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"I don't keep up with politics," you say? Too bad. Politics keeps up with *you*.

One of the things we are finding out is just how many people on *both* sides don't get this. There is politics in actual, fully fledged autocracy, let alone this current form of degraded democracy. Politics *never* stops

I love myself too much to watch that man speak live.

Medicare went from legislation to covering over 90% of eligible Americans within one year, based on mailing people paper forms.

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Sir Blake sketch for a kingdom AU that @artisticmaths.bsky.social and i are working on for fun :)

happy 5th finaleversary!! the full piece, process and PSD is now posted on Patreon ☀️🌙🌒 public posting to follow on monday! patreon.com/nonadraws

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Revealed preference of low info voters in rich democracies is a like fake populism I think, in that they like promises to blow up the system while it keeps trundling along providing prosperity and nothing too destabilizing happens

no take only throw governance. voters basically don't believe in trade offs and don't really believe that government can make things worse

The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the Traitors, up with the Stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, Rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom!

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

Zelensky is watching his neighbors get blown to smithereens by Russian bombs. He is watching his countrymen die in muddy trenches to hold an invading dictator at bay. He himself could die, alongside his family. The expectation that he flatter Trump’s delusions, like our elites all do, is obscene.