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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sorry, SEVENTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS?

Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 4h

Because this whole thing is a reaction to people seeing their "causes"* being subsumed and drawing a line

*It's about trans people and whether they're worth defending, let's be real

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 18h

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 19h

The most bizarre example to me is using Mitt Romney's inability to block Obama's reelection as a grievance to justify nihilistic radicalization

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 20h

No, from a harm reduction standpoint, the first priority is positioning trans people as human beings worth defending

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 20h

We can also see what's been happening in the UK as liberals "strategically" cede ground to bigots

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 20h

I would like you to be specific about what you're talking about here

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 20h

Try having some standards

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 21h

If someone is willing to put aside their distaste of trans people in order to join us in opposing Trump, they will of course be welcome in the tent

If they insist on making the existence of trans people a central debate inside the tent, they are not welcome

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 21h

If someone's price for conversion is for the coalition to support positions that are harmful to its most vulnerable members, then they aren't converts

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe someone whipped it together real quick in Final Cut Pro, who's to say

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 22h

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 21h

Not the worst part about this, but it compounds the insult that it's going to be done in the tackiest, schlockiest, least craftsman-like way

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

"You can still have your little causes*, they just shouldn't drive the agenda"

* Causes: surviving an authoritarian regime as a targeted minority

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

The implication does seem to be that we should lure conservatives into the tent by craftily allowing them to set the entire agenda

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

What makes the tent "big", then? Specifically.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

PS: I’m probably just explaining something 99.9% of you understand but those few intellectually dishonest are making: Recognizing a big tent opposition doesn’t mean subsuming the causes you care about. This is not anti-fascism at the expense of X, Y, and Z. It’s your cause AND the big tent.

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

"Why do tulip prices keep rising despite weak underlying fundamentals?"

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Next year is going to suck so bad

Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Even if you corrected it to "less medical debt", that is a very weird thing to downplay!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

it's really great that the sneering editorial tone of the ideology comes in left, right, and centrist flavors, all of which reflect the nepotistic preferences of its ownership

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Alt text for the screenshot of a New York Times economics reporter’s shitty tweet

talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith
can all the obamacare defenders please chill out. like ok people can stay on their parents healthcare until their mid20s great. and there are fewer gofundmes now.
but the way institutionalists talk about the thing it's like we should all be bowing down with gratefulness. yeah, no

And then there’s a chart:
Peterson-KFF|
Health System Tracker
Cumulative percent change in Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for medical care and for all goods and services, January 2000 - June 2024

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Is every NYT reporter on X this soup-brained?

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Plus massively improving minimum coverage requirements and the rule about how much income from premiums has to be paid out in healthcare costs or they have to issue refunds

And of course the subsidies

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Three bullet points in and I'm already invested

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Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

Important for him to silo himself on Twitter exclusively

Gabe Small @gabesmall.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird to characterize the economy they're describing as "resilient" rather than "wildly overleveraged"

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