aldrinbester.bsky.social
Software test engineer, galgo owner, based in Brooklyn, NY
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Park Slope voted Mamdani 59%, Lander 26%, Cuomo 10%. This is one of Mamdani's biggest areas of support. I know you got to get your takes in but pick somewhere else that actually voted for Cuomo.
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i saw a post earlier sneering about how liberals will now have to vote blue no matter who and it's like, yeah, we'll be voting for the candidate we just chose! your side won, enjoy it!
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What about the sujamma!?! That's Dunmer erasure!
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I hope he quiet quits the general election campaign
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Mamdani embraced being a New Yorker and a Democrat, that should be the lesson. Don't run away from who you're representing, stand up and be proud!
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it doesn't help that mamdani's core support comes from the people this site hates the most, college educated white collar professionals i.e. shitlibs while the proletariat lines up behind cuomo
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i can't even attempt to make a fake list, it's so dumb, i end up with crap like this:
1. Newsom
2. Adams
3. Fetterman
4. Elon
5. Yang
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i need to know the other 4 names
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It's the politics of patronage. City jobs are important to black and latino voters in the outer boroughs so they'll vote for the establishment candidate but what does someone like Cuomo offer to white collar private sector voters?
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it's all about patronage and who benefits most from it
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A lot but that's cause in a city of 9 million there's a lot of everything. Very easy to convince yourself that your little bubble is way bigger than it is.
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are you gonna apply this analysis to why Trump underperformed?
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what if we reframed the 2024 election as Trump underperforming in an environment heavily weighted against incumbents?
the Harris campaign mattered and had impact (she performed better in swing states where the campaign spent time and money) but it wasn't enough to offset the overall trend
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sky trackers, huh, he really doesn't know what radar is
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Fuck Cuomo
I've been talking about this exact scenario - we know Miller/Trump are gonna come after us and Cuomo will fold like a cheap suit
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if you want to read everything as done in bad faith that's on you
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OP has been very clear about the difference between the letter of the law vs the spirit of the law and where he stands on the latter.
And yeah, knowing what's legal is really important because that's the stuff that requires Congressional action to change.
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"other steps" like lobbying to extend the definition of natural to cover the specific dyes they use
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"guy just wants to get mad" is 99% of what's going on
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tactical but from the left
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I was standing in line at a deli in Manhattan behind some weirdo ordering a half coffee, half hot chocolate. It wasn't until I got into the office that I realized it was Tom Hanks.
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I worked at a movie theater when this came out and nobody could pronounce mnemonic. The most common version was Johnny Moronic, which as a teenager was incredibly funny.
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look, they'll burn a giant pile of cash for a couple years like they did with the metaverse then roll Zuck out on stage and say mission accomplished
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treating the army as just another contractor to stiff, surely this won't backfire
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I'm praying for the sweatiest weather imaginable next weekend in DC, as a birthday present for someone we all love
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call Noem, she knows what to do with stray DOGEs
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this is yet another area of society that's been degraded by Trumpism - assholes feel like they have more space to act out their grievances
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seeing the recent stories like the person who cut down the peonies in Ann Arbor claiming it was about Palestine just drives this point home
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it's pretty clear that most people into political violence are in it for the violence, not the politics
the politics just gives them cover to engage in transgressive behavior
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this is where i'm at with all of the primary discourse - if someone can oust an incumbent, they're at least decent politically
i'm also not going to get overly concerned with reps outside my district; it's not up to me or about me, i've got my own to worry about
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I can easily see Dart as the week 5 starter if they're 0-4 coming off of 2 home losses with the Saints defense being the best chance to give him a soft landing.
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it should only count if you looted it from a sunken pirate ship
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Being a professional pundit your entire career is really bad for understanding anything because you have no actual experience to fall back on.
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Corporate American HR training is the most basic stuff imaginable i.e. don't sexually harass your coworkers or say slurs. All these takes show is that people like Yglesias have no idea what white collar jobs are actually like.
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And you need to make it up in a highly visible, dramatic way. And again, the "you" is for candidates (and people in their orbit) not any voters.
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6 reads to me as being for anyone running in a Dem primary who didn't vote for the Dem presidential candidate. The article is about how to win over Dem primary voters and if you didn't vote for Biden in 2020 or Harris in 2024 you are at a significant trust deficit.
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going maximalist from the beginning is very powerful rhetorically but gives no room to maneuver in the future
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at this point very few Dems will trust the left after the party got abandoned on Afghanistan and student loans
also, rhetorically the left can't ever support Dems on Gaza; after tossing out genocide accusations for a year+ they can't reconcile with them or they'll look like they were never serious
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Steve Palazzolo calls these disrespectful runs
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Time to mute "Biden" for 30 days
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I worked in the math tutoring center at Hunter College (part of the CUNY system) in like, 2010, and it was eye opening when I encountered this. Simple stuff like adding 1/2 + 1/4 would stop some students completely.
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If we really want to get in the weeds, it's not using the right cheese cause the crust isn't greasy enough. There's a specific cheese blend used that has a high fat content which drips into the dough as it melts.
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That's more Sicilian style, it's missing the cheese that's spread from edge to edge that chars and gets crispy as it cooks.
Also Detroit style pizzas typically put the sauce on top.
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Kinda similar to how some leftist positions on colonialism and indigineity can lead to calls for certain groups to "go back to where they're from".
This way of thinking seems to lead to positions that don't sound very different from a typical reactionary.