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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, I also condemn the Wagner guys who just stood around and drove places.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

"Amero-Wagner alum has better FP positions than the replacement-level Democrat" is a replacement-level Democrat problem

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah he was in a PMC and I really don't care. I wish we had more YPG vets willing to run instead

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

I mean I'll stand by my take that the Dems are committing suicide by nominating people with single digit life expectancies but I was definitely wrong about the specifics on that one

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

Touché

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

Eight Democrats have died of old age since 2022, in addition to RBG and plausibly sinking the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

I mean yeah I would vote for a trash bag full of rotten apples over Boebert, Gaetz, or Greene, but there is a physical stamina qualification for the job as well as a moral and mental one. I like Sanders but I think he is too old as well.

Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

He should have retired by now for the good of the country and of the party.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 5h

Yes tbh, although I think Bernie's seat is more likely to go to a Dem than Collins'.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Stretch goal: vote with the Democrats in addition to the (D)

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes you become too old for things and that's a beautiful and natural part of life. Sometimes you deny it and you make a mess for everyone. This is one of the latter cases.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Nah Bernie is too old also, as likeable as he is (I donated to his campaign in 2020, and honestly it was questionable even then age wise)

Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

I'm fine with a competitive primary, I would just love the alternative to credibly meet two requirements for the next four years:
1. Have a (D) next to their name
2. Have a pulse

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

The Dems have had multiple members of Congress die of old age. She had her chance, she should retire instead of working until she dies like Feinstein, RBG, or Gerry Connolly.

Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Please be serious. We're talking about the age of a senator, someone with one of the most important jobs in the country, not just a measure of human age in general.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

If the options are "Fetterman 2.0" and "dead within two years" we're fucked. Currently unclear as to whether either of these are true, but I'm more willing to risk it for the person who I expect to still have a pulse in four years.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Does this make her younger than she actually is? I don't care if she's the second coming of Jesus at her age.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah he literally worked for Blackwater, seems sus

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 11h

I think the bigger concern is her dropping dead like numerous other colleagues. Absolutely irresponsible and selfish for someone her age to run.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly 18th Brumaire should be like, mandatory reading

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 12h

More and more people are saying this

Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 13h

And it's hard to have a coherent conversation when you have to first clarify that you're not advancing either of those dumb positions in the analogous Trump cases- eg "it's all about nice people left behind by the poverty of West Virginia" or "those fundie hicks are just huge haters"

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 13h

Ig what I'm trying to say is that in vulgar history (and current events), empathy or its absence is visible in different analyses where you have the Scylla of "Clemenceau inevitably caused the rise of fascism and nobody else is to blame" vs the Charibdys of "Germans are inherently wicked, simple as"

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 13h

In the German context, an example of this is people projecting a more "forgivable" motive (collective trauma from post-WWI privation) onto the NS-regime instead of less material factors. In particular, the common idea that Versailles was egregiously harsh and the Allies were really vicious victors.

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Mr. Miso Paste @meatraffle.bsky.social · 13h

IMO a big part of this is how much center/center-left reporting on Trump voters kept sane-washing their grievances and motives. People who oppose conservatism need to understand it, but we lose clarity if we start from the assumption that it's based on values and ways of thinking that we share.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 15h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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