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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 9m

🤷 we’ll see who wins!

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 17m

Zohran beat Cuomo in the primary, Fetterman beat Lamb (yikes), etc. If your guy is so fuckin based and strong and popular let him take on grandma. If he can’t beat grandma in the primary maybe the big leagues aren’t for him.

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 20m

But also it’s loser shit.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 20m

I do think a lot of this is downstream from “Bernie would have won”, funnily enough; the post-Bernie left is locked into the idea that a candidate who can’t win a primary would counterfactually have crushed the general, and like, it can happen! (Roy Moore vs Luther Strange, e.g.)

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 23m

Yeah, I think complaining about elderly incumbents failing to retire is fine and good—Feinstein, Norton, etc. should step out before crashing out. But complaining that an old lady is running is a little silly.

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tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 28m

all scientists can be classified according to just two variables: whether they're more mad physics or mad biology, and whether their hubris is in calling up what cannot be put down, or seeking to understand what no man was meant to know

we were definitely not meant to know about that worm with a hundred buttholes, for instance

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 45m

The profit maximizer is constrained by the logic of the market. The oligarch doesn’t care about that.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 47m

Predation is terrible but domination is worse.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 49m

One example of how neoliberalism is preferable to authoritarianism is that M*sk's purchase of twitter was not neoliberal profit maximization but instead an oligarchy play

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 48m

*shakes head mournfully at the folly of humanity and the laying low of their works* dawgggggggg

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 58m

10/10 column, no notes, perfect day for it btw @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

Those huge puppets David Graeber loved for some reason : inflatable frog :: war chariots as a prestige weapons platform for Bronze Age kings : Iron Age citizen levy mass infantry. You agree. Great point, Louis.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 1h

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · Feb 13

The Container Store itself…is a container

*San Andreas Fault fully opens to reveal a new earth unsoiled by humans*

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 11h

🙏

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

Whereof one doesn’t want to know, thereof one must not google

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

That’s Rev Borges, right?

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 12h

Frogs? Talmudic
Toads? Not Talmudic
Chickens? Talmudic
Turkeys? Not Talmudic
Weasels? Talmudic
Ferrets? Not Talmudic
Camels? Talmudic
Elephants? Eh, hardly Talmudic
Big Bird? Very, very Talmudic

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

Somebody drop the Ro Khanna cycle meme

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

real

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ceej @ceej.online · 12h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h

ceej, are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you?

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 16h

Internet: assemble

Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 16h

Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 16h

Hyphen after Democrat is wild

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 16h

Like they’re all sensible desiderata and there’s no reason they can’t coexist, in the target state they’re all mutually reinforcing, but if you try to push in all three directions at once you’re undermining each independent advance.

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