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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · Mar 13

People having a lot of trouble understanding how Dems behave as a party don’t understand the Democratic Party.

It’s not a party united by ideology—like the GOP mostly is—it’s a bunch of constituencies in a basic (democratic) bargain: votes for government programs that benefit them.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 1d

It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!

If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 41m

I’m saying that Newsom is a shallow opportunist who in that statement was saying that Charlie Kirk’s mission was talking to people who disagreed with him

It was opportunistic bullshit, & deserves criticism, but treating it like an endorsement of Kirk is also shallow & stupid.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

lol buddy I worked to pass the laws that guarantee California trans youth equal access to public facilities including sports teams

I literally knocked on thousands of doors for trans youth

Stfu

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

lol no

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

STV still has Arrow problems, just saying

Also, many of the complaints about closed list are kinda about wanting to retain the things that FPTP gives even though that system overall sucks, just saying from America, where our system sucks but no one will change bc anything new is scary

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

But, having lived in California for almost 20 years, & having spent about a decade of that working directly on LGBTQ civil rights, including with Newsom’s staff, Newsom has been good overall on trans rights but has always been a shallow opportunist. He’s a decent opponent to have on this stuff.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

This is wrong & a deranged take

Newsom is a podcast bro, & conflating him with MAGA shows a politics too shallow to work

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 4d

Dems don't have a media infrastructure to counteract Republicans.' It doesn't matter what we talk about or how. Things are bad enough for reality to break through & we win or they aren't & we don't. Message doesn't matter, people simply retcon. Fix this or fight each other forever.

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

We’re all Baudrillard on this bus

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

What makes is difficult in the current media environment is that Democratic politicians can say all the right things about being willing to hunt Glonzo, but there’s this expectation that someone like Jamelle Bouie should also not be allowed to say in a column “Glonzo isn’t real, you fucking morons”

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

this is true, but at a certain point enough people believe in Glonzo that you have to acknowledge that’s the terrain and maybe promise something minimally harmful like armed guards at power stations rather than just screaming that they’re morons.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

Love some Halloween Candy

The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 23h

Born 31 Oct 1950, actor John Candy. He featured in a number of films in the 1980s but his 1st starring role was in "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", playing a goodhearted but annoying salesman opposite Steve Martin. I loved him in Uncle Buck too! Tragically he died in 1994, aged just 43. #JohnCandy

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

Every ballpark should be putt putt

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

It’s inane to claim that it’s Dems shifting left on immigration that cost them when the issue has been the death of Bush II’s “compassionate conservatism” attempts to extend the Reaganite approach in the face of the electorally handy nativism pushed by Fox News et al.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

Even though it was the European war that led him to seek a 3rd term, he campaigned on being an “arsenal for democracy” but pledging not to send “American boys to foreign wars.” Roosevelt’s anti-fascist rhetoric kicked off after the 40 election, even though Germany tried to interfere

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

The overall campaign was mostly about whether FDR was too hostile to business—Landon even supported most New Deal programs, he just argued FDR was hostile in tone. He also barely campaigned, & Hoover lost his levers after 34’s thumping midterms.

Even in 40, Roosevelt didn’t focus on anti-fascism

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

Even in 36, FDR wasn’t running against fascism—he was running for Big Government interventions, w what would become the 2nd New Deal. W Long’s death in 35, they weren’t worried about the “Hitler-type candidate,” & foreign policy wasn’t a big theme at all in campaign appearances.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 1h

“The actions by RSF presented in this report may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity (CAH) and may rise to the level of genocide”

C’mon

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

Biden’s immigration policy was to the right of Reagan (amnesty) tho

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

What allowed FDR to win was a devil’s bargain with the segregated south, part of why to this day Black institutional leaders tend to prefer eg Biden to Bernie—they know that progressive rhetoric often compromises to cut them out, so they prefer transactions.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

1) That’s not really what happened with FDR’s election 2) Tom’s making a bunch of BS post hoc propter hoc arguments

FDR got elected first against Hoover, & fascism wasn’t an issue, really: GOP called him fascist, & he was fending off Huey Long (himself arguably fascist) to his left in 1934

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

Mainly because he’s off on some gleeful bullshit

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

Literally the Civil Rights Act lost the South, Tom. C’mon. Read a book.

Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 2h

The Democrats were a majority when they moved left, and pretending the Dixiecrat shift wasn’t about racism but was anti-communism & libertarianism is cope on your behalf.

It’s that denial that plowed the fields for Trump, Tom, & I know admitting to yourself you were part of that is hard.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3h

I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.

Wishing You Well 🇺🇦 🌻 @klaaskid8.bsky.social · 8h

I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.