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Reminds me of Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley leaving Yale for the University of Toronto
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Reminds me of Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley leaving Yale for the University of Toronto
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
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I agree but other countries have far-right movements
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It's so sad that this is happening to the US
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commodus??
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Can you explain more in full detail?
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And basically no one is stopping this!
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I agree that the Southernization of rural America has been one of the most important sociopolitical developments in the US over the past 60 years
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I'm worried that we (the US) will never recover from this Administration
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I mean,there are plenty of far-right movements in Europe
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The US needs to apologize
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I don't know how we'll recover from this
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Horrible what Trump's doing to the USA's international standing
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I hope they are canceled
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Incredible how Trump does not care about the USA's alliances (other than with Israel) or relationships with any other nations besides Russia
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I wonder if this would have happened had Kamala won
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Why do you think this is? Logically those who were right in their predictions should become more respected?
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Aren't there more bi women than bi men?
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Why do you think Canada is more progressive than the US?
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There were only *two* years of a GOP trifecta between 1930 and 2000!
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Yes!
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do you think guns are related to race?
drppperfan779.bsky.social (@drppperfan779.bsky.social) reply parent
would you say that Carney is the Canadian Joe Biden?
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When exactly did Newsom turn anti-trans? Don't recall anything before the election
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Even in the 1950s they had Joe McCarthy!
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even the liberal justices did this!
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@volts.wtf The question is why American conservatism is more extreme than conservatism in other countries
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Do you think polarization was inevitable?
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What do you think of California redistricting?
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Not a fan of Newsom but this is the right move
It’s done. California’s Congressional redistricting plan is heading to voters. We’re fighting back. We passed the final of 3 pieces: a statute calling the election, a constitutional amendment allowing mid-decade redistricting & proposed revised maps. It’s now up to the voters.
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution. Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
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Not even Australia?
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@csilverandgold.bsky.social
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Also the disproportionate number of LGBTQ+ people in Hollywood (which dates back to the Golden Age of Hollywood!)
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@volts.wtf
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Also, what do you think is the most car-centric city outside of the US?
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where would LA be on this list?
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Interesting that even Charles Sumner turned against Reconstruction
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The 90s had Rodney King + the OJ Simpson trial!
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West Virginia actually voted for McCain in 2008: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Un...
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*between the sexes
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You would think that positives and negatives would be much more evenly distributed.
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I can't think of a single area where women are genuinely worse than men
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DC is lucky that the 23rd Amendment was ratified when it was (1961)
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Honestly DC is lucky that the 23rd Amendment was passed when it was (1961)
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IMO DC is lucky that the 23rd Amendment was ratified when it was (1961)
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IIRC Byrnes converted from Catholicism to being an Episcopalian
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@volts.wtf Why do you think Democrats failed to try to stop this?
Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution. There nothing funny about it.
World War II pro-American propaganda.
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What do you think of blue states redistricting in response?
drppperfan779.bsky.social (@drppperfan779.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but you would guess the Blue Dogs still would have supported it for partisan reasons
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Always kind of stunned that they did not do this in 2009 (when Dems had a filibuster-proof majority)
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Always stunned at how cartoonishly evil the current Administration is
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Maybe Congress has a more insular culture?
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Imagine the backlash had Hillary won in 2016
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I wonder how much would be different had the GOP had a different Minority Leader in 2009...
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The sad thing is, is that most Americans don't even hate Canada
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I wonder if this would have occurred under a non-Trump GOP president
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I guess the thing is that Roberts got four other justices to sign on to his opinion.
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I wonder why there has never really been a matriarchal society.
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what was this project called?
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By "pack", I mean add seats
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One scenario that I think is underrated is that the GOP will try to pack SCOTUS first, prior to the next Democratic presidency
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They basically portended the Southern Strategy
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The sad thing is, most Americans do not even hate Canada
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Are you referring to anything in particular?
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I do think it's interesting that both terms were originally used within leftist communities.
I’m glad Marisa mentioned this. In certain circles there is - correctly! - laser focus on this catastrophe but it can be hard to get the story through to people, in no small part because it’s so upsetting and bleak and enraging that some deep part of people shuts down and rejects it.
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Congratulations!!!
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I've found it interesting that gay men have a higher college attainment rate than even women, meaning that this educational disparity mostly seems to apply to straight men.
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Swan is Australian
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Isn't it actually very rare for straight men to write about dating in general?
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I think it's also because some ethnic groups are so closely tied to Catholicism that moving to another church would almost be seen as renouncing that part of you
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I wonder if the GOP would electorally perform better or worse if they were more socially liberal (assuming Dems would remain the same)
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What do you mean by that?
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Imagine our situation if Trump were slightly more competent/intelligent
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I don't understand the mindset that would ever lead to a politician willing to let the other party win. Even the most amoral or greedy politician usually doesn't want this!
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I do wonder what circumstances would produce the next US constitutional amendment? I suspect recognizing the ERA?
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In general, isn't it true that blue state gerrymanders tend to be done more for incumbent protection purposes rather than out of partisanship?
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Florida itself used to be a purple state!!!
I think this is exactly it. After ten years, my theory of Trump is that so much of what he says is word salad that people can project on to him whatever they want.
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Why exactly doesn't Trump like Powell?
SB 79 — our legislation to zone for more housing near high quality public transit — just passed the Assembly Local Government Committee, its final policy committee. We need more housing & we need more housing near transit. Thank you to my colleagues & to our amazing coalition.
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I wonder how different American history would be had Dewey won in 1948
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Do you think this reaction would have happened if a male Chinese student was in a relationship with a Ukrainian woman?
Today Trump sued CA because we refused to cave in to his bullying on trans kids playing sports. When a bully comes for your lunch money, you don’t give it to him & hope he goes away — if you do, he’ll just come back for more. The answer to bullies is “no.” CA won’t cave. We have these kids backs.
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It is remarkable how Trump's policies are all-stick and no-carrot.
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@unavaleable.bsky.social I wonder how intentional this is as opposed to how much derives from pure incompetence.
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It probably was at one point, but a lot of those Americans passed away.
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The thing is, assuming these polls are accurate, why do Republicans win so much of the time?
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@unavaleable.bsky.social When exactly would you say a Trump-like figure became inevitable for the GOP?
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The result of Dems being a much more heterogeneous group than Republicans
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I think there's also a gendered dynamic to this (with Democrats being seen as the female party and the GOP as the male party)