@daleyd.bsky.social
You people are adorable.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You people are adorable.
What’s insane about that question? The specific example seems a bit trivial, but the larger point is asking if a nation has a right to retain its cultural fabric and identity.
It’s a much more relevant question in Europe, since the U.S. is definitionally multicultural, but it’s a valid question.
It’s a much more relevant question in Europe, since the U.S. is definitionally multicultural, but it’s a valid question.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What’s insane about that question? The specific example seems a bit trivial, but the larger point is asking if a nation has a right to retain its cultural fabric and identity.
It’s a much more relevant question in Europe, since the U.S. is definitionally multicultural, but it’s a valid question.
It’s a much more relevant question in Europe, since the U.S. is definitionally multicultural, but it’s a valid question.
That’s obviously true in general— almost a platitude— but we are talking about a specific flavor of accountability (imposed from outside our nationstate), and that IS mutually exclusive of political viability.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That’s obviously true in general— almost a platitude— but we are talking about a specific flavor of accountability (imposed from outside our nationstate), and that IS mutually exclusive of political viability.
Well, your statement doesn’t follow. If it’s politically impossible to win, but being “unmuzzled” means Dems fantasizing about the ICC and other talking points that all feed the right’s NWO global government paranoia narrative, what IS the practical point other than giving Bsky self-righteous feels?
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Well, your statement doesn’t follow. If it’s politically impossible to win, but being “unmuzzled” means Dems fantasizing about the ICC and other talking points that all feed the right’s NWO global government paranoia narrative, what IS the practical point other than giving Bsky self-righteous feels?
Trump is our first Chaotic Evil president, all id, lacking the strategic intentionality of Vance. Vance seems worse because he’s Lawful Evil, making the choice to do a complete 180 on all his principles during the Ohio senate race, indifferent to truth in the face of his lust for power.
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Trump is our first Chaotic Evil president, all id, lacking the strategic intentionality of Vance. Vance seems worse because he’s Lawful Evil, making the choice to do a complete 180 on all his principles during the Ohio senate race, indifferent to truth in the face of his lust for power.
That was so weird. I think for Trump it was basically a “game recognizes game” moment, but he’ll turn on him soon enough. He’s going to hear the meltdown from the FoxNews people despondent over Trump taking their punching bag away.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
That was so weird. I think for Trump it was basically a “game recognizes game” moment, but he’ll turn on him soon enough. He’s going to hear the meltdown from the FoxNews people despondent over Trump taking their punching bag away.
So now that Mamdani just had a huge public love fest with Trump in the Oval Office, is he a fascist now too?
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So now that Mamdani just had a huge public love fest with Trump in the Oval Office, is he a fascist now too?
I agree with all of that.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I agree with all of that.
That’s not what it says. It says they have the similar morphology (ie he’s correcting the few large, many small part), but there are still only two types, one produced from
males and one from females.
And the above has no application whatsoever in mammals, let alone humans.
males and one from females.
And the above has no application whatsoever in mammals, let alone humans.
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That’s not what it says. It says they have the similar morphology (ie he’s correcting the few large, many small part), but there are still only two types, one produced from
males and one from females.
And the above has no application whatsoever in mammals, let alone humans.
males and one from females.
And the above has no application whatsoever in mammals, let alone humans.
Please explain.
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Please explain.
Good to know. So it only applies to all multi-celled gamete producing life forms (no algae or fungi included). I appreciate the edification, but do you think that changes the gamete-binary in… everything else?
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Good to know. So it only applies to all multi-celled gamete producing life forms (no algae or fungi included). I appreciate the edification, but do you think that changes the gamete-binary in… everything else?
In part? Dynamics are different now that he’s not facing an imminent election and isn’t facing oppo ads regularly.
He doesn’t have to face reelection until after the 2028 race, where people suspect he’ll get in, so he’s simultaneously playing to a different base. If the polling is loving it, great!
He doesn’t have to face reelection until after the 2028 race, where people suspect he’ll get in, so he’s simultaneously playing to a different base. If the polling is loving it, great!
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In part? Dynamics are different now that he’s not facing an imminent election and isn’t facing oppo ads regularly.
He doesn’t have to face reelection until after the 2028 race, where people suspect he’ll get in, so he’s simultaneously playing to a different base. If the polling is loving it, great!
He doesn’t have to face reelection until after the 2028 race, where people suspect he’ll get in, so he’s simultaneously playing to a different base. If the polling is loving it, great!
I had to delete the middle paragraph for space.
People find it to be a very intuitive rule. People hide deception or incompetence in complexity.
