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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 27/07/2026

the cape fear tv show is the perfect argument against prestige tv: a flawless movie that was already remade, stretched several times longer than you already know it needs to be. bardem is amazing though

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is doubtlessly somewhat tangential to whatever the topic here was, but it is probably less helpful than we usually think to speak of politicians “being” one political philosophy or another.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have been moving & driving all day, but what in the name of Sam Hill has been happening here.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wilson making it past Harding is pretty good stuff.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

now that I’m thinking about it, this is what the American people wanted done to someone (it barely mattered whom) after the pandemic.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

sent to The Hague for “having fucked the Vibes.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

that’s bait (the bait is also the worm in RFK, Jr.’s brain).

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yeah, this is what Hitler believed. Like this is very literally what Nazis believed.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If Mamdani inspires the left online to pursue pragmatic change on the municipal level, that’s good. It is pretty funny, though, to see this enthusiasm & wonderment about “small business owners rejoice as mayor cuts red tape.” Why didn’t anyone try that before!

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“We have Pete Buttigieg at home.“

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

In fact, we need to ditch party names altogether. We need a new organization that fights for good government that helps people. We could call it something like “No Labels.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Very smart. Democrats must reject labels & unite around issues that matter to working American families.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There are some Sister Rosetta Thorpe bangers along these lines, iirc.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am a total sicko for midcentury gospel music about God judging the land & visiting chastisements upon it. It goes so hard.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Feral Hogs Rule Everything Around Me

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this must hit so hard if you’re stupid, etc.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“If you spend enough time in meetings, you can change the policy of this committee over which we currently have no control.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ha ha leafy green vegetables are gay

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

…actually, it’s more like if the monster chewing the power lines was real but had withdrawn to the woods with severe toothache & the demand was to bring in a new monster.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The brightest minds of progressive media & policy have come together to demand that Governor Andy Beshear shoot the monster chewing the power lines.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

man, it does not inspire confidence that this is one of the policy guys.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The most common ways of thinking about American foreign policy on the left (which includes views often described as liberal) *only* have value as critiques of power. As policies or principles of governance they are worse than useless, potentially catastrophic.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

…I, of course, am never mischievous— What, never? —Well, hardly ever!

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Someone inclined to be mischievous might observe a certain symmetry between the view that removing American intervention would solve the ills of the international system and the idea of the self-regulating market economy.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s a trifling example but an example nonetheless of how the American left never expects to have & use power, even though they so often fantasize about abusing it.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s kind of funny their vision was/is “abolish governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid & journalism” & not “use governmental agencies to expose & combat capitalist control through journalism & aid.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

okay, so it turns out there are at least three people who don’t know it: bsky.app/profile/samd...

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am not really interested in the specifics of Will Stancil’s arguments or feuds at this point, but metadiscursively, they are significant.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s so embarrassing when people take these labels seriously.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

so many dreams come true at once

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

not persuaded this is the actual brand.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ah, a Dorothea Lange for inessential workers.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don’t know if there is any event—or series of events—that could change the attitude in that room.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In another transcript, an SS officer & the son of the president of the Berlin police tell each other that Hitler has been systematically deceived by Bad Advisers:

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“There are two people who didn't know that in Russia it is cold in winter; one was Napoleon Bonaparte, and the other was the Führer, the dilettante general, but everyone else knew.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you don’t get to influence the winner, I think you unfortunately still have to go with Khanna. The tail-end risks of Fetterman approach those of Trump. bsky.app/profile/slot...

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I think I would be good at influencing Ro Khanna, actually, because I have the capacity to be a kind of history-of-ideas hack who could get on his wavelength.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If there’s a chance that my choice (or lack thereof) helps me gain influence with the winner, this becomes much easier.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Alternatively: “It’s anti-Italian discrimination.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I do think that culture significantly affects the feasibility of establishing & sustaining a Nordic-style welfare state.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

(This is already in late June of 1942.)

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

WAHLER: Anyway it is clear that he has changed to an enormous degree. FRÖSCHEL: Yes, and I still believe that it is not his real self. WAHLER: Perhaps it is an impersonator; perhaps he himself died long ago.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“I always have the feeling that he has been forced into it, that he is no longer a free agent. That would, to a great extent, exonerate him.” “No, it wouldn't because he is the Führer, and is therefore perfectly free.”

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Two captured Luftwaffe officers discuss whether Hitler has failed or been failed:

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