quoproquid.bsky.social
he / him, 🏳️🌈 ✝️. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.
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bsky.app/profile/quop...
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yeah
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i tend to do that
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thanks for catching me
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LBJ 1968 simulator: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-tra...
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let's not let a few inconvenient skirmishes, a few atrocities, from letting us pat ourselves on the back
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i was very grateful to playtest and do some minor editing. it's a stupendous work.
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yes. if there was someone who could transcend the traps of cold war liberalism it was probably jfk but the man never committed to that path and instead just vaguely wavered before getting his head blown off making all of it pointless
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the upper threshold of what JFK *could* have achieved is really, really high but we don't live in that world.
we live in the one where he tuned out all the adlai-adjacent, vietnam-skeptical humanists he appointed to the state department in favor of the pentagon
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if he's failing to appear in the file, then it's probably because the server is overloaded and you'll need to face hughes again and expose him
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hard not to view the family's record as anything but a long series of disappointments that indirectly trapped the country in the mistakes of the 60s
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always very strange when i make an irritated post, look away for 30 minutes, and come back to bafflingly large engagement.
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i really don't have any sense of how strong i am or what i look like so i will just randomly realize that i can do things that i could never do before
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republicans would not allow her to fill the seat. you're looking at an eight member court indefinitely (and then a seven member court if RBG still dies).
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republicans, who control the senate in this scenario, would not allow hillary clinton to fill the seat. there is no nominee who could get confirmed.
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the republicans are using my face on their campaign materials. they're calling me an effete intellectual. an egghead. a fa—.
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dudes love getting mad at any confident displays of femininity
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it would not be hard to similarly connect the obsession with factory jobs, re-industrialization, with idealized conceptions of what "men's work" should be, with fantasies of rugged, muscular men sweating before the furnaces as they provide for their wives and children
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Obama 2016 campaign
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neither jeb! nor hillary can achieve anything lasting in their presidencies due to how calcified congress is and various intra-party divisions so they wind up relying on the same "pen and phone" governance of obama amid rising populist anger.
COVID hits like a ton of bricks.
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like i can imagine a reality where hillary stumbles over the finish line (no comey letter), but i cannot imagine the forces that trump embodied being put behind the person of john ellis bush
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the last time i made a shitpost here i had about two dozen people messaging me to ask if donald trump had enacted the purge from the film The Purge
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to the extent that bluesky has problems its largely in the excessive earnestness of its user base, the obsessive focus on politics, and the average poster's inability to make a joke
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yes. i think it's among the best.
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i think it's fairly bland and unpleasant, unfortunately. kehinde wiley's oil painting of the president, by contrast, is phenomenal.
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only extant photo where donald trump doesn't look like a complete sociopath
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sorry but these all just suck