It's "the power of positive thinking" again — every defeat has to be coped into being a great victory. The important thing is not winning per se, but convincing yourself and others that you're winning, to maintain the illusion of success
Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
Myrtle Edwards was the Councilmember who negotiated the deal to acquire that land for a park, but she hated the gas works design so much that when the city tried to name it after her following her death (car crash), her family said no. That’s why the waterfront park is Myrtle Edwards Park instead.
It definitely helps insulate you from the local bullshit because you can kind of make your life more online. And in doing so you probably end up knowing people who got out of shitty towns and are happy to both confirm for you that elsewhere is better and help you make getting out a reality.
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
Seattle Times lifted my story, and a screen shot that I took at a specific time—of an IG story THE REPORTER WHO WROTE THEIR PIECE mentioned today was no longer available by the time he looked—and did not credit me.
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What's it called when you take someone else's reporting, use a screen shot they obtained before the person took the post down, and then fail to credit the reporter? That is called stealing someone else's work.
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Credit me. Do better.
I grew up in a small town & will never forget that the guiding ethic of anybody at school with any sense at all was, "This place sucks & I need to get the fuck out ASAP." People act like it's because of lack of opportunity, when it's mostly the people dominating the place being especially shitty.
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
why did democrats change course on gerrymandering without explanation? on to discuss, three republicans and a reporter who covers national politics and is unaware the constitution can be amended
it’s the same exact thinking you see from these nitwits with the Iran war.
they think they hold all the cards and cannot even conceive of their enemy retaliating, whether it’s by closing the strait of Hormuz or the CA/VA redistricting ballot measures
I guess bad faith arguments made by serial liars did not have the intended persuasive effect
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
We definitely need the rusting hulk of the complex that pumped carbon monoxide into homes to remain climbable, for historical purposes. That makes sense.
The old gassification plant in Seattle's Gas Works park.
As a father, I think of the parents who lost their son. The boy made a really dumb, teenage kid decision—as just about every teen does at some point.
I find it difficult to comprehend that there are people who value how this rusty old gassification plant looks over the lives of kids.
Seriously look at this shit that the city of Seattle insists is necessary to leave in place in one of the best park locations in the city. Could do thousands of cool things there, but we just have to leave ancient industrial blight for people to look at.
Every time I see that place I'm blown away by how much worse it is as a park because they left it there. You can still call it gas works Park without tons of rusting metal there if you really want to! Its continued existence is so pointless.
I took an undergrad class called "The Scientific Study of War" and at least back then, we called a one-sided ceasefire after failing to achieve any of one's war aims a "surrender."
The Court stopped the Clean Power Plan with a one-paragraph boilerplate order, at no point in their internal delivberations devoting a single word to the mitigation of environmental harms that was the core purpose of the legislation it was purportedly interpreting
The intelligent play here would be to cut his losses, declare the loss as a victory, and then get back to picking out the curtains for the White House renovations, and fencing everything that’s been stolen from the Kennedy center. So that won't happen
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That’s right
Collins said the new InfoWars won't only poke fun at the far right. He sees it as an opportunity to go after all the "stupid" stuff on the internet and beyond — like influencers pushing beef tallow, van lifers who "shove 80 kids into the back of an RV and call it a house," and AI guys who "have the very mind virus that they think everyone else has." "We want Infowars to be a place where you strive to be instead of a psychopathic website where they sell supplements for your broken penis," Collins said. In his view, there was only one good thing Jones did with Infowars: "It's a great logo. It's a great name for what's going on, unfortunately."
Our plans:
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bro come on. at least try to hit Truth Social or Vichy Twitter, how dumb are you guys bsky.app/profile/bree...
That thing they do in marketing where a website asks if you want to sign up for whatever and the choices are "YES!" and "No, I'm a stupid little baby" I'll go ahead and click the stupid baby button. Nice try but I don't care
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
it’s so cool how you just *know* this will result in republicans calling the election rigged because they’re too stupid to understand that every single vote cannot all be counted at this exact same time
