Andy

Andy

@andoando.bsky.social

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victoria scott@victoriascott.bsky.social

it is very funny that "queer leftists" get this reputation of being above voting or whatever because my wife and I fill our ballots out with enough reverence it feels like it is a religious ceremony

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

the whole world we live in is about to really change. hard to imagine that it will be for the better, but everything comes to an end. the world i grew up and grew old in, with all its various claimed values and espoused pieties - i think all that is gone for good

extremely aware this is not the point, but re: the Zvi Sukkot episode. Has this guy ever swung a hammer or even attempted any feat of athleticism before?

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zionism in practice really does involve a fair amount of deep down not believing arabs/muslims are really human beings, or at least human beings who matter. thats a hard thing to admit for some people but it just is true. and a lot of times it's not even deep down

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the primary reason this is true is that the pundits are in a constant state of dunning-kruger, stockholm syndrome and narcissistic personality disorder. is it true that the median voter is a dunce? yes. Is it true that this distinguishes them from a person with an opinion column sinecure? no.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

This goes to what I’d call the primary error that a lot of pundits make, which is ASSUMING THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE. Sure, it’s probably true in some respects - but attempts by pundits to put themselves in the heads of “normal” people almost always backfire.

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every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

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being in the DSA is fun because you get to spend most of your time helping people with social anxiety canvass for democratic school board candidates and then go online to see people with blue wave emojis in their bios compare you to pol pot

today was gonna be the day but you’re really never gonna learn by now, you shoulda some how realized you can’t out jump Dan burn

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Replying to @davidjroth.bsky.social

It’s childish to have an opinion or plans or think things or have stances. Mature adults modulate their opinions to court a person they imagine exists in a place they won’t deign to visit.

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Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

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when they said: "if mamdani wins, the GOP will make him the poster boy for the democrats & smear everyone as an extremist" they meant: "we are going to do that" when i saw the NYT labelling mamdani "a kingmaker" and calling winners "his picks" it was obvious they were messaging cucks like this guy

Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social

We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.