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In case the No Kings police need to have these numbers run again, liberals* constitute about 12% of the electorate. "Progressives" about 5%. People who might conceivably be interested in being part of your anti fascist fighting cell something like .001%

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 17h

A funny thing about Hell in Catholicism is there's a sense that you sort of choose it rather than it being imposed on you, in that it's defined as conscious separation from God, and boy oh boy is Trump taking that dare.

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 17h

"James Tabor"

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 17h

That b word, the left

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 22h

The left hates this

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 22h

Just saying "stop reading all that nazi shit on the internet" has shut them up pretty quick the last few years, and I was just guessing

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 23h

Media including lefty culture influencers hating Biden didn't help either

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 23h

John Ganz has referred to Biden's presidency as "abortive social democracy" and, well, nobody liked it. Very disappointing! Huge problem, for us, as a country.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Nov 7

biden-era policies were extremely geared toward the working class, whose wages went up at much higher rates than the top half of earners and saw a job boom, as well as IRA investment in traditional manufacturing regions. they rewarded him by switching heavily to Trump.

W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · Nov 6

Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 23h

Higher Ed isn't dead you're being scammed by AI morons

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Both Republicans and Democrats have denounced higher ed’s soaring costs, crushing debt, and degrees that don’t yield jobs. But the culture wars have given conservatives a new opportunity to push through reforms.

Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power.

www.newyorker.com

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

Materialist analysis is not enough here but it does help to keep in mind that rentiers --> reactionaries

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

this is backwards. the culture war stuff exists largely BECAUSE of the financial incentive. the question is not what companies are into fossil fuels; it's which countries, and sometimes which states. i mean e.g. saudi arabia, russia, alberta, texas. this is an existential issue for them.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

More large! Sizer!

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we not hearing more about queer anglicans in the New York so called times

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

oh man it's literally all orthorexia oh nooo

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

wait what is compensatory-restrictive axis

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

Needs more Catholicism

Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

It can't *still* be like that?

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 1d

Episcopalians can pray the Daily Office every day, there's a couple apps

Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 2d

Ok name this author

"“When we say God, we do not mean or worship any of this; we mean only Being itself, what the philosophers have expounded as the ground of all being, as the God above all powers—that alone is our God.”

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