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Ted Lemon

Ted Lemon

@abhayakara.bsky.social

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Computer geek, meditation teacher (ish), deconditioning theorist.

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Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 7h

The idea that an argument can be “decisively won” is delusional and incredibly damaging. You win the argument, great. Now do the work to keep bringing the next generations on board and adapt to their new concerns. Otherwise your victory will be forgotten. This is what we are seeing 30 years on.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

These arguments were decisively won by the late 90s. And then some people - perhaps people working for the Daily Express, among others - spent decades kicking fuck out of the left while screeching at the public about migrants stealing benefits and eating swans. It’s very clear who is to blame here.

These arguments *have* | think, to a large degree, been won. And that is why Leave, Ukip, Reform can often be best understood as an attempted counterrevolution against the left's victories in the culture wars. The whole movement is a more gentle version of, say, the rebellion in the Vendée.
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.s... • 15m
This stuff continues to be sobering for people like me who became adults in the 90s and thought the arguments had been won and all this had been put to bed.
Maybe it was all part of a naive end of history atmosphere in the years leading up the global financial crisis.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 13h

We were pretty problematic before Trump too. But if we can help in this one way, that’s at least a small comfort. :)

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 13h

He totally does! :)

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 13h

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Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 13h

Dude, we are just happy for you. They have to do what works. There is no sorrow in that. May we all be so fortunate. :)

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 19h

My skircle is all saints. I don't post because ion want yall to get mad that the saints all bang with me and not you

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 13h

This is an insanely great illustration of what a push poll is and why they are toxic to reason.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22h

A STORY IN FOUR PARTS:

1. NRSC poll wording
2. NRSC poll results
3. SoCal poll wording
4. SoCal poll results

NRSC wording

NRSC results

SoCal wording

SoCal results

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 2d

I think the answer, which I assume you will not get to give (and may not agree with anyway!) is that the reason to call them Nazis now is because we see where this is going and want to prevent it. The Nazis didn't start out with death chambers. But they got there. We don't want that again.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think this is a good way to frame it.

This simplifies to “whether it’s okay to hurt/kill you depends on who you are.” Which is the root of fascism.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

Good grief why is Stellan Skarsgård cooking so hard?

Culture Crave @CultureCrave
X.com

Stellan Skarsgärd on his worldviews

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody's worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I've carried around in my life. That's why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"
"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It's not. It's only freedom to exploit people"
(via @vulture)

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Vulture # @vulture

Stellan Skarsgärd on why he protested for Palestine "right after" October 7:

"The thing was that you knew what was going to happen. Because since 1948, they've been doing the same thing. If the Palestinians kill one, they'll kill ten. Plus they'll bulldoze the home of the family and friends ….. Every night, I think about it. Every night."
- Stellan Skarsgärd,
on why he protested for Palestine
"right after" October 7

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

This is part of my concern around the focus on who ICE recruits, because while the recruits are not good people, they are also easy targets. The people setting the budget and hopping onto cable news to defend the policies are harder targets, but they’re much more responsible.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 4d

Omg I sent Gideon so much money. And she didn’t spend it. That one campaign completely burned me on sending money in response to urgent requests. It feels like they think money is not a tool for supporting an effective campaign, but actually all that matters.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 4d

Love this!

Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 5d

🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 5d

Platner could survive this scandal, but I doubt it. The reason I doubt it isn’t just the scandal itself. It’s that he’s used the scandal as a way to insist that any accountability for his behavior is unfair and part of a conspiracy. To me, that’s disqualifying. (And it is for many Dem voters.)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 5d

Great article in @lemonde.fr on asset inflation and what this does to people who do value-producing as opposed to asset-producing labor. Paywalled, but I recommend subscribing if you're in the US—we are so starved for decent journalism. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Patrick Artus: 'Wealth has grown faster than real production, disrupting economic balances'

COLUMN. In his column, the economist outlines the consequences of rising wealth relative to gross domestic product (GDP), both in the United States and in Europe.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, not using it in hospitals where it’s needed would be bad. But I’d it in fact not a cancer risk? I’ve seen public health warnings about alcohol consumption being carcinogenic: wouldn’t inhalation be similar?

I guess we could switch back to iodine…

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 6d

On the plus side, won't have to breathe ethanol all the time in trains with poor ventilation. It's really, really bad—this would honestly be a good outcome.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 7d

It would just be bad writing. There is nothing entertaining about this. If it were a book, I would toss it in the wood chipper. Your story villain has to be interesting. Trump is more like a monster than a villain. But your zombies have better back stories. Much better.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 7d

You're going to be running the DNC in a few years and we're going to miss getting to share skeets with you here. But we're also going to be rooting for you 100%

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 7d

Even mildly annoying forms of public antisocial behavior are deeply corrosive to community building and destroy the consensus necessary for progressive policy.

Left anarchism is incompatible with social democratic economics because people vote their annoyances, not their material needs.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 7d

Same

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve never been to a protest where there wasn’t some asshole taking an opportunity to be confrontational. My guess is that there was some incident that motivated the reporter to add that caveat, but it was considered not essential to report it because it wasn’t representative of the general vibe.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 10d

The day you learn that nonfiction books are only fact-checked if the author has $10,000 of their own money to pay a fact-checker is the day you realize the world is full of goddamn lies

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11d

I've meaning to transfer my playlists off of Spotify for a while, and the ICE ads finally gave me the nudge I needed.

Ted Lemon @abhayakara.bsky.social · 11d

The measure of whether people care about her is whether she succeeds at what she is doing. Crowley lost his election despite having full support of the DNC. That’s pretty clear evidence that at lot of Democrats, myself included, don’t agree with you. We’re SO tired of the DNC and their consultants.