mattyberad.bsky.social
Writer, woodworker, tenant organizer, law student. He/him
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in this case the infrastructure of the national guard runs through California. Their orders, their equipment, the guard themselves. Hard to imagine how this happens without Newsome consenting; Trump's previous illegalities were all things he could physically do himself.
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anyway, i don’t think stephen miller is a particularly good gambler
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I'm sure there are lots of excuses you can pick our for why it's better for the party in 3rd place to collude with the far right to prevent the 1st place party from taking the PM. Do any of them explain why macron refused to instruct his party to drop out of seats where they'd spoil & let FN win?
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First place did mean you're handed the pm in every other election in French history. Macron annihilated a democratic norm and helped the fascists as a result. Whether it's because he prefers fascism to socialism or its just stupid and irresponsible I leave to the reader to decide.
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Melachon is politically toxic, which is why being in a coalition with him netterd the left's first win in a decade. Very smart politics.
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How did lakshya respond to that failure? By taking the election results to be more reliable data on voters' views and reflect it backwards into the campaign, concluding that dems didn't run far enough right because the electorate moved right. See the problem?
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If you take these as true, then the best political party is the one who tracks the best data and triangulates to the common position the most effectively. The problem? That is the dominant strategy of the dnc and has failed repeatedly in the very recent past.
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as someone who has followed lakshya/split ticket for years, it is genuinely alarming to see him gain influence and power. He is a good data analyst who is unfortunately leveraging that analysis into unsupported tautological centrism (the centrism that just lost to Trump!)
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Your wing of the party has lost two elections to trump. Perhaps it's time to step aside and let people who actually want to beat Republicans take a shot.
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Unfortunately this was the explicit strategy of the biden/harris campaign. Popularism and triangulation remain dem strategy even if this particular group ends up being irrelevant.
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1.) They trust the GOP because democrats have not tried to change minds on immigration since 2018 (and it was working in 2018!) choosing instead to triangulate.
2.) even if voters immutably prefer the GOP on this issue, dems could still fight back by reducing salience instead of increasing it!
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It's illegal to be mean to him.
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Is it really helpful to define "evil" as the intentional infliction of harm? Most evil I've seen is willingness to harm others in pursuit of base greed.
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Your bio reads "normie dem!" I'm not the one identifying you as part of a faction!
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I live in Massachusetts and have voted in every election and primary i could. I assure you I'm not the person you need to reach.
You publicly posted sour grapes from an election your faction's candidate lost 7 months ago. I think it's fair for me to ask why
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Your winning strategy is to guilt bluesky posters into voting blue? Wow with strategic minds like yours it's a wonder the democrats ever lose!
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So yes you're relitigating posts from 8 months ago. Why? How does it help now?
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I presume you're complaining about someone during the election posting that Harris was bad for saying she'd follow the law. Your post doesn't really make sense if you're not doing that.
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She lost the election. Stop relitigating posts from 8 months ago and figure out how to win.
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if you find yourself AI generating an image of 4 presidents eating tacos, one of whom was the architect of the Iraq war, to mock the most mockable man on earth, please reflect
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The large majority of conservative thought leaders are stupid pedophiles. Not hyperbolic.
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Success = having a tiny proportion of your population live in incomprehensible luxury while the rest live in squalor & you're doing your best to kill all life on earth.
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If you have to AI generate an image to post it, it's not worth posting
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Heming’s mother Elizabeth was the child of an unknown African slave and the English captain who raped her. She had six children by Jefferson’s father in law: eventually Jefferson owned, through inheritance, seventy five of his dead wife’s relatives, his own children’s uncles, aunts and cousins.
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google political economy.
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It's not manipulative to point out those regulations were passed and defended by market actors. Unfortunately an individual homeowner is economically benefitted by preventing new supply from entering the market & they vote accordingly. No way out without solving that.
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It is not simple at all! Market forces and the state interact constantly! Which is why you can't simply blame zoning laws for scarcity as if they spawned from the ether!
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I sincerely hope we're talking past each other and both believe that both the market and state regulations can be racist and that's a bad thing.
It remains true that the civil rights act had to radically curtail the free market to stop people from privately segregating their homes & businesses.
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I never said segregation wasn't regulation. It obviously is.
You're holding the obviously indefensible and historically incorrect position that market forces opposed segregation. They didn't! They also independently segregated! We had to pass the most famous US law to stop them!
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Yes, state action can be racist! Market actors can also be racist and can use the state to do it! Only one of us is denying the racist history of the US, and it's not me!
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The segregated housing map you showed? it was enforce by private, free market contracts between home sellers and home buyers promising to keep the house segregated forever. It took federal legislation to stop. If you don't know what a racially restrictive covenant is, don't post about housing!
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google "political economy." It doesn't stop being the free market when it does things you disagree with, and separating regulation from the market is actually extremely difficult if even possible at all.
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There's no such thing as market forces unimpeded. Has literally never existed. The market forces in favor of nimbyism have successfully outlobbied the forces opposed. I would prefer the builders win that battle, but don't have any illusion that one is the market the other isn't.
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The market determines the political and regulatory system.
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Continue to think the combination of Gaza and Biden being 125 years old had a lot more to do with things than if Mayor Pete gets interviewed by Shane Gillis