sptmain.bsky.social
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Google's AI is being taught to impersonate users.
Also: Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.
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I was activated by Trump's first presidency. Later than I should have, but I am here now.
When you preach to the choir, it is a kindness and an on-ramp because I wasn't here when it was said before.
Thank you
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We have tons of Joe Rogan of the Democrats-level people
No real beliefs or allegiances
Can't push back to save anyone's life but maybe their own
Gleeful shill
Invested primarily in their own narrative of how things are
Reluctantly budging in the face of overwhelming reality
Booker, Schumer, pick!
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Oh? In 2025, I thought this was an increasingly apparent thing that approached common knowledge.
How do you see it?
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Yes, but.
Marriage Equality was not "popular" by Clinton (Bill) or even Obama. The movement pushed it onto the Democrats at which point they could either lose that energy and potentially lose elections, or go with the that tide.
Politicians can lead or represent, and on this issue they do neither.
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People like her are why whistleblower protection laws exist.
I can only hope that we as a country are as fortunate to have staffers just as principled in her employ.
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And I heard the sound of a thousand, thousand etsy drop-shippers scream out all at once-- then silence.
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She just linked a mirror link in a comment!
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I caught some flak a few months back from a commenter for this thought too!
You're doing solid work that the DNC desperately needs- that they haven't reached out to at least learn from you if not help you out a little seemed/seems pretty short-sighted to me, given your relative effectiveness!
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Blocking them at every turn!
We may not hold the house or senate, but we can make any attempt at anything *absolutely exhausting* for them.
That counts as a successful fight in my book!
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I get that. Maybe it's my own narrow understanding of what a "sit-in" is
I like that they're being more conspicuous about making noise.
I want them to procedurally throw sand in every gear of the Republican Fascist Regime
If they are cautious, they have my full-throated support to go even further
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Next fundraiser idea for May/June: Each donation is a picture of something relating to an anime Kat watched
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kid who takes a sepia tone selfie w\ his buddy in front of school during summer break, and slapping a "Parental Advisory" on a mixtape that is PG-13 at best is peak Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker behavior.
Sit-ins take up space and draw attention to obstruct.
What are you obstructing?
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Is this December 2024 again??
Did I time-travel back in time??
SHOULD I BUY THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD DIPS?!
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lol Columbus did that to his own legacy.
Trump just sympathizes because he also hates it when people bring up the rancid shit he's done, is doing or is planning on doing.
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I'm catching up now-- who's in the building and what are they obstructing??
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Is this 'breaking news' from 2022?
apnews.com/article/busi...
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They are showing us who they are, again and again.
Hopefully their audience shows them who they are as well.
We're much overdue for a groundswell of independent media.
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Hm. The link is pointing to a disabled form now :/
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Hey, this is a pivot away from what you really meant by your previous comments, but I can follow.
Marco Rubio was unanimously sworn in. This is not an *OR* situation. People who live in blue districts can determine if they are being represented well.
Dems in red districts can do the same.
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"Why is the left so obsessed with Purity Tests???" whines the Center-Right Dems as they continue to have no principles, market on saving democracy while making sure all their weapons are foam-tipped in the name of "Bipartisanship and cooperation"
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You said they're uninformed, ignorant in operations, civics; are therefore the problem.
Where were you going with it?
Because if it wasn't demanding subsistence workers spend hours of their time in self-education to justify their ability to vote, I genuinely don't know where you were going.
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If you think we should gatekeep the (primary) vote based on a level of political awareness and literacy, then we will re-create the early aristocracy of land-owning rich people.
You know how much effort goes into maintaining this page, and that's not all of it. That's an unreasonable hurdle.
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I'm not sure what other means you're referring to- but calls can be ignored when otherwise incentivized.
Everyone has time. Incumbents have the advantage and they can still show they are the right person for the job, to meet this moment.
But this is a dissatisfaction built on decades, not years
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I won't disagree.
But that's a really silly reason not to talk about it, when it's one of previous few levers of power normal people have access to.
Political discussion online is a cesspit, and yet nobody is going to say the answer is that we as a population should avoid talking about it.
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Yes. I'm not sure why the GOP is the only side that can talk about primarying their politicians, while we seem to turn our least reliable allies into bottlenecks that can betray us when we need them most.
