No, I am not making any broader claims than the one I made initially - that the Brookings article did not support the claim you were making.

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I respect Sen. Schatz, but I 100% disagree with him here. Even if we win the midterms, Democrats have far to go to win back the trust of working people. If Democrats don't understand that, we will sleepwalk into President Vance 2028. No one in America thinks the status quo is working.

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"Polymarket was compromised by an unknown Threat Actor. Over 1M users have been cryptodrained in the past h—" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

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a number of vocal people on internet (though not necessarily a large number of humans overall) think that spending a few minutes once every 1-2 years checking a box that says 'make things suck somewhat less' is bad for reasons that can really only be distilled to 'it will impurify my immortal soul'

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Look, the band of demons joining in was obviously a rules violation

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