Patrick Benatar
@poormarlowe.bsky.social
I read philosophy and program computers, like everyone else on this website.
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Patrick Benatar
@poormarlowe.bsky.social
· Apr 20
Just a basic summary of my views: I am a liberal antifascist. I believe in a large regulatory state and free markets and open borders. Immigration is the best thing that can happen to a country. The greatest threat to freedom is large individual fortunes. The solution is taxation. UBI. Free college.
Progressive Liberalism is the only politics that has delivered any Goods to the United States of America.
The progressive project is historically righteous
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Progressive Liberalism is the only politics that has delivered any Goods to the United States of America.
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- More states
- 25 SCOTUS seats
- 870 Representatives
- Multi-member districts
- NPV compact
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Etc.
- Etc.
- Etc.
- 25 SCOTUS seats
- 870 Representatives
- Multi-member districts
- NPV compact
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Etc.
- Etc.
- Etc.
This is why Democrats need a platform focused on institutional reform. Having to adopt policy positions opposed by supermajorities of the national public to win the hyper-malapportioned Senate is anti-democratic, & promising policies you can never pass is political suicide.
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I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
- More states
- 25 SCOTUS seats
- 870 Representatives
- Multi-member districts
- NPV compact
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Etc.
- Etc.
- Etc.
- 25 SCOTUS seats
- 870 Representatives
- Multi-member districts
- NPV compact
- Automatic universal voter registration
- A new VRA
- Etc.
- Etc.
- Etc.
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If Democrats are going to keep acting as if the average American still wants ICE around, maaaan ....
I think there's 42 states in play if somebody promises to eradicate ICE completely and leave every single one of these grimdark facesock motherfuckers chained to the wall in Alcatraz's basement
I think there's 42 states in play if somebody promises to eradicate ICE completely and leave every single one of these grimdark facesock motherfuckers chained to the wall in Alcatraz's basement
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If Democrats are going to keep acting as if the average American still wants ICE around, maaaan ....
I think there's 42 states in play if somebody promises to eradicate ICE completely and leave every single one of these grimdark facesock motherfuckers chained to the wall in Alcatraz's basement
I think there's 42 states in play if somebody promises to eradicate ICE completely and leave every single one of these grimdark facesock motherfuckers chained to the wall in Alcatraz's basement
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I will not be voting for any candidate in 2028 who doesn't promise to put a bunch of Republicans behind bars. I want truth and reconciliation commissions for the 2000 election, the Iraq war, the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, the 2008 recession, and both Trump administrations, at least.
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I will not be voting for any candidate in 2028 who doesn't promise to put a bunch of Republicans behind bars. I want truth and reconciliation commissions for the 2000 election, the Iraq war, the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, the 2008 recession, and both Trump administrations, at least.
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Making life easier for those with disabilities is not woke ffs.
It’s inclusive and the right thing to do.
Marco Rubio is a enabling sycophant, as we all know.
It’s inclusive and the right thing to do.
Marco Rubio is a enabling sycophant, as we all know.
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Making life easier for those with disabilities is not woke ffs.
It’s inclusive and the right thing to do.
Marco Rubio is a enabling sycophant, as we all know.
It’s inclusive and the right thing to do.
Marco Rubio is a enabling sycophant, as we all know.
This this this $42M wealth cap
The fact that this craven bastard is technically “one of the good ones” is why billionaires need to be taxed back into no more than seven digits of wealth max.
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This this this $42M wealth cap
Everyone on this list needs a serious primary challenge.
The House just voted for a bloated $900B Pentagon budget despite the fact that the Pentagon can't even pass an audit and despite the fact that Trump is getting ready for a war on Venezuela and despite the fact that so many people are about to lose health care.
Here are the 115 Dem YES votes.
Here are the 115 Dem YES votes.
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Everyone on this list needs a serious primary challenge.
Tilda Swinton
Who’s your favorite Vampire? Ima go wit Pam cz we got the same attitude 🫠
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Tilda Swinton
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We need Nuremberg trials.
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We need Nuremberg trials.
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The Muppet Knives Out: A Star Wars Story
Also knives out but the suspects are the Muppets
Knives Out: A Star Wars Story
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Muppet Knives Out: A Star Wars Story
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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Intolerance of intolerance is a double negative and, therefore, is tolerance.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Intolerance of intolerance is a double negative and, therefore, is tolerance.
Elite impunity must be treated with utter mercilessness if we're going to have a living world for our own children and grandchildren.
An endless theme of my millennial life is perpetual bailouts for irresponsible and reckless corporations.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Elite impunity must be treated with utter mercilessness if we're going to have a living world for our own children and grandchildren.
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intolerance of intolerant people and ideas must be the new norm
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
intolerance of intolerant people and ideas must be the new norm
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capsule review, one battle after another: ever wish that the big lebowski and children of men were one movie and not two?
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
capsule review, one battle after another: ever wish that the big lebowski and children of men were one movie and not two?
No love for the Ewok movie?!
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
No love for the Ewok movie?!
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
I saw Return of the Jedi first.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I saw Return of the Jedi first.
George Washington was A Great Man because he invented the concept of retirement for heads of state.
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
George Washington was A Great Man because he invented the concept of retirement for heads of state.
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Tax them. Make $50 million the max anyone can accumulate.
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tax them. Make $50 million the max anyone can accumulate.
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failure to imprison (at least) Bovino when this is over would be a catastrophic failure of democratic governance
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
failure to imprison (at least) Bovino when this is over would be a catastrophic failure of democratic governance
Who's going to get Massie to throw the House to Jeffries?
Trump's dangerous rhetoric makes us all less safe. His actions today must be condemned at all levels of leadership, and he must be impeached.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Who's going to get Massie to throw the House to Jeffries?