theforestpark.bsky.social
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Horatio Nelson has entered the chat.
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Wikipedia are among those who tell of the Khan’s great deeds!
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Im a new yorker and I agree with this.
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And a lot of the more On-Here center-left accounts who DO challenge the Dem party from time to time fail to acknowledge their own complicity here (I am damnably guilty myself of this), falling prey to such intense negative polarization against Leftists, that they don't see what they've become.
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This goes back well north of a decade. I have seen even the most modest challenges to the Democratic Party from a left standpoint be met with variations on "SO YOU SUPPORT TRUMP?????" The idea that someone could genuinely disagree with the Dem leadership is UNFATHOMABLE to a lot of people.
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I'm a Certified Neoliberal Capitalist Shill who donated to Harris and is on my local Dem committee. And even I think that the center-left is NOTORIOUS for thinking itself this bastion of political temperance and decency when it has possibly the worst theory of mind I have ever seen in politics.
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OP isn't wrong, but I think a lot of the pro-OP discourse here is just a whole lotta left punching. You could perfectly Theory Of Mind the exact opposite point, that a belief that it WASNT good faith is also very sincerely held, and I think a lot of folks would be reversing behavior here.
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I have read the replies/QTs, and, while I don't agree with many of them, I don't see any rejection of internality at all.
Let us ask how we would feel if OP said "the GOP possessess a good-faith belief in the inherent criminal danger of Black people"? That would also count as internality.
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I hate a lot of the Hard Left myself. They can be at best unreasonable, and at worst, dishonest and batshit. But the Center-Left portrays itself as this noble, guileless, pragmatic group when it is often just as narrow-minded, petty, and bigoted, and cultish as its Leftist antagonists.
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You mention theory of mind. I can empathize with someone's unwillingness to come to terms with their own racism/Islamophobia while still opposing them. And I say this as someone who is a certified Neoliberal(TM) who donated to Harris and is on my local Democratic Committee.
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Speaking as someone who voted for and donated to Harris: Up until November of 2023, I would have had a lot more sympathy with this belief. Now it covers a whole lot of "hey, accept the mass-murder-assisting racism or you're a Nazi! Gee, I wonder why they don't like us?"
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Restricting arms sales to the perpetrator when said perp has a considerable dependence on our parts and servicing (for the earlier arms we sold/donated), can do a great deal to end the crisis.
There have been 100s of crises in the world in the past century. We've only invaded in like 5 of those.
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He could have literally just obeyed US law (the Leahy Law, to be specific) that restricts arms sales/military aid to countries that violate human rights. But not only did he break the law, he lied to congress in March of 2024 to do so.
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When I was in college 20 years ago, our Student Dems chapter met privately with AIPAC. The current college Dems are publicly pro-ceasefire and super pissed at the Dem leadership.
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The US is an enormous net loser from this whole debacle, and yes, this includes defense contractors because if we really cut Israel loose, we could afford to draw down a lot of our ME bases, and that money would probably go instead to procurement.
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Which is amazing because this was central to Marx's thinking!
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@holborne.bsky.social
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That sitcom suggestion might be the worst TV show capable of existing.
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1) that is an amazing insult.
2) the one smart thing about him is that he correctly understood that anglophone progressivism has roots that go back centuries. (He thinks this is bad. We think it’s good.)
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@holborne.bsky.social
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I am reminded of when I learned what SCOTUS decision the phrase “you can’t falsely about fire in a crowded theater” comes from.
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...but that's a very different thing than running for CONGRESS _in a district you do not even live in when you have only recently moved to the area_.
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In my town, it's a year. This is good. District shopping is bad.
And I should say that I am very pro-transplants-getting-involved-in-local-politics. I moved for college, and joined my local DEM committee. In interviews, I hated when candidates used their generational family ties as a plus. (1/n)
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which one is more likely to beat Sherrill?
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I know you're joking, and I don't even live in NJ, but seeing that sentence made me bristle deep down to my core.
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You must read the ancient texts!
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Given that about a quarter of house Dems voted for the stand-alone version of this in December, that may have been part of the plan.
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Thank you for sharing that!
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He approaches movies the way Horatio Nelson approached naval combat. Let us hope he has a many decades left before he reaches a Redoutable-sniper moment.
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Im curious, what else did she do that day?
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Disturbingly, in every poll where I’ve seen cross-tabs, Cuomo does better with women than with men (which matters because women are likely to be more than 60% of the primary voters)
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The vacant lot protected neighborhood character from capitalist encroachment.
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Glory to you… …and your house!
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The Great Khan shall protect all pets!
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Menswear Guy REALLY needs to do a review of Andrew Scott's outfit, because it is that good.
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I'll grant this. These are pretty epic.
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I actually don't know how I feel about this one. I wish the quoted skeet included a photo of her wearing the blazer fully.
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1. I fucking died at your joke.
2. I want the brim on that hat to be 1/2 inch wider. Other than that, this is a masterpiece.
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Her bust is the knot of the tie!
This is the best use of figure + outfit = symbolism that I have ever seen. I bow in humble awe before an absolute queen.
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This outfit is messing with my cognition so intensely (but in a weirdly good way) that I can not grade it. I can merely say that "This outfit is."
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I'm willing to put aside my bizarre (and _intense_) distaste for buttons to give this outfit its due. Also, the back absolutely slays.
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I have an intense Menswear-guy type of appreciation for this outfit.
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“And call off Christmas!”
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In all fairness, Trump categorically believes this.