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More of a reply guy - pr flack that's used to catching flak. Trying to be better. Prev: AB21, Kay Hagan, Cory Booker, Obama ‘12
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In all honesty the most likely outcome is "We're going to put the screws to all these fuckers and put our people in charge."
Like I don't like or trust Mark Cuban but if he's our Henry Kaiser, and that's what it takes to send Thiel to the Seychelles then, well...okay I guess.
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It should be abolished for the same reason why Constantine I abolished the Praetorian Guard.
Palantir will not serve you, it will serve its own interests and that will likely destroy you.
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On a more personal level, I think it also hits on a perpetual problem facing "left" influencer/thought-leader/blogger/etc media (and I mean "left" in a big tent way).
Republican influencers become elected officials, left-leaning influencers become....republicans.
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I actually think he correctly understands that the nature of the Senate, the cap on House seats, and hyper-polarized environment means that unless we change any of those three factors the only path forward is an economically-progressive/socially conservative party.
This, to be clear, is bad.
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Saw a “We are the Ghor” in Manassas today.
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I also think that the synthesis of these two things is honestly inevitable. We're already seeing it manifest in different forms with Zohran Mamdani to Maria Glusenkamp Perez.
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I honestly don't think the two ideas are in conflict. I buy more into Matt Bruenig's speculation that the conflict is primarily driven by anxiety over donors considering so much of the ire seems to come from a very specific donor network. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...
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It does confuse me that being anti-abundance is "populist-coded" while YIMBYs, which have chapters in cities and states across America, are somehow not populist.
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Another important caveat is that the negative attitudes among republicans translated into structural changes to the GOP.
Remains to be seen if we'll see anything similar emerge with the Democrats.
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The GOP had a far steeper drop post-2008. My opinion is that when one party is completely locked out attitudes, for one reason or another, sour significantly. www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...
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It's kind of wild how much we chose to let Cold War politics rewrite history and then just never bothered to correct the record after the cold war.
We (and I mean all of the Allies) dismantled Prussia, as a state and culture, for a reason.
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The question really boils down to how this year shakes out. I think November-December is when the admin will run out of levers and once we get to next year the solidarity among Republicans is going to run against the practical reality of electoral politics.
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Also pairs well with "We'll bring gun and automobile fatalities down" and "We'll build world-class schools that gets kids off the phones and learning" imo.
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Unironically, I think Dems would be smart to run on a law & order platform but instead of "I'm going to send the cops to kill everyone" it's "I'm going to knock off this bullshit and send the feds to shut down every racket, cartel, MLM, and any other bastard ruining your life."
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Not sure if intended but what an incredible diss that Threads is so low-saturation that Kojima can post what you described and nobody either saw it or remembered it.
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Honestly it feels like it was louder in the 1980s? I think about the way Brooke Shields and Drew Barrymore were exploited + the music that seemed to brag about exploiting minors?
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NIMBYs talk about YIMBYs the same way MAGA talks about Dems and USAID or George Soros. It's extremely uncanny and deeply off putting.
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You ever see Millennium Actress (2001)? It's not one of his stronger movies but as a film buff I feel like you'd appreciate it. Last I checked it was free to stream on Prime (which has a surprisingly underrated catalogue imo).
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Middle school me felt like I cracked a code when I started assigning a dollar value to video game playtime vs other entertainment.
"If I pay $15 for a movie ticket that's ~$7 per hour, if I pay $60 for FFX that's at least $1/hr!"
Related: I got a C in high school econ so....
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I think an undeniable part of this is:
1) Fox News has gone full-tilt "scary immigrants" since 2014 (if not earlier)
2) Fox News has been *aggressively* platforming violent local crime stories over the past 4-5 years (the latter was something Chris Hayes had commented on a few years back as well).
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It's a crazy disconnect as well. I think many will nod and agree when you say CoD, GTA, etc are loadbearing pillars in the industry but you hop on Twitch or scan IGN and coverage & interest in FIFA, NBA2k, and Madden is absent.
And tbh, there's not much to talk about other than "they make money 🤷"
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I also think a weird "gamblers psychology" has occurred in video games. We're just not quite thinking of it the same way, but you hear the way execs talk about MTX and hiring folks from Vegas and it's pretty clear we have a shit ton of addicts who aren't aware.
