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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

‪Utah Gov. Spencer Cox — who recently banned fluoride in drinking water — is another speaker at the Abundance conference 👍‬

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Jojo dady @josephhooker.bsky.social

Ratchet in full effect

sep 4, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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jbtk.bsky.social @jbtk.bsky.social

Does fluoride cause baldness? Asking for a governor.

sep 4, 2025, 9:37 pm • 3 0 • view
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Corbs @88corbs.bsky.social

He looks like Raymon Reddington and the last Lex Luther had a baby.

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sep 5, 2025, 1:58 am • 3 0 • view
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social

Abundance of tooth decay

sep 4, 2025, 8:38 pm • 4 0 • view
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Zilladevil @zilladevil.bsky.social

Should get back to his day job, which I assume is plotting to kill Superman

sep 4, 2025, 10:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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Becca's Mullet @beccasmullet.bsky.social

Well, well, well, what a delightful bunch!

sep 5, 2025, 5:42 am • 1 0 • view
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

Trump-supporting economist who is anti-union is also at the Abundance conference as a speaker lmao

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sep 4, 2025, 5:13 pm • 582 74 • view
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Chris Houston @chrishouston.bsky.social

What is the abundance conference?

sep 4, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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anthony @anthony.parts

conservative democrats get together and share conservative policy ideas

sep 4, 2025, 7:41 pm • 5 0 • view
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Matt the Buff Dad (Defiant!) @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online

Seminar for dudes who have to beg for pussy

sep 4, 2025, 7:41 pm • 16 0 • view
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The Jonestown Crier @jonestowncrier.bsky.social

They have an abundance of jizz rags

sep 4, 2025, 11:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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pjrodriguez.bsky.social @pjrodriguez.bsky.social

therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behin...

sep 4, 2025, 10:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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𝙶𝚒𝚗𝚒 ☭ @skumgini.bsky.social

MAGA Nazis within the Democratic Party.

sep 4, 2025, 11:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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bac-one @bac-one.bsky.social

An attempt to undercut left wing economic policies with bullshit promises to get people to think left wing economic policies are bad.

sep 4, 2025, 11:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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S. Grisham @segmentis.bsky.social

Did they forget to invite his chin?

sep 4, 2025, 9:29 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

Oh, so surprising. What a shocker.

sep 4, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Emerald Lavigne: 90s anime woman dysphoria haver @leftoidsadhu.bsky.social

Fuck, I wish these had alt text so I could reskeet them.

sep 5, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
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comrademuppet.bsky.social @comrademuppet.bsky.social

God that face deserves a swirly

sep 5, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
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dendrobate.bsky.social @dendrobate.bsky.social

Well, to be honest, unions are not the *best* way for workers to have *real* power. But I don't think he'd like to see what the best way actually is. I remember the employees of New Fabris in 2009. They made all the preparations to explode their factory if their demands were not met. It worked.

sep 5, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
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SGA hater @lahtekboy.bsky.social

Please do not sully the good name of economists with Or*n C*ss. He's a lawyer larping as an economist who never took a class that required calculus or statistics and is in disagreement with literally every real economist, even the right-wing ones, over his tariff fetish

sep 4, 2025, 10:04 pm • 28 1 • view
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Siroj42 @siroj42.bsky.social

Oh, it's the fash worker's councils guy! What a joke.

sep 5, 2025, 9:02 am • 0 0 • view
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social

Don't bring economists into this, Cass is a lawyer with no econ training who has never produced any econ scholarship, and words still maybe mean something

sep 4, 2025, 11:08 pm • 16 0 • view
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David @artificialidea.bsky.social

Economics is a fake discipline.

sep 5, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social

That is also what my ec 201 students said after failing the first exam back when I taught back when I was teaching grad school

sep 5, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
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𝙶𝚒𝚗𝚒 ☭ @skumgini.bsky.social

"Abundance" itself has no meaning to these Abundists.

sep 4, 2025, 11:46 pm • 8 0 • view
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Unsubtly @unsubtly.bsky.social

Forgot that guy existed and thought these were Onion headlines for a sec.

sep 5, 2025, 12:46 am • 6 0 • view
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Kelly YN 🦀 🏳️‍⚧️ @typologianista.bsky.social

