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Govenor of Philadelphia, a nice city that you should visit.

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

The left missed the threat posed by Trump in early 2016 because it was focused on attacking liberalism. After the election it spent a lot of time normalizing Trump (“just a usual Republican”) or arguing that at least he wasn’t Bush. It was contemptuous of “wine moms” and their “hashtag resistance.”

They’re obviously too weak to matter these days and the overwhelming threat is the far right, but the online cool kid left is still awful and should not be resuscitated. Partly culpable for the current crisis. The way forward is a recommitment to a genuine fighting liberalism

I'm deeply torn between "this Administration will cause lasting harm to our institutions through completely ill-considered executive actions and erratic policies" and "everything this administration does is so embarrassingly amateurish they're going to have every single EO rescinded by courts"

Every other social media app is owned by evil little freaks so this has to be the Big Tent website that welcomes everyone else. People who don't understand jokes. People who know it's a joke but still think it's Harmful. "To be fair," guys. Put up a statue of liberty here but it's on the computer

The thing is that this is a take that WAS true in the 80's and 90's when cheap plastic replaced metal and glass in a large amount of consumer goods. However now that has already been the case for decades we have had nothing but constant improvement since then. People's priors have not updated.

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 2y ago

periodically you get someone talking about how "they don't make them like they used to" pointing at an ad from when prices where an order of magnitude lower. if you pay the same real price, you get *insanely* better stuff.