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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They will call you a socialist anyway, FYI.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Anger can lead to hate. Hate can lead to suffering." --Yoda, probably

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The myth that Social Security is an accounting fraud has been pre-seeded by GOP information warfare dating back decades.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Shift the Overton window a bit more and it will become as explicit.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't dispute that the Republican Party has changed materially for the worse. What I am saying is that there's a version of the Republican Party that Sarah thinks was in the room, and I don't believe it was in the room in sufficient numbers to matter.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If there was such a Republican Party, please explain the pushes to ban same sex marriage often via state or Federal Constitutional amendments, explain Rick Santorum, explain Reagan's neglect of the HIV epidemic, explain DOMA.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You may have met people who were nice to your face. You'd have had some people who genuinely didn't care about your sexual orientation or gender identity. You'd have won a few skeptics over. But this is not an accurate description of the Republican Party even in Sarah's time.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's time to start saying "John Roberts" in the way we say "Roger Taney"

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Obamacare is why I don't currently support Medicare for all. I would put political energy into expanding the union and packing the Supreme Court, then we see what happens.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The less exciting response is that this is pure nocebo effect. The truth is that the food tastes the same, people just convince themselves that it's not as good. Much of taste is psychological.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bulwark can be a BIT like the centrist Dems in SOME cases. Broadly they are center-right to center-left. JVL is hard to classify and he is likely sympathetic to some aspects of social democracy. They are for fighting the enemy. They'd be on board with tribunals.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I sub to the Bulwark. I understand your POV. If we look at the tankie subsection of the DSA, I think there is a prima facie case that we should be very wary of them. Some of them hold problematic policy views. JVL's case is that a big part of the DSA are social dems by another name.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

To be specific, I believe they wanted something to yell at the Dems about, partly because they are bad people and partly to distract from Jan 6. Ofc they chose a community whose existence can be used as a wedge issue.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The inciting event was arguably Jan 6. That is, after Jan 6, a few Repubs started to say hey, maybe this went a bit too far. But self-reflection is not their style. I recall that not long after Jan 6, they started screaming about gender-affirming care and related issues. I could be wrong ofc.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"I will make a terrible decision. I will be criticized for this terrible decision. Why am I being victimized here?"

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If I do one task with AI, I can vet the output. If I do 100 tasks with AI, my eyes would probably glaze over in the middle.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trump mismanaged the pandemic and a million people died* Then in 2024, we elected him again. Americans have the memory capacity of the housefly. * a million people died, but EXCESS deaths were probably in the range of 100k to 200k.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Many Dems still worship comity and do not understand that it has earned them nothing.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wait, you said this is an easy pace for you. Feeling like it is an easy pace is a hallmark of Z2. It's possible you just need to get more used to interpreting your current heart rate. E.g. I now know that I tend to be ~120bpm in Z2, but it will drift up to 140 with fatigue and heat.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Are you an experienced runner or are you just starting? If just starting, it will get easier, your brain and body are still developing the movement patterns. And do you actually know your HR zones, or did you take 220 - age for max HR? That formula estimates the AVERAGE max HR for a given age.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

She was right on masks, wasn't she? Does anyone know how her brain got cooked?

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's one bunch of US intelligence agencies that assess lab leak, and another that assess natural origin, and ALMOST ALL are low confidence - meaning that there is no solid evidence, the assessment could be wrong.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Don't forget the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were experienced agents. More training is irrelevant - the agency is evil, it is hiring evil people, and more training will not make the people not evil.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It may have taken thousands of years for SOCIETY to develop liberal democracy. But once developed, the idea is like a spark. To heck with Ilan Wurman, I hope he drowns (BY ACCIDENT) in one of our lakes.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, dies at 56. Over 12 years as Führer, he oversaw huge strides in aeronautics and consistently pushed for the use of German power overseas, but encountered opposition due to controversial population transfers.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I bet you that like the officers in the MPLS murders, at least one of the murderers here was an experienced officer. The issue is not that untrained thugs are being recruited, the issue is that ICE and CBP are rotten to the core and must be abolished.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Christopher Rufo was doing identity politics the right way --Ezra Klein, probably cc: @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Opioids have bona fide clinical indications. Trump never had any. That's the main criticism I have of the metaphor.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The Bible does not actually say we must support them. It is unclear what the Book of Revelation means about the End Times. You should be a Christian and not support Israel conducting genocide just so we can unleash the apocalypse.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Only democracy in the Middle East™️. Except Iraq and Lebanon.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

(Thump) ... "Should we investigate?" "Should you shut the **** up before you get us both killed."

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I bet you he and likely his children had the same childhood vaccines we all did.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It does not preclude it. There are ample ways to publicly adhere to one's faith while maintaining separation of church and state.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fool me once, shame on me Fool me 45 times ...

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Imagine it's 1931 Germany, you're in the SPD, and you're posing for this sort of photo with your colleagues in the NSDAP. Gotta be bipartisan doncha know.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to [inflict serious injury on] Henry Kissinger ... with your bare hands." That's my fave.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Until the Republican Party decisively repudiates Trumpism, the only logical conclusion is that 53% of Americans are not good and moral.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Andry is a better American and a more faithful Christian than ANY PERSON IN THE TRUMP ADMIN.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I hate to point this out, but there were a bunch of people in the pre-Trump Republican Party who were all for kinetic action in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, possibly others. They did not appreciate the possible consequences of their mindless warmongering. Bolton was one of them.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The gin and tonic. In cooler months, the boulevardier.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Pre-Trump, I'd have said that John Brown was an extremist and I couldn't condone his methods. That's pre-Trump.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My cat will only deign to eat non-salmon seafood pate. Salmon pate was deemed not good enough.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Fetterman likely misstated - remember he has brain damage. I believe total healthcare spending per capita is in the range of $15k per person - that includes insurance premiums, out of pocket costs, uncovered costs, all the services that you incurred www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

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National Health Care Spending Increased 7.2 Percent In 2024 As Utilization Remained Elevated | Health Affairs Journal

Health care spending in the US reached $5.3 trillion and increased 7.2 percent in 2024, similar to growth of 7.4 percent in 2023, as increased demand for health care influenced this two-year trend. As...

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Could also be read as this is the sort of job the ethnics deserve White people get to apply to the goddamn treason fund.

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

worth knowing: if you Google you should see that ~40% of US households pay no Federal *income* tax. They do pay *payroll* taxes that find Social Security and Medicare (altho Medicare isn't fully funded by *payroll* taxes - it's also funded by premiums and general revenues).

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weiwentg.bsky.social @weiwentg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Also cross reference what he said about the Melania documentary.

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