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8 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
“we have taken away your right to self-government for your own good”
forgot about that time the federal government tried to disenfranchise the citizens of florida under the argument that “we’re a republic, not a democracy”
don’t be stupid. “democracy” in common american parlance means “representative government in which all citizens count equally and the people are sovereign.” no one on these streets is calling for athenian style assemblies or direct plebiscites.
when mike lee says, flatly, “we’re not a democracy” he is conflating “majoritarian government in a system of representation by elected lawmakers” with “direct democratic assemblies” for the sake of disparaging majoritarian rules.
play dumb games, get dumb prizes. and lee is playing a very dumb game.
[me at the wendy’s drive-thru, screaming]

“the word sandwich appears nowhere in the description. this is a hamburger. to me, the distinction matters.”

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b-boy boooo-eebaisse Profile picture
8 Oct
the interesting thing to me about this conspiracy is how much it depends on seeing monochrome photography as the exception to the capturing of images and not, until relatively recently, the rule. Image
it so reminds me that you do have to learn how to “see” a monochrome photo, as it were, same as how modern viewers have to actually acclimate themselves to pre-color films.
right! black and white photography is its own thing and for my part there are ways and circumstances in which it can more effectively communicate a story or feeling than color.
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7 Oct
finally wrote out something i have been saying for awhile: trump is bad at politics! nytimes.com/2020/10/07/opi…
ignore the pandemic for a moment. trump was an underdog at the start of the year despite presiding over a robust economic expansion! that alone is evidence he’s dogshit at electoral politics!
from a purely cynical perspective, covid was a tremendous opportunity for trump. work with democrats to pass a big bipartisan stimulus and relief package, work with health authorities to contain the virus, coast to reelection after three years of controversy and unpopularity.
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6 Oct
destroying the supreme court by using congress’ constitutional power to change the number of justices nationalreview.com/2020/10/court-…
this, to me, represents open fear that conservatives are about to lose 40 years of work. and they should. it’s the only reasonable response to a party that inflicted donald trump on the country and the world.
my case for expanding the entire federal judiciary is just that you don’t get to keep your ill-gotten gains.
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30 Sep
people trump is 8 to 10 points behind in this race. the people who have tuned in to learn something want to hear how he’ll tackle the pandemic and the downturn. and all he’s done is yell and rant about fox news shit. he’s not doing a single thing he needs to recover lost ground!
let me make this clearer: Trump’s task isn’t to dominate Biden and rev up his base — they are already revved up as much as they could possibly be. Trump’s task is to convince skeptical voters he has a handle on the challenges facing the country. and that’s not happening.
again, i know i am a blue check lib in a college town, but this debate is 70 percent trump ranting and raving, 30 percent biden and wallace attempting to have a conversation, and trying to deal with the disruption on the other side. it’s not a good look!
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25 Sep
i played hundreds of hours of sim city 3000 on our home computer
also a lot of magic the gathering with friends
i think this was around the time they built a library that was a short (but in retrospect very dangerous) bike ride away from my neighborhood, so i also spent a ton of time just reading books in the library
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24 Sep
trump administration looking for ever more ways to keep Africans and Asians out of the country
like, seriously, what plausible, non-racist rationale is there for effectively banning Nigerian and Filipino students?
and notice the rule is “born in.” are you a British-Nigerian whose parents came to the UK when you were a small child? well, uncle sam says you can’t come here to get an education!
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