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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/08/2026

Just a big fan of the NFL itself.

Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 15/06/2026

Behind-the-scenes: drawing Poison Ivy fresh out of the grave, no say in her wardrobe. I wanted shorts that really clash, and the Knicks had just bounced the Hawks, so: blue & orange. Loud, mismatched, perfect. 🧡💙 Congrats NYK! (to read more about the shorts: archiveofourown.org/works/85487321)

Poison Ivy in a brown Carhartt jacket and oversized blue-and-orange basketball shorts, arms folded, long red hair loose.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

Good example of this IMO, was the de facto assumption that Kamala Harris "needed to pick a white guy VP," and Kamala herself ruling out Buttigieg because she was worried the country couldn't digest both a Black woman and a gay man.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 04/01/2026

When we invaded Iraq in the 2000s, we imported a LOT of oil. Bush/Cheney wanting to control cheap oil abroad made a kind of logical sense. Everyone needs to update their priors though, we now produce and export a LOT of oil in the US. More Venezuelan oil harms our own energy production economy!

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 27/12/2025

Most games have awful bugs, game balance, or annoying UI issues on release anyway - that steadily get patched. The game won't even be cheaper in six months, it'll literally be *better.* But by that time the game isn't in "the zeitgeist" and this kind of happens:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 21/12/2025

It's just factually true that the spike in homelessness during the Biden admin was due to generous border policy with asylum seekers, and then Greg Abbott's buses. Some leftists here would rather insult @whstancil.bsky.social or @besttrousers.bsky.social then deal with the policy implications.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 13/12/2025

Like *this* is basically the etymology of "six seven," but almost all the kids saying it don't know it. But part of its hilarity is because it can't be explained, so it's just endless old people going "WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING IT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?" which is a good enough reason to keep saying it.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 12/12/2025

I know a lot of people here thinks Noah Smith is a rabid right-winger now, but he still seems to hate the actual right-wingers.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 12/12/2025

Fun fact*: This Chick Tract was published in 1984 but is actually a revised version. The original had the character say she used "Otiluke's Minor Mind Bondage" on her father, but had to retract when Otiluke sued. *This fact is not true.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/12/2025

Underrated dynamic is that some of the worst actors essentially keep thinking they can invoke white liberal sympathies to escape accountability, and I think the white libs are just less interested... what you're describing.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/12/2025

There is a paradox here with liberal resistance against authoritarian regimes. Should you win, it's tempting to disarm all agencies of the state that could be corrupted in service of a future authoritarian. But I'd argue it's good to be able to do this:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/12/2025

4/ To some degree I'm more frustrated with those establishment stewards who are clearly chafing at (if not overly under attack by) Trump's policies, but holding their fire. Or even worse, playing along with the unethical and corrupt actions. I don't understand why more of them aren't saying this:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/11/2025

We basically have three flavors of Hitler bands in this country (West, North and South), but it's clear the South is the worst one.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/11/2025

The entire YA internet ecosystem basically became this, over and over again:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/11/2025

Isn't it true the south doesn't have any "blue enclaves" of white voters though? Look at the southern states in this map of white voting patterns, some of them are pure red. Something like only 18% of white voters in Alabama of Mississippi vote for Dem. In GA and TX, at least it's closer to 30%.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 11/11/2025

To be clear, I was just plainly stating that most Americans don't pay $800/month for a plan with an $8000 deductible. For example, if your employer only offered crappy plans, and/or plans that didn't meet standardized coverage terms, you'd be eligible to get an ACA plan.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 06/11/2025

Trump met with Dems constantly in his first term, even before COVID stimmy bills. Debt ceiling, the 2018-19 shutdown, attempts at DACA (the "shithole countries" meeting) and some attempts at "infrastructure."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/11/2025

We saw a version of this in Obama's first term, where the capital class resented the fuck out of things like OWS, and were outraged that Obama would say things like "well their anger makes sense to me."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/10/2025

I do think Dem electeds have a few moments that end up feeding into the "we care too much about identity politics."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/10/2025

Fun time capsule of the 2005 mayor's race in NYC:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 04/10/2025

Yeah I'm just gonna leave this here.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 25/09/2025

Also Bush tax cuts did cut cap gains down from 20% to 15%. Obama let them expire and then the ACA tacked another 3.8%. It's just factually true the rich paid more in taxes in Obama's second term.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 23/09/2025

So to me the Tylenol/autism thing seemed to come out of left field. It felt like RFK Jr was gearing up to blame the MMR vaccine on autism to justify banning it, so where did this Tylenol theory even come from? Here's a good thread on X by Rachael Bedard that connected the dots IMO:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 22/09/2025

