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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2h
woke 1: all of my enemies are ontologically evil woke 2: all of my enemies are sad little losers
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h
I fully believe that this is Wayne's culture, because it's recognizably lower class white culture of the kind that JD Vance correctly excoriated in Hillbilly Elegy. However, it's not American culture or even PMC white culture. It's just hick culture.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2h
another fun bit of lore is that he got divorced in 2019 and it triggered his MAGA binge
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2h
this is very funny coming from a middle aged guy whose career peaked as being a middle manager at a small fountain drink parts company
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2h
TWU hates Kathy Hochul and keeps trying to elect swing seat Republicans like Fitzpatrick we can’t let these far right groups have veto power over good transportation policy (for example, one person train operation)
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 3h
Thinking about this again
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 3h
you can watch the full spot here. genuinely an insane thing to get mad about www.instagram.com/reel/DeHvQ0u...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6h
Yeah most of these groups are like Colorado Springs Watershed Community Alliance and the whole org is just some moderately wealthy retired boomer running an insta page
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6h
the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7h
me in bologna this summer: “I am so excited to walk around this beautiful city with my wife and eat the most declious pasta on earth” twitter Nazis in bologna: “I am furious about the levels of race mixing in this city”
Lee Kuan Yimby • @LeeKuanYimby • 4h
I was at a bus station in Bologna at night and there was hundreds of people and straight up nobody was
Italian.
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it's so much worse than people are being told man
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7h
especially since we’ve seen a decline in income polarization as the upper middle/lower upper class gets more lib while the working class gets more chud (largely downstream from edpol)
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7h
I honestly think that up until social media became common it was basically elites effectively creating a cordon sanitare against the far right via mass media gatekeeping. the average westerner knew their elected officials because they saw a newspaper headline that a new bridge opened, not from QAnon
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8h
you seem like a very pleasant person
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8h
seeing a sick fuck like Ken Paxton lose will undoubtedly be the most satisfying election result since Trump lost in 2020
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h
yung lean for DoW secretary
got an empire of emotion
Squad see me cruisin', cruisin' in my go kart
I'm War ho, I'm Warhol
I'm Wario when I'm in Mario Kart
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h
Let’s fucking goooo also get Obama’s ass to Maine ASAP
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h
Spain really seems to be in early 2010s level of California housing discourse. lots of left NIMBYs
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h
as a lifelong caps fan it is very easy for me to say: fuck Alex ovechkin. nothing he does in the rink can ever outweigh his vocal support for a genocidal regime wantonly slaughtering Ukrainian civilians and murdering dissidents
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h
inspiring: ovechkin to return to Russia to pursue his true passion of hanging out with a genocidal dictator
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23h
the flying monkeys in the wizard of Oz really freaked me out
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23h
brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it
But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
he is haunted and yet he still fails to acknowledge that his very own vote for Trump is directly responsible for this take some fucking personal responsibility man
"Well, we wouldn't have had to take care of Pierre. Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do," Jack said. "We did not do right by him."
He was beginning to believe that the Trump administration was "a joke," and that the Democrats were no better. "Everything is broken," Jack said.
He started going over it all again. The morning that began so normally. The cornfields and wildflowers. A young Haitian man named Pierre Damas Bel whose
troubles had become his own.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not related to that article but need to vent: my new pet peeve is restaurants that don’t have a phone number. and then I try to contact via resy and it says contact the restaurant directly. I would if I could!
Is there any way to move the reservation to 2PM
I'm sorry, we didn't copy. Text "1" to confirm or "g" to cancel.
Is there any way to move the reservation to 2PM
This is an automated response. For any changes or questions about your reservation, please contact the restaurant directly.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
$36 billion to the teamster’s pension in particular wasn’t enough to get regular Democrat support out of them.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it’s a fucking high school gym
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just want to say to republicans: this guy is your king? this senile weirdo is the person you will give up your life for? seriously?
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
huh? apnews.com/article/sout...
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Ousted South Korean President Yoon given prison term for drone flights over Pyongyang
South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister have been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang to heighten tensions...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think yoon flew some drones into the north to provoke an attack as part of his attempted coup (North Korea basically ignored it and Yoon tried the coup anyway)
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Left-NIMBY vacancy trutherism is so funny because their argument implicitly accepts the logic that greater supply of housing lowers prices but then completely refuses to take it to its logical endpoint that we should build more housing.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026
a lot of people want to put this on o’brien but i think he represents his members faithfully and this is who the teamsters are and have been for decades
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
as someone who is studied in housing economics, I have bad news for you: building more housing lowers rents
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!
Kansas Teamsters Back Pro-Labor Candidate for U.S. Senate
Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 (Topeka, Kan.) - Today, Teamsters Local 696 endorsed Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
"Sen. Marshall has proven time and time again that he is a friend of labor," said Teamsters General President Sean M.
O'Brien. "As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Sen. Marshall has been eager to partner with us on legislation that protects workers, even when it requires breaking rank with his own party. We look forward to continuing to work together with Sen. Marshall to fight for the rights of hardworking Americans."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have bad news about labor these days
FIRST ON FOX: One of the top union leaders in the country has waded into a key Senate contest, backing the Republican incumbent in a race that could determine the balance of power in the upper chamber.
Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien is backing Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in his bid for re-election as Republicans look to solidify their grip in the upper chamber and push back against the headwinds that browbeat the party in power during a midterm election cycle.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Left-NIMBYism has never worked, does not work, and will never work. The only durable solution is building more homes.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is also doing battle with left-NIMBYs in the replies. King of my heart and the true big boss.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I support Abdul and want him to win! I think it would be very bad if he lost! You got me
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
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© Translated from Spanish by Grok
Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
also it’s fucking crazy that Republican superPACs have spent $100M trying to boost Paxton and yet Talarico keeps expanding his lead
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
also gotta say we are under-appreciating the extent to which losing Texas Senate and Gov would be a nuclear bomb for the Republican psyche. I genuinely think you’d see tons of republicans turning on Trump and him eventually being impeached and convicted if these polls are accurate
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
on top of that, I have analyzed all of the state legislature contests and highlighted the most hotly contested races to either block a Republican supermajority (North Carolina, Iowa) or actually flip a chamber (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona) we’ve already raised $120K which is insane
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
all my homies hate alani bankhead
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know social media is just one angle but the gap between engagement for Paxton and Talarico is genuinely stunning. average Talarico insta post literally has 100x as much engagement as Paxton’s posts
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not steer the Titanic into an iceberg?" Jack Smith: "That was Edward John Smith."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I actually remember him being pretty chill from our high school quizbowl encounters and then a decade later he started attacking me online out of the blue lol
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is evidence that better faregates significantly reduce disorder on public transit
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