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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

And just practically: Yes, there's nothing Constitutional that says the Speaker has to be a House member, but doing it to piss off the "uniparty"? The Speaker is chosen by a majority vote of the House. His imagined "uniparty" would have to pick him. To troll themselves.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Decades of running on hate and racism, backed by corporate money, make it easy to pop up things like the Tea Party. Not sure that's a pattern Dems should follow.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

No one's talking about amendments. We're talking about Supreme Court rulings.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

One of the more amusing studies I saw years ago showed that people overwhelmingly agreed that we spent far too much on foreign aid, massively overestimated how much we did spend and when prompted for how much we should spend suggested more than we actually do.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Neither do they. That's part of the problem

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And yet, they voted for someone openly putting minority groups at risk and they either agree with that or just weren't concerned about it.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I wonder if the leftists in line for the gas chambers will still be complaining about Democrats rather than the Republicans?

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Even more so if you're not in recovery, but promise to start being in recovery if you get the new really stressful job.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Waiting for the book to come out.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Anything's theoretically possible, but what we see in the archeological record is extremely low population densities and incredibly slow technological progress. Stone toolkits remaining almost unchanged for thousands of years, then eventually things starting to change faster with the Neolithic

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

And once you get sucked into one, you're easy prey for more, since they all involve the elites keeping the truth from you, so even the seemingly harmless ones are dangerous.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

He can either stage a coup or do nothing. We elected Trump. There's no Constitutional way to undo that. Don't expect Biden to fix it. That was our job and we fucked it up.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Conceptually, I'm not bothered by there being no ban on felons running. It could be someone who'd served time young, rehabilitated themselves and had years of public service since. Or perhaps convicted on charges that came from protesting in a good cause.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Not really. The current main scholarly theory, which seems supported by the earliest mentions is that his birth date was calculated based on ancient Jewish ideas that led to the belief he was conceived on the same day as his crucifixion. Nine month after Passover lands us in late December.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It's a fascinating book, but unless I'm completely mistaken hardly "seminal". Parts of it have had some influence, but the basic thesis is overwhelmingly rejected.

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thejeff @thejefty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Not nearly the power of the US military. Also, Syria's been torn by civil war for more than a decade, with hundreds of thousands dead and millions of refugees. This isn't really something we want to emulate: scale those numbers up 10-15x to match US population size

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