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The implied theory here is that the potential consequences of future free & fair elections can be cited to deter the very same people who are actively working to end free & fair elections, and that expectation seems unwarrantedly optimistic if not downright naive.
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Trump is less civil than anyone we’ve ever seen in public life—the threats of violence, the use of state force against constitutionally protected protesters, the withholding of aid, all the cruel and petty insults. The RW insistence on liberal civility isn’t a serious request, it’s a mocking taunt.
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Erratum: “a lot [more] death and suffering.”
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“Have you sexually harassed your direct reports? Have you nominally governed as a Dem but covertly kept Republicans in power? Have you made millions from a memoir that you made state employees draft for you? No? Well, do you have any relevant experience at all??”
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A handful of them know what they stand for, and why they’re in office. They are communicating exactly that message. As for the rest, their silence is eloquent.
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Walsh claims that critics of a man who voluntarily joined a war to support an ongoing holocaust can’t comprehend honor and integrity. That seems to get things backwards.
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The MSM insistence on neutrality instead of truth is what’s causing its collapse. The MAGAs respect neutrality no more than they would an outright partisan liberal source—if you’re not with them, you’re against them. And lib viewers know they’re being fed worse-than-useless, both-sides pablum. Sad!
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IQ is an immutable reflection of innate intelligence when it comes to black-white comparisons, but utterly irrelevant re: the intellectual superiority of lefty elite university alumni vs the MAGA horde.
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The original meaning of the term “boycott” was the nonviolent but brutal complete social exclusion and shunning of a community member who breached basic rules of decency, as was done to an English landlord’s agent in late 19th century Ireland named Charles Boycott.
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Edit: “[more] deaths.” His adventure in American Samoa was just a start.
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MAGA rule will end via a color revolution. It will come to exactly what you foresee to force Trump out. There won’t be any other way.
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100 available rental apartments in a town when 150 people are looking = rent increases on the horizon. 150 available apartments for 100 tenants = rent decreases. Fewer units in a market means less price competition to fill them all. More units means more price competition.
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100 available rental apartments in a town when 150 people are looking = rent increases on the horizon. 150 available apartments for 100 tenants = rent decreases. Fewer units in a market means less price competition to fill them all. More units means more price competition.
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The city, an ancient form of societal and economic organization that extends back at least 5,000 years, and which plays a central role in the life of essentially every nation on Earth, is now somehow the most terrifying realm to experience outside of Hannibal Lecter’s basement.
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I’d rather not find out.
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We all understood that when auto production slowed during Covid, cars would and did get more expensive. We get that a bumper tomato crop makes for cheap tomatoes. But somehow people don’t connect the post-2008 collapse in home building to exploding prices. It’s all those devilish developers & LLs!
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Your (excellent) point is largely being missed. Nearly a decade in, the hapless MSM still has no idea how to address growing fascism. As the administration becomes ever more boldly lawless, CNN obsesses about the fine points of decorum.
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Alas, the “Trump is too stupid to seize power” view relies on wishful thinking. He’s learned what his Term 1 constraints were and methodically eliminated them. He’s only “lazy” re: others’ expectations of him—that he will repay investors’ funds or read briefing books. Power, he is laser focused on.
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Smart point. Insta-follow.
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Interesting. Thanks.
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As neither an Ezra stan nor a hater, I am puzzled by what a lightning rod he is. “Abundance” in significant part tackles the very real issue that, in the bluest realms, it’s exceptionally hard to get big and important things done. Eg, the costs of our rail projects dwarf those in other rich nations.
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That’s an instant follow.
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“We hate foreigners. Also, foreigners, please invest here.”
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Elon Musk cares about exactly one person on this planet, and you’d have to be intentionally stupid to think otherwise.
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Spot on.
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Male person here. Yep, checks out.
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He’s what Roy Cohn would have been if McCarthy were president.
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I’d add in a weekly countdown to the midterms, plus kicking off the biggest voter registration drive in history. If these fucking weak sauce electeds really believe we’re in a crisis of democracy, and aren’t just paying lip service, let’s see them act like it.
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Underrated.
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Hoping it’s all bulk purchases by Take Japper.
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Necessary? Convenient, for sure.
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Merits a follow.
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The Dems lost voters in ‘24 because the massive turnout in ‘20 to expel Trump led to precisely zero consequences for our former criminal-in-chief. Too many voters won’t pull the R lever but have concluded that a D vote is wasted on a passive party frantically, desperately committed to biz as usual.
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Use of the term “blob” is a tip-off that a stale and predictable take is about to be presented as a boldly insightful one.
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100%. They exist.
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Being a hereditary monarchy petrostate that has boomed because the world is self-immolating isn’t the positive that this poster imagines it to be. Oh, yeah, and the slavery just turbocharges things.
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I’m ok with very late conversions to the cause. We need to get to 51% in all the battleground states. Let’s welcome onboard every single last regretful Trump voter that we can.
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True for most people. But a small minority consists of dark triad types - outright sadists and such. They aren’t confused about the source of their cruel joy. And narcissists can be so radically selfish that they have precisely zero interest in others’ well-being. No good will = tantamount to evil.
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Like how the conservatives hated government because of integration until they got full control over it and could roll start rolling back societal advances.
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The association between elite legal education and true insight/wisdom is quite hit or miss. Lawyers aren’t trained to get at the truth, like scientists or historians. Their key skill is to argue persuasively for a position. That is not a subtle difference but nearly everyone fails to appreciate it.
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Bill Mahr presents the ultimate big tent conundrum. He votes the right way and is occasionally actually insightful but like 30% of his opinions are totally dickish. IMO he’s probably not worth getting worked up about - his audience is 500k, and Rogan’s is 20M. Does he really matter?
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A massively prevalent error in American culture is to associate high grades at a prestigious law school with deep intelligence, and the case of Scalia exemplifies the problem.
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Sharecropping has never ended.
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Another legal shocker: contract with hitchhiker for a ride in exchange for “ass, cash, or grass” also isn’t binding.
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The typical Dem is a cat chasing the dot from a laser pointer held by the Rs.
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It’s only an investment vehicle because it’s scarce.
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Leave satire to the libs, kiddos. Stick to the incoherent anger. We all have our sweet spots.
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“10 years ago” is being used loosely all around, but the point is that more of the Republicans have gotten crazier. (Or left the party.)
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Don’t understand any of this but seems worth a follow.
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10 years ago was pre-QAnon & pre-MAGA.