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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 10h

I also find the analysis of progressivism = being good = difficult = eating your vegetables (in a sense) to be wrong, and oddly protestant inflected.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 10h

I don't disagree with you that modern conservatism is more or less an evil movement, and I agree that many (most? all?) of the individuals advancing it are also evil. But I feel like understanding social movements as the sum of individual morality gets us very far or is very useful.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 10h

I find myself recoiling at this kind of analysis (not just from you). I think I find this casting of politics as a matter of individual morality to be at best insufficient and unsatisfying, and at worst a form of self-flattery. Like...

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 2d

This is a sort of a hobby horse of mine. What does the Schumer/Jeffries/Yglesias Democratic party stand for, beyond "whatever polls best?"

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 2d

I think a big thing underlying this divide is the question: does the candidate have beliefs at all?

I don't think Ezra means it this way, but there's a world in which his position operationalizes as cynical triangulation that voters (correctly) interpret as "doesn't really believe anything at all"

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 3d

I have this whole rant about how people can no longer have experiences without a screen mediating. And it’s not even a kids thing!

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 3d

Dude don’t get me started. Had a similar experience at the Musee d’Orsay this past summer. Wanted to look at some paintings and had to fight through a hoard of folks who just wanted pics for the Gram.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 6d

Fun while it lasted.

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah it was a wild contrast, the level of socializing in European cities vs. here in Seattle where people will actively avoid eye contact when walking past one another.

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 8d

It’s almost as if they’re aware of their class interest!

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 8d

Had the same experience this past summer in Aix en Provence and Nimes. Such a huge contrast with American cities like Seattle.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 14d

Well, at least up to a point. Bubbles are a thing.

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 14d

Wasn’t true then, isn’t true now.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 14d

A version of this argument played out years ago w oil prices. People believed “speculation” was responsible.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 16d

MattY F. brown, QB, 49ers

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 16d

Skeets are cheap talk. What’s your actual plan?

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 16d

What are you going to do about it?

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 18d

This is the direction neoliberal capitalism has always been taking us. The bag is the only thing that matters.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 18d

Fuckin yikes, man

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 19d

Something to think about: at how many positions can players be expected to be productive in their third contract?

Off the top of my head it's:
* QB
* DL
* OL

Russ got a third contract and Schneider's generally not drafted guys you'd want to give a third deal to at the other two positions.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 19d

What is "Breakthrough-pilled?"

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 19d

Whoever wins, we…?

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 20d

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be!

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 20d

Like I don’t disagree with you about the media one bit. But I do disagree with you about the scope of the phenomenon.

Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 20d

So we’ve gone from “it didn’t actually happen” to “it happened but the media blew it out of proportion.” That’s progress I guess.

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Jeff @excessivefarce.bsky.social · 20d

But I do appreciate you not gaslighting by insisting it never happened!

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