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National Security guy, Army Reserve officer, lifelong Northern Virginian | McCain 2008 ➡️ Spanberger 2025 | Taylor Swift, Arcane and Dune enjoyer

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@ElectionBen Could've been like this:

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@RealLiamR1 There's always gonna be guys like that in the Infantry components of Marine Corps and the Army. It's part of human nature and part of having a state.

Blame still lies with the policymakers, who are responsible for leashing/unleashing them.

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@DrewSav It is interesting, but he faced this same dynamic in 2020 and 2014 and shrugged it off.

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@kevsaucebro DC natives support McDuffie, newcomers support JLG.

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@AmarionWx Bad policy, but probably good politics.

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@25YearsAgoLive Episode II is in post-production! Hopefully it will be an improvement.

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@rentfred @MorePerfectUS @AOC Actually that's where you have some of the loudest complaints.

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This is why Spanberger retired in 2024, burning her boats.

Fortunately Vindman didn't lose the seat.

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Mike Quigley running for both IL-05 re-election and 2027 Chicago mayor is gross. If he wins, he’ll ditch his seat 14 months in, risking a crucial vote in a narrow chamber, all for personal ambition.

This is exactly the selfish behavior that has already cost Dems so dearly.

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@robertgraham @JLefebreve He's just like me fr

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@Peter1987Fallow @tracewoodgrains Probably a few others as well.

Broadly speaking the whole of Reddit is progressive populist, but subreddit mods can rule with an iron fist and shape a local culture. And then you see a broad range on the left half of the spectrum as well, from lib to tankie.

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@TheLastNeocon It's the romance of a "lost cause." Like yeah they won't win, but they're fighting to the last as the walls crumble around them.

I'm anti-communist but I appreciated Liz & Phil as mirror images of the ideal US Feds. Steadfast defenders of the Union and the state ideology.

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@Peter1987Fallow @tracewoodgrains They have it. It's called r/conservative.

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@tracewoodgrains I appreciate the answer!

I was between him and Klobuchar but eventually cast the vote for Pete. Ironic given that they hated each other.

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@tracewoodgrains Why were you so big on Mayor Pete? You don't seem like, a guy who gets wowed by an NPR interview.

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@Peter1987Fallow @tracewoodgrains Flatly inaccurate, it varies a lot by subreddit.

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@JillFilipovic @jwilcox79 Urban progressive gentrifiers are largely white, not entirely white. And even if they want a candidate who's on their wavelength, they don't want that candidate to white.

Someone who arrived after college, who didn't grow up there, is very much not a native.

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@JamesSurowiecki @infantrydort It's the same flawed logic that led to Chuck Hagel as SecDef.

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@FellaHrx69 You take a European alive between 1900 and 1960, and teleport them to today, and they'd be in awe of the peace and prosperity.

The transit, the price of goods compared to wages, the freedom from oppression - it's the biggest vindication of the liberal world order.

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@theragingbeanyt @weirdo_22222 @langweyjar_ The actual person tweeting didn't say anything about down syndrome, that was just you.

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@ArchysLife Even Okinawa had more soldiers than marines.