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sports & tech | regular contributor to WIRED | past: ESPN, Ringer, Scientific American, Guardian | tips: bdowsett.nyfwc@gmail.com Signal: bdows.99 | leftist who does not stick to sports | Free Palestine

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Trump Capitalization Syndrome, instantly sus

01.03.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are 100+ US K-12 schools located on military bases

01.03.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally justifying something so vile it was used to introduce how evil a Marvel Villain was

01.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Tribalism is a hell of a drug

01.03.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol he doesn’t have any numbers, that’s why he’s begging us to find them for him and then when we do he says β€œno not THOSE numbers, the other numbers that I like more”

I muted and moved on

01.03.2026 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But I was told all day yesterday that Democrats can’t do anything about this and criticizing them is irrelevant

01.03.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Democrats should be flooding the airwaves right now about the American troops that have already been killed. This war is already unpopular and they could sink whatever support is left. But they won't do it because they also think American lives are worth sacrificing to bomb Iran.

01.03.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Her bar was β€œdon’t fund a genocide” and she couldn’t meet it. And that’s her fault, and not anyone else’s

01.03.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I care about the Palestinian cause more than anything outside my own immediate family, as anyone who has interacted with me even briefly in recent years can tell you. And yeah, it bugs me to hear anyone say otherwise

01.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ your tears are so funny

01.03.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ That poll wasn’t just conducted on the β€œextreme fringe” lol. You’re flailing. You’ve lost so completely and entirely here, it’s kinda sad. You should just block me

01.03.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol imagine thinking semantics make your candidate any less shitty. When repeatedly asked if she’d stop sending bombs to Israel, she refused to. Then she lost the election because she refused to take that basic moral and popular position. You can get as mad as you want, that’s what happened.

01.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was happy to see that yesterday, as all manner of liberals told me I must not care about Palestinians because I criticized Kamala Harris’s continued genocide pledge in 2024 (lol I know right?), some other folks found this piece I poured months of my life into:

01.03.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You asked me to show you the Dem base polling. Lol nice try moving the goalposts.

Bro you’re wrong. You’re hilariously wrong. Just take the L, it happens to all of us. bsky.app/profile/ibc....

01.03.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So she never supported ending arms sales to Israel. Thanks for continuing to make my point for me.

Her base wanted her to pledge to stop sending weapons to Israel. She didn’t do that. Glad we agree on this simple fact of recent history, proven repeatedly by reputable sources.

01.03.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The irony of attacking a country to prevent their crazy government from using nukes *in partnership with Israel* (the only actual nuclear power in the region) is so thick you can't even see through it

01.03.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So again: This is you opening the conversation by claiming the vast majority of Kamala Harris's base (Democrats) didn't want to stop sending weapons to Israel. That was me, showing poll data from June 2024 where 77% of Democrats want to stop sending weapons. You're wrong. bsky.app/profile/ibc....

01.03.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lol I truly hope for your sake that you're a bot, because otherwise you're legitimately one of the slowest people I've ever interacted with. The proof that you were wrong this whole time was the very next question lol, this must be parody.

01.03.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly it's either this or the only viable alternative, they know Americans largely hate it and do not give a fuck

01.03.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Client Challenge

It's really funny that a few hours ago you were completely confident her base did not support this, and now you're begging me to do your research for you as you realize you were completely wrong. www.scribd.com/document/740...

01.03.2026 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Buddy I literally just did this bsky.app/profile/bend...

01.03.2026 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a draft guy at all, but just started watching Darryn Peterson highlights on a trusted friend's recommendation and...holy shit, that's one of the best college freshmen I've ever seen

01.03.2026 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do not think this is theoretical

01.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They lie so brazenly when you can look this stuff up on the internet in seconds

theintercept.com/2024/09/10/p...

01.03.2026 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Career losers when it matters - what I meant by that is I’m not surprised they’re folding like chairs as soon as things have gotten difficult

01.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can. The core is a bunch of career losers, much of which is now aging or left, and the rest of the team has progressively been made worse by awful management. Now that the goalies aren’t papering it over, this is what we get

01.03.2026 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it certainly does not mean I secretly like the roaches and want them to carry on infesting my house

if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator

03.01.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2435    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

03.01.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3083    πŸ” 561    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 27

I expect evil people to do evil things

I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do

only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

03.01.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3039    πŸ” 454    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 24

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

03.01.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11940    πŸ” 3764    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 342