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Some sober thoughts on a decision i dont really like.
1. It's admittedly pragmatic to look at this as a gambling metaphor. You are on a streak and are ahead of the house here. You are better off cashing out the chips now or soon than continuing the game. No one knows how this looks late november
1. It's admittedly pragmatic to look at this as a gambling metaphor. You are on a streak and are ahead of the house here. You are better off cashing out the chips now or soon than continuing the game. No one knows how this looks late november
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Some sober thoughts on a decision i dont really like.
1. It's admittedly pragmatic to look at this as a gambling metaphor. You are on a streak and are ahead of the house here. You are better off cashing out the chips now or soon than continuing the game. No one knows how this looks late november
1. It's admittedly pragmatic to look at this as a gambling metaphor. You are on a streak and are ahead of the house here. You are better off cashing out the chips now or soon than continuing the game. No one knows how this looks late november
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Throwing civil servants - some of your greatest allies and a group which you will need on sides in a big way for any reconstruction effort - to the wolves so quickly is fucking stupid. It's peak bluesky, mind unable to correlate even its obviously correlated contents.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Throwing civil servants - some of your greatest allies and a group which you will need on sides in a big way for any reconstruction effort - to the wolves so quickly is fucking stupid. It's peak bluesky, mind unable to correlate even its obviously correlated contents.
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Creating conditions where civil servants who have not already been illegally fired or chased out are forced to quit to put food on the table is almost as good as DOGEing them yourself. This was not a good end to the shutdown, but for Christ's sake some of you have no sense about you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Creating conditions where civil servants who have not already been illegally fired or chased out are forced to quit to put food on the table is almost as good as DOGEing them yourself. This was not a good end to the shutdown, but for Christ's sake some of you have no sense about you.
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There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
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Taking this deal gets us a much better battlefield in February, and I think Schumer knows this.
And next time without starving the poorest 40 million Americans or making holiday travel hell, and after the senate republicans vote to take health care away from 22 million people. It’s an extremely strategic regrouping.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Taking this deal gets us a much better battlefield in February, and I think Schumer knows this.
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Funniest thing about the shutdown arc is the Democratic strategy made no sense, but was totally working thanks to the tireless efforts of Donald J Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Funniest thing about the shutdown arc is the Democratic strategy made no sense, but was totally working thanks to the tireless efforts of Donald J Trump.
1) Restoring SNAP and air travel during the holidays is a good thing. 2) This will force Johnson to seat Grijalva and the Epstein discharge petition will be passed. 3) The Republicans will renege and there will be another shutdown on the 30th, which they will be blamed for even more.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
1) Restoring SNAP and air travel during the holidays is a good thing. 2) This will force Johnson to seat Grijalva and the Epstein discharge petition will be passed. 3) The Republicans will renege and there will be another shutdown on the 30th, which they will be blamed for even more.
What are the odds that a single person angry about this deal (which just allows the Democrats to do this again in January but without starving 12% of the population as collateral damage) depends on SNAP benefits?
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
What are the odds that a single person angry about this deal (which just allows the Democrats to do this again in January but without starving 12% of the population as collateral damage) depends on SNAP benefits?
@djinnandtonic.bsky.social Your time has come!
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, facing a primary challenge from state Auditor Matt Dunlap, says he won't seek reelection in #ME02
Jared Golden: I won’t seek reelection. Here’s why.
"What I could accomplish in this increasingly unproductive Congress pales in comparison to what I could do in that time as a husband, a father and a son."
www.bangordailynews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@djinnandtonic.bsky.social Your time has come!
Google “bump stock.”
I didn't realize there was an abundance of pre NFA automatic weapons out there.
You would think “people shouldn’t have access to weapons that can fire more than one round per trigger pull and also maybe domestic abusers and mentally unstable people should have a court review their gun access” would BE a moderate position.
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Google “bump stock.”
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To be fair, this was Cuomo's own closing argument.
Trump’s closing argument tonight:
Andrew Cuomo sucks but vote for him anyway.
Andrew Cuomo sucks but vote for him anyway.
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
To be fair, this was Cuomo's own closing argument.
I don’t think anyone in this chain said that’s a strategy. There’s nothing wrong in recognizing that it is fundamentally anti democratic, corrosive to society and also not immutable.
Win the game as it is structured, because that's your only option. "I wish the Electoral College didn't exist" isn't a strategy.
