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Honestly Brits who are obsessed with Palestine rule. Oy, the Jews think they're like our queen
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Self castrate with a broken bottle
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Empirically this guy is a better poster than me. And you wonder why I am so incredibly consistent in my analysis
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Has he ever talked about the incongruity between his current view that saying the word immigrant is an instant fatality move for Republicans and his book about naturalizing 650 million people to the country titled "One Billion Americans"? Not trying to shit on old Matt, I like old Matt
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Maybe just fucking middle aged, but TV really sucks now, the prestige things are not nearly as good as they were 15 years ago, and like you said, they release at a slower rate than Mission Impossible movies. People try to make politics their entertainment with these results (on here and out there)
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Too much group think*
* The group think of everyone, fuck Democrats
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Democrats can never succeed only be succeeded
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The official vodka of lab leak theory and that the lab was making people trans theory
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Everyone acts like Democrats always crush off cycle elections but lose in Presidential elections is final, no one can ever say otherwise dogma. Having a complete failure of imagination to think back one fucking year to 2021 when it seemed like the Tea Party wave 2 was coming in a year.
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My brother, who went to one, said the whole thing is either about inculcating an ideology of bundling all businesses together for 20 years or, if you go in the following 20 years, of unbundling them. Depending on when you go you get one orthodoxy or the other
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Ha yeah I could see that, it's a bit before my time, but would be funny if the first half of the analogy was also completely wrong
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Her point she always makes is that conventional wisdom at the time was that the conventional wisdom on the merger was that it was genius and only this professor had the wherewithal to say it had issues. It's always an analogy for how liberals are in a bubble and should adopt Republican views
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Yeah it was contemporaneous with when she was in business school in 1999 or whenever. This is mostly just a commentary on how I hate McArdle. I'm not a regular reader of hers and have barely read her since she wrote for the Atlantic, and back then, not much, but every time I have she brought up AOL
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Personally, I'm losing respect for all Republicans for this being one of the 8 columns per year where Megan McArdle doesn't mention how her professor asked her class in business school what it thought of the AOL Time Warner merger. Get out of your not sharing that anecdote every week bubble!
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This is very good, but I think everyone should stop using it. There's no clear definition and I feel like using it powers this bullshit.
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There is a deep desire to see drama because TV sucks and politics--really conflict writ large, the news--is where people watch TV. Rooting for exciting new plot lines in this reality tv show of watching the country dissolve
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These kids will absolutely hear about procedural norms if any democrats even fucking talk once about anything like trying this: the right wing will freak out about them, mainstream press will join in, and wherever they get their information from will go with the flow. We already did this with Biden
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There is a weird, fucked up way in which Americans, left and right, feel like they own Israel and are responsible for it and it feels similar, and probably flows from, American Christians broader, slightly creepy relationship to Jews and Judaism in general.
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Extremely good evidence that "abundance" doesn't mean anything except deregulating and which regulations should be undone is left intentionally vague.
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Man this fun thing is getting a lot of attention, this would be a great opportunity to use some of that attention to accomplish my noble political aims. But how? Ah I've got it! "Your fun is a distraction from the grim future, you have erred by having fun and the pain will only get worse"
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They call it a meme, T. It's fucking annoying
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I think he was genuinely extremely good 13 years ago, unearthing stuff about the way practitioners of law actually worked that wasn't widely known. And has just been online since then, exposing his brain to gamma radiation
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I just watched a stream he did where he confused people making jokes about Chris Sununu as the GOP frontrunner for earnest people he was smarter than. He seems worse at his chosen profession of political analysis than every single person on Bluesky, and very nervous/obsequious, but a big Nats fan!
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Our one demand: have the Vice President stop doing the thing that Israel's government was doing. I get that Kamala could have been better on this from this guy's and my perspective, but ultimately, she had less agency over it than the guy posting does over the current deportation/dissapearing regime
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The account god hates flags had a good version of this sentiment as her pinned tweet. Then she got really into posting how good Ireland was, I assume, a flagless country
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Of course the couple at the heart of the thing is suffering in a hellish poverty state at all times. The prevalence of these stories in our fiction is because no one or their parents grew up poor, so they don't know what the fuck they're talking about at all. Have as much experience with dragons.
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Started watching the latest season of black mirror, a thing ostensibly about how fucked up our relationship with technology is, and the central thing at the heart of the episode is what if the ads that play on youtube/Netflix killed you? The thing that it is drawn from IRL is our entertainment
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He's a very good writer and wrote fun, stupid dissents for law students
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He has to go on Jack Posobiec's podcast and apologize to him