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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 4h

Eh, I like it. When this happens it's because the left is growing and moving further left at the same time.

Give us 10 years of this and we might even get healthcare.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 5h

"Universal high income"
Why would it need to be high, Elon?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income."

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 6h

The average voter didn't care if Trump is threatening fascism. To them, fascism is the solution to affordability.

Also calm down man. Trump is a fascist but I'm also watching a Democratic Socialist take over NYC right now. The status quo is moving left with or without liberals, preferably with.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 7h

Hillary and Kamala didn't lose because they failed to check every box and court the far left.
I've seen it first hand, apathy from tuned out voters who don't even care about this shit.
They didn't show out because nothing they said promised a new, hopeful and affordable future. Just more of the same

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry, fire the immigrant doctors and export the immigrant patients.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 7h

I don't disagree, but old bandaids are the first to scrutinize. Democrats will always be on this uphill battle while healthcare is commodified.

Look at the UK and the NHS. It was certainly better than what they had before, but privatization slowly took over and now people want to defund it entirely

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 7h

The President just posted a video of himself defecating on a protesting Harry Sisson and when asked to remove it the Vice President said ligma balls.
This was to distract people from the incoming austerity bill that will ruin millions of American lives.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 7h

In case people were wondering why that performative male thing did numbers, mundanity and apathy are the new culture.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 8h

People miss community and third places. I think we need to embrace movies/TV as the "boring" American passtime over books and fund libraries dedicated to them.
I know libraries have great movie/TV libraries, but they don't really scratch the same itch for obvious reasons.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 8h

new gimmick

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 17h

i'm a centrist and i think society is too mean to trans people

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 8h

I am proud of the libs and all, it is just profoundly frustrating that this discourse is even happening after what happened to campus protesters.
I already knew their free speech was conditional, but then using their big show out as a moment to punch left is something extra sinister.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 8h

They don't realize how spineless this looks to even people like me without skin in the game. If you can't stand up for trans people I can't count on you to stand up for anything else.

Fastest way to be a no motion Democrat ready to be eaten up by the GOP.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 8h

At least I could convert the wokies into 3rd worldist maoists. 45 year old liberals are the Americam empire's proudest warriors.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 9h

I'll let you know when the Young Democrats group chat leaks and it's filled with jokes about eating the rich.

Until then, you are fighting against your own interests.

NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 11h

Never ask a proudly mobilized radlib what they were doing during the BLM protests.

Biggest mistake of my life.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 12h

Semantics are big, just like with defunding the police.
Something most Americans still think is about getting rid of them entirely and not questioning their purpose and outcomes.
Democrats still fail to navigate the issue to this day, often afraid to even touch the issue now.
ICE might be the same.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wait you thought there was a country where Democrats make people's wants reality?

Oh sweetie.. Enjoy your defunded ICE that further legitimizes the fear of immigration by simply existing.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 12h

I do live in the country where kids get shot at school, yeah.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I actually talk to people all the time who want universal healthcare, free education, free palestine, and gun control but I don't exactly live in a country where the Democrats turn people's wants into reality.

In case you were wondering why they keep losing to Trump.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 12h

You're missing my point.
There is a big difference between abolishing ICE entirely and simply defunding and restaffing.

Democrats seem worried that wanting to abolish ICE will be too "radical" and scare off the suburban vote.
Always happy to be proven wrong in the future.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 13h

Yes I'm aware Americans want to abolish ICE.
I'm saying the Democrats don't.

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NV Centrist 🇺🇸 @cryopunk.bsky.social · 14h

The right will always think you're an ultraprogressive socialist
Everything that isn't fascism is "progess" to them.

Maybe if you actually did run on ultraprogressive socialist policy, you would see more votes from the left and the same amount of votes on the right.

Maybe we already have examples.