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Husband. Son. Cat dad. Gardener. Baseball fan. Music lover. Cinephile. Star Wars geek. Former software developer. Out-of-practice stage director. Currently practicing attorney at lol.
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Thank you for your service
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As part of its settlement to resolve the defamation suit by the Trump administration, The Onion has agreed to remove all linking verbs from its headlines. bsky.app/profile/theo...
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phew
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Was there follow up to how or why these ads were “taken down”?
Also the math of their proposed budget necessitates cutting Medicaid. Is math also illegal now?
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“we gotta leave it there, Gary”
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He’s gonna invite the tariffs on his podcast and say how much his kids like them.
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Optics to whom exactly? LOL he’s a convicted felon and that hasn’t affected his “optics”
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Does he even own a suit?
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wow I am so lucky to be born at a time when there was no one taller than me in the dating pool, so it was super easy and it never caused anyone anxiety before now.
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Completely agree on that last point. Absolutely batshit times.
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Do you see power being taken away through the democratic process (sounds like maybe if so, with a 3rd party)? I get why “vote harder” can fail to persuade given recent events.
Or do you see taking power away outside of the democratic process? If so what does that look like?
Or some sort of mix?
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Protest does not take anyone’s power away, it asks others to exercise their power. At least that’s how I understand it.
So if changing hearts & minds is (understandably) not the goal, does taking away power occur through a democratic process? I don’t mean to suggest that’s the only moral means.
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Oof, I mean, not sure I’m internalizing anything rather than reading the room. But ok.
Isn’t the way to “defeat” them by changing hearts and minds? If not theirs then enough of other people’s? Isn’t that what protests are meant to do?
So yeah it definitely matters how an argument is perceived.
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Yes, that’s an indictment of white liberals.
But the problem is that when you present facts you’re an out of touch elite. If you burn shit down, you are an unhinged radical.
How do you wiggle between those problems? Maybe that’s why politics is just a cult of personality now. Charisma is policy.
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I’m certainly not arguing that fat & happy white liberals have the inner fortitude it took for Black people to earn their freedom.
I’m saying it’s not clear the pussy hats or “Kamala is brat” really helped. And that’s what the white liberal cultural brain trust was able to contribute so far.
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Obv everyone has their own reasons but what I see: not only are we/they demoralized, but we’ve been told by the media that our woke white knighting was part of how this happened.
There is a strong sentiment of “letting go of what I cannot control”
(also I have a nonpartisan job, but that’s me)
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chart-topper lol
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Wowee fucking zowee.
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Sigh. The federal government is not New York.
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As some talking head once said, with 9/11, Giuliani didn’t rise to the occasion, the occasion sunk to his level.