@jmoiron.bsky.social When I wrote about Mamdani's primary victory, I focused a lot on how Islamophobia formed the unspoken core of the campaign to label him antisemitic.
Predictably, his opponents tried to turn this up to 11 during the election, and I'm glad it failed.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social New York in Autumn is not too bad. Let's hope we can pull out the old R L Stine quote later tonight.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Fewer than 10 users block me on bsky apparently, but among them is my favorite band, who:
1. last released an album in 2012
2. I saw live at least 20 times
3. follows me on twitter
Oh! turn to water, sublimate to steam,
then form a cloud and pour on me.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Centrists never seem to think the answer is to fight for your convictions and move the public.
In the 90s, "liberal" was a political smear. Self-identified Liberals co-opt this term, and its potency has been lost. The GOP has to call anyone left of Mussolini "far-left radical ma...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "D's are too liberal" is conventional wisdom in the US, but this is a product of the information environment. As Rufo clearly stated, their strategy is to establish a label and then poison the public's association with that label. Woke, DEI, Green New Deal, Democrat.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The three most high profile congressional Democratic leaders are Schumer, Pelosi, and Jeffries. They are written about constantly. The first two have been in power for decades.
Can you name a single issue that animates them?
@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...
@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).