Zach Rabiroff
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Writer for the Comics Journal, Flaming Hydra, Polygon, io9, etc. www.zachrabiroff.com
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Come to think of it, possibly also true of doctors and accountants.
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Between Rho Khanna and everything that's happened to tech billionaires over the past decade, I think a leading cause of insanity is proximity to silicon
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Well, I didn't actually argue with you specifically, and I don't think that's wrong on the merits. I do think that I generally hear an absence of acknowledgement that, if the CARES Act was a mistake, it wasn't one that actually cause any known loss for Democrats.
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"I'm gonna need you to lower that top button, like, three extra chests for me."
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Yeah, no, I absolutely stand by that. Elections have lots of factors! A bad economy is one, but so is general anger over being cooped up for a year, roiling protests for civil rights, right-wing culture wars, and general Trump exhaustion. It's not algebra or candidates would always have a way to win
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I think that's arguable, but it's neither obvious nor plain, because if the past decade has taught us anything it's that a sizable swath of this country has ideological commitments that outweigh their material well-being. Economic conditions matter, but they are not all-determinative - even for FDR.
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I feel like every argument about this issue takes great acrobatic leaps not to answer why the strategic blunder resulted in a Democratic trifecta that coming November.
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I love their hit track, That One GAP Commercial
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More likely to be the other way around tbh
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Absolutely no doubt in my mind it would have unanimous support from Republicans. I'm not exaggerating: not a single national-level or state-level official would publicly object, especially after it started to look successful.
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Eventually. Eventually.
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Nixon campaign slang for dirty tricks against opposing candidates, popularized via Watergate exposes.
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Someone compared her to an Aaron Sorkin character cosplayer the other day, and this is entirely in that spirit
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And just now updated. They're okay and at a hotel.
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Sure. The closer (and very deliberate) analogy to Schmitt's legal theory is, of course, the current government itself.
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There probably could have been less depressing uses of my night than looking at this 1938 bubble gum card set about Nazi Germany called "DON'T LET IT HAPPEN OVER HERE," but...man.
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Schmitt is hardly the only, or the first, political philosopher to set boundaries for the moment a legitimate state ceases to exist
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Just keep giving it to every key advisor and cabinet member in turn. Never drop the bit.
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I think that analogy is a strong one, precisely because (albeit through a mechanism more subtle and gradual than Hitler) the constitution is effectively extinguished in manner from which it is unlikely to reemerge in its prior state. Whether it's successor is "legitimate" rests on how you define it.
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I just assumed you meant Rick, and you'd still have a solid point
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There's been an undeniable shift in their posture against Trump over the past couple of weeks. I'd say current events are responsible for it, but that never budged them before. So I don't know, but I like it more than I did before.