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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

One key question is what can disrupt that sense. A convulsion of national protest? A big Democratic midterm? A recession. It seems like resistance is increasing, rather than decreasing, as a function of time.

aug 11, 2025, 9:14 pm • 64 0

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Dead Carl and You @deadcarl.bsky.social

A major midterm would be the clearest indication. Protests would have to be wide and durable enough that they can’t be dismissed as Democrats blowing off steam to move elite opinion. The other question is what it would take in terms of actions from the admin to provoke resistance.

aug 11, 2025, 10:09 pm • 25 0 • view
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Timurid @timurid.bsky.social

If SCOTUS overturns Obergfell next year there will be an absolutely unhinged (laudatory) response in the streets and at the ballot box...

aug 11, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social

I mean. That's what was said about Roe and look where we are now.

aug 11, 2025, 11:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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Median American Voter (Derogatory) @medianhater.bsky.social

Something something Clausewitz something something friction-

aug 11, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view