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Matthew Downhour

@matthewdownhour.bsky.social

Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis

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I just grabbed the first three screen shots indicating that the difference was marginal, vibes, or pedantic. I cannot possibly be my fault if all three were anti capitalists (I don’t even know if they were!)

10.03.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except they made it about themselves by quote tweeting me before I had any interaction with them at all

10.03.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those were all the people who had already responded to that exact post! I didn’t go looking for them! If they had not responded on that post I didn’t include them!

10.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guys when I pointed out that β€˜both parties are the same’ was a blinkering viewpoint I was talking about this woman. It is not possibly my fault if leftists took at as a slight against them

10.03.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s really not my fault that anti capitalists made it about them

10.03.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My initial point by the way was about this woman and the point was that capital itself didn’t believe there was a difference in bellicosity between parties

10.03.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

No but if it’s three out of a relatively small number of people I interact with on this niche website I feel confident the real number is β€˜lots’

10.03.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The funny thing is that the original object of all of this wasn’t a leftist at all but a Bank of America risk assessor on TV, leftists just decided it was about them

10.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What principles did I abandon? Being nice on social media? I’ll admit that’s not a core principle of mine though it is a conditional aspiration

10.03.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know how to disprove the claim β€˜no one says this’ except by pointing out that people say it

10.03.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ordering the U.S. military to bomb schools is a pretty big difference between Trump and Biden and id argue it’s a substantive policy difference

10.03.2026 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing. Trump is president and literally bombs a school and he has less agency than Biden?

10.03.2026 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How about β€˜there is a lack of substantive policy difference’

10.03.2026 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are a war crime by Israel for firing the missiles

10.03.2026 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also can I steelman my claim to β€˜lots of people say there are no substantive policy differences between the parties’?

10.03.2026 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Took 'em like three replies to get to saying the thing they say no one ever says.

10.03.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is where we’ve come in our need to deny Trump’s unique culpability for this war

10.03.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

He is in fact sending the order to do so, which Biden did not

10.03.2026 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, and yet when I gave a very specific example you generalized to β€˜war crimes’ rather than sticking with the topic at hand

10.03.2026 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

jude doyle's law: complaining about behavior X from group Y gets two types of responses from group Y, "that's a strawman no one is saying that" and "i did it and i'll fucking do it again"

10.03.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel no obligation to people whose only interaction with me is to call me a liar. I don’t scan my feed picking fights with leftists but how is it possibly on me to behave charitably if they start out that way?

10.03.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So I see where a holistic approach is better except that two very bad partisan outcomes also acutely brought us here

10.03.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And also without Trump 1, we would actually still have a nuclear deal with Iran

10.03.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Except that without Trump, the 40 year streak of the U.S. not directly attacking Iran would have continued

10.03.2026 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure no one says the parties are the same just that the difference is either vibes, or it’s marginal, or pointing it out is pedantry

09.03.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

How many tomahawks did Biden send into schools

10.03.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A steel man of β€˜people say the parties are the same’ is β€˜people say the difference between parties is marginal, vibes, or pedantry’

10.03.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You are the one who said Israel killed those kids. I pointed out that the U.S. did it. You flipped out because you can’t read

10.03.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think maybe you should consider the possibility that there is a difference between the U.S. not constraining Israel and the U.S. bombing Iran itself

10.03.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why am I behooved to do anything? I’m the one who was quote tweeted with a claim that I was complaining about something that never happens

09.03.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0