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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Maybe we could raise money by selling arms to a right-wing paramilitary group in Latin America

Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Either Ron Johnson's website got hacked or he is trying to start a passive income stream www.ronjohnsonforsenate.com/2025/12/01/p...

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It's not an LLM, not developed by a tech company, the image is six years old, cancer screening adoption won't be determined by social media reaction

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

RFK does not look good in this. I don't know who you think is reading this and getting MAHA pilled

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Not sure if people losing their minds about this (pretty good!) cover story which RFK considers a hit piece picked up on the subtext of this photo.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Sometimes you must retreat to advance 😌

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

There is a big blue meteor on a collision course with earth that will make DINOs extinct. 🦕☄️

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Sounds like the prosecution was sub-par

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Is she running for senate or something

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Should prioritize early voting push in the most Democratic precincts

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I'm on here to explore the world of ideas with bluesky's brightest minds, but they just want to insult my podcast 😂

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I think that's fair. I've just heard a lot of maximalist "outcomes-don't-matter-at-all", which is unnerving, because if that's true then everything is just rhetoric and the good guys have no long term structural advantage. We'd just be at the whim of whoever is better at manipulating the public.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"When you have the power you should do good things on their own merits, and it’s disconnected from electoral outcomes." All I'm arguing is it can't be *completely* disconnected from electoral outcomes, which also seems to be the position Stancil takes. Obvs it's not as connected as we would like

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

All of this is straining under the sway of a populist demagogue, but to say outcomes don't matter AT ALL, that popular will does NOTHING to improve governance is going too far.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Despite the current extreme polarization, politics is not a zero-sum game. People broadly agree that economic growth and curing disease is good. Crime, corruption, pollution are bad. They don't want to die in meaningless wars.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Democracy *does* create a conflict resolution system, it's just not what gets the kids in Madagascar in the streets. They think they should be the ones making decisions because they will make better decisions that will improve their lives

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Right, but then the argument above is that the grievances aren't actually addressed any better under democracy (because if they were outcomes would have improved, policies and parties that better address grievances would tend to win out)

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

People don't wage democratic revolutions to create some sort of conflict resolution mechanism. They do it because they have actual grievances that aren't being addressed because people in power aren't accountable to them.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It's less vulnerable to the depraved whims of a dictator such as invading Ukraine. You can point to Iraq and Vietnam but we were forced to leave both because of public opinion and each had profound effects on our politics.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I agree democracy doesn't produce ideal outcomes, but it does produce better ones, on average. It doesn't just stifle violence — people get actual grievances addressed, because they have actual power.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

That wasn't my intent. I know you're not arguing for despotism. My question was if you don't think democracy improves outcomes, isn't this a lot of work for no tangible payoff. It's not meant as an attack on you

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I never said it achieves "ideal" anything. But I do think democracies make better decisions, have lower levels of corruption, and enjoy greater prosperity because you are polling from all of society with many different viewpoints and more information than a single potentially crazed despot.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It's the scenario you've outlined in which popular will has no relation to popular good.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Right, so a feeling of autonomy which is basically hollow because it can't actually improve your situation, and stability, which plenty of authoritarian regimes achieve through propaganda, etc If this is true democracy in screwed and perhaps not worth saving. But I don't think it is.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If allowing people to pick their own rulers doesn't improve outcomes then what's the point? You're saying it's purely symbolic and we'd be just as well off with a despot?

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

But isn't this the whole premise of democracy? Why let people choose if they don't preference superior outcomes?

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

They're simply diagnosing why she has lower favorability. How do you read this as "hostility?"

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What did the oyster farmer say when he found out he had a Nazi tattoo? aw shucks

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Just an enormous benefit of the doubt we're being asked to extend to someone with no political track record

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Problem with accidentally getting a Nazi tattoo while fighting a war you previously protested is it makes you look like an idiot.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

ELECTION BOMBSHELL: Gov. Janet Mills reveals she ALSO has a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's inspiring what ordinary people can accomplish when they take courageous action like this

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You have to compare online donations from single mothers waiting tables vs black southern sharecroppers adjusted for PPP, which gives you the Real Activism Index (RAI.)

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Not everyone on here is fluent in sarcasm

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

When I saw this article I immediately thought of Nancy Pelosi too

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

What are you talking about, those are clearly turbines, not propellers

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

You forgot the first rule of TACO fortune.com/2025/10/12/s...

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

He's functionally the richest man in the world, so what's money, and wouldn't it be fun to have a few pet dictators?

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I think it's comforting because it provides clarity and external responsibility. "If only Schumer would do X!" Admitting that we are also responsible and don't know the right answer is very scary.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

No, they want acts of violence to turn public opinion against the left and justify a wider crack down. We need public opinion, and you lose public opinion when you resort to violence.

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Patriot Snopes @patriotsnopes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Peaceful protest has been effective numerous times and does not require command and control of hundreds of thousands of ground troops. It's far better suited for current situation in which a violent response is exactly what they are trying to provoke.

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