It’s the green border

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

The Abundance crowd LOVES masked agents kidnapping delivery drivers and snatching children away from their families

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sep 4, 2025, 5:20 pm • 645 113 • view
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Alejandro Soto @soto.space

Apparently these abundance guys need to be added to the list of people who don't understand that Trump doesn't have a mandate. Getting less than a majority of voters is not a mandate. Reagan had a mandate in '84. Trump has tepid, marginal, and wavering approval, at best.

sep 4, 2025, 10:43 pm • 16 1 • view
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Kate Pryde @mutant187.bsky.social

🎯

sep 5, 2025, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social

He doesn't care about that, he wrote an editorial about how we shouldn't even be allowed to protest the kidnappings in LA.

sep 4, 2025, 11:01 pm • 9 0 • view
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That's Montgomery Clift, Honey @magatzapper.bsky.social

My God.

sep 4, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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bluehale.bsky.social @bluehale.bsky.social

Tbh Matty Y. loves "abundant" deportations and prisons too.

sep 4, 2025, 9:01 pm • 15 0 • view
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AMERIKKKA IS A JOKE @kskm3.bsky.social

Not the point, but Trump doesn’t have a mandate. He barely won. We should ignore any alleged journalist who uses that term.

sep 4, 2025, 9:28 pm • 19 3 • view
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SpicyPisces89 @spicypisces89.bsky.social

He didn’t win - Elon & Russia tampered with the voting machines

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AloeJoe @aloejoe.bsky.social

Also, no president has a mandate to rule in this country. They win, they get to do their job for four years, that's it, they don't get to have carte blanche

sep 5, 2025, 12:58 am • 9 1 • view
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Shiv @blshiv.bsky.social

Congress also has a mandate to keep a psychopath in check

sep 5, 2025, 4:29 am • 4 0 • view
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social

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Aaron J @its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social

Dude made buzzword wall spaghetti policy

sep 4, 2025, 9:06 pm • 6 0 • view
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JK @miniver.bsky.social

I’ve been indexing commentaries and just added links to information about a lot of those conference speakers. If anyone in the Group Mind has stuff I missed, let me know and I’ll tuck it in there.

sep 11, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Micah @vtmicah.bsky.social

In retrospect of course conservatives would take over the movement by trying to destroy regulation

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Micah @vtmicah.bsky.social

Should say “Regulation” and “movement”

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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social

Wow. I hope there is a hell. (Side note: isn’t generosity the whole point of an abundance philosophy? you believe there’s more than enough for everyone, so no need for greed? So isn’t that opposite of wanting mass deportation? do they think it’s a funny joke?)

sep 5, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Albin Henneberger @ahenneberg.bsky.social

The damage that this stupid conference is doing by inviting these absolute ghouls is mind boggling. F this crap

sep 4, 2025, 8:24 pm • 25 1 • view
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social

He is a racist scumbag

sep 4, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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game-of-pricks.bsky.social @game-of-pricks.bsky.social

*Hears the word “abundance”*

sep 4, 2025, 8:11 pm • 24 0 • view
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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social

Warren Gunnels The only
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Kate Pryde @mutant187.bsky.social

🎯

sep 5, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Cosimo Kramedici @slurmslurper.bsky.social

The consistent hair length from his brow to his beard is freaking me out

sep 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 12 0 • view
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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social

Short chia.

sep 4, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

Numerous members of right-wing think tanks like AEI and the Manhattan Institute at the Abundance Conference too. This is just straight up a right-wing “movement.”

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capillariancrest.bsky.social @capillariancrest.bsky.social

Bro all these people look like fucking ghouls. You can see that there is nothing behind those eyes.

sep 4, 2025, 8:56 pm • 34 1 • view
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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social

2nded-holy cow, crazy-eyed poster kids for the new Reich

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mat headroom @crowsofnimitz.bsky.social

I can actually see the front page of 4chan burned into their retinas

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social

Turns out "the abundance" was of fascism. bsky.app/profile/ther...

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

I’m sure the Abundance Bros would respond to this with something to the effect of “more housing isn’t a partisan issue” or whatever BS but there’s absolutely zero to be learned from anyone remotely right-wing. No fancy suits or respectable facade can hide that these are monsters and our enemies.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/brai...

