@ReubenR80027912 Mod D's have supported R's like Susan Collins, etc. Not really true.
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Moderate Ds are not secret Cons just waiting to be freed from the suffocating shackles of the UMC, group think driven, daily precarity of our Neo-longhouse
Moderate D’s genuinely want to be “good ppl” and unless/until the culture does a 180, they can’t & won’t support Rs
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Cons think they understand but they don’t. Moderate Ds live on a plantation of sorts
Sometimes in moment of clarity a D will say “uhh seems like the UK has migrant rape + dysfunctional judiciary problem”. But they’ll realize the implications/end point of that & backtrack (1/3)
Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort
Moderate Democrats have a foundational belief that left=good, and so they can at most criticize people to their left on strategic or pragmatic grounds, rather than ideological grounds. This results in a situation where they are constantly trying to read the tea leaves in leftists’ statements, giving them delusional levels of benefit-of-the-doubt, and running cover for them. This is why the “abundance democrat” project is absolutely doomed: they don’t have the courage of their convictions and will immediately cave in the face of leftist moral attacks. We see this even from the main proponents of this movement, Yglesias, Noah Smith, etc. They have zero ability to tell the left they are not just mistaken but evil. They chuckle and accommodate, because on some level they feel morally embarrassed by the left, embarrassed that their own pesky reason has precluded them from being open, full-on communists. They are cowards, and they resent both the people who reveal this by pushing them left and the people to their right who describe it.
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@Sturgeons_Law Unfortunately, the drop off since 2020 has been palpable. However, that applies across all races in America.
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Black Americans, specifically, are unbeatable when it comes to popular music. No other national or subnational population in the world comes close in terms of the sheer number of major genres and styles they've pioneered.
★@Luv_Xcuses
Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??
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@micah_erfan @grok when Baltimore murder rates were at their highest, how did they compare to national averages and what party ran the city?
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Weird, I thought Democratic cities were supposed to be war zones.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨Homicides in Baltimore are at the lowest number ever recorded, falling 60% since 2021.
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WAKE UP @NYCMayor‼️
NYC transit crime now vs last year:
⬆️ 60% Assaults
⬆️ 21% Robberies
… and police say congestion pricing is the problem
New York Democrats have a duty to keep Americans safe on public transportation, DO IT!
nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-…
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@kane @Cosmic_Trung a good question is whether it should be considered DEI to choose a minority or female candidate that is wholly qualified for the task, but with some determine made on the basis of their background.
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@Cosmic_Trung Brother if you read slowly she was already an ISS flight engineer
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Pilot Victor Glover has 3000+ hrs in 40 aircraft and 400+ carrier landings.
Mission Specialist Christina Hammond has 300+ days in space as a flight engineer on the ISS.
To say they are on the Artemis crew bc of “DEI” and not bc of their merit is both racist and sexist.
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"If they refuse to deal, they will be killed." Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons program in 2003. He made a deal with the West. He complied. They killed him anyway. On camera. In a ditch. Iran watched that.
North Korea watched that. Every nation on earth watched that.
The Washington Post is not threatening Iran. It is reminding Iran exactly why they will never disarm.
Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen
The US has very quickly normalised the murder of foreign leaders.
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@MazMHussain @MoeRosh It’s one of the most pathetic examples of third world cope I’ve ever seen.
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People in the U.S.-Israel cognitive bubble have seriously underestimated how much this war has infuriated the rest of the world. Both for the war itself but because it has immediately generated an existential risk aimed at their own basic interests.
Roshan Rai@RoshanKrRaii
Arnab Goswami becoming an overnight hero in Iran 🇮🇷 for his Trump bashing wasn’t something i ever expected to witness. Crazy times, this video is viral across Iran
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I make this exact point quite often, but there was an old Ezra Klein interview with Sam Harris about the legacy of Charles Murray in which Klein argued that we don’t need to wait for racists to literally say the words, “I am a racist. I hate Black people.” in order to conclude that they are a racist. If that standard applies to the works of Charles Murray, for crying out loud, then it obviously extends to very large portions of the mainstream left.
I am asking you and Ezra Klein and everybody else to apply this exact same logic to the left, at which point you will see quite clearly that they hate white people. It explains everything that is otherwise confusing. They just simply hate white people. They hold white people to a different standard. They think of white people differently from people of all other races. They feel animosity toward white people in their very gut. They think that white people are particularly vile, vicious, and violent.
Let yourself let the world make sense.
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These people very obviously hate white people. So much of the world makes sense if you just allow yourself to say that out loud. I know it still sounds cringe to a lot of you, but it also just happens to be the truth.
Adam Levick@adamlevick
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@Tom407428513995 @RossBarkan the smartest people are community organizers
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@RossBarkan nobody thought pro-Amazon people were smart to begin with
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Amazon HQ2 was one of those issues where the "smart" people ultimately weren't that smart. Race-to-the-bottom tax giveaways are bad, Amazon's numbers were inflated, NYC wasn't desperate for their business when they could just operate here anyway, like Facebook and Google.
Jeff Coltin@JCColtin
Seven years after Amazon pulled out of Queens for its HQ2, anti-Amazon organizer Zohran Mamdani is mayor and AOC is fundraising off of being right about it - since the project that went to Virginia instead has been disappointing.
