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porchrates.bsky.social
Cultural Heritage Data Guy in DC, bar regular, proud public union member. This is all parody and I mean none of it.
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honestly there was some day that passed by sometime between 31 and now almost mid thirties where I suddenly completely 100% stopped caring about what almost anyone clearly younger and not a direct colleague or peer and its immensely freeing (huge boon to helping out at my neighborhood bar too)

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I will say the more we use stuff like "obligation to resist kings" the better - like americans need to stop being so jaded and get back to first principles - America was born with blood at the root - but it was also born in the belief that this is not a land of kings

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

honestly missed opportunity here for a governor to just stand up and yell back at him and say states rights

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Look - I have some empathy in that I don't think buyer beware is a good ethical system - BUT many americans pride themselves on "I wouldn't fall for a scam!" or "I do my research" or "Only I can decide what is safe for my kids" - and then proceed to fall for obviously bad deals

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Maybe I'm a coward but I wouldn't want to get a lifetime of death threats when what I wanted was a cushy job where I sell out at the end by getting a cool lobbying job - like are we really so shocked congress or other political operatives don't have a spine? This literally isn't why they're there!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Straightforward from here: 1. Self-proclaimed King Trump declares war on congestion pricing 2. Sends red-hats into NYC to impose his will 3. Surprisingly robust urbanist militias resist, the "15-minute-city men"

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

this quote from Vasily Grossman's great book "Life and Fate" feels quite relevant to the current moment and instills a sense of hope I think.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Naomi Klein's Doppleganger is tremendous - read this morning about how the act of 'canceling' / blocking /ignoring do not banish people FROM the public square it banishes them TO another square (like x, telegram, etc) - this is the double world of grift, propaganda, conspiracy, and fear

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A fantastic book. Can’t recommend it enough, @milhistlee.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Its funny how there was a brief flash of realization for many that btwn news media & social media, our information environment is aggressively stacked against Democrats & Democratic messaging but then a bunch of ppl on here promptly memory holed that fact so they could go back to bitching about Dems

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

once again - an important article paywalled when the other sides news is totally free, validates your worst impulses, etc. Coming around to the mainstream media whatever you want to call it failed the needs of an internet audience at every point EXCEPT at stoking liberal outrage through headlines

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

It is absolutely a radical statement on the left to say you don't think race (or gender) should exist at all especially as we've had new identity formulations (like LGBT) form ostensibly around gender being whatever you want, but actually create sub-identities that people defend just like man/woman

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

woke message policing never reached reasonable scale HOWEVER it did exist in radical spaces or in really dumb grifty opinion pieces and weird corporate attempts to be woke and it is worth noting that no one takes serious not calling it a master bedroom

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I think one issue the left has that kind of gets subsumed in the conversation about The Groups is that the skillset that lets you sell yourself as a Latino Whisperer or whatever within the Dem apparatus is more or less completely disjoint from the skillset of actually moving those votes

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments