@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As Klein himself says, aligned independents and progressive policies tend to outpoll the Democratic brand. So which is more likely to be right? That the policies are too liberal and Dems should moderate, or that the filling the halls of power with empty suits void of conviction i...
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "The democrats keep doing this thing and losing" is something that the left and the center agree on, but the left's diagnosis is that the Democrats are feckless poll-tested cowards, and the center's diagnosis is that the Democrats are too progressive.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I like Klein and I find he is thoughtful and earnest enough to not deserve the kinds of heat he gets from the left, but he is obsessed by a retvrn to 1960s era party depolarization, and the consensus on liberalism, anti-communism, and racism it was built on is gone and should sta...
@jmoiron.bsky.social In this article:
> [Social Media] has affected the Democratic and Republican Parties in different ways. Let me start with the Democrats.
24 paragraphs on Democrats, 4 paragraphs on "The Right" and how yeah I guess they are nazis now but Americans like that so Democrats have to ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The quote "Trump will be President in '28" is, barring his death or removal, correct; his term ends in '29. This feels like a dumb nitpick, but I think it plays into the subconscious narrative that Biden was somehow President in 2020 and is responsible for the pandemic response.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Every $TSLA quarterly announcement this year has been "we can't even give away our cars and the macro is getting worse" followed by a fabricated timetable for one of their vaporware projects, and the market reaction is "this guy's a genius lets give Musk literally a trillion doll...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Last night I had pickled chicken feet and pumpkin cheesecake, definitely the weirdest combo in recent memory.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Very encouraging that Zohran is not just about moonshot programs that will be difficult to enact given the limited powers of the Mayor.
There's plenty of waste from overlooked government operations and graft from corrupt NYS dem machinery that would be valuable to clear out.
reposted @jaffray.bsky.social: dying that the hot, based "dev focussed" "distro" has built in hotkeys to open dhh's email provider that nobody uses
@jmoiron.bsky.social If one person can drive coverage for a whole week by shooting someone, and millions of people can't even get front page for a peaceful protest, what kind of political engagement are we really encouraging?
@jmoiron.bsky.social Bob Holden beclowning himself for Curtis Sliwa. Maybe it's bad when one guy runs as both a Republican and Democrat and there is literally no other option.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Sweet haul. IIn case there's no translation, the bottom part of that Shirou panel says "Dominion" (black text), "Black Magic" (red text), and "Senjutsu Chokokaku Orion" (thinner red text).
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Party leaders constantly lament that the party is unpopular because they are getting "too progressive", but people like Sanders and AOC have pretty high net favorability. The real problem is that the party stands for nothing and the candidates all feel inauthentic.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I guess just question the idea that the Democrats aren't already doing this. The centrists that run the party are already intoxicated with capitulation. They gave $90m to candidates like Amy McGrath so she could get her ass kicked by the barely animated corpse of Mitch McConnel.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Klein's point that having an extra 2-3 Joe Manchin type Democrats who suck in the Senate would be "Good, Actually" because it would reduce GOP power.. that's just true. That's not an optimal scenario, but it might be the best we can do for now.. I understand that line of thought...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I listened to Ezra Klein's latest with Ta-Nehisi Coates and I thought it was pretty good? I'm far more on Coates' side, and I think that Klein is trying to recapture a dead past and build a coalition that no longer exists, but his fears and his goals make sense to me.
jmoiron/qbedit 65f0a71 add a chapter batch edit link to each chapter page, and fix the single edit form.. form parsing should work everywhere now