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mike_br @mikebr.bsky.social

wow what a surprise that what's ultimately a supply-side economics argument would turn out to be full of right-wingers

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social

And Ezra Klein

sep 5, 2025, 12:21 am • 46 0 • view
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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social

Ezra Klein is a smart guy. It is simply the case that we cannot solve our fascism problem without deep systemic reform, including of the constitutional variety. That implies supermajority levels of support, which means a ton of secretly rational Republicans who are “Trump supporting” switch sides

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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social

If an Abundance agenda helps accomplish that without having to resort to a civil war, then I am willing to wait until there are clear signs of bad faith before passing judgement. The governor of Utah (and banner of fluoride) is not a sign of bad faith.

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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social

Also, just for the record, if there is a civil war it would be very helpful for us to have friendly relations with Utah.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social

The aren’t going to. There are far more voters out there that don’t feel represented by the system than republicans that won’t vote Republican.

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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social

That is very probably true, but it is still necessary to try.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social

Why don’t democrats try to represent the unrepresented instead? There certainly are more of them than secretly self loathing republicans.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com

Someone whose main complaint about Trump's deportations is that they're not happening efficiently enough clearly doesn't see the fascism as a problem.

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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social

Not sure who you are referencing. If it’s Ezra he clearly does see fascism as a problem. The whole point of protests which follow ICE around is to make the process less efficient. That has worked. Commenting about that is not a sign of support for fascism. The fascists don’t actually care.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social

They are talking about the people Klein is allying himself with. The clearly fascist folks.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com

Charles Lehman from the thread you're replying to

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social

The general critique on a lot of Trump stuff is not what he does, it’s the way he does it.

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Unsubtly @unsubtly.bsky.social

Oh Ezra, look at this mess you’ve made.

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epluribus.bsky.social @epluribus.bsky.social

😂

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social

Ezra Klein has a lovely speaking voice. I think that’s the only reason he’s taken seriously.

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Barb @randygenner.bsky.social

He dropped the most f bombs I’ve ever heard in an interview and the whole audience was grossed out by it

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Creator of Hambee @maaronjo.bsky.social

it’s just npr voice after huffing billionaire farts

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Unsubtly @unsubtly.bsky.social

I also think he read the book before he interviews an author. I always liked that about his interviews.

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Colin Wood @californiawood.bsky.social

Like Terry Gross. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=271...

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randomino.bsky.social @randomino.bsky.social

*including Ezra Klein

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joe @jjoe.bsky.social

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Chara del Barrio @charadelaperla.bsky.social

"A guy I don't like will speak at a conference organized by another guy I don't like, therefore we shouldn't criticize the way America has fucked over every infrastructure project of the last 2 generations"

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Colin Wood @californiawood.bsky.social

The fact that the Pacific Legal Foundation is a significant sponsor is a HUGE red flag.

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honestdenverman.bsky.social @honestdenverman.bsky.social

AEI and the Manhattan Institute are fascist propaganda outfits.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social

They suck, I have no interest in working with such people, and many of them belong in prison. But to borrow a turn of phrase from Cato the Elder, furthermore, I am of the opinion that more housing must be built.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social

I am so angry about this shit. They’re trying to take over a movement that was started by a bunch of queers and weirdos. We really do need more housing supply. We don’t need more chuds.

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Big K @the-k-syndicate.bsky.social

Abundance was not started by "Queers and weirdos." What are you talking about?

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social

no but YIMBY was, like a decade ago, and they're trying to co-opt it

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social

and now there's a bunch of people coming along who go "hey, zoning reform, never heard of that, it's sure being pushed by a bunch of chuds, guess i don't like it" and arrrrrrrgh

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Big K @the-k-syndicate.bsky.social

From one queer to another, and I must emphasize this is not an attack, but I think you might be having an overly rose-tinted view on the movement's history.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social

lol

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjorgonson.bsky.social

The Republicans are anti-housing also. Trump says more housing is "destroying the suburbs" Maybe there are some state and local exceptions, the Montana legislature passed some pro-housing bills, but these national MAGA people are anti-housing

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what @smidbot.bsky.social

lmao “destroying the suburbs” “My world is destroyed because I had to drive 150ft more feet to find a parking spot in the square half mile parking lot attached to the big box store!”

