Republicans is a fairly well-established pattern at this point.

Because it's almost October of an election year, which means the national networks are about to suddenly discover a migrant caravan to fixate on for multiple news cycles.

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Sure, but that's the structural bias of the law. Large legal resources and the structure of penalties makes it much harder to go after the very wealthy like that. We still should, but that requires us to think about the mechanism, especially if it's a rationalization against wealth taxation.

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Deleted the earlier post because, in trying to express legality and edge cases of journalistic merit, "good faith" was the wrong word choice - publicly identifying an anonymous assault victim is a flagrant breach of journalistic ethics, even in false accusation cases like the 2014 UVA allegations.

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Amazing that a prosecutor does not know how to shut the fuck up. Why would a DA issue more than short statement about re-opening the case without any prejudicial comments in either direction?

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