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There is a massive gap between what the industry & public discusses vs. what a critical mass of consumers are playing but it doesn't support this premise either. www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
From 2010 onward there's an enduring resilience of CoD, Madden, NBA2k, FIFA, GTAV, and minecraft.
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Directionally I agree with them but I gotta ask, does getting Omidyar money require you to shut off your brain and become a giant pos or do you only get the money for being a pita?
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The between the lines premise here is that the Civil Rights movement got in the way of True Populism™️ and it was bad the poor rural segregationists got chased out www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Allegedly it's over the tax bill - but it kind of feels like when your partner says they're going to take out the trash and they don't and now you're fighting over the trash but it's not actually about the trash.
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A big part of the problem is that conservative messaging has adapted to this and takes advantage of the absence of specifics to push the counter-message.
Hell even with the specifics they'll just lie.
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AITA? My primary voting demographic is highly educated and closely following my votes and said it’s “morally wrong” that I’m still approving Trump nominees. What should I do?
NOTE: Don’t say vote against them.
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Sometimes I think “we should build a grand unifying theory for why Trump won in 2016” is somehow easier for people to grok compared to “Under a normal system Hillary would have won.”
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One of the things that really sticks with me post-Elden Ring is how very flat (in an almost literal sense) most open world games are.
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These are the same people who say that Obama, Pelosi and Reid should have "done something" to get Lieberman on board with a public option.
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"yeah, yeah, like, the encounters are all right but idk why he spends so much time talking about how sexy the prisoners are and then gets really mad that I let them go."
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Garibaldi might be the exception here.
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And now they're trying to figure out who got it first and spread it.
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IMO this feels like something that should be like the Olympics where we just alternate the first four every 4 years.
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The real sin from the Obama years wasn’t just that state and county parties atrophied but that what we have now are these shitty little fiefdoms that are almost unmovable.
2024 should have been the wake up call that we need a heavier hand or we’re going to lose our blue states.
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My very limited exposure to NJ Dem campaigns (3 month stint on a special election in 2013) is that campaign capacity is outsourced to consultancies?
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As someone that grew up on GameFAQs and prefers written guides this shit slaps
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"If these bozos would adopt MY position they'd win in a landslide easily."
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Getting cut off my in-laws because I stand by the principle that a gene-edited child should have an equal ratio of the DNA all members of the Joint Familial Polycule (JFP) instead of being weighted toward any one particular person, even if that person has very pretty eyelashes.
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Dems have this historic opportunity to say "I'm with the party that will let you live your life in peace." and I'm baffled that we're just....leaving this on the ground.
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Yeaaaa usually this leads to "Our methods are objectionable but our outcome will vindicate us."
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I've gathered that many of them see political utility in NIMBYism. I haven't read Sandeep's book yet but the review makes it clearly he really sees the NIMBY process as a positive wants to adopt the same for utilities. jacobin.com/2025/01/ener...
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Exactly. I'm very empathetic to the arg that 'Abundance', is too vague and doesn't highlight the of role corporate power/capital.
Yet the common critique I see: "The Abundance Vox Boys are shitlib reaganite shills" which tells me it's not about overlapping consensus, it's about elimination.
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Matt Bruenig had alluded that this artificial tension was likely due to competition over scarce donors and honestly it really does feel that way considering how wildly off-base the anti-abundance folks are.
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I'm still really struggling to understand if there's a real constituency here or if it really is all "cryptobros flooding the zone". Like all signs point to the latter but stuff like this throws me considering Morgan's background bitcoinmagazine.com/business/us-...
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Tbh among my blue-collar fam that have crypto, they use it as an investment tool. If you're someone with unreliable work that's never had an employer sponsored 401k then it's way more intuitive to start directing money to a bitcoin vs. grabbing a mutual market fund.
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A lot of states have their identity tied up in specific industries that hold historical value but are no longer economic powerhouses.
Like in West Virginia, more people work in healthcare than coal by a wide margin.
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In terms of "depth" of gameplay/mechanics I'd say the game fits firmly in the mold of late 90s/early 2000s FF games. Not as deep as the sphere grid, not as busted as junctions, but also busted in its own ways (especially in the final act/NG+).
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That said, I had a blast and found mastering the parry/dodge system very satisfying. I'm on my second playthrough, there's a lot to enjoy from a character customization/mechanics standpoint, and I love how it handles resources.