cassandra-s.bsky.social
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Why? The post is six month old. Molloy has written a huge amount about both the election and Trump's policies that could easily answer you "question".
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They did!
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Serbia is an ethnostate that has definitely never been singled out.
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I really hate the fact that being on Reddit in 2014 gives me so much insight into the inner workings of the American Right
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On the right activists and donors are pretty tightly aligned in their goals and ideology.
On the left many activists are explicitly anti-capitalist. Which doesn't sit well with donors.
The search for the "left wing Joe Rogan" is the vain search for a Chapo that doesn't annoy Reid Hoffman.
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It's very similar to the anti-immigration people who talk about the strain it puts on the social safety net.
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In 2008 many, including a lot of Democrats, considered Obama to be too far left. He won by a larger margin than any Democrat since LBJ.
In 04, 16, and 24 the Democratic nominee presented themselves as a reasonable moderate and lost.
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Though I think part of the backlash among columnists and media elite is that their ability to shape the narrative is being effectively challenged by social media.
In the past a bad column would results in a couple letters or gentle ribbing at a party. Now it publicly mocked for days.
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If "the left", whatever the fuck you mean by that, has so much electoral power maybe someone should try appealing to them?
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This is the trans representation I need
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Link is famously mute. BOTW has a very small amount of text for a game of its size and basically no dialogue trees. Even if this worked it wouldn't save a lot of development time.
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Is there also an equivalent of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. Since it seems strange for a semi-autonomous agency to have so much regulatory power.
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question from an American. Why and how does a government ministry have a landlord?
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Also one of Louis XIV's primary goals was breaking up the statelets that held enormous local power in France.
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What an insult to Ferran Adria, Jiro Ono, and the many talented chefs who work for Achatz that have actual experience that could be reflected in a dish.
It's also a terrifically dull list. Why pick chefs that have been so completely documented and understood?
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As a SF native is been exciting to watch the nation go on the same journey we went though in the 00s
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Negative polarization is real, personally I've been seeing a lot more normie liberals become more vocally in favor trans rights. It's genuinely strange that so few Democrats seem to understand that there's a huge number of voter of fucking despise Trump and habitually oppose everything he does.
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It's remarkable that a company literally synonymous with blandly anodyne media has gone back and sanded down the last remaining bits of non-normative behavior in their movies.
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It's fucking wild to the philosophy undergrad "who's to say what's true" nonsense with your own religious identity!
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Kerry was constantly and successfully attacked as a "flip flopper". While Obama's opposition to the Iraq War, a deeply unpopular opinion in 2003, was a huge advantage in 2008.
People like it when people take a stand and articulate clear goals!
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The law requiring people to no rob banks is also killing the bank robbing industry
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The next generation of Carson Daly
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Exactly. There have been constant anti Trump demonstrations across the country since inauguration and it's received no coverage.
Not to mention all the anti genocide protests that have been openly attacked by Democrats.
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Also there was minimal legal enforcement in the US! They were guidelines meant to give people the best chance to not get sick.
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There is an ever widening gap between the skills that get you promoted inside the Democratic party and the skills that make someone and effective politician.
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Using a robot to haggle with a bowling alley seems like a great way to get banned from that bowling alley
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She won multiple elections in the most populous state in the country! It's weird how that's constantly ignored.
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England is a whole country! Where in England does she want to go? What does she like to do on vacation? Otherwise those iterneraries are going to be a chain hotel outside Hull.
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"Dad who can't make time to plan his kid's birthday" is literally the first 15 minutes of every 90s comedy where the dad learns the meaning of life.
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My grandmother has an authentic mid-Atlantic accent (went to boarding school in Connecticut in the 40s) and has a deep voice than my grandfather.
If anything doing voice training has left me less certain of what a "feminine" voice is.
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Hell, I'm in my 30s and grew up in San Francisco. I was regularly called homophobic slurs in high school.
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It's extremely funny to use screenshots from Kingdom of Heaven, a film that depicts the Crusades as ultimately doomed.
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When Hillbilly Elegy was published a ton of people correctly called it the intellectually unserious work of a fabulist. Maybe those people should become staff writers at The Atlantic
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I saw Eat Drink Man Woman at an impressionable age and now I own a dozen Chinese cookbooks.
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It's literally the same people who were defending the lack of a primary
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National borders are silly, but under our current system there are a lot of good reasons to make transferring money across them difficult.
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And metallic currency is at least heavy. Transporting a million dollars in gold short distances is complicated. Sending the contents of a crypto wallet halfway around the world is trivial.
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This is obviously evil. But telling a bunch of young people looking for structure in their lives the symptoms of gender dysphoria is probably not going to have the effect they think it will.
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The people crave Blaseball
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I'm curious if the constant discussion of trans people is going to result in more people transitioning. Gender Dysphoria was barely mentioned in my hippie home town, now it's on the news every night.
I expect to meet people who were inspired by pictures of Lia Thomas on Fox News
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I remember reading the letter to the editor in a feminist magazines from 70s. They were having the same arguments we are now.
It also had an article complaining about Joe Biden.
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The Bay really excells at mashing different cultures' food together. I had Afghan curry on a burrito the other day and it made me genuinely patriotic.
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Some of my teachers explicitly told us it was BS and coached us on how to test well. That's especially true in AP classes that were essential to get into top schools.
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The constant standardized testing and results-driven curriculum in primary and secondary education doesn't help. When I was in high school we were coached by teachers on how to "beat" tests. School becomes a thing to win not a way to learn something.
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It's a great example of how limiting it is to disregard intersectionality and structural analysis. A bunch of small specific issues can combine into big robust movements.
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a colleague kept sending me overlong chatbot slop then asking my thoughts. I eventually snapped and asked "if you're not going to bother to write it, why should I read it?"
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It's a very strange piece. I think the author is better intentioned than the headline suggests. But he just hasn't thought about what being closeted means in practice for anyone besides single cis gay men.
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When minorities want Democrats to protect their rights it's "entitlement" and a " distraction". But it's essential for them to ensure that people reply to straight guys on tinder?
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"Trans rights activist" is usually just code for "trans people".
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So according to them GAC is being imposed on people who aren't trans and the solution is to force-fem a bunch of random college students.