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjorgonson.bsky.social

Construction is literally the opposite of destruction I think it's just Trump saying the exact opposite of the truth again

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what @smidbot.bsky.social

As a fervent “the suburbs are unsustainable environmentally, economically, and culturally” guy I’m all for whatever it takes to destroy them. Fill in those stupid parking lots with apartments!

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Snootacamund @snootacamund.bsky.social

I once had some at a job-interview advise me to live in *bland suburban region* because “their zoning doesn’t allow multi-family homes, you don’t get those people” and I forever interpret defense of suburbia in that bigoted racist lens. And that bigotry is what Trump defends.

sep 5, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social

That’s a ridiculous way of viewing the world Good ideas can come from many places

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druidry.bsky.social @druidry.bsky.social

It's completely fair to save yourself from hassle and brain damage by ignoring known sources of bad ideas. I haven't watch a single clip of RFK Jr testifying in the Senate today because I don't gain anything by subjecting myself to that. Same with the Abundance Bro crowd: their pedigree is suspect

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social

RFK Jr is a lunatic He also thinks certain artificial food dyes are harmful and should be phased out He’s wrong about vaccines but he’s probably right about the food dyes.

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social

Trump is the worst president this country has had since the 19th century He also directed the Treasury Department to stop minting the penny Should we start minting pennies again merely because Trump stopped doing it? Of course not.

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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social

Republicans are not colleagues with whom to collaborate, they are enemies to be defeated. Anyone who doesn't realize that right now is a liability to us.

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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

That’s a great way to lose elections, which of course requires persuading those not always aligned with you

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social

Show me the common ground with the party of Epstein and ICE. Point it out on a chart. Draw me a fucking map to the Bipartisanship.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social

Hey has this approach been losing the GOP many elections lately?

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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

GOP (ie Trump/MAGA) has persuaded massive numbers of the Dem base to crossover electorally in last 10 years Look at working class voter trends then vs now if you need proof Dems gotta persuade, that’s the reality

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social

Did they do that by constantly reaching across the aisle and stressing bipartisanship with every breath, or by demonizing the Democratic Party and making themselves a permanent opposition party dedicated to the destruction of the Dems?

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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

Neither

sep 5, 2025, 6:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Nemo @013-727.bsky.social

We're not worried about winning over conservatives, you fucking simp, we're worrying about mitigating their kill count.

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

Do you want to build a mass movement to oppose the rising tide of evil in the world or do you want to engage in gatekeeping and feel self righteous about it? Only a mass movement will stop fascism. And I don't see too many people in your holier than though coalition.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz

the people in this thread *are* the rising tide of evil in the world

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

AEI has been consistently one of those right of center libertarian leaning groups that mostly oppose Trumpism. Do you want to consider a broad alliance to save democracy?

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

Are you willing to try and work with people who disagree with you about unions or disagree whether it is wise to deport people in the country illegally but don’t like Trump and his excesses? My personal opinion is that borders should be open and unions are the best friend of the working man.

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Nemo @013-727.bsky.social

There's no worthwhile coalitions to build with people who have the same general ideological agenda as Vladimir Putin or Javier Milei. Hope this helps.

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

Hyperbole does not help.

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Nemo @013-727.bsky.social

Good thing I haven't engaged in hyperbole, then.

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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

these people are literally part of the “rising tide of evil” Advocating “deportation abundance” is just fascism

sep 5, 2025, 4:37 am • 6 0 • view
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

I think you have a very peculiar definition of fascism.

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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

…and I just noticed you’ve got the JD Vance follower label. Yeah I’m not wasting time with you

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

Bye! Good luck with your organizing and I mean that in a totally non-snarky way. It's good to pay attention to people who disagree with you. You might learn something. I learned the word epistemic humility just the other day from someone I disagreed with. It's my new favorite term.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

These people, including Ezra Klein, have two things in common; they have zero understanding of how the modern financial system works, and thus how necessary goods and services are effectively provisioned and allocated in such a system, and they make a living as noise merchants.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

Mamdani understands the modern financial system. Supply and demand for shelter is balanced by rent. Supply and demand for housing assets is balanced by house prices. There is no housing shortage - there is a deliberate restriction of affordable public housing to maintain private asset values.

