Dante Atkins
@danteatkins.bsky.social
Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
There have been 700,000 AIDS-related deaths in the US in the 40 plus years since the epidemic started, and when it started it was significantly killing boomers, not Gen X. Just a ridiculous argument.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
There have been 700,000 AIDS-related deaths in the US in the 40 plus years since the epidemic started, and when it started it was significantly killing boomers, not Gen X. Just a ridiculous argument.
I've seen this survivor bias garbage floating around before and it's wholesale trash. The mortality you're talking about forms such a tiny sliver of the overall population that its effects are beyond negligible.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I've seen this survivor bias garbage floating around before and it's wholesale trash. The mortality you're talking about forms such a tiny sliver of the overall population that its effects are beyond negligible.
No. If one person flips they have more waiting in the wings. They just offered the 8 least accountable people to be the ones providing the votes.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
No. If one person flips they have more waiting in the wings. They just offered the 8 least accountable people to be the ones providing the votes.
Ok but why? Why do that at all? The only point of the suffering everyone has been going through was to get ACA subsidies back. If we're not going to get ACA subsidies back, what's the point of another week of suffering? That's just pointless.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ok but why? Why do that at all? The only point of the suffering everyone has been going through was to get ACA subsidies back. If we're not going to get ACA subsidies back, what's the point of another week of suffering? That's just pointless.
I think I know that.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I think I know that.