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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
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We need to bring back town criers
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Retvrn
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In the final analysis, what happens when the courts order the marines to not do something, and Trump orders them to do it anyway? I genuinely don’t know, and I think we are rapidly headed for this situation.
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Do not monkey’s paw this!!! It is absolutely within the realm of possibility for him to send troops to the California governor’s mansion
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We are in the cool zone
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Yes correct
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Destroying welfare and economic regulatory capacity and increasing coercive capacity are both bad and unnerving, but in different ways
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I think most immigration enforcement is morally illegitimate but I’m willing to make some pragmatic concessions bc I know this is an extreme minority view. But I’m not willing to make concessions to a machine that delivers people up to satan
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I’ve spent a total of like four hours in Dublin on a layover, but I remember seeing an unusually high number of restaurants advertising guacamole sandwiches
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Making it difficult to cross the border legally is precisely the cause of people dying in locked semi trailers in the desert
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There are issues that bsky posters can be sheep about—ai for instance—but simply reciting verifiable facts about the administration makes you sound crazy.
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it helps to have beliefs you are unwilling to sacrifice for political expediency and "immigration is good" is a sort of non-negotiable one for a Democrat trying to succeed at any time after say 1840
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Idk how it works in Canada but withholding would make it difficult to do that
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Think about how many nominal liberals came off the loss in 2024 using "Dearborn" as a racial slur and cracking jokes about Trump deporting Latino swing voters. You need an ideology deeper than the performance of government
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*lyme lol
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I was at a non-public event where Cory booker was asked whether he would join the protestors in California. His response was essentially that he doesn’t need to, bc he gets a lot of TikTok likes
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This guy
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Was it Leopold Aschenbrenner
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You told me to fuck off?