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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:13 PM Original message |
Anybody recognize themselves here: Nate Silver - The Two Progressivisms |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. That's, um, binaristic of him, and a bit question-begging. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yes, I am feeling like I have two halves. A little on one side and a |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 06:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
41. I don't think he is saying that persons are easy to describe |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Or a radical progressive AND reactionary. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Wow, someone can make a silly, meaningless chart about nothing. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sounds like the I... You...She... game |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
54. I think lots of people are proud of being radical too |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sometimes one can wear a different hat depending upon |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'm sure it is more of a spectrum then a black or white thing. |
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HopeOverFear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. Tell 'em off, Nate... |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. Fuck off, Nate... |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 02:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
35. Now which column would that fit in to? |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 02:56 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Does it really matter? |
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davidpdx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 05:12 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. we love you no matter which half you fit into |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
46. Sounds like you're in the radical column. |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. Not exclusively, but mainly. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Well this quote does sound like recent DU flame-fests |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'm not real fond of labels |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
61. You do realize that your username says something else. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nate Silver is making sense so of course..he's told to "fuck off".. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Personally, I think the two types should be Rational Progressives vs. Irrational Progressives. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Irrationally |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. So now the centrists are going to co-opt "progressive" along with "positive" |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Already happening. The DLC has been calling itself "progressive" for years. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. And, the radically so-called progressive have |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
47. Yep. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
58. I'm a liberal who opposed the Iraq war and IWR. And since when is Nate Silver a "centrist"? |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I actually agree. There is nothing rational about alot of the stuff we've been seeing |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #20 |
44. Exactly. |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
49. Nice one |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
11. To the Greatest with Ye... from one Rational Progressive to another. |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. Ah, way too simplistic. Not impressed at all. |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Of course it is, you expected it to be totally fleshed out in one post? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. Well that describes DU flamefests very well. |
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billh58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
19. K&R n/t |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. Stick to baseball, Nate. n/t |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. Money Quote: |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. ...which he says after labelling "empirical" as a specific, narrow, type. |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I actually thought his use of the word "scientific" made less sense than his use of "empirical" |
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davidpdx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 05:17 AM Response to Reply #23 |
40. Yeah I like that one too |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
25. This is an outstanding read. Thanks for posting it |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Agreed. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I agree with you about the value of being pragmatic |
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murdoch (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. Where the list fails |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Good points...nt |
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Undercurrent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. Thanks, Nate. |
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mcablue (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
34. Nate aspires to land a job in a big newspaper (like Ezra Klein did) |
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impik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
36. Way to go, Nate! |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 03:27 AM Response to Original message |
38. Oh lord. Of course it would be 18th century Enlightenment ideas that attract me... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
42. "playing fast and loose with the truth and using some of the same demagogic precepts" |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
43. I expect every DLC shill on here to start touting themselves as a rational progressive |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. jake, a big way to cheapen whatever point is was you had is to act as if everyone who disagrees with |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #43 |
53. "Rational progressive" sounds SO much better than "five buck an hour DLC hogwash dispenser", yes? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 03:35 AM Response to Reply #43 |
66. Took a little less than four hours by my clock. |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
48. That's a lot of "I" statements for a supposed empiricist. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
51. He forgot the third column. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. If we're adding categories, the a-ideological attention seeker should be mentioned. nt |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
52. According to him, I'm somewhere between the two |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
55. This is self-congratulatory nonsense. *I* am a "rational" progressive, but *you* are a radical! |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. You can easily rephrase it to Progressive Pragmatist and Progressive Radical. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:12 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Still self-congratulatory tripe. nt |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
57. Rational Progressive chiming in...Ugh, apparently I'm elitist. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
62. It's called positivist vs. dialectical materialist |
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Bullet1987 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
63. The terms rational and radical are poorly chosen...and show his bias |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
64. K&R. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
65. Reminds me of the days of Hillary and Obama primaries. |
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RepublicanElephant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
67. idealist vs realist. |
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