Then extract concessions from their own side.
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I'm having a tough time believing that "blue no matter who" is the way, instead of "better candidates who inspire the confidence of their electorate".
We already have dems that hamstring our priorities by working like double agent republicans, the answer has to be replacing them, not elevating them
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Ok, when I copy-paste from the tweet it won't go, and when I strip out the bottom half, it refuses to translate anything.
But when I type it in directly, it translates right.
When I copy-paste from another source with different bolding/font, it works right.
wtf is this microtargeted thing?
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I just did it separately myself, and it comes out like this.
That's Dark.
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Oh yes!! I follow her on Youtube; but didn't think to look for her here.
Thanks!
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Like I said, my very fallible memory 😅.
I know the GOP fought him on that front, and he did try
He does gets credit for that
But do also remember that the rallying cry to the left, for Biden, was, "Once he is elected, he can be pushed to the left!"
What, exactly, do you think that would look like?
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How can any country assume the US can even keep an agreement for more than 4 years, max?
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"ooOOooooh, what about the dEmOcRaTs who were doing insider trading thennnn??"
JAIL THEM TOO. Thinking that this might be some kind of gotcha should be embarrassing.
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My fallible memory recalls that Student Loans came up at the very end of his campaign and administration, like a last-minute concession done begrudgingly.
That's fine, that's politics, too.
For those he helped, he gets credit.
But like most progressive things, it feels like he was bullied into it
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The first big disappointment was the DNC
The final disillusionment was the platitude about how you can only see the beautiful stars when it's dark out (concession speech)
After saying she's all that stands between us and Trump, she was going to f* off and admire the beauty in darkness.
Ghoulish
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Sir, there is also a genocide going on.
I'm sure you're aware
I know you know that "the good guys" have a higher moral standard not to do the easy things that slip into evil.
I know you know that burying an ambulance full of executed aid workers is not "good guy" behavior.
What are you doing now?
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Why is Tim Walz getting so much positive attention from the same range of groups that are determined to make sure Harris does not attempt to run in 2028?
One thing I see over and over again is that he regularly owns his part in the failure to win, because his name is on the ticket.
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Unless we assume she actually ran a perfect campaign, 1 public figure is easier to move than millions of individual voters.
But a politician must either LEAD the people somewhere, or REPRESENT what they want.
By losing, she proves she was unable to do either better than Trump.
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I have an automatic rule that delays all outgoing mail by 2 minutes. Just. In. Case.
It's helped a few times, but is annoying when there's someone on the phone and... "did you send the email yet?"
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and I've said all these things about him.
But I will support him if he is punching to the right, and not standing in front of me when I do the same.
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This is the most impressed I've ever been with him!
KEEP IT UP!
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If your read of this comment is that Bernie should team up with Schumer, I'm afraid your pin has missed the donkey entirely and is in a completely different room 😅
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It's within the realm of normal to notice a suddenly falling birthrate for a country and be concerned about it. If you *really* care, you could even try to address it in any number of ways; removing negative incentives and create positive ones.
It is beyond creepy to personally attempt to fix it
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One Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy Five.
Since DailyKOs began counting in October 2018.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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This is like...the digital version of a mobile for an iPad kid.
Except big.
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I watched a video that made the claim that Democrats are actually the Conservative Party in America now as defined by "conserving"
They idolize the Status Quo, defend norms, traditions and rules regardless of how effective or relevant.
Their decade-long platform is "Normal is better than that guy"
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Unless this letter is a first move to enable further action, it is meaningless.
If you must do these things to satisfy yourself, you may do so. But don't try to convince us that this is sufficient "action".
So when Trump ignores this, what will you do next?
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I don't know anything would it be feasible to set up anything where more people could talk to them- they to others and to each other?
So they feel less alone?
Whatever it is would have to be heavily moderated to weed out the bad actors, but it feels worth doing
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I was just being told that I'm working so hard to support Trump, on an influencer's page that's all about uplifting Dem voices and amplifying their actions.
I asked why she was doing a better job doing this than the entirety of the Dem machine and if they had dozens it did not speak well of them.
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With Democrats like you, who needs Republicans?
Leave me alone, lady, I'm not talking to you.