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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 4h
Hell if anything Trump and co have been hyping the shit out of these protests for the last few weeks. I was pretty convinced that No Kings was running out of steam until these bozos turned the entire state apparatus into free advertising for it
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 4h
I don't think Trump has convinced anyone of anything. I think our political and media elites are conservative, and even if they do dislike Trump they dislike the protesters and "wokeness" almost as much. They downplay the protests because they don't want to admit that Real America disagrees w them
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 1d
These people do not have The Sauce. If our own leadership weren't so sauceless themselves we could be living in a Post-Trump utopia rn
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 1d
Genuinely incredibly fucking stupid of them to take the No Kings protests, which were large but largely ignored by media, and turn their bully pulpit to advertising for it
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 1d
I am increasingly thinking that this government might actually collapse. None of these clowns have the sauce, and we're only nine months into this shit. This can't possibly sustain itself for four years
sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 2d
It *is* funny and good that the right-wing billionaire media takeover is ruinously unprofitable, but it kind of misses the point that *right-wing billionaires now own or are about to own 90% of the media landscape*
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 2d
Not sure if you've read Blessed is the Flame but it discusses sabotage in concentration camps a bit. Although it doesn't really go into much detail, you might be able to track down some more thorough sources through the bibliography
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 3d
i mean i dont have a law degree or anything but it sure seems like "originalism" and "textualism" are paired together to be intentionally slipped between and combined to reach whatever pre-determined policy outcome the right wants
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 4d
politics-as-consumption has been subsumed by politics-as-posting
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 5d
well if they can pay the troops it sounds like there's no need to open the government, then
sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 5d
...isn't this a good thing?
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 5d
i think the plot of the movie is that there was a really, really fucking good trailer and thinking abt it was enough to retroactively convince me that the movie must've been good too
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 6d
Are rubber gloves worse just because they offer no protection or is there some aggravating factor that makes them worse than wearing nothing at all?
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
The upshot of all these "we need to moderate" takes is that the moderate in question either does, in fact, believe that the conservatives are correct, or else is such a coward that they'd throw their own values away rather than fight for them. Neither of those are a good look to voters
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
what do you mean? are you suggesting that refusing to defend your own values in a constant triangulation towards whatever your opponent is doing gives voters the impression that your opponent is correct, pushing them away from your party even as you try to moderate towards them? nah, can't be
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
The trouble with Yglesias is that center-left parties have done exactly what he's recommended in dozens of countries, and it's led to unmitigated disaster for liberalism worldwide. For the first time in 30 years the number of free people in the world is decreasing. Moderating is demonstrably failing
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
How has Labour winning more elections worked out for The Groups, Matt?
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
is it even normal for cabinet meetings to be televised? i dont remember seeing videos like this out of the Obama or Biden white houses
sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
oh yeah i'm with you 100%. i just can't really enjoy watching things implode when me and my friends are liable to get caught in the crossfire
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
DONT MAKE ME GRAB THE SPRINGFIELD OFF MY GRANDFATHER'S MANTLE, REB
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 7d
Ya and that was great and all but there were like 80,000,000 fewer people around to celebrate by the time that happened
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 8d
the administration coming unglued doesn't really make me feel any better. the nazis committed most of their worst atrocities after the war turned against them, after all
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 8d
Actually I'm pretty sure the Texas National Guard is filled with guys who joined to kill Oregonians
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 8d
consumer prices dont go *down* thats not how any of this works
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sl33peragent.bsky.social
comfít @sl33peragent.bsky.social · 8d
the thing about the early-2000s era, "why *shouldn't* America be an empire?" neocons is that they were absolutely correct in their analysis that a progressive pacifist socdem welfare state is unsustainable and the American-led international order needed to be sustained with violence and subjugation
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