This is Shutter Island erasure

I'm broadly sympathetic to what you are saying, but you need power to change the political system. To gain power, you need to win elections. There's no way around structural reform without winning in places like Iowa, Alaska, Ohio etc. How we do that is where things get really hard.

This is how you know Bluesky is growing up. We now have people skeeting at NFL analysts about how they hate their team just like the other place!

Theo Von: "This is what I voted for."

all members of the 2014 San Francisco Giants

That's the thing. MAGA as a political identity is largely about being an asshole to liberals. Of course they wouldn't cut family off over politics, then they wouldn't have family members to be assholes to.

It feels like some people are just highly invested in George W. Bush never losing the title of Worst President Ever...and you really don't have to argue this point. Nobody that loses Medicaid is going to say "well at least he didn't start any wars of regime change."

I don't really think it's worth that much. He said it like a week ago and Trump said "I like this guy's style, let's have him do the job."

RBG in cutoffs burying Thomas in the sand is quite the touch

I remember a particularly pretentious roommate of mine talking about how bad he thought it was that people cared so much about sports when there were wars going on. Boy did he seem to change his tune when the World Cup came around.

"It's ableist to take the subway, here's why disability justice requires reinstating parking requirements across Manhattan"

My take is that this is less about the utility of trying to beat Lindsey Graham (or whatever other Senator from a red state) but about overrating candidates that go viral on social media through moments like this and get signal boosted by George Takei

You say it will not lower housing prices while citing Texas and Florida which, famously, have lower housing prices and rates of homelessness than California

And you know he'll call it something like the IN PLANE SIGHT Act. I am eagerly awaiting some fundraising texts about this.