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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 6h
He goes for it in every fourth down.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 8h
Don't think I've seen many economic charts with log scales. Would look even more striking with a linear scale.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 9h
Its gonna be a tight race between, "a few rich people bring the numbers up" and "yeah, but adjust it for inflation now".
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 15h
I wonder if any other potential 2028 candidates are going to go in the attack like this or if they are all just going to give ossoff the nomination
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wish we would be more evidence based on the left. We cannot improve peoples' lives if we got on gut feelings in stead of evidence!
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I want to eat a spoonful of the universe as it was 10^-35 seconds after the big bang.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let the marketplace of ideas pick the winner.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I haven’t read through the entire spread, but if you turned a couple of the tris into fire ships that should do the trick.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wholesome? You in the wrong sub
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When did you work in concrete…1912!?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is doing politics the right way
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Out of all the administrations in my lifetime this one if off the charts in average weirdness of standing posture. Trump defies gravity at times.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Having this post come across my feed is a hate crime.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve been wondering for awhile if the message on the left needs to change from we should tax billionaires to fund programs to we should tax billionaires so they don’t have the power to control your life so much. Who wants so much of society built around the whims of assholes like Elon Musk?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m must have hallucinated, but did the president of the United States say that Los Angeles and San Diego being destroyed is a small price to pay for continuing his dumb ass war?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, is there any single work of the "shock jock" genre (Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson, etc.) that has oversized influence or do none of them rise above the crowd?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not being a conservative or a Christian, I've always had the impression that Augustine is very important to conservatives thought. How do you think he fits in?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People love to blame politicians for all our problems, but at some point electorates have to do some introspection. Just mind boggling stupid decision as was 2024 in the us abd brexit and so on and so on.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is bizarre somebody would say that. It is ignoring all the non centrists that hold office and it also ignores the movement to the left of those who have held office for decades. Compare the "centrists" to the average dem in the 90s! Compare somebody like Biden over this span. huge movement.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These activities have been largley automated.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And the 20% have no interest in actually determining who will get them a cheaper burger or if it is even possible for a president to do so.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Totally agree. This shit does not work if the opponent is not playing the same game as you! They are not operating from a mindset of valuing a liberal democracy.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe he shouldnt have run the “oops, forgot about black people” campaign.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is unfair to Bernie that he had to convince more people to vote for him than the “historically unpopular” Hilary Clinton.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The thermostatic nature of the electorate has always been deeply frustrating to me and it reared its uggliest head in 2024. Especially frusterating because Trump was the president in 2020, so he should have been treated as an incumbent by the electorate. But our electorate has 0 memory
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think I am just extremely pessimistic about he electorate because of the 2024 election. I was always pessimistic, but that election just broke me. I have arrived on the answer is it is largely bigotry mixed with just a complete unwillingness to try to understand how the world works.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to latinos who voted for him, they believed they would deport other people and not the people they knew.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kalama Harris was by far the best on material concerns last election and the electorate decided that bigotry was more important this time. Will they next time? Or the time after that or after that? Who knows.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is why I don't think the "address their material concerns" strategy is the winning strategy. It is the right thing to do to promote human flourishing, but ultimately we have to convince people to not be bigoted or we will always be in danger of sliding backward.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Its possibly to lure these people to vote for progressive candidates, but their support is not durable. They have already shown they will vote for pushing others down over material prosperity once and they may do it again at any time in the future.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All of those people you listed are bigoted. It is possibly not every single person in MAGA is, but those people are.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Women, LGBT+ people, different minorities, people of other religions, other immigrants who "didn't do it the right way", etc. Always somebody that Trump is promising to hurt if they just pretend he was kidding when he said he would hurt them specifically.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Many of those people think Trump will be hurting somebody they hate. It is all about being 1 step of the hierarchy for many people.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or is it because they like the bigotry?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you believe something like that with such miniscule evidence without actually trying to figure out if it is true or not means you actually wanted to believe it.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I agree the JD Vance deserves a prime place in (non-existent" hell, but people who believe shit like this based on a random video should not be excused what so ever.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you think he is just dumb and couldn’t understand the e information he found?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You said you understand why he felt the way he did as if he couldn’t try to figure out what was actually happening. If he did, he would have seen the reality of the situation.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stop excusing the actions of Trump voters. They have agency and a brain and should be expected to use them.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Unless my perception is way off, dualism is way more highly correlated with theism than atheism. My comment was that I was surprised there were so many atheist dualists.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagining the face of the person who sees those as the same as the drivers who witnessed the murder of the cop in Fargo. They know it is over for them.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have to wonder if too much of the general public are dualists for this to be an issue that will have any sort of consensus. I’ve been surprised that so many people on blue sky are dualists despite it (I’m assuming) being a much higher percentage atheist than the general public
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like a Gatorade after being out in the suns either nothing to drink for 8 hours.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not gonna make many millionaires without people putting money in the stock market. The typical middle glass person will easily become a millionaire because of the stock market and has a much lower chance of doing so without investing in stocks.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ohio diners don’t even have microwaves.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They use the rotating villain strategy that they always accuse democrats in the senate of using. It is just projection.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To this day if you say anything about Bernie not winning primaries they will tell you about how he was cheated in 2016 which is both not true and also occurred a decade ago.
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You saying he is wild because of the knife hand? Quite an assumption to make. Can’t he just be a mild mannered bloke who just always want to be prepared to cut his food?
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mdthornb.bsky.social @mdthornb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe we should try 1 knife and see how that goes. Just as a trial run.
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