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John | 27 | into talking about philosophy, law, and religion. Everything I say is provisional. I'm meaner on here than I'd like to be, constraints of the medium. Follow=/=Endorsement Words at outpacingzeno.substack.com
👤 Joined on 29 April 2024
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@cranberryplains.bsky.social@cranberryplains.bsky.social → @outpacingzeno.bsky.socialfor all the meta explanations given through the decade, the right's champion of our age got his start in politics as a Obama birther! the landmark presidential immunity ruling is a bunch of guys aggro about Nixon being done wrong in their mind, it sometimes feels like lost cause all the way down
Show Postwhat feeds this in the US seems to be that even the hard fought wins ostensibly breed resentment that the other side can never let go so you feel stuck in a doom loop
Show Postthink that "epistemic pessimism" is a major and untheorized political ideology issue. many of us subscribe to largely implicit notion of US electorate and media as being beyond redemption
Show PostI think the most likely outcome is that Dems win in 26 and 28, fix like sixty percent of Trump‘s damage by 2030, and promptly lose the 2030 midterms because the average voter has the memory of a goldfish.
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