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Economic issues, and also defense-of-democracy issues, especially in the late campaign.
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Economic issues, and also defense-of-democracy issues, especially in the late campaign.
Took a few hours but I caught the block for that, so for posterity: Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social) was the crank misrepresenting @garyalexander.bsky.social.
#YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
#YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Took a few hours but I caught the block for that, so for posterity: Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social) was the crank misrepresenting @garyalexander.bsky.social.
#YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
#YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
Latest Harvard CAPS / Harris(X) poll shows self-described liberals split approximately evenly (54/46) on open borders, which is a less extreme position than the no-borders position that's allegedly "literally the liberal position".
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Latest Harvard CAPS / Harris(X) poll shows self-described liberals split approximately evenly (54/46) on open borders, which is a less extreme position than the no-borders position that's allegedly "literally the liberal position".
Stancil anticipating Trump's own team by two days.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Stancil anticipating Trump's own team by two days.
Hahahaha, are we fucking seriously right now?
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hahahaha, are we fucking seriously right now?
"Maybe instead of being an arrogant dipshit, bother to check stuff before you repost it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Maybe instead of being an arrogant dipshit, bother to check stuff before you repost it."
Meanwhile, Will Stancil "regretfully" informs one of the trolls he calls Nazis that their song about him is "a banger".
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Meanwhile, Will Stancil "regretfully" informs one of the trolls he calls Nazis that their song about him is "a banger".
New record!
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New record!
Anyhoo,
![Scatterplot with the x axis labeled "DEM PERCENT TWO PARTY TOTAL MONEY", y axis labeled "% Dem - % GOP", and a clearly upward-sloping array of blue points, mostly clustered near x = 0, x = 50, and x = 100.
Lifted from https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-origins-of-the-investment-theory-of-party-competition, where it's figure 1 and surrounded by the two paragraphs
"After the 2012 election, however, my colleagues and I decided it was time to actually look at real data for congressional elections. Because we had built up special files integrating many forms of campaign money, we decided to directly examine whether knowing the percentage of campaign funds a Democrat or a Republican spent in the campaign compared to his or her opponent could be used to predict how many votes they got. To our astonishment, the finding was a near-perfect straight line. See Figure 1.[12]
Do not be put off by the figure. It is a simple scatter diagram and easy to read. Along the bottom from left to right runs the Democratic percentage of the total dollar amounts spent on any given race – not the cost of votes per ballot or other measures that vary with district size and other characteristics. The vertical axis going up the left side benchmarks the percentage of the two-party vote that the Democrats garner. That axis is scaled as the difference between the Democratic and Republican shares of the vote, meaning that as the difference goes positive for the Democrats (roughly in the middle of the figure), they start winning seats. At the bottom left corner, in other words, the Democrats get no or hardly any money and win no or hardly any seats. At the upper right, they slurp in all the money and get all the votes.[14]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a2qilsqtzjwqfd6lr7l5d33s/bafkreidgbuspdfttqlddmshoo5cwgjke5nqxj5wpu3m6uui4sq4w7ysrwm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Anyhoo,
I see I have been #BlockedForTruth. I was quoting British music critic, podcaster, and author of a book about Orwell's 1984 Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social): "The phrase 'NATO expansion' is a red flag for me". #YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I see I have been #BlockedForTruth. I was quoting British music critic, podcaster, and author of a book about Orwell's 1984 Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social): "The phrase 'NATO expansion' is a red flag for me". #YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
...though it's possible he blocked me for being too good at quoting him.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
...though it's possible he blocked me for being too good at quoting him.
Wrong!
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wrong!
Went back to the profile's feed I was looking at, and scrolled down literally 4 blueskeets before I hit this. I don't mention this to put PM or anyone on blast, but to illustrate how wantonly even left-leaning writers throw around "crazy" & "insane". Tough not to see it when one knows to notice it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Went back to the profile's feed I was looking at, and scrolled down literally 4 blueskeets before I hit this. I don't mention this to put PM or anyone on blast, but to illustrate how wantonly even left-leaning writers throw around "crazy" & "insane". Tough not to see it when one knows to notice it.
While I reviewed the video to quote it, YouTube kept interrupting it with ads pushing AI. Including an ad featuring Tony Robbins, who's been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and assault...including kissing & groping a minor.
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
While I reviewed the video to quote it, YouTube kept interrupting it with ads pushing AI. Including an ad featuring Tony Robbins, who's been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and assault...including kissing & groping a minor.
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm tellin' ya...
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm tellin' ya...
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Good to know. Were you aware of that when you helped to amplify @captivedreamer7's squid-ink pretense at being someone else called "Sebastien Franks"?
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Good to know. Were you aware of that when you helped to amplify @captivedreamer7's squid-ink pretense at being someone else called "Sebastien Franks"?
I propose that it is _not_ fine to work for Blackwater if they assign you to a "diplomatic security" detail.
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I propose that it is _not_ fine to work for Blackwater if they assign you to a "diplomatic security" detail.
Imagine going from
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Imagine going from
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
