maxmilstein.bsky.social
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"Goldilocks amount of bigotry" is a good line and you could probably spin that into a longer article.
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I would read a longer version of this.
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XR?
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The propaganda campaign to blame Obama for the bank bailouts that were pushed through under George W Bush was one of the most successful in American history. bsky.app/profile/mist...
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I can still sing most of the jingle from the Pizza Hut ad that ran before the movie.
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I've never seen Rise of Skywalker and on some level don't consider it canon. It was intended to be a Leia-focused movie, I believe it was essentially cancelled and replaced with a fan film upon Carrie Fisher's death.
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You know this better than me, but isn't an x-factor whether or not people are party-registered? I have family in NYC and 4 years ago we talked a bit about mayoral choices, and a week later they texted that they couldn't vote because they weren't a registered Democrat. (Very educated).
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I meant to say specifically that I would ask people in my social circle which flag they would want me, personally, to fly.
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I don't have, like, a ton of Chinese friends.
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If this was a thing I was going to do I would just ask Chinese-Americans which flag they would want flown; similar answer for other nations in similar positions.
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Chess is to games-as-art what the paintings at Lascaux are to regular art.
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I think you meant beat, but I like "I could bear a tiger"
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I guess I don't understand what the story about the Taco truck was supposed to show.
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This isn't wrong, but if someone's frequently discussing their politics online, I don't think it's unfair to expect them to be informed about politics.
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I can't speak to Jeffries, but Schumer's been consistently opposed to trade with China at least as far back as I can remember.
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Everyone knows they'll cut taxes first, so what they say matters less?
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Very curious to hear more about this in the Russian expat community.
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My best examples are abortion-related, an issue where it has been suggested there are a lot of parallels to slavery.
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New York Republicans seem able to pull off the Harper trick. Their next and last gubernatorial nominees both ran for Congress as pro-life, the, when running for governor, credibly claimed they wouldn't push that position.
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My sense is Fetterman is deeply committed he just has shitty values.
I think there's something to the idea, though, that a person with deeper convictions has more space to compromise them.
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Vs. Stephen Harper, probably the most successful Canadian Conservative of my lifetime, who believed life began at conception but was able to credibly claim he'd never legislate that.
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What's more interesting to me is how difficult it is for a politician today to say "I believe in X but I won't legislate it because I know it's unpopular." That is one of the big missing pieces in our politics, Lincoln had it and we don't.
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Sen. McMorrow does some of this with her videos but this is an amazing idea!
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I've talked elsewhere about how excellent your staff is so I won't spend precious characters here on that. I'm just wondering if the intern is a paid intern (I had previously been told Senators had 3 paid staff and you list 4 here).
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This is on my to-read list but knowing it covers this history moves it up a few spots!
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I told my younger wife about this and it was like I'd described making tools by chipping away at rock.
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Hot desking seems designed to turn away employees. I've toyed with going back to the/an office, and the fact that they've moved to hot desking factored into the decision not to.
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In my life I've eaten goat exactly once, when you ordered it and offered me a bite, and ever since I've thought to myself "Man, goat actually tasted really good."
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@asociologist.bsky.social feels like a story you have probably been following.
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There is a very real chance that my intemperate remarks about Geoge W. Bush brought dishonor on the Wasp Clan.
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Me: I don't think we ever used L5R handles for anything but L5R discussion though.
*remembers LiveJournal existed*
Me: Oh no. Oh, Oh no no no...
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I feel like 'gamer on the couch' goes back to right after the great recession, so at this point the shift feels pretty real. And I feel like you never hear 'welfare queen,' anymore, anecdotally at least.
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Tagging @asociologist.bsky.social. It's interesting to think about the shift of the genderedness from "welfare queen" to "lazy gamer."
Though, note that the shift happened at the same time that 'gamer' became much less male coded.
Dunno, seems like the kind of stuff you study.
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Came here to say 'sorry for your loss,' glad to hear etc.
Just remember to amend your estate plan if our tax code ever gets amended to reflect logic and/or justice.
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Fair point. I may also be overestimating his financial security. But I think we agree there are tiers presenting different issues.
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I have this vague sense that Yglesias types have a critical mass of support and this isn't an issue, and it's not an issue for a true 'buy me coffee' person whose incentives are measured in single-to-low-double digit numbers of dollars.
The middle is the issue.
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Literally former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was unable to get away with this, I promise, if you're reading this, you won't either.
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Your anger don't impress me
The world slapped in your face
It always rains like hell on the losers' day parade
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Supposedly Tip O'Niell basically dismissed Vietnam protesters for years, until one, instead of screaming at him, just politely asked if he was getting his news from both sides.
He started consulting different sources and came out against the war not long after! 3/3
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When you see someone (I'm thinking elected officials, but whoever) do something terrible, instead of dismissing them as terrible, ask where they get their info, then ask yourself what you can do to change that. 2/3
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I don't know if this is relevant, but I recently read a criminology textbook that explicitly stated that in some conditions not speeding was a violation of the social contract.
Again, the audience for this claim was future police officers.
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What's a policy that you think would materially help the working class that would win over working class voters who don't already vote for Democrats?
(Also, for context, what was the most recent election in which you did direct voter engagement?)