benjamoofin.bsky.social
What is social media for if not for yelling all the time?
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Their excuse is "it's a special election, turnout is worse" as if that isn't 1) a phenomenon experienced by both sides or 2) completely irrelevant to a percentage based metric.
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Honestly this seems like a good grift. Find a safe blue district, run as a Republican, get a bunch of money from Elon and lose anyway.
Not quite the redistribution of wealth Marxism intended, but a redistribution all the same.
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If we act quick enough- though the recession will happen regardless.
Congress could neuter the tariff powers of the presidency, but that's still a long shot.
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Bloodborne but kinda like right before it turns into nighttime.
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The point is that the "purity testers" can *never* get their preferred candidate, because there will always be something about them that causes other purity testers not to vote. Their preferred candidate cannot exist.
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No, because again, the constitution is not bound by it's words, and it never has been. There's a whole entire branch dedicated to grappling with contextualizing the constitutional amendments, this argument of textual loophole is literally insane.
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This has been the tactic of this administration from day one- one of the first orders was trying to reinterpret "under the jurisdiction of" to nullify a constitutional amendment.
There's no reason to think their argument for a third term won't be similar.
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To be a bit fair to the Supreme Court here, their argument was that just because a lower court judge had found that Trump supported an insurrection, it wasn't concrete enough to qualify under the amendment (which is stupid, tbf).
It's hard to argue that Trump didn't serve two terms.
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This would very clearly qualify, but no one will do anything about it.
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Because the democrats are the opposition party. They're acting like they're out of a job, but they're not— they're simply doing nothing.
I will vote to primary literally 90% of sitting democrats if they don't decide to take some damn action— assuming Schumer didn't sell their only opportunity.
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It's not the judge, they're held in a foreign prison. He doesn't have jurisdiction anymore.
That is why this is so abhorrent.
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Which is extremely short sighted, because he acted basically as ethically as you could hope anyone would act in this situation.
Any future accidental invitee to a Signal group sharing confidential info no longer has an incentive to not just leak the info secretly— or worse.
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Pretty sure she's not a "podcaster", but was an actual journalist working for a real publication for a long time.
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Hell, it'd be a great moment to advocate nationalizing a ton more than before, but the democrats will once again fail to meet that moment.
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Make sure you get far enough away from him when he emerges from his coma, or his AoE will one shot you.
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He didn't, though. He signed a special wish note saying he wants it to happen. He has no legal authority to.
Can we stop pretending executive orders are magic wands?
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The future will be a "writer" putting a few bullet points into AI to make a verbose, soulless message that the "reader" will filter back through AI into a series of bullet points.
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If you have an American passport (and, importantly, don't look like you're from Central or South America), we're likely to have a lot more problems arise before they start deporting citizens for tattoos.
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That's the point. They're calling out common tattoos as "gang affiliated" so it's easier to deport people with impunity. Basically everything they mentioned would come up in a Google search for "common first tattoos."
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Unfortunately it is a gamble for anyone without a US Passport to try to cross the border from any port of entry. White tourists from European countries have been detained by ICE, and they don't even fit the bill of immigrants Republicans usually hate.
It is not safe to come here.
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My favorite thing about Roko's Basilisk is that, as a though experiment, it starts with an absolute boatload of assumptions. Like of course "I need to help create evil AI" is the only outcome, because you're five times removed from objective reality.
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Nearly 20% agreeing that they're best represented by those who keep getting derided for being "too far left" while Hakeem Jeffries takes 4% and Gavin Newsom doesn't make the list is somewhat significant.
It definitely shows the Democrats shouldn't be taking a rightward swing.
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Does Sonic Adventure 2 count? Sales weren't amazing, quite honestly, but it was actually released *after* the Dreamcast was already discontinued, and is largely remembered as one of the best Dreamcast games.
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A lot of house dems in Republicans areas put their re-election on the line to stand against this. How they're not beating these weasely senators to a pulp with their bare hands I do not know.
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I disagree. Every single one of the dems who voted for the CR need to be abandoned by the party and voted out. They threw America, their voters, and their own colleagues under the bus for the possibility of having more leverage down the line. They don't have it in them to meet this moment.
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I don't even know how you remove the civil war from the Arlington Cemetery. It's Robert E. Lee's wife's family plantation that the union stole and turned into a military cemetery to keep it from going back into his family's hands.
You'd think the "south will rise again" guys would want that known.
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The House Dems are also ultimately in far less safe positions than the Senate ones— if the dems fuck this up, a lot of the house democrats might lose their seats. To stand united and see Schumer cave *immediately* has to be infuriating.
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Schumer is the same person who proposed voting for some of Trump's nominees so they would have "more leverage" when they voted against Tulsi and RFK. Either the dude is absolutely incompetent, or he's actively working with Trump.
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Biden also had a competitent administration that was seemingly able to function on it's own. Trump's administration is filled with sycophants who want nothing other than to get a "good job" shoutout on Fox News, and so won't act outside of Trump's direct wishes.
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It's fun when it's novel— like that indie game from a couple years ago about trying to navigate a house party with two of the most temperamental people you've ever met in the midst of a divorce.
But ultimately most games need direction. Players still need yellow paint, even in dialogue.
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It is the things to come.
Do you know what they told the German people they were doing with the Jews as they were sent to concentration camps? That they were deporting them. We're there.
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I mean, when do we start calling it what it is?
Kidnapping random people, claiming they have no right to be in the country, and then disappearing them under the guise of "deportation" is just Nazism again. I'm not being hyperbolic, this was literally an early part of the Holocaust.
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It's wild that, for younger men, the pitch tends to be either "be politically disengaged, side with the people who frequently say they hate you, or side with the people who say nothing is your fault" and democrats don't see this as a messaging problem.
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The majority of these men, in my opinion, don't even start as dateless "the feminists must be wrong" guys. The majority of them just see feminists as hostile and manosphere guys as not, and fall down the rabbit hole because, y'know, why wouldn't they?
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The whole vaccine thing is some sort of collective psychosis.
I bet not even a single one of them can vocalize why they think vaccines should be banned.
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Yeah, it's not even a rebuttal. Not even a "the markets are immutable forces that go through cycles unrelated to any president" like they always falsely claim.
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I wondered why the podcast didn't come back for the 50th anniversary, but this makes sense— it never existed to begin with.
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As a progressive living in a red state, I think I know the answer.
Progressives, ultimately, are okay with losing, so long as they were right in the end. The right wing doesn't give a shit about being right, so long as they win.
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This was coming from the moment they started putting ads on videos for creators who haven't even hit monetization yet. Ads went from being at the discretion of the creator to at the discretion of YouTube, and it was only a matter of time before "you haven't hit your ad quota, creator"
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TBF, trying to get a Twitch channel off the ground from nothing is painstaking and awful. I understand the desire to not do it more than once a month.
But then, if you don't desire to do it more than once a month, you probably don't desire to do it at all.