nathanfrommi.bsky.social
Precinct Delegate, Political Treasurer, member of the UAW (local CAP committee), LCI, and ELCA. Wayne County MI Democrat (we need a county party). Son, brother and friend
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Didn't Cuban sell a majority stake in the team?
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The data trend the last 3 months is showing a clear fall off
bsky.jazco.dev
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The big issue with Bluesky is that it's almost entirely English language users (and even then, outside the Americas, the UK and AUS users are comparatively small). This is part of why Twitters most followed are celebrities...Bluesky's? Prominent liberal twitter exodus accounts
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Isn't that why Hegseth purged the officer corp? To get guys already bought in?
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People who've served recently seemed to (I say seemed to as the documentary dealt with other issues) disagree with you (see the retired special forces guys stating this opinion in the 2024 documentary War Game)
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Does that include the money they're seizing from people (both migrants, and citizens -like that family in Oklahoma)
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Have you watched the documentary War Game (2024). While it was a tabletop exercise, one of the recently retired special forces (that were "the opposition" in the exercise) spoke about how the military has a very bad RW extremism problem right now.
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Though Boston was more like Kent state, someone panicked when confronted by a crowd.
Though it's worked pretty well in Russia-to paraphrase Leigh McGowan "Putin told Trump what to do w/Protests-bear up a bunch, arrest a bunch more and you'll have no more problems" and in Russia they haven't
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He's a timeshare executive - "fuck that guy" is his natural state
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Also, there's only ever one Fuerher. Like, Hitler killed Strasser, isolated Hugenberg and retired Drexler...
The only shock was that it took this long, like Musk was deliberately banging on Trump's berserk buttons and he just took it for months
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If they were smart enough to stage a fame break-up wouldn't they be smart enough to never, ever connect Epstein to Trump?
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No, but the folks that are on Bluesky now and formally twitter and usually not a typical voter either. That statement isn't an endorsement of triangulation nor with throwing groups under the bus
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Part of that is because Dems let the issue Drop. When Dems were focusing on Garcia and the abuses on the system, Trump's approvals dropped like a rock on the issue. When everyone moved on, which they shouldn't have done as folks are still imprisoned in a Gulag, his approvals went.back up.
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Do you have a link to the study? Asking for nerd purposes not argument purposes
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If the one article that came out is correct (I can pull it up if necessary) Fetterman post-health problems might not be the same person as Fetterman pre-health problems, not that it's an excuse
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Lastly, and this should be self explanatory but covering myself: when O say influencer, I'm not talking about writers, academics, attorneys, activists, labor people, even party officials and electeds... there's generally something with them that you can point to *outside* of social media posts
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Well, political influencers (by which I mean posters with followings, involved in political postings but *W/O* areas of expertise) usually don't have a knowledge and could be using those followings for self and/or ignorant reasons.
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I am...unclear...as to what #1 is referring to directly
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Outside of the fact that this discussion gives Jain more pull and credibility than he likely actually has, it's hilarious that he publicly put this out there after having what amounted to a meltdown in his first attempt to go on Bluesky.
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Great thread, beginning to end.
Also, a reminder on Detroit - white UAW members were perfectly willing to go against one of their own for Detroit Mayor (Greg Edwards) when Alfred Cobo promised them housing discrimination (Cobo used different words, but more or less)
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Yes. The UMW democracy has been a perfect example of how Union Democracy is not a silver bullet.
While it was probably doomed to failure, given what happened to the industry, it is fascinating to think about if Yablonski had ever gotten a chance...
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I'll argue that more union democracy leads to more changeable futures. under a non-democratic system, bad leadership is harder to remove. Not that it's easy w/ it, see John Palmer's stillborn campaign for IBT Pres, but possible.
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Unless we do whatever he wants, similar to how he turned off Starlink for the Ukraine. Nazi bastard is about to get everything he wanted
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Actually, he's got us by the short hairs- did you really think it was something as simple as a data harvest or efficiency op? Nonsense, with his band of lyal nazi incels, he's got backdoor and root accesss to all of government - he can now threaten to turn off US Government unless we Next
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It would be shocking, Trump had already defied the rules of politics, but for him to get away with completely breaking the laws of economics, now that would be amazing
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Lake Michigan? I was just in NE Michigan last week, so I had some great views of Lake Huron
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Yeah, but the goddamn historical marketing...