Same number of votes but the margins in the closest states were a lot closer
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Same number of votes but the margins in the closest states were a lot closer
And the 2020 election was closer in the Electoral College than 2016
The left actually *should* point out that you don't need to be on the left to know that MAGA is without any sense of ethics.
Someone said earlier that the left should stop defending immigrants by pointing out that they're often service workers. But at the end of the day MAGA is uprooting families no matter their situation even as they contribute positively to our society. It *does* bear repeating that they are racist
This goes hand-in-hand with Americans' (and especially pundits') inability to correctly answer the question, "Who was the president in 2020?" Dems somehow get the blame for Trump's catastrophic handling of the first few months.
What's probably doubly crazy about this is all the people who say the antidote to this is for Democrats to enforce ideological conformity on anyone who is not MAGA and ensure that no Democrat has any position that anyone would disagree with. The "cure" is worse than the disease.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Today from the Coors Field scoreboard:
US, Mexico, Canada all gone
Amtrak actually does have more ridership than plane for DC to NYC
Bunch of people who never had to uproot their entire lives and move thousands of miles away ought to stop pontificating on asylum and immigration
When I said this a European got really mad and said I was practicing supremacist ideology.
It isn't. But freedom of movement and economic liberalism *used to be* the libertarian argument, before the libertarian movement in the US committed suicide
And the "rage baiting" goes back to the algorithmification of all social media which happened about a decade ago
Twitter started 20 years ago
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
I'm gonna have to put on my bio that people who are not from Long Island should stop shitting on Long Island in my mentions
it might be poor writing but each sentence has a subject and a verb and, where necessary, objects of verbs
🎶And then a hero comes along... With the strength to carry on...🎶
As opposed to the massive externality of increased HIV infections. Obviously these people are Nazis
TFW you think going tonMar-a-Lago can be apolitical
As a "Methodist" but also bsky.app/profile/pymu...
Today I learned I'm secretly Jewish
And the anti-city sentiment is bipartisan 😉
I think also a lot of white people only know conservative white people on Long Island but that's simply a function of their social networks. And a lot of NYCers thoughts of the island are restricted to the western part of Nassau county. There's millions of people east of there.
I like to tell people that Long Island as a whole voted for Clinton twice, Gore, Kerry, Obama twice, Clinton, and Biden. 2024 was the first time in my lifetime that Long Island voted for a Republican for president.
Snake bite not a primary DX code!!!
I see these replies are, as typical, full of people who have never ventured to the many and large parts of Long Island that are liberal.
I would genuinely like to know how we can build solidarity with the unfortunate minority of people who are surrounded by people who want to kill us both. I tried apologia for Trump voters as decent people left behind by neoliberalism who populist economic policy could reach. Now we’re here.
Why are we in the year 2025 talking about urban homes as if they are pollution
This is just enraging. And heartbreaking. Please read this thread. Legally, Sarah is both and neither a man and/nor a woman, and her government has spent two decades turning her life (& her wife's life) upside down and inside out to achieve that glorious end.
Another is "I've not seen xyz prejudice in action so it can't be real, even though it is well documented" from people who are otherwise able to believe in the existence of well documented phenomena that they haven't observed themselves
Bigotry makes itself obvious in the ways it supplants logic. I think my first encounter with this was how people used "All Lives Matter" as a rebuttal to "Black Lives Matter" when "Black Lives Matter" is obviously based on the premise that all lives matter
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (10/13)
Unfortunately a lot of European people here regard racism and xenophobia dismissively without any prodding
Certain people think it's impossible insulting to make comparisons between Europeans and Americans but the "eugenics ad" was the only time I've seen Americans on here be so dismissive of racism, but that ad was explicitly engineered to elicit such dismissiveness.
Like these people are literally enforcing a culture of silence that lets fascists grow unchecked. Ask me how I know
I keep encountering "liberal" Europeans on here who sound just like the most racist Americans in terms of their unwillingness to talk about racism or xenophobia. If you think it's insulting to do the least bit of reflection on bigotry that isn't "America Bad" then you are sleepwalking into fascism.
I was like "what is J&M" and realized you meant Jim and Margery. I first listened to them in 2016. They're my comfort show lol
The only part of the country that is immune to devastatingly extreme weather is maybe the West Coast which is always at risks for devastating earthquakes
I find the idea that such comparisons are unhelpful to be strange I guess. Avoiding such comparisons for... I'm not actually sure why you would want to avoid them... It serves the purpose of stifling the conversation and limiting knowledge of how people experience the world
I watched the whole series in 2019 and it certainly felt prescient (Veep had already gone off air but was mostly released before Trump). Melania complaining about the White House Christmas Tree could have been picked straight from Veep.
Believe it or not, you don't need to be living somewhere to have studied it's hydrology or climate!
Continuing to quote me after announcing that you muted me... that's a Lot, Robin....
While in Europe the degrees to which someone might be considered "unassimilable" can be more pronounced. We could talk about how many European countries came about as nationalist projects and how that relates to this. Or modern-day identity politics. Or we can feel insulted and rage about it.
