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@johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Militant liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Filibuster abolition enjoyer.
Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths? DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths? DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
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The Republican is going to win by like 7 or something
Aftyn Behn is almost certainly not going to win on Tuesday but what a gift to the discourse and vibes it would be if she did, lol.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Republican is going to win by like 7 or something
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really liked your vibe
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really liked your vibe
The Chopping Block, a place in Chicago's Lincoln Square that usually sells kitchen supplies and cooking lessons, makes apple pies once a year for Applefest/thanksgiving. They are the best pies you will ever have and blow cheesecake out of the water.
I get a lot of hate for this view and in turn I'd only ask if you've ever had a pie as good as a typical cheesecake. The answer is no, you have not. Cheesecake invalidates the whole pie category. Hell, regular cake barely survives the cheesecake onslaught on the strength of carrot cake alone.
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The Chopping Block, a place in Chicago's Lincoln Square that usually sells kitchen supplies and cooking lessons, makes apple pies once a year for Applefest/thanksgiving. They are the best pies you will ever have and blow cheesecake out of the water.
I mean, I have an answer but most people don't like it
how do you come back from this, we don't even have broad agreement that people are entitled to choose their representatives and elected officials. there's no baseline of shared values
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I mean, I have an answer but most people don't like it
Marxism has done immeasurable damage to the left
Yes, I’ve made this point for 5 years or more but the reason it’s so hard to move away from this structural economic view of the political and social universe is because the center wants to believe it (to downplay social issues) and left also wants to believe it (to vindicate Marx)
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Marxism has done immeasurable damage to the left
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Yes, I’ve made this point for 5 years or more but the reason it’s so hard to move away from this structural economic view of the political and social universe is because the center wants to believe it (to downplay social issues) and left also wants to believe it (to vindicate Marx)
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yes, I’ve made this point for 5 years or more but the reason it’s so hard to move away from this structural economic view of the political and social universe is because the center wants to believe it (to downplay social issues) and left also wants to believe it (to vindicate Marx)
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I missed this but apparently a month ago Australia banned social media for anyone under 16 but left 4chan off the list lol
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I missed this but apparently a month ago Australia banned social media for anyone under 16 but left 4chan off the list lol
Excluding food, New England puritans and their descendants are the best of the US.
I don’t like being referred to as a Yankee but I’ve realized this is not at all because I’m Southern, but because I specifically resent being associated with traditional New England Protestant culture and its flavorless foods
All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Excluding food, New England puritans and their descendants are the best of the US.
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I said this on Twitter but many of the people who immediately defended her and pretended that we were all naive were other journalists
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I said this on Twitter but many of the people who immediately defended her and pretended that we were all naive were other journalists
Nuzzi, Lizza, Cilizza, something deeply wrong here
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Nuzzi, Lizza, Cilizza, something deeply wrong here
I know there are a bunch of conspiracy theories about the Butler shooting and I'd love to hear one plausible version that doesn't either involve Trump accepting bullets flying inches from his head or successfully faking the death of a crowd member.
THE RYAN LIZZA SAGA
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I know there are a bunch of conspiracy theories about the Butler shooting and I'd love to hear one plausible version that doesn't either involve Trump accepting bullets flying inches from his head or successfully faking the death of a crowd member.
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THE RYAN LIZZA SAGA
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
THE RYAN LIZZA SAGA
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
Part 1: she's fucking Mark Sanford too
Part 2: [vomit]
Part 3: jet fuel can't melt steal beams
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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when i hear “USian” all i hear is “you’re a little western european tankie mad that your left parties are even shittier than ours and you live vicariously through american tankie podcasts”
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
when i hear “USian” all i hear is “you’re a little western european tankie mad that your left parties are even shittier than ours and you live vicariously through american tankie podcasts”
US Army Ordnance in 1892: It's super, super, SUPER fucking important that soldiers be able to top off their rifle with loose rounds. That's why we're adopting this weird underpowered but side-loading Krag-Jorgensen rifle.
US Army Ordnance in 1936: "Top off"? What does that mean?
US Army Ordnance in 1936: "Top off"? What does that mean?
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
US Army Ordnance in 1892: It's super, super, SUPER fucking important that soldiers be able to top off their rifle with loose rounds. That's why we're adopting this weird underpowered but side-loading Krag-Jorgensen rifle.
US Army Ordnance in 1936: "Top off"? What does that mean?
US Army Ordnance in 1936: "Top off"? What does that mean?
Shooting National Guardsmen is a very bad idea no matter what your goals are
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Shooting National Guardsmen is a very bad idea no matter what your goals are
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physically impossible to nd with that ear pro
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
physically impossible to nd with that ear pro
Very funny, as someone alive and invested in Connecticut politics in 2006, to find out that Ned Lamont apparently sucks? (Not on this specific bill, obviously, just the whole "noted coward" thing)
Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version
The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.
www.ctinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Very funny, as someone alive and invested in Connecticut politics in 2006, to find out that Ned Lamont apparently sucks? (Not on this specific bill, obviously, just the whole "noted coward" thing)
My gun control proposal is that if you hold a rifle like this you should be banned from owning firearms
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My gun control proposal is that if you hold a rifle like this you should be banned from owning firearms
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California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
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Kind of an unrealistic bit – a bunch of internet communists convening on Elon Musk’s social media site to decide which of the liberals are Nazis?
sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kind of an unrealistic bit – a bunch of internet communists convening on Elon Musk’s social media site to decide which of the liberals are Nazis?
I think it was @hurricanexyz.bsky.social who observed that what these guys actually want is to outsource their moral judgment to an authority who will tell them that vice is actually virtuous.
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I think it was @hurricanexyz.bsky.social who observed that what these guys actually want is to outsource their moral judgment to an authority who will tell them that vice is actually virtuous.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.