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social

I'm not sure how you can say that a deliberate restriction of affordable housing has *not* resulted in a housing shortage? Or am I misunderstanding what you're trying to say?

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

Crisis, not "shortage". Financial theory tells us that affordability happens when public ownership reaches critical mass of 20-30% of total housing stock, creating system-wide price dampening effects. Only direct public ownership at scale can break the cycle of housing as wealth extraction.

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social

Ah okay, I can see what you're driving at, even though I disagree that there's not *also* a shortage. Even if we were at 100% publicly owned housing, we still wouldn't have enough housing to go around so there'd be rationing. Massive construction is necessary but not sufficient to fix this.

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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

There's actually plenty of housing units in the United States but the simplistic usage of "shortage" rather than the more complex description of the reasons for the cost crisis, have conditioned millions to believe otherwise.

sep 6, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social

In NYC that is probably true. Not sure that’s the case in many other places.

sep 5, 2025, 7:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

Hi, I am referring to the fact that financial theory tells us that when inventory of financial assets rise, the private market will always and everywhere, in aggregate, restrict supply. And that there is nowhere in the US where public or coop housing is large enough a share to dampen that impact.

sep 6, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social

Mr. Mamdani Goes to Town

sep 5, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

Why y’all always so excited to grab onto anything that helps undermine your own side?

sep 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
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anthony @anthony.parts

did you intend to direct this question to ezra klein and derek thompson

sep 5, 2025, 3:00 am • 3 0 • view
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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

No

sep 5, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Volition @volition-volition.itch.io

what side is that?

sep 5, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Jerry 💯 @vacationjerry.bsky.social

Iykyk

sep 5, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Egalitarian @egality.bsky.social

I mean, neoliberal fascism is both rightwing and bipartisan in U.S. politics, because it’s the Washington Consensus.

sep 4, 2025, 11:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Brennan @brennangriffin.bsky.social

Yes, everyone should just lose on all issues all the time until the Revolution. It's impossible to form narrow issue coalitions that can get positive things done before that hallowed time.

sep 4, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

What kind of coalition do you think can be formed with a guy advocating for “deportation abundance” and another promoting “YIMBYs for Alligator Alcatraz” exactly?

sep 4, 2025, 11:39 pm • 16 1 • view
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Brennan @brennangriffin.bsky.social

A narrow one based on the Venn diagram of actual shared policy preferences.

sep 4, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

Guys like Lehman aren’t even Romney Republicans though — they’re open race scientists and fascists and lunatics. Their vision of building more housing almost certainly comes with a massive asterisk of like *no one but white people. You will ALWAYS be corrupted by these people.

sep 4, 2025, 11:57 pm • 13 0 • view
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Brennan @brennangriffin.bsky.social

Have you ever tried to get anything done in a red state? You don't have to sign on to their whole program to win incremental improvements in coalition with people you disagree with on other issues. I also don't think Lehman thinks what you attribute to him.

sep 5, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social

He only supports deportation abundance! He desperately wants to see brown people kidnapped and beaten!

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sep 5, 2025, 12:15 am • 11 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

I feel like “don’t be a fuckin fascist” isn’t that narrow of an issue. That’s actually incredibly broad but would bar people that advocate shit like “deportation abundance”

sep 5, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
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what @smidbot.bsky.social

*taps the “don’t form coalitions with nazis” sign*

sep 4, 2025, 11:51 pm • 9 0 • view
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Brennan @brennangriffin.bsky.social

*taps the don't define Nazism down sign*

sep 4, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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what @smidbot.bsky.social

One of the chuds linked above is defending trump’s extradition agenda and concentration camps. Stop “no true Scotsman”ing fascist shitheads.

sep 4, 2025, 11:57 pm • 6 0 • view
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Serene Dipity @serenedip.bsky.social

James Pethokoukis is great

sep 5, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
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epluribus.bsky.social @epluribus.bsky.social

Bowel movement.

sep 5, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social

Ghouls working day and night to satisfy Trump/Putin. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portugu...

