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niraliberalism

@niral.bsky.social
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The most effective liberals have been those forced to compromise with the left, not those left to compromise with right. Opinions are usually mine, never my employer’s.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h
bourgeois democracy only does this when it’s extremely distressed
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 20h
My family doesn’t celebrate Columbo’s Day. They hate cops.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 20h
Do people name their companies after Lord of the Rings to get Peter Thiel to invest, or do they have to change the names when he invests?
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Watch Putin accidentally raise domestic fuel prices so much he gets overthrown. (Watch prices start to go up and no fuel gets exported to the US)
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
yeah the forest was sort of enchanted, but it’s nothing to write gnomes about
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Consultants tell you to never sound intemperate. Because here in 1998, the worst insult is to call a liberal “shrill”.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is clearly stating that ICE is good and the only rogue agents are bad. The message is that Hakeem Jeffries agrees with everything ICE does other than the shootings.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Now, to resume castigating libs and wonks for being terrible at messaging.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I wish politicians would promise, instead of lowering prices, that nominal wages would outpace inflation. Alas.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
menacing but cute but menacing
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
should’ve also said we must defeat they/them. At which point, with fully woke pronoun-respecting wrapped around the odious chud bait, I would’ve found the ad almost amusing.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Would’ve been more effective with an ironic “she.” Anyway, can’t wait until it’s time to put people up against the wall.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is going find all the bad apples in the klan gang
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Labour has leapt and bounded ahead of Democrats as the most pathetically unprincipled and vile “left” party in history
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Whenever I hear a pre-2000 song mention a phone, I yell Landline
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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
goddamn
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
name me a democrat who wants to ban trans people from oncology wards* *actual thing the uk is doing
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it's not even close
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The author used to be dead, but now it’s just not alive.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this smacks of gender. my daughter will be able to do the same by the time she’s one. Just need a trip to Japan.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m supposed to come up with two different compliments but I’ve never seen a sandwich made with different bread on either side.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But it is a stupid exercise much of the time, it’s just begging for hackery.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s nothing inherently wrong with cost benefit analysis, and there’s rarely a good way value life without reducing it to a number. The problem is treating it as scientifically true, and using it as the sole basis for policy decisions.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a stupid way to write about the study, but if you’re appalled at putting a dollar figure on human lives, you’re going to have trouble with every public health study ever published.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is the first time “my guy” has ever been uttered on the debate stage and, inshallah, we will soon hear it from the senate floor and resonating through the halls of power
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No American before me has ever turned towards Europe and said “I can’t believe your country makes you pay for that medical procedure”
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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
death by firing squad is quick, and honest in its brutality but live-streaming this shit is just disgusting
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No - I’ll check it out next time I’m out here. Which apparently is going to happen pretty frequently.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I could try to make the point that this is tactically counterproductive, but they only change their minds about their commitment to human decency, and I’d much rather castigate them for that anyway.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kovai Cafe, Milpitas California.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The cruelty is the prelude
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The chuds are hooting so hard they evulse their lungs right into the jug
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s because of the architecture, that Soviet-esque cathedral to knowledge is just too tall and beautiful for their small minds.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Juking the stats by destroying lives, hope the gold star in their personnel files was worth it.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just can’t get looped in to words that have so little value-add.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Overindexing” taking the lead for most obnoxious corpspeak.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He conflated the English and Québécois spelling of LeBatte
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a reversal, to see a Republican making a desperate appeal to “bipartisanship”.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of which is to say, very little of this is about substance or reality. It’s a poisoned discourse. The discourse is reduced to two spidermans, each pointing at the funhouse mirror behind the other.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You could deliver press releases that are identical but for switching the order of the Israel paragraph and the Palestine paragraph, and people would applaud one and lose their shit at the other.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People so upset this doesn’t start with the obligatory emphasis on Israeli suffering. Do they really find that much comfort in prefatory boilerplate?
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Of course there’s a freakout about this. But much like the most moderate Dem will be called a socialist, this is how they’d treat any Muslim elected. So, why not just say what you believe, something real?
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m glad he’s getting the beat down that Rick Scott also deserves
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For bribery statutes, “official act” is so narrow that taking bribes in office Nd providing favors doesn’t count. For Trump’s presidential power, “official act” is so expansive that he can’t be touched. Very curious.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Becoming a failson, the truest form of assimilation
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Black Nationalist groups have largely been aggressively anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist, which is kind of ironic for a group that creates nationhood out of loose affinity, believes integrated equality can never be achieved, seeks to regenerate their people in a half-mythical homeland…
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026
sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026
Aries: Your enemies are buying a product today, Aries. Buy a product before it's too late Taurus: Pull up a comfy blanket, Taurus, it's time to purchase a product Gemini: Girl, get ready for a new product to enter your life Cancer: Take time today to ask your loved ones if they need a new product
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The courts are created to address certain types of crime, not to address Trump specifically. Leave some very limited parts of SCOTUS review intact.
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congress could create a special court for trying members of the Trump administration. It would be an Article III court, subject to all the same constraints. But it could process the cases much more efficiently. It could even limit SCOTUS jurisdiction of such a court.
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