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23 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
i would advise going through at least one (or more) election cycles where you have no strong preference in a primary and you get to see just how much emotion gets wrapped up into things, for better or worse. (im not immune, i def got there in 2008)
me in the 2008 primaries vs me in the 2020 primaries
me in 2008 every time something negative went against obama
me in 2020 when a different candidate took the lead
"never bernie"
"never biden"
"never warren"

me: ok, lemme know when you figure your shit out. trump suckssssss.

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25 Nov
What some factions of the left and most of the right never seem to want to grapple with is that Barack Obama was and is an enormously popular political figure, and always reflexively trying to tear that down isn’t going to work.
If it were me, I would think, “What is it people like about Obama and how could we use elements of that to implement good things?” But ah, that would mean admitting that the way I’m currently approaching things isn’t working at all, and we can’t do that.
Like, “oh I like Medicare for All and/or the Green New Deal. How would the guy who was elected to two presidential terms and still remains quite loved half a decade out of office convince others to support those ideas?” But no, let’s just keep having brute force fights instead!
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25 Nov
A year ago today/this week I was in the hospital. Ultimately I ended up with a second toe amputation for the second time in a year (I swear to God you barely miss it). This year despite everything going on I’m thankful not to be there again. I mean, look at this food. Image
I’m especially thankful for my Aunt Angela, who came down again (she did it the year before) to help take care of me while I was hobbling around on one foot. She’s my mom’s youngest sister, and she’s been there for me literally since the day I was born (she was in the room). ImageImage
When I was in the hospital I explained my priorities to them. ImageImage
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25 Nov
also for about 10 mill i could probably program the most amazing lib news network on youtube.
i need a billionaire liberal benefactor
you would be like "what... what is this? its making me want a social safety net and making me very angry at republicans... and im not bored and nobody said anything about reading whitepapers"
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25 Nov
Liberals are gonna spend ten years and a day agonizing over social media content and coming up with unworkable solutions when the answer is simple: Blast people with info from the left as loud as they get info from the right. That’s it.
Lol people in my replies over-complicating this. I don’t know why this is difficult. See what Fox and the Ny Post do? Do that. But with liberal stuff.
Maybe I just see this different cause I spent so many years in right wing media world. Liberals spend so much time over thinking this and needlessly pleading with the party to do this. I’m not saying it’s a magic bullet but it needs to be done and it isn’t particularly hard.
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24 Nov
biden gonna announce corn pop as secdef, consensus pick for party's center-left and progressive wings
"Corn Pop will shake up the foreign policy consensus, but will attack the key threats to America and our allies through strong, but forceful multilateral action. Its the choice that unites the party."
"Troops hail selection of Corn Pop as Secdef."
"Former Secretaries of Defense praise Corn Pop pick"
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24 Nov
the neocontrarians are becoming like the larouche wing of the left
pretty soon their desire to take the contrary, unpopular position on every topic under the sun, absent all logic, is going to end up with them being nazis.

"many people are so insistent that its taboo to say some races are superior, but i am very edgy!"
theyre gonna launch phrenology substacks with bari weiss and andrew sullivan. "bumps on the head are real science, the woke journals dont want to publish the truth!"
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