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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 1m

I mean when he's right he's right

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

TRUMP: Boy, she asks a lot of questions. Who are you with?

BURNS: Politico. Dasha Burns, sir

TRUMP: Dasha, Politico, ugh. Politico has gone bad. They've been so wrong about everything. Let's get somebody else to ask some questions. You mind? Politico is fake news.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

Not the main point here, which is as Revan says just gutter anti-Semitism, but it does make me genuinely aggravated how utterly ignorant and uncurious these people are about very basic concepts of how cuisine travels and how food history works, which are really interesting topics!

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3h

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 23h

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

a scale of Dracula to Not Dracula going from right to left: Dracula (Dracula), Count Orlok (Legally Distinct Dracula), Drake from Blade Trinity (Might Be Dracula), Vlad the Poker (Probably Not Dracula, and Morbius (Not Dracula)

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6h

Emergency alert, the news is smelling blood in the water

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 3h

When you try to break your own world record.

Sally Jenkins' previous ratio world record post where she claimed Kirk "argued with civility."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

they aren’t allegations, he’s fucking said this

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

President Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted allegations of partisanship.

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly.

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a clear pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3h

Genuinely embarrassing behavior to go this hard to bat for a racist Trump loving piece of shit. Sorry, going to all the right cocktail parties doesn't excuse you from being lumped in with all the other MAGAts.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

"But I don't want a dinky little lifeboat to be all that stands between me and drowning, I want a luxury cruise liner"

Great, go make one of those, I'll wait here and-- oh that's weird, I thought you'd be gathering construction supplies, instead you're just shooting holes in the lifeboat. Curious.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

Critiquing democracy for not selecting the best leaders all the time is like critiquing a lifeboat for not coming with a fully stocked minibar. It's not meant to make you luxuriously comfortable, it's meant to keep you from drowning.

Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 4h

The value of democracy is not, in any meaningful sense, that it selects better leaders than other systems. The chief virtue is that the metaphorical torches and pitchforks remain metaphorical noticeably more often.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 8h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao I love when people literally dril post in the wild.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 4h

We also need to be clear it's not just an American issue too. 10% matters a lot in a proportional representation voting system. A major issue in Europe is small parties getting more popular thus you need coalitions of three or more parties to rule which makes it hard to do anything

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

This is the magic recipe of the American electorate for the 21st century so far. Roughly speaking 30% of voters are committed R, 30% are committed D, 30% are swing voters who can actually be persuaded one way or the other, and 10% are fucking random number generators.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

1000%, it's often stupid but still indisputably the best option

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Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 4h

The value of democracy is not, in any meaningful sense, that it selects better leaders than other systems. The chief virtue is that the metaphorical torches and pitchforks remain metaphorical noticeably more often.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

I don't consider it an argument against Democracy so much as an argument *for* bringing back civics education and bringing it back hard. Plus as I said a few posts down, candidate quality does occasionally matter.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

Gavin Newsom would legitimately try it, don't give him ideas.

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ArgellaStone but Spooky @argellastone.bsky.social · 4h

I do think we need to run an experiment where a candidate legally changes their name to "Pick This One" and see if it results in a measurable swing in the results.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

Does this mean all campaigning is utterly worthless and nothing matters? No, not necessarily. Occasionally you're a good enough candidate that you turn that 50/50 split among the persuadables into something more lopsided. If you win them 65/35 (doubtful but possible) you no longer need RNG's at all.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

The base case for a given presidential election in America is you get your given 30% plus the persuadables splitting 50/50, giving you both 45% of the vote, the floor that no major party candidate has fallen through in 30 years (Bob Dole). Your fate is decided by the random number generators.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

This is the magic recipe of the American electorate for the 21st century so far. Roughly speaking 30% of voters are committed R, 30% are committed D, 30% are swing voters who can actually be persuaded one way or the other, and 10% are fucking random number generators.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h

The most forbidden of all political knowledge is that that 10% decides every election and has for the past 25 years or more.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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