tlewis.bsky.social
Manufacturing & Industrial Policy @ BlueGreen Alliance.
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I noticed this yesterday for the industrial decarb one too
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I always felt this way about COVID too — it was never about lockdowns — it was about forcing other people to go out, forcing them to not wear masks, and then forcing them to tell you that the risks you are taking are fine and that you are a good person.
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But they told me that Republicans support Social Security and Medicare now and that is all that’s needed to make them moderate
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I keep thinking about the backlash they claim liberals/leftists brought to the Dems is getting ready to explode in the opposite direction by those of us on the left who are infuriated at the center and right about what is happening
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Every time I get on there it’s just people I respect going back and forth with honest to god nazis and I’m like why
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Old fashioned with an increasingly higher bourbon ratio
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If you aren’t getting more cringe as you age — there’s something else going on
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You can see the influence of Twitter on Lakshya and Yglesias when they talk about neuroticism and liberal mental illness.
“Liberalism is a mental disease” has been a common meme on right wing forums for over a decade. It’s just wormed into your brain because of who you are surrounded by.
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I don’t know how anyone can view Twitter as anything other than a cesspool.
I still have an account that I use if I need to read a Tweet for work and every time I’m over there it’s just racist filth and bizarre content about IQ and trans individuals.
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The best way to defeat Republicans is to take Republican issues on positions, register as a Republican, and then vote Republican. It’s fool proof!
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While simultaneously asking the government to do big, complicated things that can only occur with a basic level of societal trust in said government
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There’s a pro-moderate/anti-left group that manifested this argument and has sustained it by repetition.
They’ve done the same thing with the IRA — arguing its implantation has been a failure, while only citing each other. Even as spending estimates are over double what was initially expected.
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Yeah it’s baby brained reasoning. A huge amount of social welfare organizations including a lot of food banks are tied to the Catholic Church. Most of the people utilizing them and working for them are not Catholic.
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It’s amusing how negatively polarized the data driven folks have become about doing anything other than trying to seem moderate — since seeming moderate also requires DOING SOMETHING
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Because it’s not a “serious” suggestion — whereas sitting around watching Republicans control the entire narrative is the serious thing to do.
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People get it backwards because they think people were reacting to their individual circumstances.
Instead, they were reacting to a story about the economy (which still can impact people’s own pocketbook) that fit into a narrative Republicans built by repeating it relentlessly.
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And what happens when the party doesn’t care if it’s unpopular?
We’ve seen them already take drastic steps that people didn’t think they’d even attempt.
Not everything is about the next election.
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USDA ends up almost being a separate rural government unto itself and as a result has a surprising amount of roles/work streams
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Nothing like a good profit while destroying your enemies
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Many people are saying it
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Literally none of the initiatives listed as good government in there the Trump administration supports and it’s just been an incredible experience watching the right leaning abundance folks ignore that
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It’s only popularism when it involves fracking or social security except when Dems do anything in which case it’s all popularism
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So wild that he didn’t even debut in MLB until he was 27
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This is still the theory. Trump as President can’t undo the IRA by himself — regardless of what he puts in an EO. It was always “can we get a few Republicans in Congress to defend the spending” and that remains to be seen.
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Are you posting this anywhere?