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Leftists talk about the ACA the way right-wing antivaxxers talk about vaccine-preventable diseases.
The abuses the ACA eliminated were so horrific that a lot of people can't believe they were possible. Just like people can't believe the pre-vaccine childhood mortality rate in developed countries.
The abuses the ACA eliminated were so horrific that a lot of people can't believe they were possible. Just like people can't believe the pre-vaccine childhood mortality rate in developed countries.
March 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Leftists talk about the ACA the way right-wing antivaxxers talk about vaccine-preventable diseases.
The abuses the ACA eliminated were so horrific that a lot of people can't believe they were possible. Just like people can't believe the pre-vaccine childhood mortality rate in developed countries.
The abuses the ACA eliminated were so horrific that a lot of people can't believe they were possible. Just like people can't believe the pre-vaccine childhood mortality rate in developed countries.
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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the full steinbeck quote about how communism is never going to happen in the US because of temporarily embarrassed millionaires playing as radicals
March 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
the full steinbeck quote about how communism is never going to happen in the US because of temporarily embarrassed millionaires playing as radicals
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no crabs. no buckets.
March 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
no crabs. no buckets.
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Many many people on this site are convinced that Chuck Schumer can't do anything except poison the well now and needs to go exile himself to Siberia. And I hate to break this those people, but the vast majority of voters don't know what a CR even is. Your experience on bluesky is not representative!
March 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Many many people on this site are convinced that Chuck Schumer can't do anything except poison the well now and needs to go exile himself to Siberia. And I hate to break this those people, but the vast majority of voters don't know what a CR even is. Your experience on bluesky is not representative!
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The GOP are, in fact, just as bad as the most hacky Dem partisans say that they are
March 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The GOP are, in fact, just as bad as the most hacky Dem partisans say that they are
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I forgot to mention that one of my favorite Glorantha things is that female initiates of Lhankor Mhy, a Knowledge god, wear fake beards largely in order to stroke them Wisely
most Orlanthi men initiate into Orlanth, the warrior-adventurer sky god, and most women initiate into Ernalda, the earth-mother-fertility goddess married to Orlanth. But lots of people don't! They might initiate into other gods without a strong gendered element, but they also might, for instance
March 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I forgot to mention that one of my favorite Glorantha things is that female initiates of Lhankor Mhy, a Knowledge god, wear fake beards largely in order to stroke them Wisely
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Governor Beshear the Elder literally saved thousands of lives by tricking people into signing up for Obamacare by calling it Kentuckycare, which they all eagerly signed up for so they wouldn’t have to sign up for Obamacare.
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Governor Beshear the Elder literally saved thousands of lives by tricking people into signing up for Obamacare by calling it Kentuckycare, which they all eagerly signed up for so they wouldn’t have to sign up for Obamacare.
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i think the basic problem is just that non-western right-wing nationalists are coded as having left-wing politics in america
Has anybody ever asked her about Chechnya? Is that nothing like Palestine also? Was it merely a U.S. backed creation?
March 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
i think the basic problem is just that non-western right-wing nationalists are coded as having left-wing politics in america
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the people subjected to _any information environment at all_ swung slightly towards the democrats. people who _do not consume any source of news at all_ swung towards trump.
March 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
the people subjected to _any information environment at all_ swung slightly towards the democrats. people who _do not consume any source of news at all_ swung towards trump.
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The pack of cards gimmick the US used for the most wanted members of the Iraqi regime during the Iraq war was clever. I seriously suggest that you do that, but assign one of 52 specific cards to the most prominent neo-Nazi accounts. You can even give captivedreamer the ace of spades if you want.
February 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The pack of cards gimmick the US used for the most wanted members of the Iraqi regime during the Iraq war was clever. I seriously suggest that you do that, but assign one of 52 specific cards to the most prominent neo-Nazi accounts. You can even give captivedreamer the ace of spades if you want.
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normal people receive information about politics in the same manner that people in a montage in the first fifteen minutes of a zombie movie find out that they are in a zombie movie
February 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
normal people receive information about politics in the same manner that people in a montage in the first fifteen minutes of a zombie movie find out that they are in a zombie movie
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operation giant sucking sound
my most natsec-brained take is that in an era of cratering birthrates worldwide, america can easily win the great power competition simply by increasing immigration five or ten times over
February 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
operation giant sucking sound
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Arguments I'm tired of hearing:
"If only scientists/engineers/software devs had history/humanities/art degrees, they would learn this lesson from history."
No, none of those degrees or courses of study have stopped some of history's greatest monsters from being who they are.
"If only scientists/engineers/software devs had history/humanities/art degrees, they would learn this lesson from history."
No, none of those degrees or courses of study have stopped some of history's greatest monsters from being who they are.
February 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Arguments I'm tired of hearing:
"If only scientists/engineers/software devs had history/humanities/art degrees, they would learn this lesson from history."
No, none of those degrees or courses of study have stopped some of history's greatest monsters from being who they are.
"If only scientists/engineers/software devs had history/humanities/art degrees, they would learn this lesson from history."
No, none of those degrees or courses of study have stopped some of history's greatest monsters from being who they are.
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For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/
February 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/
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I mean, the man was an anarcho-monarchist medievalist and linguistics expert who thought Shakespeare was a hack because the trees moving in Macbeth weren’t actual Dungeons and Dragons style monsters. They don’t make guys like that anymore.
February 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I mean, the man was an anarcho-monarchist medievalist and linguistics expert who thought Shakespeare was a hack because the trees moving in Macbeth weren’t actual Dungeons and Dragons style monsters. They don’t make guys like that anymore.
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Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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Favorite sign so far
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Favorite sign so far
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the world needs to remember that civic virtue is a real thing, actually, and that it matters.
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
the world needs to remember that civic virtue is a real thing, actually, and that it matters.
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Look I don't know what to tell ya they are literally doing the New Protocols I'm just trying to write a fun fiction project over here
Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.
New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Look I don't know what to tell ya they are literally doing the New Protocols I'm just trying to write a fun fiction project over here
In case anyone's wondering why Trump and Musk are tearing up the Constitution to shut down USAID right now instead of just zeroing out spending next budget:
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
16 billion to Ukraine. Civil aid frees up govt resources for the war; they want Ukraine to lose and Putin to win.
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
16 billion to Ukraine. Civil aid frees up govt resources for the war; they want Ukraine to lose and Putin to win.
MSN
www.msn.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In case anyone's wondering why Trump and Musk are tearing up the Constitution to shut down USAID right now instead of just zeroing out spending next budget:
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
16 billion to Ukraine. Civil aid frees up govt resources for the war; they want Ukraine to lose and Putin to win.
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
16 billion to Ukraine. Civil aid frees up govt resources for the war; they want Ukraine to lose and Putin to win.
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what was my secret to knowing the tariffs are probably gonna happen? Well I just assume that when the president says something they mean it! apparently a substantial chunk of the nation elite aren’t able to do this!
February 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
what was my secret to knowing the tariffs are probably gonna happen? Well I just assume that when the president says something they mean it! apparently a substantial chunk of the nation elite aren’t able to do this!
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The agitprop of all dead foreign intelligence services weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living
January 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The agitprop of all dead foreign intelligence services weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living