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Aug 25, 2023 11 tweets 2 min read
Genuinely mediocre article, at best, that greatly overstates the case for a Poilievre victory in 2025. But here’s a couple of the worst bits: “ Yet, what the Grits don't get is that while there is a liberal consensus around social issues in this country, it's one they'll fail to exploit next time.” Um, no, if anything, to the contrary, it will (in any plausible scenario) be a major problem for the CPC…..
May 11, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Yeah, but it's not necessarily what you might be thinking, though. The thing is, for what it's worth, it's actually not rare at all for "blackpilling" on here to come in the form of the idea that the U.S. is inevitably going to die a slow, gradual death..... .....and that there's nothing we can do-which, honestly, is a strange form of cope which seems to be heavily predicated on the idea that, basically, "Well, if the sh*t hits the fan, there's nothing I can do and at least I'll have a few decades to enjoy life anyway.....".....
May 11, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
We are already most of the way there to our own version of the Troubles(only completely one-sided). And yes, that really is more likely than..... .....than this gradual unstoppable "slowburn" death that so many people on here seem to believe is inevitable. By a long shot, in fact.
May 10, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
To be quite honest, no, this isn't a particularly good take. Firstly, I don't know if you realize this, but serving on a jury isn't always about minor traffic tickets or intrapersonal disputes or whatever that might typically only last an hour or two. And yes, there are a number of ND people out there who *are* generally able to live on their own, but *cannot*, for various reasons, handle at least some if not most or even any, jury duty situations. I myself have a pretty significant case of ADHD(amongst other things).....
Jan 26, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
It's not a "ridiculous faith". Gen Z actually is more progressive than the generations that came before them, as one would logically expect.....even in spite of a number of aberrant phenomena that some tried to make into more widespread cultural milieux! Yes, I know some folks are feeling cynical, but all one has to do is just look at the historical record. In *very* few instances have succeeding generations *not* been more progressive than those that came after-yes, a few strange exceptions have happened, but.....
Jan 26, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
This is a decent enough article, but I have to be honest-in regards to this: "and why it’s a mistake to assume younger generations are pre-destined to be progressive"

I don't mean to sound contrarian, but no, this isn't mistaken, it's actually quite correct overall..... .....just by looking at the historical record itself, even taking into account a rather large number of missed opprotunities! (yes, to be fair, "predestined" really isn't the word I'd use, but if not that, then "logically presupposed" is probably a better descriptor).
Oct 3, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
This isn't a great article, to be honest. If this really was the universally super-effective thing that some believe it to be, why isn't it working nationally? Why are Doug Mastriano and Tudor Dixon still struggling so badly despite their constant focus on crime + certain other.. .....things that get partisan Republicans so riled up? Or even Dan Cox able to keep to a ~20 point loss in MD instead of getting blown out by over 30? And FFS, why hasn't it caused major problems for the Dems in any number of House races or the generic ballot, for that matter?
Oct 3, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
Of course, I'd meant overperformed due to *missed turnout surges*-I apologize, I could have been a bit clearer there. That said, though, in my defense, the main reason that polling missed so badly in WI in 2020 was primarily because the fall/winter wave that year-or more specifically because of how it was timed-actually really did do some serious damage to Dem/D-friendly turnout.....
Oct 2, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Y'all will need to explain why GOP Gov. candidate Dan Cox is doing so poorly in MD, then. And no, don't give us any of this crap about "but, but, MD is a deep blue state!" or "but, but, Larry Hogan was governor for 8 years!". Honestly, folks, if crime really was the dealbreaker that some fear it to be, Dan Cox would be doing a *lot* better in MD than he is now(especially because they had a GOP governor since '14). But he isn't.
Oct 2, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Actually, at this point, if you do the math: 39 for Young, 37 for McDermott + 6% for the Libertarian, leaves 18% undecided. Problem is, though, even in a state like Indiana undecided voters aren't going to be virtually all Republican, as would be required for a 20 point..... .....win extrapolated from this poll. But for argument's sake, we'll go ahead and assume that here, undecideds eventually split 11/7 in favor of Young + McDermott respectively, and 2/3rds of the Libertarian votes go 3/1 in the same general manner.
Oct 1, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Unfortunately, a direct intervention even only conventional arms with a still intact Russia likely very well could to a wider nuclear exchange anyway-which is precisely why it didn't happen within a few weeks of the initial invasion. More than likely, if it came to that, and Putin actually did get to drop a nuke on Ukraine, we would instead open the floodgates for unlimited support for the Ukrainians, as well as total sanctions on the entire Russian economy, and then.....
Sep 30, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Sadly, for a lot of hardcore rightists, opposing the Soviet Union was never really about defending democracy to them-many of the *socio-cultural* hardliners in particular saw the Cold War, in general, as an opprotunity to push various sociocultural manipulation projects..... .....be it drumming up fear against the LGBTQ+ community in the 1980s(and in the '50s), or stoking opposition to integration + ending Jim Crow in the '50s and '60s(like with all the "White Citizens' Councils" that sprung up everywhere), etc.
Sep 30, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The bright side to the recent dip in polling in WI-Crime mostly isn't as strong of a motivator for voting as many Republicans would like to hope, and I believe it's possible that, according to a couple of folks in my general circles, they may have already..... .....wasted their best shot and it looks like Dems may have just been waiting for funding to come in. If abortion wasn't such an issue for the Republicans so many of them wouldn't have been scrambling to delete references to GOP preferred policy off their campaign websites.....