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Literally returning to country to the conditions in 2020.
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I wanted to be healthy and go do jiu-jitsu, but Donald Trump has forced me to drink beer instead. And probably get fries too.
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I was going to go to my gym for a class tonight, but the city stopped the trains through my neighborhood to support Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
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Walked around for 45 minutes, but everywhere is closed. Also everyone is driving around at like 70 mph because the streets are deserted.
Trump take beer.
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He literally said he would run on his own party line whether or not he wins the Dem primary: gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...
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I don't think he would have to do a write-in campaign. Fusion voting means there are a bunch of alternative ballot lines available to him (the same way Mamdami may run on the WFP ballot line even if he loses the Dem primary) bsky.app/profile/smit...
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One kind of unpopular take I have is that Eric Adams is actually Good At Politics, in the blocking and tackling sense. Understands who the important constituencies are and how to pander to them. Cuomo doesn't really do any of that shit, he just listens to the money guys bsky.app/profile/flyi...
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Very much like Trump, Cuomo's actual campaign is a disaster and totally incompetent. But the more he fails, the more the media feels room to step up on his behalf and promote his candidacy bsky.app/profile/dani...
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(similar to how majority-black South Carolina, which due to its geography didn't have an upland/appalachian hinterland, had one of the more durable Reconstruction governments)
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This honestly actually would've worked, because in many cases the result would've been two states where one is a lowland one with huge black majorities, and a mostly-white union-sympathetic upland state with no planters bsky.app/profile/jlin...
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For Vance's actual home region, I think the joke was that everyone in Kentucky signed up to join the Confederate Army the day after Appomattox
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One thing about US History that is convieniently forgotten is that Appalachia, the place JD Vance claims to be from (not the place he's actually from, the Ohio River Valley), was a huge locus of resistance to the confederacy, and particularly resistance to conscription into the Confederate Army
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Which is the exactly the dynamic that conservatives who want to infiltrate and buy mainstream news organizations in order to influence public opinion, elections and the news narrative are counting on to be able to do these things.
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Mainstream news organizations byline their stories. We know who writes them. We don't know who writes headlines for Politico (or even the job title of the person who does it) or who (or what algorithm) selects Apple News stories to push notification out. No accountability.
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Damn Fine pour right there u_u
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also worth pointing out: "wealth management" is a VERY scam and corruption-heavy industry, so it's one you really need to have lots of good insider knowledge of(and community protection) to navigate without having all your money legally embezzled from you. Obvsl lotto winners do not have that.
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the lottery thing is such a gotcha, given that most lottery winners almost immediately lose that money, because they lack access to(or even knowledge OF) the vast infrastructure of "wealth management" old-money has to maintain and expand their wealth.
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If the US actl cared about test scores as anything but a tool of exclusion, a free breakfast/lunch and an hour-long nap period would be mandatory before all standardized testing.
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yup. What I love pointing out is that you can reliably increase a person's IQ test scores just by making sure they had a decent meal in the last 6 hours; even more by making sure they've slept.
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the pundits can't be disabused of the link between race and IQ because that is how stereotypes work. people build their belief systems around them; they always seem logical to the believer. many past stereotypes seem absurd but people never stop and ask whether they might fall into the same trap
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what's remarkable is that you can have literal harvard geneticists saying this to political pundits, and the pundits wink and say "ah but I know what you REALLY mean." I've talked to those harvard scientists in private. they're not playing a trick, they don't think it's genetics
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it's also WRONG. it is not what geneticists actually believe. scholars in the field have, over time, found that the genetic component of intelligence IN INDIVIDUALS is actually smaller and smaller than they initially believed. that's to say nothing of population-level trends.
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to centrist pundits and moderately educated commentators, "the data clearly shows that intelligence is genetically correlated with race" feels like the kind of claim that is probably true, but can't be said out loud. a dangerous secret you'll be cancelled for saying. it's irresistible to them.
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I mean you simply can’t reason with these people because their default assumption is that you feel the same way as them —you’re just embarrassed about it and they’re not. It’s a completely non-falsifiable thing.
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So many powerful people absolutely refuse to look around themselves and notice how far down this slope we've already slid, and ask whether their own willingness to acquiesce to people with authoritarian, bigoted, and violent ideas might have something to do with it.
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A few years ago, calling someone a faggot, saying women should be stripped of the right to vote, or talking about Mexican-Americans as animals - any of it would have been sufficient to get you rightfully expelled from anywhere that matters. Now it's just standard conversation.
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Powerful people who, five years ago, would have never dreamed of associating with genocidal fascists, antisemites and racists now regularly socialize with those people. They'd rather preserve their sense of normality than preserve decency or the rule of law.
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The double standard is shocking and bizarre. Apparently left-wing trolling is worth 100 articles but the the exhumation of race science, Holocaust denial, and rank bigotry on massive global scale doesn’t even merit a mention