Partisan
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Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is.
Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State).
Counter-Zionist.
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Counter-Zionist.
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· Oct 17
Hey. Nice to see ya.
I'm Partisan. I'm an Econ//Linguistics student in the PNW.
Foreign Policy|Developmental Econ|Urbanism|Politics|D&D (4E)|Magic (CEDH)|40k (Ynnari)|Stormlight|日本語ok(ちょっと)|And likely some other stuff.
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I'm Partisan. I'm an Econ//Linguistics student in the PNW.
Foreign Policy|Developmental Econ|Urbanism|Politics|D&D (4E)|Magic (CEDH)|40k (Ynnari)|Stormlight|日本語ok(ちょっと)|And likely some other stuff.
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
It’s really incredible how we decided that cities should no longer be physically shaped by the industries that carry them. I wrote this about the tech industry’s lack of a built legacy in Manhattan over a decade ago, but it could be written 10x over in the Bay Area newyorkyimby.com/2014/12/how-...
How New York City is Robbing Itself of the Tech Industry's Built Legacy - New York YIMBY
With strict limits on growth in Midtown South and on the Brooklyn waterfront, tech giants are leaving little architecture behind for future generations.
newyorkyimby.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
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Like, this is a regime entirely built out of conspiracy theories, did we think that building and normalizing a conspiracy theory that countries invading each other for oil is just a normal thing that happens wasn’t gonna lead to some particularly monstrous idiots going “guess it is haha hell yeah”
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Like, this is a regime entirely built out of conspiracy theories, did we think that building and normalizing a conspiracy theory that countries invading each other for oil is just a normal thing that happens wasn’t gonna lead to some particularly monstrous idiots going “guess it is haha hell yeah”
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Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right
Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right
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This one seems especially appropriate
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This one seems especially appropriate
Ultimately, I'd still rather Brandon Sanderson stop paying tithes to the LDS, BUT reading his essay where he said "If I'm gonna believe in hell, why wouldn't I choose to believe in the version where people can still be saved after death?" DID increase my respect for liberal Mormons at least a little
And a small shout out to c) the Mormon position of "yeah, you can baptize people posthumously and save them from hell." Which admittably causes a fuckton of problems, but those problems are WAY WAY WAY better than the ones entailed by alternative afterlife theologies.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ultimately, I'd still rather Brandon Sanderson stop paying tithes to the LDS, BUT reading his essay where he said "If I'm gonna believe in hell, why wouldn't I choose to believe in the version where people can still be saved after death?" DID increase my respect for liberal Mormons at least a little
One of my favorite IO insights is that, at the highest levels, advertising isn't about maximizing outreach (who *doesn't* know what Coke is?); it's about inflating the cost-to-compete for potential rivals, keeping them out of the market
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Politicians are sellers trying to get you to sell your vote to them. The way they do so is by maximizing outreach. When the number of people they need to reach out to is in the tens of thousands (at least!) and there is no remaining accessible public forum, that creates a natural barrier-to-entry.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
One of my favorite IO insights is that, at the highest levels, advertising isn't about maximizing outreach (who *doesn't* know what Coke is?); it's about inflating the cost-to-compete for potential rivals, keeping them out of the market
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
RCV is good. But it takes an economic analysis to get why the two party system exists and why RCV ain't enough.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers
i am...skeptical about implementation here state-by-state but it could absolutely strengthen coalition unity and decrease alienation of the primary electorate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
RCV is good. But it takes an economic analysis to get why the two party system exists and why RCV ain't enough.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
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This is something I’ve said before, but propaganda is extremely corrosive because eventually your own elites buy into it as well, with disastrous consequences.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This is something I’ve said before, but propaganda is extremely corrosive because eventually your own elites buy into it as well, with disastrous consequences.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
The sad thing is that if you did this with the linguistic subfields of syntax and semantics, you would genuinely get more empirically reliable theoretical research, with fewer hallucinations, than what we've got so far in the literature.
Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The sad thing is that if you did this with the linguistic subfields of syntax and semantics, you would genuinely get more empirically reliable theoretical research, with fewer hallucinations, than what we've got so far in the literature.
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really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
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Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
2000s Republicans were incubated in the elite info-environment of finance, who created a parallel media to rhetorically rationalize [lit. lie about] Republican policy and energize low-info reactionaries.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2000s Republicans believed that Iraq was actually about [insert neocon apologetics], and that "we went to war for oil" is just something uninformed know-nothing liberal media celebs parrot.
2020s Republicans believe we went to war in Iraq for oil and racism and that that was good actually.
2020s Republicans believe we went to war in Iraq for oil and racism and that that was good actually.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2000s Republicans were incubated in the elite info-environment of finance, who created a parallel media to rhetorically rationalize [lit. lie about] Republican policy and energize low-info reactionaries.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
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The whole facade of rule of law is infuriating here.
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
🇻🇪🇺🇸 The Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action against Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization, - CNN
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The whole facade of rule of law is infuriating here.
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
> "Lord Ravenloft"
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
> "Lord Ravenloft"
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
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Left YIMBYism is the future. 🎊 🏠 🏗️
Our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social on joining @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social's transition:
"Bringing down the cost of living, especially the soaring cost of rent for working New Yorkers, has been the core of your campaign and the heart of my career in housing."
"Bringing down the cost of living, especially the soaring cost of rent for working New Yorkers, has been the core of your campaign and the heart of my career in housing."
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Left YIMBYism is the future. 🎊 🏠 🏗️
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I know none of the left nimbys have thought about their logic this much but I really wonder if they understand the implication of supporting immigration and refugees but also not wanting to build any housing
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I know none of the left nimbys have thought about their logic this much but I really wonder if they understand the implication of supporting immigration and refugees but also not wanting to build any housing
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haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
The objectively correct Star Wars take: the Last Jedi fucking blows AND it is still EASILY the 4th/5th best Star Wars film.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The objectively correct Star Wars take: the Last Jedi fucking blows AND it is still EASILY the 4th/5th best Star Wars film.
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these folks aren’t 100 percent my politics (who is?) but I’m very simpatico with the overall approach. worth kicking them a couple bucks
We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
these folks aren’t 100 percent my politics (who is?) but I’m very simpatico with the overall approach. worth kicking them a couple bucks
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Our fundraiser centers on a similar question: why can’t we have nice things in media? Why must supposedly liberal publications like the Atlantic amplify the anti-Trans panic? Why can’t the NYT simply say that Trump threatened to execute members of Congress? gofund.me/197477c3a
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our fundraiser centers on a similar question: why can’t we have nice things in media? Why must supposedly liberal publications like the Atlantic amplify the anti-Trans panic? Why can’t the NYT simply say that Trump threatened to execute members of Congress? gofund.me/197477c3a
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We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!