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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

A propos of nothing: “Who goes Nazi?”

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Observant essay on American high society 1941.

This is the correct postmortem. I know we live in a world where terrible consequences flow from binarized point estimates with 1% or 2% margins, but in no other domain of social inquiry do we pretend that tells us a lot about the population. +

Vibes about to change again

so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments"

I think this is correct, and most of my prescriptions would've clearly failed too, though I am sticking to my claim that appeals to Republicans and bipartisanship do not help and likely produce a net harm by dampening base enthusiasm.

I admit this is unproven but the results are consistent with it.

what a thing to say about your own child

This is what I mean about the post-truth environment. The lies are winning the war.

Nice!

And God forbid you say something like this - in reference to an election - about his candidates. So much for freedom of speech.

Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts The billionaire is using the power of his social media platform to spread falsehoods that officials say are hampering recovery efforts.

It’s incredibly frustrating that there are no discernible consequences for this major federal contractor who consistently acts against the interests of the united states, on disaster relief and a whole host of other issues. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

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It's sort of funny now that one of the initial attacks on Harris is that her laugh was off-putting. Watch this clip where she is having a beer with Colbert. She laughs, a lot, and it's infectious.
www.cbs.com/shows/the-la...

She needs to do more interviews and events with people he's been friends with before. It really sets him off. 😁

So, I just got permanently booted off Twitter for this. Apparently, we can't use euphemisms for winning elections anymore over there. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hopefully, I'll find a less hostile home over here! (If anyone's left!)

Omg. I've made it to the Promised Land!

Time to look around.