Exactly - I'd also add that even as generous as the Biden admin was with the policy, they still ultimately denied ~45-65% of asylum claims. It was just that there was such a backlog, such claims took years to actually get adjudicated.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/09/2025

Lastly there's too much complacency over Dem influence in the entertainment industry. Too much media will pursue profit goals over political ideals. Having entertainers/performers on your side isn't the same as "media reach/influence/control." /end

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/09/2025

Basically this, over and over again:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/08/2025

You can buy loose pieces from stores, but sometimes you just need 40x of a few certain pieces. Online resellers will have it, but it's rare one seller has all the pieces you need. If I bought the pieces here on Bricklink I'd probably have to buy from 3 different sellers, ie. pay shipping 3x.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/08/2025

This sucks so bad. My daughter and I have been working on our amusement park all summer. Most of the rides are full sets, but everything in between (baseplates, pathways, walls, trees, some minifigures, parking lot) were all from pieces purchased from Pick and Brick.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 27/08/2025

Weird article, the paragraphs on the actual policy aren't until the final paragraphs, and the policies are like, standard Dem platform shit?

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/08/2025

She sucks, she's totally supportive of MAGA despite barely clinging on to her district in 2020 and 2024. Inshallah we finally oust her in 2026.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/08/2025

I don't know man, I think this "you no longer pay taxes on your $2.81 tip" message could turn things around.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/08/2025

David Brooks arguing "Weavers" should wear. a hard plastic shell helmet hat like John Olerud, as a "conversation starter."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/08/2025

It's convenient NOT to distinguish "sending someone back across the border who just crossed into the US illegally" vs "ripping someone out of a Home Depot parking lot," as that gives you this fun talking point that "Biden deported more people than Trump." But again, compare interior enforcement:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/08/2025

This is grossly misleading. If you think Biden kept ICE "going full power," you should see what the actual ICE officials had to say about it. www.texastribune.org/2021/02/07/b...

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/08/2025

If you literally believed this is true, as Kristol does, why would you be against free movement? To him, someone moving from New Mexico to Georgia, is the same as someone moving from Mexico to Georgia. And if I asked him "you mean Georgia the US state or Georgia the country?", he would say "both!"

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/08/2025

This is a hysterically bad faith interpretation. Biden had exceptionally more generous policies on asylum than any previous president.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/08/2025

I don't think there is evidence that the left is particularly hostile to Trump. Before he was a state rep, Zohran Mamdani managed Ross Barkhan's campaign in 2018. This is what Ross Barkhan had to say today:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 14/08/2025

I keep trying to make this point to leftists, there's been no shortage of candidates with full blown progressive Bernie-esque platforms that have run in swing/red states and districts, and they ALL lose. Just one of many examples:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 06/08/2025

Eh, she was leading the polls in early October, I think they just thought she could recapture that lightning again. Her fatal drawback was every head to head poll showed her doing worse against Trump than Biden or Bernie.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/07/2025

I'd argue this could've described Biden's presidency, except he was too old/invisible to be embraced the way Cooper was, and his unconditional support of Israel fractured the "machine" he built his election on in 2020. Biden 10 or even 5 years younger would've been able to do this every week:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 11/07/2025

Not to mention so many leftists here bashed Biden/Harris on having a shitty economy, citing the rise in homelessness... when like 100% of that rise was due to asylum seekers they thought it was vile for Biden to try to curb!

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 11/07/2025

I assume this is snark. But even under Biden, of the asylum seekers that did get hearings, roughly half got their claims denied. I think immigration through the southern border via asylum claims was a broken process, and we'd be better off with, like, a 10x refugee program through ORR.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 02/07/2025

Amazing to be a billionaire, where "I should consider the consequences of imposing my entire worldview on society that's actively resistant because it's harmed by it" is only considered in *retrospect.*"

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/07/2025

5/ And we need accounts that basically post content like "MAGAOfTikTok", driving 2 Minutes Hate to Glonzo lieutenants like this fucking guy. This guy was enraging to read about, but I'm sure he comes off as even more sociopathic with audio/video:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/07/2025

4/ We need visceral video of moments like this, not just a respectful photojournalist shot:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 30/06/2025

This continues to be the Rosetta stone describing the second Trump administration:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 27/06/2025

Eh that's an oversimplification... Cuomo won the poorest and richest demos. But Zohran basically owned the middle, not just affluent/bougie. And he didn't win only white voters!

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 27/06/2025

We should recognize these as the hollow bullshit threats that they are, because they've made them before and we know what happens:

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