d0r.bsky.social
Just some guy. Deranged centrist policy discusser. Cog in the Silicon Valley machine. Tree enjoyer.
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FWIW, pretending that you're too dumb to understand the forces at play here or that you can't recognize the point being made is not as clever or effective as you think it is - far from it.
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MYMNOS LIVES?!
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My single Draw Steel experience taught me this bit of wisdom: "Don't be in an enclosed space with a goblin war spider when it is late in the battle and the Director is high on Malice."
Good luck, and godspeed.
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Tristan Vaslor spotted!
Dig the paint job.
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Or, a hypothetical:
Imagine some right-wing lunatic murders his company's DEI coordinator who had made him read Robin D'Angelo. Then imagine Ron DeSantis saying "Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far...(etc)"
Would you read DeSantis's statement as purely explanatory?
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Viewed in a box this is perhaps correct, but I don't think Rupar is alone in reading the statement as at least partially exculpatory given the alignment of the warning with Warren's well known broader views.
Put another way, there were better ways for her to frame an purely explanatory statement.
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It looks to me like he's referencing the NY hush money case, not the classified documents case.
While I don't agree with him, of all the Trump cases that is the one that is at least debatable among reasonable people as to whether the motivation was political or if it was worth prosecuting at all.
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This is totally correct and often overlooked.
As a representative democracy we should expect elected officials to mostly represent their constituents' views rather than their own, but we tend to get really upset when they do this!
Seems backwards.
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My expectations of the admin's competency are low, but this is the thing the right-wing legal movement has seemed to be pretty decent at - manufacturing cases that will get the result they want.
Seems more plausible than the general likelihood of 'Trump does smart thing.'