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"Tunak tunak tun, tunak tunak tun, tunak tunak tun da da da." ―William F. Buckley Jr.
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That’s right
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I'm interested to revisit these predictions a month from now. My priors of "Bret is wrong about everything always" have been pretty reliable so far
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Not if your goal is to make an example of someone
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fwiw the origin of the phrase "rawdogging a flight" is a viral tweet posted by a woman
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Not yet anyways.
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Voting probably won't fix it anytime soon, but not voting will definitively make it worse
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I just like the cars. And I'm not really sure where your bias is coming from. Did you get rear ended by a Leaf or something?
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And who would be paying me commission, pray tell?
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I genuinely do! More people should drive EVs, they’re more convenient and more performant than gas cars.
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Nope, that’s not how EV batteries work. I have a 3 year old EV. The range is basically the same as when I got it (300 miles).
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For sure, I’m just saying that the big benefit to a $22k EV is that in 5 years you’ll be able to it buy it used for less than a used Corolla. That’s a big deal for EV adoption.
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$22k is the same price as a Toyota Corolla. If you can’t afford that, you probably shouldn’t be buying a new car. The used car market exists for a reason.
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Facebook deranking news content is unironically the best thing Facebook has done for society in the past 15 years
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I am pro AI when it is useful and anti AI when it is not. I contain multitudes
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Civilian deaths? Ideally zero.
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A bunch of stuff, apparently. ballotpedia.org/Judge_Cedric...
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Not caring if Trump wins makes someone a bad person.
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Issue subpoenas, keep it in the news. Dems will ultimately lose the fight, but they should still have the fight for political messaging reasons bsky.app/profile/pwna...
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Honestly, the 2018 Apple buyout is probably the only reason it *hasn’t* been enshittified. They don’t have to worry about appeasing shareholders with “Shazam plus”, now it’s just another iPhone stock app rolled into Apple’s stupidly big bottom line
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(Not actually a counterpoint, the S&P 500 is doing extremely well)
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Counterpoint: the Dow is actually a terrible index
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Thankfully this kind of thing won’t happen until at least Gaben is dead, but it’s still a jump scare whenever I see the rumor
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Unsolicited chick flick
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The evergreen take on infuriating undecided voters from Chris Hayes: archive.is/V3sbx
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Semantic collapse has made the term “Zionist” completely useless at this point tbh. Probably better for everyone to just talk about specific policies
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Can you provide anything that indicates the Biden administration is either supportive or neutral towards the ICC charges?
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Who passed those bills?
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??? You can’t just be like “one wants America to be Nazi Germany” and expect the rest of us to be cool with that person winning
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Every few years I get the opportunity to push a big "abortion and trans rights" button, and even if my vote affected literally nothing else I am still going to push that button every time without fail
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Tyson is nearly 60. I don’t think casual observers are aware that Paul is the strong favorite here
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At minimum, he could keep his mouth shut.
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The common factor in all of your kidnappings is you
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I don’t think the goal is to win swing voters, it’s to delegitimize the court as much as possible in the eyes of *base* voters to create upwards political pressure for court reform. “How are you going to handle SCOTUS” is a fundamental question, and it should be asked of every Dem in a primary!
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On that we agree 100%
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Haha, well I don't blame you for being disillusioned then. That would drive me insane, Cuellar sucks so much. And the Dem leaders who prop him up suck too.
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Half the time? There is exactly one anti-abortion Democrat in congress, unless you literally live in his district that is simply not true.
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Like, I take your point that voting will not end capitalism or end Israel's destruction of Gaza. That sucks. But every few months or years I get the opportunity to push an "abortion rights" button and I am going to do it every time, and I haven't yet heard a reason why I shouldn't.
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> At best you get a choice between abortion and not abortion.
If, at best, voting is nothing more than a binary choice between abortion and not abortion, and has no impact on anything else, then I am going to vote for abortion every time because abortion matters to me, and it should matter to you.
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Ghouls have lost primaries in the past, and will lose primaries in the future. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lip...
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Each election is an independent event that has good and bad outcomes. I vote for the best outcome in each election. That means voting out the ghouls in primaries and then voting against the fascists in general elections.
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Primary all of those people too
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A key corollary to "vote blue no matter who" is "vote ghouls out of primaries"
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You can’t even make Renaissance art anymore, because of baroque
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Voting uncommitted is definitionally different than not voting, since primary voters are high political engagement. It’s explicitly a protest vote in most primaries and an organized protest against Gaza policy in this particular primary.
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I’m sure you don’t read a lot of things
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Sure, I’m all for it. How do we do that?
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He’s not a savior, but this is a clear track record moving in the right direction. If you have a better option than Biden on this front, tell me.