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Emergency Poasting Hologram (EPH) ✡️
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He/Him, Jewish American, Agnostic, Liberal, Millennial.

Ad astra per aspera 🖖🏻
Reposted by Emergency Poasting Hologram (EPH) ✡️
<screaming>

"THE ILLIAD IS A STORY ABOUT HOW WE COPE WITH DEATH"
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
At least the House *kinda* does. Johnson & Jefferies can't make their people vote a certain way, but they can banish them to fucking obscurity both in their committees and their offices, which *tends* to bring them in-line. Still, every generation you have an asshole who doesn't care, like Gaetz
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Ahh, sorry for taking you too seriously. I've gotten enough people saying similar things in complete seriousness.
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Then, for fun, ask yourself if the NYPD has jurisdiction in Israel.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"probably isn't legal" is doing serious load bearing. Think, for just a second, about what the UN is, the number of treaties that are involved to A) have the UN headquarters in a country and B) to have world leaders feel safe enough they travel to said HQ
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
that's a disservice to stoners; the QT is in 100% crackpipe territory.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Mayor of New York City doesn't have the power to wipe the state of Israel from the map? Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Odd, I was unaware NYC made ballots public. When was that passed?
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This doesn't even touch on the fact that, (rounding up) 97% of the country doesn't live in NYC, and judging a municipal official when you don't live / work in their city is *pretty much all vibes*.

But that's what you get from the Vibes are Praxis, Actually wing of the party.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And it's not like he's had other comparable experiences in government to give you an idea of what he'd be like! He might be a poor mayor because his policies don't work, he might be a poor mayor because he can't work the system. Or he might be a good mayor for similarly unrelated reasons!
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
That is one hell of a take, lacking any basis in reality
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
*citation needed*
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Source: I made it up
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Why doesn't Chuck Schumer simply bench / trade the Dems who voted no?"
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
we love a good Dem governor

(Roy Cooper / Josh Stein fan account)
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
they don't have it as badly as any assault victim, but it's still *bad*.

We don't have to go "no actually the only bad thing is a non-tangible ideology that is tangentially related to the movement". Two things can be bad at the same time!
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
>the cultural excesses only seem bad insofar as they can be blame for the rise of a political force

I'd consider someone like Aziz (innocent on any charges of assault or abuse) facing consequences for assault & abuse as "bad".

It is a far rarer situation than someone actually being assaulted,
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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and, as a flip side, kneejerk anti-colonialism is our own vulnerability on the left, which is a big reason I push really hard for the inclusion of ex-neocons in our coalition. "freedom isn't worth fighting for if someone can cite a cultural tradition" is also toxic to the liberal project
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Not entirely true.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I feel so called out
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM