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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
10hr ago
Wisconsin state law allowed for the capitol to remain open as long as public debate continued about a pending bill. The teaching assistants noticed that the senate had failed to set a limit on the number of speakers on a floor debate about Walker’s bill, and so signed up thousands of people to offer testimony.
Yeah, I do think that’s a little different?
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10hr ago
Sure, but this is one of those noncentral things where tweaking enough little details gets us into an entirely different category.
A lone assassin is not an insurrection. Neither is a terrorist cell like those ICE ambushers. I wouldn’t count riots, even with widespread damage, unless they are specifically trying to get leverage on the state or federal government.
Say we set the definition of “insurrection” at the level of storming the Capitol. Multiple people controlling a location in the hopes of forcing a particular decision. There’s basically zero chance of Democrat voters trying anything like that!
The chance only goes down for more restrictive definitions of “insurrection.”
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11hr ago
plan out the insurrection
Bet you $100 that doesn’t happen.
Seriously. The idea that Democrats would plan out organized violence over the election is insane. Even if it was a presidential election.
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11hr ago
I’ll take that under advisement.
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12hr ago
You think the movements that brought you “white guilt” and “no ethical consumption under capitalism” don’t consider that possibility?
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12hr ago
Know what I haven’t been seeing in the lead-up to these midterms? Fraud predictions. Two years ago, lots of people were claiming that the Hated Enemy would subvert/fortify the election. This time, not so much.
Did it fall out of the Overton window, or am I just out of the loop?
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13hr ago
Maybe, but I’m not sure any of them are labeled seminaries.
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13hr ago
Tangent: isn’t Talarico a fairly serious Presbyterian? I’m seeing some claims that his church is hyper liberal, but I don’t know how you get a religious degree without some genuine faith.
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13hr ago
No?
Paxton sucks for a number of nonpartisan reasons.
- He’s been in and out of the news for a variety of corruption and tax evasion cases.
- He earned a bipartisan impeachment for abusing his office.
- His wife divorced him after he cheated with a staffer.
- He has trouble fundraising.
- He’s old and kind of creepy.
Talarico has none of these issues. A replacement Republican politician has none of these issues. Therefore, primary voters choosing somebody with these issues are shooting themselves in the foot before ever getting to the partisan bits.
Don’t get me wrong: Paxton has plenty of those “eye of the beholder” points.
- Everything that goes wrong in his career is allegedly a witch-hunt.
- He earned a partisan acquittal in his impeachment trial.
- His new girlfriend is a younger, repeatedly-divorced Christian influencer.
- He likes using prosecutions and investigations, even with no hope of success, as political tools.
But if it was down to those, I wouldn’t be talking about “deserving to lose.” Regardless of my personal opinions, I recognize those as subjective in a way that the first set really weren’t. A difference in values is not a difference in competence.
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15hr ago
Mea culpa. I forgot how little time passed between the endorsement and the primary. It looks like cornyn had no chance even before that.
I’ll say instead that Paxton’s MAGA credentials made the difference.
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1d ago
Where are y'all betting on Republicans? Asking for a friend.
I hope Talarico wins. If Paxton is the best thing Texas Republicans can put forward, they deserve to lose. They won’t, of course. Trump said Paxton was based, so he won the primary. Trump says Talarico is a vegan, so he’ll lose the general. No amount of graft, inflation, or foreign adventurism will convince modal Texans to break with the big man.
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3d ago
I've heard of cocking a snook but this is on a new level.
As an aside, until this month one of the images in that article was Stalin. I have no idea why that was changed.
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3d ago
I choose to believe OP is absolutely sprinting through the maze now that he knows the trick.
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3d ago
I know I try to shill it when that comes up.
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3d ago
Do we have a list of people who did it already somewhere?
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5d ago
Actually, I don't believe the mods of SSC like us much. With the obvious exception of Zorba.
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5d ago
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5d ago
Any Michael Bay film? Top Gun: Maverick? That bizarre Battleship movie?
Militarist aesthetics aren’t at all dead. Just much much more likely to draw hecklers, which are in turn made much more visible by the usual social-media shitstorms.
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5d ago
The timeline doesn’t work. Birth rates started to drop in the late 50s, when the oldest boomers were maybe 14. Marriage rates never recovered from their 1949 peak.
I would point at the wild increase in workforce participation driven by the war and by increased mechanization. A woman with her own income has significantly less incentive to follow the pre-war norms. When my grandmother was done tolerating her cheating husband, she divorced him and went to nursing school. Couldn’t do that in 1930.
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5d ago
Is this significantly different from the white female lit-fic available? The stereotype is that such works are also obsessed with female trauma.
Hell, there’s a whole thread of male lit-fic which could be glossed that way. I doubt that that it’s dominant or even representative.
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6d ago
Tl;dr?
Also, you screwed up your line breaks.
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6d ago
The incentives are obvious, but I don’t believe it’s a dominant strategy. More importantly, those examples aren’t at all analogous. Importing and enfranchising foreigners is categorically different than suppressing existing voters. By all means, say that the Berlin situation is like the U.S.; neither matches Brazil.
While I don’t believe all rightists are materially insecure, job competition was the central complaint about Hispanic immigration post-Reagan. This remained the case even as 2016 Trump emphasized crime and fraud. Look at the plans here. I think it’s fair to say 2016 rightists were concerned with other factors than voting rights.
Hot damn. I overindexed on the opinions of this place and didn't believe the polls. What a pleasant surprise.
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