It is completely rational to be suspicious of those who can’t give a relatively simple, straight forward and coherent answer.
People find it to be a very intuitive rule. People hide deception or incompetence in complexity.
It is completely rational to be suspicious of those who can’t give a relatively simple, straight forward and coherent answer.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I had to delete the middle paragraph for space.
People find it to be a very intuitive rule. People hide deception or incompetence in complexity.
It is completely rational to be suspicious of those who can’t give a relatively simple, straight forward and coherent answer.
People find it to be a very intuitive rule. People hide deception or incompetence in complexity.
It is completely rational to be suspicious of those who can’t give a relatively simple, straight forward and coherent answer.
That tracks. Blocked, per advice of the non-loony lefties on BSky.
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
That tracks. Blocked, per advice of the non-loony lefties on BSky.
The only comprehensive analyses I can find say he’s a moderate (though he’s been tacking left after he won his election):
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear might be a moderate Democrat, but he’s no education reformer
After handily defeating his Republican rival for the governorship of red-hued Kentucky, Democrat Andy Beshear is having a moment as a center-left moderate who could run for president in 2028. But we e...
fordhaminstitute.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The only comprehensive analyses I can find say he’s a moderate (though he’s been tacking left after he won his election):
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
Just followed you over from X and had my first substantial engagement. Sorry for all the crap you’re taking for having the temerity to be a policy-minded person actually looking for pragmatic solutions.
Re my first deep engagement here, I thought B Maher was exaggerating re Bsky; he’s understating.
Re my first deep engagement here, I thought B Maher was exaggerating re Bsky; he’s understating.
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just followed you over from X and had my first substantial engagement. Sorry for all the crap you’re taking for having the temerity to be a policy-minded person actually looking for pragmatic solutions.
Re my first deep engagement here, I thought B Maher was exaggerating re Bsky; he’s understating.
Re my first deep engagement here, I thought B Maher was exaggerating re Bsky; he’s understating.
I agree. I mistyped. See above.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I agree. I mistyped. See above.
Was he leftist on any other issue, and how front and center was he on trans advocacy?
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Was he leftist on any other issue, and how front and center was he on trans advocacy?
Seems like conventional wisdom is now that the Dems made a HUGE mistake letting the trans immigrant prisoner ads run unanswered, nationwide, during NFL games, for months— because in their conceit, they didn’t deem them worthy of a response.
Something tells me Bsky will disagree though.
Something tells me Bsky will disagree though.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Seems like conventional wisdom is now that the Dems made a HUGE mistake letting the trans immigrant prisoner ads run unanswered, nationwide, during NFL games, for months— because in their conceit, they didn’t deem them worthy of a response.
Something tells me Bsky will disagree though.
Something tells me Bsky will disagree though.
Sorry, I misspoke.
Gender is definitely a spectrum.
I meant to say that believing the sex binary and supporting trans humans are not mutually exclusive.
Is the objection that categories preclude changing sex (as opposed to changing gender and 2ndary sex characteristics)?
Gender is definitely a spectrum.
I meant to say that believing the sex binary and supporting trans humans are not mutually exclusive.
Is the objection that categories preclude changing sex (as opposed to changing gender and 2ndary sex characteristics)?
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sorry, I misspoke.
Gender is definitely a spectrum.
I meant to say that believing the sex binary and supporting trans humans are not mutually exclusive.
Is the objection that categories preclude changing sex (as opposed to changing gender and 2ndary sex characteristics)?
Gender is definitely a spectrum.
I meant to say that believing the sex binary and supporting trans humans are not mutually exclusive.
Is the objection that categories preclude changing sex (as opposed to changing gender and 2ndary sex characteristics)?
There’s a famous investor who went by the rule “if you can’t illustrate your biz idea on a cocktail napkin, I’m not investing.”
The reason to give an answer is that most people will just intuit that you are being deceptive or don’t know what you’re talking about if you can’t.
The reason to give an answer is that most people will just intuit that you are being deceptive or don’t know what you’re talking about if you can’t.
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
There’s a famous investor who went by the rule “if you can’t illustrate your biz idea on a cocktail napkin, I’m not investing.”
The reason to give an answer is that most people will just intuit that you are being deceptive or don’t know what you’re talking about if you can’t.
The reason to give an answer is that most people will just intuit that you are being deceptive or don’t know what you’re talking about if you can’t.
Gender binary and acceptance of trans humans are in no way mutually exclusive.
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Gender binary and acceptance of trans humans are in no way mutually exclusive.