If you can't even spell maggot, I'm not going to take you seriously.

It's so inane to advocate violence in pursuit of your policy preferences but then get outraged when those with whom you disagree use or condone violence. Not really complicated.

It took you so many paragraphs to blame nearly everything on Israel, but I knew the ending before I got there. No suspense! And your attempt to label Hamas's attacks by something romantic is like the Trumpists substituting J6 for January 6, as if we are going to forget what really went down.

Thanks. Twitter did serve this purpose a long time ago, but no more. Still, I'd add some more conservative news outlets to this list. Some of these (like Truthout) are nutty and as biased Fox News, just in the other direction.

So the Syrian civil war had nothing to do with pro-democracy protests being met with force by Assad, Russia, and Hezbollah/Iran including killing hundreds of thousands and gassing their own people? Who would have known?

You should watch Troppo. Not quite the scene, but some similarites.

Nonsense. They moved into a demilitarized zone which may make sense until they figure out who is in charge and whether the agreement will continue to be honored.

Like "he murdered someone"?

Ridiculous moral equivalence. You can argue with how Israel is conducting its war against Hamas, but that war was provoked by a violent attack on its civilians. No one provoked the synagogue attack, except in the eyes of those who find Jewish existence a provocation.

Are these folks who have taken time out from cheering Hamas killings?

Why "but"? Just condemn violence period. I bet you condemn violence per se when it's perpetrated against those you support.

Seriously? Does this get banned on @bsky.app?

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Can you explain "annual deployment" please?

You mean Oct 7 was intended to encourage Israel to "reform?" In what universe?

Well, maybe metaphorical shit.

Completely agree. And discouraging that @bsky.app can be as appalling as X in this regard -- just cheering different deaths.

I think most of us actually have the capacity to separate these things.

I don't think that's really the tradeoff. I can believe people are on here saying "yeah, not so terrible."

I love completely unbalanced histories being wielded as if to support what are purely ideological positions.

Agreed, but you can still do the right thing, especially after promising to.

We are actually trying to be better.

Cool tattoo!

Yep

This is your causal explanation? You're not a serious journalist, just a rabid propagandist.

Do you have more details?

But surely the Democrats have to do more to engage these voters. They're disengaged for a reason.

One of my colleagues used to argue that gerrymandering is very hard to define, because in a state with no gerrymandering but a 51-49 split, every district should have the same 51-49 split. Thoughts? Is there an accepted definition/measure?

Really?

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Please omit the cooked tomatoes.

I definitely agree on hosting divergent views, and that's a lot easier. But universities have to enforce students not shutting down speakers.

Why assume not? And isn't the unwillingness to engage with and hire them a reflection of the problem you identify?

Economists are allowed on Bluesky, right?

I think that's a ridiculous point of view. How can intellectual diversity in universities not be a good thing, even more so in fields where facts can't settle issues?

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Sounds nuts, but what's the TL;DR explanation of how this would work?

What evidence exactly?

He'd like to take a lot more liberties.

How do you know if a professional wrestler is great?

Likely predator, possible traitor. What could go wrong?

When our kids were little, that's what the tooth fairy always left! (Had to keep a stock on hand since you never know when a tooth is going to fall out...)

Kind of like % on Kindle. Which I like.

And the crowd that thought Trump would somehow be better for the Palestinians now gets an Evangelical Christian ambassador who believes they aren't a real people and West Bank settlements are just communities.

Kicked the Twitter/X habit. Too disgusted with the batty oligarch running it.