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i liked the part where I said "IT'S PROXIN' TIME" and ProX'd everywhere on Bluesky
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it's not clear to me what kind of candidate would succeed at doing that *consistently*. signs point to more Mamdani/AOC types (which I'd be very happy with, don't get me wrong), but are there enough of them out there? the obvious enthusiasm gap aside from that makes it hard to point to anything else
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they have a lot of problems, but I think it's notable that not even that long ago, the Dems were capable of reaching *some* of them. if we want to give up on changing that, fine, but we really need to run up the numbers in cities/suburbs WAYYY more to compensate
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keeps killing me that so much isn't just mutual corruption, but just being totally unable/unwilling to perceive threats if they don't come from the left. one side literally tries to kill you, multiple times, and you go "eh, no big, see ya in the gym." a demsoc muslim rises up and they go red alert
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they do this in Kingsman 2, kinda
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one important lesson I keep relearning over the last decade is that it's *remarkably* easy to grift people, which is probably why a concerningly large percentage of global economic activity is just grifting all the way down
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they laugh and say "it's a good tag system sir"
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there is also a lesson here for the youth vote, which is that if you show up in primaries - really, truly show up - you can kick the establishment in the teeth
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this is why I think a lot of the takes I've seen across this platform and Twitter about Mamdani's success not being replicable are bullshit. sure, maybe Mamdani is a high bar to meet, but as Lander has shown, there's a lot of room for gains of all kinds from playing this playbook
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maybe we should stop drafting liberal SCOTUSes from the Ohtani-era Los Angeles Angels
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I mean, shit, even *Congress* is too small. the Senate should be abolished and the House should at least triple in size!
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the worst-case scenario is that we have a comically large Supreme Court, which would also probably be objectively more democratic and laws-focused than the current Supreme Court because of the probabilities involved.