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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 11d

So real for this

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 11d

Tired: thinking about the Roman Empire

Wired: thinking about the Mongolian Empire

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 14d

"Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses."

Funny how much this happens when your main priority is trashing Dems rather than advocating for the actual success of leftwing politics.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 15d

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it.

Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 15d

You’re all bad at your jobs

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 15d

It’s a social media tag try not to perseverate

Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

Oh weird how you love ripping lines with the Chapo guys but also see no problem doing a media hit with a rightwing provocateur?

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

Dave Weigel is everything wrong with political journalism: social media “persona”, pompous, blames Dems for not being progressive enough (see: more money for teamsters), also Dems for being too progressive (see: pronouns in emails), just plain dumb.

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17d

Huh….weird that Dave doesn’t promote this over here as well I wonder why that is

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

No I just don’t care

Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

A person that like Chapo with a disco elysium pfp—hmm

Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

The COVID economic crash lead to a narrow presidential victory the Dems losing house seats and a 50-50 senate.

We all want the catharsis of an “I told you so” but in a lot of ways we are kind of there!

Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

We don’t need a crash to see a positive change and the GFC on the long end seems to have made people more conservative (see Tea Party) through this secondary effects (hollowing out of the rust belt and opioid crisis)

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

I kinda disagree! Democracy didn’t collapse in 2008! And a lot of people attribute the GFC to Obama’s landslide but also people really liked Obama and were really tired of republicans!

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

Like is this person going to be correct? Maybe! People aren’t really sure! Is it also possible people get negatively polarized against dad telling us we should t take vaccines? Maybe! We kinda of just have to live to find out!

This is going to kill thousands of children and stress the healthcare system to its breaking point and it was entirely predictable

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

Logging off makes this feel less surreal tbh

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

In one speech he tried to brag about developing the Covid vaccines and he got booed and never mentioned it in a speech positively again.

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

One of them has a daddy who worked for the NYT and another of them had a drug habit that was so out of control it caused a significant health issue. It seems that all of them use drugs too much.

Maybe stop defending a bad podcast?

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

Every time anyone makes fun of or criticizes Chapo someone jumps in the replies to defend them and then immediately pivots to “wow lol ok obsessed much”

I’ve never listened to these idiots. All I know is that they like to giggle about them, they hate AOC and did Assad+J6 apologia.

Derek @dezza.bsky.social · 18d

I don’t even know how to respond to someone whos this deep into chapo lore they know about some offhand comments about an incident from 2017.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17d

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

A lot of people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel shows why it's important for businesses and the public to understand that two-thirds of Americans are not Trump voters

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 17d

I don’t really care how you respond

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 19d

lol Jon Stewart was a gd lab leak guy

Colbert has always had better poltiics

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 19d

A union card doesn’t stop chud brain by itself

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 20d

The teamsters are a very clear example of how the alleged problem with "the groups" pushing Dems to take unpopular positions is a self-solving one. They made demands, got bailed out, and didn't deliver votes. They get back of the line. Their bet is probably no dem will ever win an election again.

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 20d

The poly relationship does make more sense bow

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 20d

I do not understand why denver Omlet is ham

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