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Gavin (who is back in town)

@11mmyjohns.bsky.social

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Big root beer guy. International ETF trader. Not top 20 in the world at crosswords but maybe top 200. Appreciator of the fact that the 1999 New Orleans Saints had two quarterbacks named Billy Joe.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 29m

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I root for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. No outcome, positive or negative, is certain until the entirety of the contest is over.

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 7h

I want you to wait half an hour and then read this conversation again with an open mind. Perhaps you will learn something from how unbelievably tedious you sound. I, for my part, am done interacting with you.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 7h

are you the kind of person who demands receipts when someone says “oh my god, this is the best sandwich! I was starving!” Like “no you aren’t starving, and you said that about a sandwich you ate 12 years ago, so which is it?” In the real world this debate club bullshit, as you put it, is tedious

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 7h

Obviously no, and it was so embarrassing of you to suggest it that in my response I pretended that you didn’t.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 7h

yeah I responded to the first sentence and just pretended they didn’t say the second

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 8h

But like, centrists should vote for Mamdani (as some will) and left-wingers should have voted for Kamala Harris (and most did). Defeating the Republican Party at every level is the most important mission in American politics right now. Everything else good is downstream of that.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I think that blue no matter who should be accompanied with a concerted effort to move the Democrats left during the primaries. And there is a point at which a candidate is too Republican to vote for.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

If the supposedly more pragmatic wing hadn't put forward an insanely damaged candidate, Mamdani probably wouldn't have won. Maybe he'd have pulled it off anyway but probably not. If you don't like it, you should be chewing out Cuomo's backers. They produced this outcome more than anyone else.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10h

Good gracious Third Way

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Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 8h

Blue no matter who is the correct position. A lot of terrible centrists claimed to espouse it and then turned out not to. But it is correct. Go Mamdani.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 23h

“It is transphobic to know anything about basketball” is a position that I would really prefer not to be mainstreamed

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 23h

if you don’t know that the account River Tam is a woman you shouldn’t speculate anything about her takes on things

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

It’s your taxonomy; I will leave it to you to determine whether we need “wet (fat)” and “wet (thin)” or whether wet covers both.

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I said to this friend that I would have been fine with Adrienne Adams or Zellnor Myrie or whoever; Mamdani was my second choice because of his inexperience (I’m a Lander Man), but Cuomo was a bridge too far for a variety of reasons (and given his conduct I was right)

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I know you loathe Cuomo; I just make no assumptions because I know you’re not a Mamdani fan either (which is fine).

I’m pretty sure that my best friend, #2 to your #1 in my personal list of Mitt Romney appreciators, voted for Cuomo. Which is a bummer (but he’s not a Trump guy even a tiny bit)

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Revisiting this and while you are 100% correct, I must say that Torii Hunter would say (and be correct) that this demonstrates the declining percentage of Black baseball players. You need “rail thin tall Black guy whose smile contains the anger of ten thousand armies.”

Basically The Bob Emergency

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I root for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. No outcome, positive or negative, is certain until the entirety of the contest is over.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

In the Mamdani romps universe, “Mamdani is The Truth”* versus “Cuomo was just that bad of a candidate” is not going to be answerable for at least a year; New Jersey is weird (and I love New Jersey!) and they are not New York

*not actually, New Yorkers would never vote for Paul Pierce

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I am internally freaking out about Mamdani, so the fact that you are *not* doing that, despite liking him considerably less than I do (I don’t know if you prefer him to Cuomo and don’t intend to ask) is helpful

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

(In these cases, Short didn’t work on AD because his manic physical comedy didn’t mesh with AD’s elaborate verbal comedy and Mantzoukas didn’t work on PNR because his character was an *understated* jerk. He wasn’t crazy or wild or anything, he was just a pretentious asshole)

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Martin Short is definitely funny sometimes. But not always. Martin Short on Arrested Development, like Jason Mantzoukas on Parks and Recreation, was a situation in which a funny person briefly appearing on a funny show simply did not work together for whatever reason.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Orlando and Eugene I understood right away but I’m genuinely having trouble with the other two

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 2d

For a long time I didn’t realize Martin Short was funny because my main association with him was when he was on Arrested Development and his character wasn’t funny at all

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 2d

“Go and sin no more” the first recorded instance of “it’s over for you hoes”

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 2d

the only Dort we recognize in this house is Luguentz

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 2d

I want to start a thing where “eugenicist” means that you want the world to be run by people named Eugene

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