I think most western hemisphere countries do it the same as the US. So it is not really an oddity in that neighborhood. And the UK also had this regime of citizenship before 1983. The original point I made a few months ago was that in the US there is a strong ideology of assimilation
But also what I want to stress is that Dov thinks having this sort of discussion is beneath him since I made an unfavorable comparison of Europe to the US
American parent OR born in the US = citizen at birth
US confers citizenship by parentage and by place of birth
Apparently you think immigration to the UK is its national character. You're probably gonna get blocked. You two are pitiful
We could talk about how Britain got rid of birthright citizenship in the 80s, how Trump is trying to do that, and what this says about xenophobia and policy. Or we could whine that we are being insulted.
point me to saying that some national character is better or worse or go away
But tone policing such conversations is definitely not exceptionalism, nationalism, or supremacism. I love living in oppositeland
TIL discussing differences on assimilation ideology is exceptionalism, nationalism, and supremacism
Apparently "overly familiar" is literally tweeting about immigration
If this is the kind of stuff that sets him off then it's probably for his own good that he's muted me
Dov is not the first European to get big mad at Americans for being "overly familiar" but they might be the first person to get that mad about it on Twitter or Bluesky
It is literally the default tone of Twitter
The issue is that you think any number of observation that I think are benign are actually combative
Have you considered that you have misinterpreted my tone?
I find it unremarkably easy and normal to say "some things in my place are better/worse than some things in another place, maybe we can learn from that" or "actually you're wrong, the other thing is better" but you feel insulted or instrumentalized or something
No offense but I find the idea that my talking about UK immigration to is so egregiously instrumentalizing and insulting be so precious. That's the only word I have for it.
If you think it's worthwhile to scold me for saying things with a tone that is not to your standards instead of actually talking about what you were talking about, you do you.
I'm not sorry that my tone, in my earlier conversations with other people that you might have read, may not have been to your liking. It's not possible to have tone in microblogging text that satisfies everyone. To try to do so would be silly.
I think last time you pointed out, probably accurately, that Americans generally don't find that quote so offensive. Also my family are windrush generation UK to US immigrants.
The last time I got into a dust-up with you about this there were multiple UK people in my mentions telling me that the UK would never be as extreme as the US on immigration even though they ended birthright citizenship and deported citizens for being black within living memory
We need cities to be places where one can survive on minimum wage for that to happen
Cities and POC being degraded impoverished to shield rural and white voters from the consequences of their own decisions is such a consistent dynamic in American politics but now somehow urban liberals are wrong for wanting to stop being abused like this? Lol
Another important thing is ensuring that urban areas are able to function for everyone, particularly newcomers, even when Blue MAGA is xenophobic and won't like that. Wasting time telling who hate you to stop hitting themselves cannot be the first priority.
"what about we stop letting them fuck around" a crucial step in preventing them from fucking around is letting them find out. An important thing now is protecting a society in which public health info is something that comes from places other than Facebook.
Often the alternative to "let them fuck around and find out" is "let them fuck around and the rest of us find out but the fuckarounders get off scot-free" and we need to be clear that the latter happens all the time and is not ethical
I don't want Long Islanders to pay for what they do out of a desire for revenge, but because making them pay is obviously the right thing to do.
It's also why I'm so incorrigibly in favor of congestion pricing — Long Islanders impose onto NYC a level of automobile encroachment that they themselves would call criminal if it happened in their communities, but since they are such insular chauvinists they expect to be able to do so for free
As a Long Islander, yes. It's different because Democrats I think still outnumber Republicans there. But LIers consistently vote against the workings of civilization and I would rather Long Islanders feel the effects of this instead of always dumping the negative effects on NYC's lap
And in the areas that will not hate you for it
Fuck, Marry, Kill: Fuck Marry Kill
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
You just did a fantasy of anti-urban grievance here. Blaming the victims of fascism for the actions of the fascists. The logic of enabling abuse. bsky.app/profile/garb...
I spent a decade losing credibility in my queer community and with my neighbors of color trying to explain away this arsonist behavior as “economic anxiety.” They did not create this mess, never got this kind of coddling, and are the ones being targeted most. I will not let you punish them for it.
The people voted in Republicans who don't really believe in investing in public infrastructure at all. We, who vote for people who actually care about our fellow Americans, shouldn't purposely reduce our capacity to provide this infrastructure now that Republicans are trying to totally kill it.
Me when I have never heard of an urban hospital crisis
A lot of people in the replies don’t seem to understand that when Republicans slashed Medicaid budgets this is the kind of choice they forced on states. There’s no secret trick to just keep things funded and running just as before, no matter how much people want there to be.
That the US and every other urbanized country is mostly populated by people who left rural areas because they felt cities were better is not the fault of liberals.
If you're upset that liberals have the gall to save themselves then take it up with your friends or your therapist
I was literally told by a bisexual dumbass that Project 2025 was written by a liberal organization and that Trump cares about gay people
Can you point out the celebration? We cannot be more upset that we cannot save the people who are shooting their whole communities in the face than we are glad and motivated that we *maybe*, MAYBE, can still save ourselves
people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"
The population of Philly is still at or below 1990 levels, and the state is about to cut the city's transit budget by nearly half.
I think they are literally still in their "increasingly economically strained" era unlike 1990 NYC so the presence and negative effects of gentrification are so much more obvious
I just saw friends who moved from NYC to Portland ME and they love it
Tokyo. The world’s biggest city is profoundly shaped by smallness.
The buried lede here is how the end state of early 21st century immigration politics is us dying neglected in horrifically dirty and understaffed elder care facilities
Not to be creepy but this man is literally getting touched by five women simultaneously which has to be more than Drew has had touch him in a long time
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