sep 4, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kellye Burke @kellyetx.bsky.social

“Deportation Abundance” - sick fucks.

sep 4, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

What a fucking kapo.

sep 5, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social

Evil people

sep 4, 2025, 10:55 pm • 5 0 • view
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

It's very hard to make sense of this, but I am going to assume that you are upset because someone you don't like is associated with someone else you don't like here.

sep 5, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Resist Fascism @resist-fascism.bsky.social

So many Nazis.. if nothing else, Trump has unmasked the deeply American darkness that needs to be destroyed.. again

sep 5, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
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LifeLongLiberalTexan @bettyjobff.bsky.social

Do you have a partner?

sep 5, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
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B @brisers.bsky.social

Psychopathic dork abundance

sep 5, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Fake Macaw @fakemacaw.bsky.social

what the hell is a deportation abundance

sep 5, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
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Rachel Walker @orchidorkidum.bsky.social

I hope this man develops a painful and incurable form of jock itch.

sep 4, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 0 • view
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Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social

They’re working day and night to satisfy Putin—-that simple. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portugu...

sep 4, 2025, 9:26 pm • 4 0 • view
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Bartleson for Congress WA5th @bartlesonforwa5rep.bsky.social

Just a gathering of goons that look like they throw way too much cash at daytime strippers.

sep 5, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Anguirus @anguirus.bsky.social

Throw them in the Hell that’s underneath Hell

sep 4, 2025, 9:26 pm • 9 0 • view
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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social

“Deportation abundance” 🤮

sep 5, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Ukemike @ukemike.bsky.social

Someone from Salinas, CA was telling me that there is a terrible shortage of pickers because of deportations and fear of deportations. Replacement workers are much slower. Fields normally full of crops are fallow. Food shortages and skyrocketing prices are coming. There's your fucking "abundance."

sep 5, 2025, 9:33 am • 3 0 • view
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Wrygrin @wrygrin.bsky.social

An abundance of stupidity. Really, guys, we already had plenty without your contribution.

sep 4, 2025, 11:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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rktecture @rktecture.bsky.social

He helpfully looks thick

sep 4, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dave @cinemarktheater.bsky.social

If he says "bloody revolution" then I'll agree with him

sep 5, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
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geebee101010.bsky.social @geebee101010.bsky.social

I know this is trite but, I legit thought this was an Onion article.

sep 5, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lion-O Hutz @lion-ohutz.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/lion...

sep 4, 2025, 11:07 pm • 30 0 • view
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Ric Willem @ric-willem.bsky.social

area man

sep 5, 2025, 12:36 am • 5 0 • view
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Egalitarian @egality.bsky.social

I wish it was obvious to the rest of media that isn’t fascist that the Abundance™ neoliberals are actually fascists.

sep 4, 2025, 11:33 pm • 12 3 • view
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Sour Cetacean @sourcetacean.bsky.social

Wow. This guy’s recent op-Ed was one of the more unhinged things I’ve read in the Times recently. honestly didn’t realize Abundance was quite this full of shit.

sep 5, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social

Fluoride wow. That's really terrible. How can stand to even put the picture of someone who opposes flouride on BlueSky? I think you should be cancelled for posting his photo. That's nazi adjacent fascism.

sep 5, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social

Why does his official portrait look AI generated

sep 4, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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💜Surly Dove @purplehoorean.bsky.social

Oh ffs! 🤦🏼‍♀️ are Repuglicans so afraid that progress will leave them behind that they keep trying to push the world backwards?!

sep 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Jeff Lail @jeffreyclail.com

Abundance people would have been bush republicans

sep 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social

They wanted desperately to be Romney Republicans and haven't forgiven America for not letting them.

sep 5, 2025, 3:29 am • 2 0 • view
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🔩Joan @screwedjoan.bsky.social

oh this guy is 5000% on grindr at conventions, not even a question

sep 4, 2025, 7:34 pm • 11 2 • view
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Coastally1337 @coastally1337.bsky.social

Ah yes growing alfalfa in a state where doing so presents an existential threat to the capitol/largest metro area. I’m sure he’s got wonderful insights about not giving a fuck.

sep 5, 2025, 5:22 am • 2 0 • view