The fact it doesn’t matter is the problem thank you for coming to my ted talk etc etc 🫡
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I don’t think anyone in this chain said that’s a strategy. There’s nothing wrong in recognizing that it is fundamentally anti democratic, corrosive to society and also not immutable.
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Each leading Dem candidate for Senate in Maine has a notable flaw. One was a good governor but is too old. One seems a good candidate but had a major lapse of judgment regarding a Nazi tattoo. Doesn’t seem close to me. We are hiring these people for their judgment. The tattoo is disqualifying.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Each leading Dem candidate for Senate in Maine has a notable flaw. One was a good governor but is too old. One seems a good candidate but had a major lapse of judgment regarding a Nazi tattoo. Doesn’t seem close to me. We are hiring these people for their judgment. The tattoo is disqualifying.
I think it’s accurate. Legislative Chamber sounds simultaneosuly aspirational and bespeaking a reserve power. Legislative Body implies some level of activity that presently seems wholly inappropriate.
this is not funny, armchair parliamentarians only do this when they're in extreme distress
I’m not sure this is accurate anymore.
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I think it’s accurate. Legislative Chamber sounds simultaneosuly aspirational and bespeaking a reserve power. Legislative Body implies some level of activity that presently seems wholly inappropriate.
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you’ll all feel really silly when we find out janet mills has an isis flag tramp stamp
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
you’ll all feel really silly when we find out janet mills has an isis flag tramp stamp
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I hate that I have to know about Maine. I deserve compensation.
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I hate that I have to know about Maine. I deserve compensation.
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I've written a lot of political commentary in my career, and I never thought before that 'if you want to get ahead in the centre-left party, you need to have, at the least, lasered off the Nazi tattoo before running' would be a divisive bit of analysis.
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I've written a lot of political commentary in my career, and I never thought before that 'if you want to get ahead in the centre-left party, you need to have, at the least, lasered off the Nazi tattoo before running' would be a divisive bit of analysis.
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I kind of admire the pendantry here
Please, Tom get this straight
Curse--God damn you
Swearing--By God, I will ruin you
Profanity--Trump is god
Vulgarity--look at her tits
Obscenity--the ever popular f word
Curse--God damn you
Swearing--By God, I will ruin you
Profanity--Trump is god
Vulgarity--look at her tits
Obscenity--the ever popular f word
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I kind of admire the pendantry here
Setting aside time to defrag your hard drive was such a simple pleasure.
Upgrading your OS was true thrill-seeking behavior.
Upgrading your OS was true thrill-seeking behavior.
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Setting aside time to defrag your hard drive was such a simple pleasure.
Upgrading your OS was true thrill-seeking behavior.
Upgrading your OS was true thrill-seeking behavior.
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The Medbed stuff is why I tend to think the Trump Presidency is kind of sad and pathetic rather than scary, like a 60 year old choosing buy something marketed Elixr rather than actual medicine for his ailments on the belief it would give him the energy and attractiveness to women of a 25 year old.
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Medbed stuff is why I tend to think the Trump Presidency is kind of sad and pathetic rather than scary, like a 60 year old choosing buy something marketed Elixr rather than actual medicine for his ailments on the belief it would give him the energy and attractiveness to women of a 25 year old.
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Okay. Let me try this another way, and see if that works.
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Okay. Let me try this another way, and see if that works.
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
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Sometimes I reason that if the nation is becoming more unkind, those of us who object to that must make an effort to be that much more kind in our daily lives.
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sometimes I reason that if the nation is becoming more unkind, those of us who object to that must make an effort to be that much more kind in our daily lives.
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oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company
People ascribe a lot more competence to Andreesen and Ellison than anyone who has ever dealt with Oracle would
The "Shift to new app" thing makes me think this is more likely to kill TikTok than give Andreesen et all control over zoomer minds.
September 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company
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If the Death Star ran on Oracle ERP, the Rebels wouldn’t have needed to do the trench run
People ascribe a lot more competence to Andreesen and Ellison than anyone who has ever dealt with Oracle would
The "Shift to new app" thing makes me think this is more likely to kill TikTok than give Andreesen et all control over zoomer minds.
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If the Death Star ran on Oracle ERP, the Rebels wouldn’t have needed to do the trench run
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Let’s get this straight, once and for all:
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Racism is not an opinion.
It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Racism is not an opinion.
It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Let’s get this straight, once and for all:
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Racism is not an opinion.
It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Racism is not an opinion.
It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?