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@zendaimyo @hallac Dude, he ran against a guy who was known as a sexual predator
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NYC has a population of 8.5M. Only 2M voted in the last election and he barely won 50% of the vote. So where are all these followers from? Definitely not his constituents.
Asad🗽🍎@AsadFromNYC
“Mamdani has almost 15 million followers, and his base remains deeply devoted. They’re ready for a fight. What happens when the messaging apparatus that helped unravel Cuomo is aimed at someone else? Hochul and Menin may find out sooner rather than later.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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It absolutely horrifies me that people are so incapable of this kind of incredibly basic creativity and decision making that they need to ask a machine to do it for them, like, my god, are you not ashamed to admit this in public???
Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi
We had a spare room at the back of our place doing absolutely nothing for years I asked Gemini what to do with it and implemented the suggestions. I don’t love everything about the room (open to changes!) but now we use the room every day.
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@Bernstein what youtube programming do you recommend for 6 year olds?
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No point having hard and fast rules about parenting before you have children. My older son (almost 6) spends an hour a day learning to draw Chinese characters on YouTube. Meanwhile if I gave my younger son (almost 4) an hour a day on YouTube he would open a portal to hell.
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@gregorykennedy @DougHancock11 Why would socialists concern themselves with bond market reactions?
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I just met with a friend who was all excited about socialists in power and I told him I thought the bond market would downgrade all the blue cities' debt. Making borrowing costs really high and effectively bankrupting them if they can't curb spending.
He just said, “Oh, I hadn’t actually considered that.”
California Post@californiapost
'Holy Zohran Mamdani': Shocking poll says half of Angelenos want a democratic socialist for mayor trib.al/WcxrloX
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Fact-checking matters. Multiple factors cited, not one scapegoat. The article mentions migration alongside COVID and funding issues. Read the actual data.
A.J. Manaseer@AJManaseer
Last week we learned the killer of Sheridan Gorman brought tuberculosis into our community. Now we learn that HIV infections citywide rose 29% primarily due to migrants. Who doesn’t support importing the diseased and contagious who will require lifelong expensive taxpayer funded healthcare ($2B and counting just in the past few years) while also receiving housing and food assistance?
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@Sturgeons_Law If there's one thing progressives are ever skeptical of, it's racial identitarian lobbying orgs.
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The only named people quoted here are the head of a racial identitarian lobby org "Moms United For Black Lives NYC" and Eric Adams's antisemitism czar lol. He can and should just ignore them.
Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt
New: Mamdani has avoided addressing his wife's controversial social media history by insisting the first lady is "a private person" — but even some of his own allies are beginning to question that claim and believe he needs to confront the issue head on. politico.com/news/2026/03/3…
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@DanFriedman81 what are the numbers of attempted shootings and assaults?
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Murder declines over the past decade are not driven by reductions in crime, but by incredible improvements in trauma medicine that turn hundreds of what would have been murders 20 years ago into aggravated assaults.
But most shootings are gangbanger on gangbanger and are completely irrelevant to what we’re concerned about, which is getting stabbed or punched or pushed in front of a train for no reason by one of the fewer than 10,000 violent unhoused crazies that our leaders permit to roam the city even though they have all been arrested dozens of times.
New York City has gotten less safe over the past decade, and especially since bail and discovery reform. People who use statistics to try to tell you otherwise are misleading you. You can delve into the fine print to figure out how they are misleading you, or you can save time by simply assuming that statistics are misleading.
Mike Peters@Mike_Peters_LGM
NYC murders per year: 1955: 306 1965: 634 1975: 1645 1985: 1384 1995: 1177 2005: 539 2015: 352 2025: 303 NYC is safer now than it has been in many decades. Yet the average Boomer New Yorker will try to convince you that crime is worse now than it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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@razibkhan Dallas has a metro area of 8 million people and is a major banking and financial center and already a destination for big technology, federal government, energy, and financial institutions. Greater Austin is 1/3rd the size
I guess the only thing it lacks is major universities
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Austin might be worth it. But the truth is that Dallas is the only red-state destination has the scale necessary to support the HQ of a large multibillion dollar company.
Short Squeez@shortsqueeznews
BREAKING: Apollo Global Management, the private equity megafund with $938.4B in assets under management, will open a second U.S. HQ in the American South. Apollo is considering Austin, Miami, and Nashville and expects most of its future growth to take place at the 2nd HQ.
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@souljagoyteller @ArabMulberry Mamdani should have led with why the target of the attack was bad
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@ArabMulberry “You can’t say ISIS because it has Islamic in the name”
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To be clear, this guy is mad that Zohran mentioned the name of the group that planned the attack
The okayest poster there is@ok_post_guy
Yes compare the statements from today and from when 2 guys who pledged allegiance to ISIS actually threw the explosives they made into a crowd
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@muffenboy2003 @Sturgeons_Law @chungusbig9012 Spelled out Jewish Defense league but didn't spell out ISIS
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It's antisemitic to note that the terrorist who tried to kill a woman and her family due to extremist Jewish supremacist beliefs belongs to an FBI-designated terrorist org offshoot that calls itself the Jewish Defense League.
Rabbi Poupko@RabbiPoupko
This is what governmental anti-Semitism looks like. Mamdani had to emphasize the Jewish side of a deranged individual and portrayed the entire Jewish community a violent, a generalization he would never use against any other religious group.
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