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@peterawolf He didn’t have to run for the Senate. Coulda continued his life as an hobbyist oyster farmer.

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@peterawolf TBH I actually feel some sympathy for Platner right now in that a bunch of lefty consultants convinced him to run (for a job he has no qualifications for and probably wouldn’t like) and now his life is being picked apart.

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@nobodyknows2322 @notjeromepowell And TBF part of the issue in NYC is that the DSA / leftist types are tapping into the fact that the NY Dem political establishment IS sclerotic, frequently corrupt, and has little organic support beyond old political machines.

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@nobodyknows2322 @notjeromepowell He’s mostly running a normie admin (staffed by mainstream Dems and wonks, giving a fairly free hand to Tisch on policing and generally mostly YIMBYish housing policy) but leaning harder into the DSA / Pro-Palestine symbols and politics.

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@STLD98 @ProgDirectorate Also lots of (mostly Cypriot) Turks.

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@cszabla lol this is also such a Guardian piece.

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@AGLabBear @thebeltwayagent Yeah dk when he worked in DC but I noticed a broad shift away from wonks (who tbf had their own blindsights) towards activists (and would-be activists).

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@fancy_disgrace @nikicaga Although by the standard why not include Istria and the Dalmatian Coast in Italy too? (Yes, yes Fascist Italy parallels…)

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@Brien_Jackson (Maybe he was inspired by Big Mouth?)

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@Brien_Jackson Looks like it would’ve been written when he was in his early 20s, so just charitably assuming it was just channeling juvenile humor.

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@InlandCaGuy @BadassIntensity @gldivittorio (And a chunk of that was also fairly soft disapproval.)

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@InlandCaGuy @BadassIntensity @gldivittorio I mean throughout the 2011-12 cycle, his approvals were in the mid-40s. Which seemed bad at the time but in hindsight fairly good. (Given longer term trends in political approval.)

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@mattyglesias @MattZeitlin “Politician” more often selects for people who like being in charge or running things than policy wonks or intellectuals.

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@InlandCaGuy @HVNYrefugee I could believe both are AZ but based on the trees I’m gonna guess AZ on left, AUS on the right.

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@gauravsabnis Genuinely ruining travel, can’t go to any famous site nowadays without hordes of would-be influencers posing, doing dances, taking up space or monopolizing views.

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@Superninfreak @thebeltwayagent @conorsen … obviously true for a lot of women and LGBT people too, but the end result is people working in politics are a lot more “mission-driven” and less careerist than 10-20 years ago.

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@Superninfreak @thebeltwayagent @conorsen Re gender, I also think economic shifts since mid-2010s have affected things, working in politics was frankly “cool” for a lot of Obama-era men, but growth of tech and private sector salaries has drawn a lot of ambitious type A’s (and disportionately straight men)…