ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025New Yorker slop writers too, don't forget yourself. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Maybe we should consider shrinking the size and power of the federal government so it can't be abused to harm political rivals. 🥱 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025@wyden.senate.gov you actions are not just acceptable to the vast majority of people but admirable. Jette is just on the wrong side of history. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Maybe you're just in an echo chamber which has lost touch with reality? Plenty of left wing radicals were raised in traditional households then radicalized at university. The right was able to look at the victim and immediately deduce motive based on what made sense. The left makes it's own reality. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025It was a dog whistle to the conspiracy theory that the guy was a groyper or some other form of right-wing person. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I just don't see how anyone can say with surety that any gerrymandering is racially motivated vs politically motivated. Unless political parties are completely racially homogeneous, then all political gerrymandering can be framed in racial terms. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I understand that, but it's pretty dumb if you have no clue what my chances of being impacted are. It's incredibly dismissive. Democrats are always incredibly dismissive of crime, homelessness, illegal immigration. They gaslight people. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Zombies aren't real, violent crime is. If you're privileged enough to not have to deal with violent crime count yourself lucky but don't pretend like it's something people are making up like aliens, zombies and ghosts. 100 1
Reposted by @ludiverse.bsky.socialludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What would a female centric form of caudillo politics look like if not the DNC? The same clientelism, but under the guise of protector mother vs authoritarian father. 001 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What would a female centric form of caudillo politics look like if not the DNC? The same clientelism, but under the guise of protector mother vs authoritarian father. 001 1
Reposted by @ludiverse.bsky.socialBaptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It's legit, and once again it is proof that American Peronism is an unlikely future for the US simply because Republicans are too insane to do actual clientelism. 17711 77
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Trump seems to understand the politics of Clientelism as well as any Democrat. "The exchange of goods and services for political support, often involving an implicit or explicit quid-pro-quo." 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Republicans don't really give their voters anything. Democrats are better at providing jobs from tax payer funded NGOs, federal jobs, union jobs, various entitlements. That produces more loyalty. Trump seemed to understand you have to bribe voters with their own money. 110 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025How is it free unless no one gets paid? 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Tyrants are bad, but so is anarchy. Leaders who refuse to enforce laws, hold people accountable, or maintain order. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I think the left has dropped the ball on crime and Trump is taking advantage of it. Bullying people who are concerned with crime is not going to do anything but alienate them from you on other issues. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025X and BS are two sides of the same coin. Extremists and radicals yelling about how the other side is entirely wrong and centrists and independents are fools for not being completely partisan and being able to see where each side is mistaken. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025If you have racial groups A 80% loyal to political party B couldn't you frame any reduction in the power of Party B as racial just to manipulate people? 110 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025If some race is mostly loyal to one political party, then that party can framed any reduction in power as racial attacks. It's just manipulation. Democrats gerrymander to reduce Republican power and Republicans do the same to Democrats. It's not about race but party. I'm tired of the gaslighting. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It seems like you're so partisan that you wouldn't believe anything that conflicts with your world view. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I would rather be poor in safety than rich in fear. There should be no places a woman is too scared of crime to venture at any time of day or night. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I think the Democrats have some reasonable ideas economically but it pales in comparison to how weak they are on crime. You can't deal with higher order things like the economy until you get crime under control. 200 2
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I've been to them in the Bay Area. There's little sidewalk shops set up around the mission Bart stations where stolen goods are for sale on a daily basis. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025You can reject it all you want but this is the first time in a long time DC has gone a week without a homicide. Carjackings have decreased by 83%, robberies by 46%, car thefts by 21%, and overall violent crime is down 22%. The Democrat reply is we should tolerate the reverse. 300 3
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025You can go to many blue cities and find open air markets of goods stolen from businesses. If you don't investigate crime or let criminals go by reducing charges, of course you'll have better stats. 300 3
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The data can be interpreted in different ways depending on what you're measuring and how you're looking at it. Left allied outlets repeat your claim, right allied orgs have different conclusions. In my experience police in blue cities will not investigate property crime, bike thefts, car break-ins. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Why should it have to come to federal troops in the streets because Democrats won't be tough on crime? There is a huge recidivism problem regarding violent crime. To centrists and independents it looks like Democrats are protecting criminals at the expense of the law abiding. Why? 400 4
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025All the scientists have left the US? Do you really believe this? 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Can you think of any job that has a majority of women that isn't dependent on taxpayers? Nursing, daycare, teaching, government work. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Subsidizing the job market of hard scientists is a better use of money than a legion of mid wit middle aged women with masters degrees in human resources. I'm not in a red state. 200 2
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Only elected officials should be allocating money for those things. If you need bureaucrats they should be on a state level so it's easier to prevent administrative bloat. We have a whole class of people doing make work at taxpayer expense. It's inefficient and expensive. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Which states have the most sanctuary cities, red or blue? Are there any in FL? 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Are there any sanctuary cities in Florida? 020 2
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025People want to know why Democrats are protecting rapist and gang members, while waving the flags of foreign countries. It's not a good look to centrists. 011 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025People outside of echo chambers don't see this as "Trump inflaming tensions." He ran on tackling illegal immigration, won, and now the resistance, under the flags of foreign nations, are obstructing the will of the people to protect criminals. That's how it looks to centrists and independents. 001 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025It's the job of Congress to control the purse. So, just determine a ratio of money per 100,000 people and make it law. You could even include adjustments for inflation. Having unelected people living off taxpayer money and insinuating themselves into these things is not democratic. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Yea, I've heard it but the issue is the difference between all and some. If they say some don't pay taxes and you say "these ones do" that doesn't change minds because it doesn't address the point which is "some or many don't." 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I've never heard it, it should be easy to find a source I guess if it's a common thing. It seems like a distortion of what they're saying which I don't think helps anything. I've heard them say illegal aliens are a net tax drain. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Yes, just like how Senate seats are apportioned. Texas doesn't get a couple of extra Senate seats just because it's big. Big states have a bigger tax base anyway so they should be able to make up the difference on their own. 100 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My point is I've never heard them use the universal quantifier. I have heard the existential quantifier. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Going after tips, Venmo payments, auditing the poor, that seems to have backfired too. 010 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025How are you going to convince poor people to hate billionaires enough that they're willing to personally suffer the stress and cost of an audit? It's not going to happen. Throwing the IRS under the bus seems like the only rational thing to do if you want to win elections. 110 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025If Congress changed the laws would you be ok with it then? I'm trying to figure out if the issue is a desire to follow the law, or if you don't like the idea of harnessing data to identify and remove people here unlawfully. 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025If Putin was sending hardliners to the US using the pretext of being students but who were actually there to stir up violence, wouldn't that be a problem? 000 0
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I don't understand why we need a middleman agency to do this? Why not just earmark the money for libraries, divide it up equally and send it to states for people in those areas to decide how to use? Isn't that the more democratic method? 130 3
Reposted by @ludiverse.bsky.socialMike Hendley 🎨 ✍️ 🇨🇦 @mikehendley.com · 09/04/2025Started a tortoise this morning as my sketch before work in a coffee shop. Love the challenge of these textures and super challenging. #wip #sciart 0454 45
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025There is almost nothing that is true about 100% of any population. Some pay taxes, some don't. Some are criminals, some aren't. 010 1
ludiverse.bsky.social @ludiverse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Some do, some don't. Obviously. I get frustrated when people mischaracterize arguements, because it's easier to refute a strawman. Even the equivocation of illegal immigrants with legal immigrants is a type of mischaracterization that clouds understanding. 010 1
