Gadfly is a podcast about third parties, fringe candidates, and generally weird American electoral history. Hosted by Dusty Wilson & Oona O'Leary.
Joined December 2019
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Hey, y'all! Just wanted to give a heads up that we're going to be on this hellsite much less often in the immediate future. Frankly, it's just really nice not to feel compelled to argue with anonymous lunatics. Just chill LiveJournal vibes. So, catch us over at the other place
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Hey, y'all! Come experience the joy on The Better Site where even you can get into the most ridiculous conversation with a 3-time Pulitzer winner over whether he's a member of an org that's accused of human trafficking and pushing right wing fascism in America
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The Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party has called on the Vermont legislature to reappoint incumbent Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman for a second term when it meets next year to fill the position after no candidate earned a majority. #vtpoli
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Hey, y'all! I'm testing out going more full time on the bluer sky, so if you want to check out part 1 of the 3rd/indies that did the best (US Senate Edition), you can check that out here bsky.app/profile/gadflypod.b…
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Hey, y'all! Due to recent events in America there has been a huge uptick in the number of people interested in leaving the country. So, we did a whole episode on the dozen-ish ways to get long-term residency or full-on citizenship in other nations. buzzsprout.com/760511/episod…
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One thing I think people miss about the fact that many deep red states approved economically progressive ballot measures is that a core difference between a ballot measure and a candidate is the ballot measure is going to do what it says.
People who read Lysistrata fall into two camps
- people who view it as a legit blueprint for effective protest
- people who recognize that the play has a specific point, but also that Aristophanes' plot falls apart once you acknowledge male violence against women
The 4B movement consists of 4 noes.
The rules are simple:
🙅♀️No dating men
🙅♀️No marriage
🙅♀️No sex with men
🙅♀️No having children with them
#4BMovement
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It's only been a few days, but the volume of people who seem downright relieved to not have to care about other people is staggering. Just scores of people eager for the simple pleasures that hatred and fascism bring.
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If your kindness & empathy hinges on you're own comfort & proximity to power, then you're not a good person to begin with.
Hey, someone who didn't have a primary or general election challenger knows why other people lost! Also can't wait for someone to primary @sethmoulton.
Seth Moulton telling @reidepstein that identity politics hurt dems
“I have two little girls. I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Whatever money, time, or energy you are considering putting into Women's March, please direct to your local abortion fund. my god.
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None of the swing voters I talked to brought up the progressive faction as an issue they had to voting Democrat
Almost entirely revolved around them not seeing what Dems did for them
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How quickly some people blame pronouns is telling of a reason we actually lose people our party has previously represented . Our "support" only being for the marginalized when convenient is a reason why people feel tokenized and leave the party
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Some liberal accounts are cooking up bizarre "fraud" theories about Donald Trump's win and demanding a recount using #DoNotConcedeKamala.
There's zero evidence of widespread irregularities in the election and many votes are still being counted.
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Progressive policies won last night. But democrats as a whole tried moving right on various issues and it cost them. But the progressive policy liberals decried won. Liberals wanted more centrist and moderate policy proposals. They lost.