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hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist in NYC. constans@constans.bsky.social if you need to find me elsewhere

New York, NY
Joined May 2008
The people on this website are deeply troubled.
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MS GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith announced today:"I will not return the blue slip on the nomination of Scott Colom to serve as a U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of MS." Colom was 1st nominated to a lifetime appt. as a federal judge by President Biden in Nov. 2022.
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The shawarmas at this one place were $20 so i assumed they would be the most massive shawarmas youve ever seen, but no— it’s actually small abd I’ve been completely ripped off
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‘A decade of politics that began with Michelle Obama’s 2016 mantra, “When they go low, we go high,” has concluded with “shut up you ugly f*ck.”’ And this was a good thing
At the beginning of 2025, the DNC had a weeklong meeting where the digital team read a bunch of the comments about how terrible it was. Understanding that its brand was toxic, the org created some distance between itself and its digital work during the midterms.
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This man would’ve gotten rich selling mortgage backed securities in the 2000s while explaining how it would be impossible for these bonds to fail
The odds of 3,330 solid red counties flipping blue are 1 in 1 trillion. That does not happen by accident.
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Democrats truly brought their A game to this cycle
Morris Katz: “We did this in Texas a little bit... We ran ads for anyone who googled ‘my husband cheated on me’ or ‘I think my husband is cheating on me,’ we were boosting results of Ken Paxton having cheated on his wife.”
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Read to the end…
Beto walked so Talarico could run.
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This is a well known thing. Smart, responsible woman dates or marries dunderheaded guy, “who’s really smart in OTHER ways.” He knows he married way up and she’s fine with puffing him up a bit Men do this when they talk about how “my wife is REALLY the one in charge, here”
This can’t be real
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This woman has a degree in mechanical engineering, btw
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Trump is fundamentally stuck in the 1980s, tailored his message for the 1980s, and oriented the party around interest groups of the 1980s industrial Midwest. So this is what you end up with. The tragedy of it all is that it worked as long as it did
Fascinating regional shift to go from the top two in the House GOP hailing from the same southern state to a top three from the industrial Midwest.
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On one hand— awesome. On the other hand, it’s RHD only and limited to 25mph. It’s basically being marketed as a side-by-side for fleet customers. So for large corporate facilities who need to haul stuff across their sites What I want is something i can drive to Home Depot with
Scion is back... and will sell kei trucks in America. The brand has released the KEI-01, a 660-cc mini truck that will be built and sold in the US. Yes, you read all of that correctly.
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I feel sorry for Scalise because he really was the target of an assassination attempt by a Democrat and he kind of does deserve to be a would-be martyr for conservatism who gave blood for the cause, but republicans just don’t like him
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You should not go to grad school if you have to “support” a family. Two people both making a grad student stipend can make it, but if you want to raise kids on a sole income, grad school will have to wait.
“2 grad student roommates” Do people understand that grad students are adults who sometimes have kids and families to support? Not everyone can live with roommates. $51k in a town where the average rent for a 1-bedroom is $3,300 is poverty wages.
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This is why your parents told you not to have children too soon. There are conflicting priorities in life, and many times doing one thing precludes you from doing something else And anyway if you have fantasies about prioritizing children, a PhD might not be for you
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I… uh…. Ok, you got me there
"i wouldn't be seduced by a spy" you were seduced by a phd program
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I don’t doubt any of this, but as a person who married relatively late, I can see that at no point does it occur to her that she might have been doing something wrong this whole time. If EVERY guy up until now has failed you, what the common denominator?
No I wouldn't have. At 34, I had a hot, 6'4" 27 year old repeatedly giving me ultimatums to commit. If anything I had too many options. I would have hundreds of matches. I would keep a rotating list of 10 ranked prospects. At 35, after a breakup with a guy who admitted just lying the whole time, I was going on 5 dates a week and my standards were not high. I did actually go out with a 53 year old but the sex was terrible so I bounced. The guys who did finally want to date me seriously were the hottest ones and my age. I fell for one but then freaked out over a perceived dealbreaker because I was scared to get hurt again. I never have lacked options. The problem is figuring out if men are real options or just wasting my time. Since 36, I have been telling guys I do not want to date unless they are looking for marriage and kids. Every guy says he is down. I even had a whole contract at one point. I am now 40 and my friend of 6 years told me he had been into me this whole time. I said I do not want to date except for marriage and kids. He said our kids would be supermodels who look like me. He had remembered so many details about me over the years and had saved a bunch of candids he took that I didn't even know about from when we met. I believed him. Honestly at this point I think he was genuine and that I screwed up by being pushy and then kind of an asshole, as people have explained. There is still no lack of options, and if I go to a bar and walk around it's going to be the hottest guys who talk to me not the other way around. But I apparently have to assume most are just liars and fuckboys. I also do not like older men. I do prefer younger and I reject double standards about this. Women have just as much right to choose what we like as men do and should be able to trust that men trying to date us are not just fuckboys lying. Honestly I think the young ones are less likely to be so. Any guy single and going for younger women at 55 is probably sexist and just going to keep trying to go for younger women. 🤮
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This is also why we should get rid of the filibuster. People should get what they voted for. Otherwise it creates a disconnect between what they vote for and outcomes, and people start to act like it’s all a game whose purpose is to “send a message”
Shielding people from the consequences of their actions is ideological suicide People MUST suffer for making wrong decisions. If they do not suffer what incentive do they have to make the right decision?
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I saw this one TikTok where a guy was like “elitism starts in schools where people see themselves as better that others if they get higher grades or are enrolled in more advanced classes.” Like yes, these are the metrics in which success is measured in schools
It kinda pmo when people try really hard to get into elite spaces then act shocked when there’s elitism there. Like uhh yeah
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Yes, this is the definition of “crime and fraud”
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- pass law forcing towns to stop collecting revenue - towns stop spending money on things - what does this mean? The towns must be doing something nefarious…
Asshole local governments are retaliating against the voters for approving Amendment 3 by threatening to cut important projects. Cut your damn staff and salaries and cut the waste at the sheriff’s offices. Myriad examples have been given over the last six months.
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Chris Hillman of The Byrds! Zac Hanson!
has any celebrity abruptly become extremely religious for non-crime reasons
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Look, one of my closest friends from high school is Muslim and I have had plenty of Muslim colleagues and coworkers who are great guys. But you can’t be from Nigeria, the home of Boko Haram and a country where several provinces imposed Sharia law, and be posting stuff like this.
To those hating all Muslims! Please name me ONE bad thing a Muslim has PERSONALLY done to you.
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