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Propose this platform and watch self identifying centrists PRETZEL themselves trying to explain why they're not just unprincipled launderers of reactionary ideology

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Thoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 6h

Germany is experiencing this in slow motion, as the growth of Oh No It’s Actual Nazis has forced everybody else into a Permanent Grand Coalition of Everyone Else, with the expected dysfunctions

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, the ability of the two party primary to act as a lens that immediately magnified MAGA from a 15% party to a 50+1% party has been Not Great. I think the European experience shows the Racism Party can still grind it out, so it's not a perfect firewall, but you can't get one-shot like 2016

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 7h

I guess an actual advantage of breaking up the two party system would be to potentially give sane conservatives a place to go other than the personality cult for the senile narcissist.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 8h

I think the main goal of most of its advocates on here is to visibly settle once and for all the main discourse on how many voters preferer a Left candidate to a Liberal one.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It’s pretty cool that Massachusetts has a LGTBQ+ Chamber of Commerce. malgbtcc.org

malgbtcc.org

Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce – MALGBTCC

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

his average approval is going to remain in the low 30s i think but we are going to hit the high 20s in individual surveys before the year is out

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 6h

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 6h

Ironically one way to square this a little would be to send Senate elections back to state legislatures that are elected in multiparty elections

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 12h

It's unclear to me what problem the breaking of the two-party system is supposed to solve

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

It does not, the House can be made PR with a single federal bill. The only thing IIRC that Article 1 specifies is the voter qualification, itself something that's been modified with subsequent amendments. Senate is a different matter of course; you can't meaningfully do PR with just two seats

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 6h

The Russian army invading Ukraine is rather different than most armies of the 20th and 21st centuries in that it contains very few conscripts

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 14h

It’s cool how invading soldiers keep filming themselves saying “I’m excited to participate in destroying, in whole or in part, this national or ethnical group”, you’d think that would some things up at the UN but nah

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

guy who believes in the Gnostic cosmology but is pro Ialdaboth because he thinks Ialdaboth is trying his best

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SPACELING 🌈👽🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @spaceling.art · 19h

being trans is so much more than some pronouns and whether or not you take hormones or undergo surgery if someone identifies as trans, then that's it. so what if they don't socially transition, or change their name literally you cannot decide what someone else gender is it's 2026 for fuck's sake

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In My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social · 16h

Igor Girkin repeatedly admitted that if the Russia's hadn't rolled over the border in late August, the "separatists" would have lost. Luhansk was almost encircled and Donetsk was about to be cut off.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 16h

You can actually spot the exact day via Ukrainian KIA records when the Russians accepted that the "Gerasimov Doctrine" for whatever it was had failed and they had no other option but to just launch an undeclares war.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 16h

Always funny to talk about Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine pre 2022 when they just flat out rolled mechanized brigades in in August 2014.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

I think the fact that fully subsidized/publicly owned/social/low-income housing would be less necessary and smaller in scope is seen as a bug, not a feature, by left-NIMBYs. They *want* the problem to be solved by as large of a program as possible. But it's all angels on the head of a pin for them

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

It's not just practically free, it's revenue-positive for governments and would create a lot more surplus value for everyone. It'd make it cheaper and easier to fund social programs. In the narrow context of housing, it'd decrease the need for and increase our ability to provide social housing

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The weirdest part about the upsides of YIMBYism as a policy suite is that it's practically free. We are actively spending money and increasing bureaucratic complexity to make our lives worse than they would be if we didn't do that.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16h

Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16h

Drones are not a magic one-click killing machine for civilians. The IRGC had to send in thugs with guns to stop the protests. And this is an organization with enough drones to blot out the fucking sky.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder the fuck why?

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 15h

thing is, if you lack the spirit, the logistics won’t save you (which is why there are times you can just drive down a highway™️), but spirit plateaus pretty sharply and we’ve gotten pretty good at getting guys willing to charge trenches. The challenge is more not getting them slaughtered.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

fundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

i'm going to go insane if i hear another defense tech guy out of SV talk my ear off about the drone revolution

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 15h

Any system which produces results like this with any regularity is not a system worth keeping or defending. Regardless of whether or not capital punishment is a necessity (it isn't) we need to bring it to a complete halt and fix whatever the hell we call the system we have right now.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15h

The troops in Warsaw Pact regimes obeyed *all sorts* of orders...right until they didn't. And the stuff they'd done was far, far worse than what American troops have done.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15h

You do realize that these are basically the famous last words of almost every regime this colossally unpopular in the middle of a self-inflicted crisis this bad, right?

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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 15h

The Soviet military refused to support the hard line coup in 91 when the population went to the street dispite 70 years of propaganda and regime consolidation and no democratic tradition.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 20h

they so desperately *want* to do an Orban and be terrifying authoritarians but they're shit at their jobs and the dear leader has a 35% approval rating and they can't understand why none of it is working

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 20h

just caught one of the Trump government-funded ads on TV, and man, these fucking morons haven't a clue what they're doing, do they?

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, that is all military regulations around hair.

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Herd Mendacity @herdmendacity.bsky.social · 21h

Not a man in the trenches in Ukraine, the world’s most prolific fascist slayers, is without beard.

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 20h

They'll definitely mistake you for a fellow tribesman, my guy who chugs 8,000 calories worth of protein shake every day with forearms thicker than most human thighs

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Brian @someonenamedbrian.bsky.social · 20h

That is the excuse they use to wear beards. A significant number of the people in groups are never blending in with an indigenous population anywhere ever.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21h

The funniest thing about this is every Special Forces operator of the last generation — the exact kind of “warfighter” Hegseth purports to idolize — has the world’s most massive beard. That’s entirely the look of today’s supersoldiers.

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Otterly Unhinged @jeromerinc.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Steele? The genius behind kill boards and Operation Iron Triangle in 2006? The same Michael Steele who suddenly got sent to First Army to finish out his career and never advanced beyond COL after that trip to Iraq?

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21h

Which is all to say that Hegseth's senior leadership during his time in very much liked the clean shaven, highly disciplined Ranger aesthetic as opposed to the looser, bearded Special Forces look.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My thing with this is that Albertan separatists don’t really even make any claim to peoplehood. Aside from some limp attempts to provide some romantic scaffolding on the part of some of the movement’s self appointed figureheads, it’s pure and unreflective Id. Hatred, greed and nothing else.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20h

So that critique is really an unfair jab at 'pulpy' genres, but pulp genres regularly produce surprising great art precisely because they're open to experimentation. That said, I think there is a real divide here between what we might call 'expressive art' and 'functional art.'

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