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How dare you indeed, however, this strikes me as more of the Democratic playbook of crying foul while meanwhile, 47 and his crew are pissing on your shoes. You need to develop the capacity and willingness to throw leather rhetorically or otherwise.
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I agree. It's a fundamental misreading of the extent to which attention is the fundamental currency now. He who distracts, captures. Schumer assumes that people will just naturally pay attention to what he thinks they should. He's living in a world where Cronkite still delivers the nightly news.
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With it's increasing ability to seemingly work miracles, tech has become something of a religion and it's promoters are seen as holy visionaries.
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"Journalism first"? Not money? I hope the board and the shareholders haven't gotten wind of this.
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Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side this morning. Love you Barb, but for half the country, this is obvious and for the other half, it's meaningless and even a source of pride. I'd replace "is sabotaging" with the past tense.
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This speaks more to the level of her audience. She obviously knows how ridiculous this is, but it doesn't matter if her audience believes it.
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Right, so polluting the information stream with effluent makes strategic sense. If people don't believe the news, why bother to watch it? The low information voter is low hanging fruit for a demagogue.
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Why not? The entire administration looks like reality TV?
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Much worse. More than reducing attention spans and upregulating dopamine receptors, Fox has polluted information streams to the point where information itself has no value, except as a weapon.
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Any display of ethical judgment is a signal flare to 47 about who to terminate. As people stand up for what's right, one by one, they will be identified and eliminated. Regardless of provability, at this point, there is no practical difference between 47 and a Russian asset.
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Government by soliloquy. A narcissist's dream.
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Very forward-looking of him. Meanwhile let's make sure the cockroaches aren't the only ones who care.
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This attempt to alter or obliterate cultural memory is both horrifying and instructive. They understand the foundation that has to be undermined. I'm not sure the otherside understands the same at this point.
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Yes, it's mind-boggling depressing. Important to band together right now, to coalesce. Embers burn hotter when they're closer together.
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I get you, but understand, he won the election. Either we make it work with the players we have, or we lose together. I'd love to be annexed by Canada right now, but it ain't gonna happen.
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Let's acknowledge that this guy likes to issues decrees. Makes him feel omnipotent. Pure crack for a narcissist. 47 represents a cyclically reemergent psycho-social virus unleased on an unvaccinated public, trying to grapple with a contagion to which it has no acquired immunity.
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Gosar's thinly veiled misogynist torture fantasies seem to spill out with some regularity. Why are so many of our elected representatives in need of a psych intervention? There's something about public office that attracts malformed individuals. Perhaps this is a deeper problem with democracy itself
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Don't knock it, it works.
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To these guys, "contempt of court" sounds like t-shirt slogan, not a civil offense.
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Yup, Dark Brandon is secretly pulling the strings.
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I would hope so, but in the mean time, 47 appears to be cultivating a culture of grift, where winning at any cost is elevated. The perfect cultural backdrop for kleptocracy.
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Putting aside his political beliefs, the biggest damage to Tesla's brand is the result of Musk shining a spotlight on his lack of credibility. Nobody believes him anymore. Why would they listen to more outlandish predictions?
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The problem is that if judges continue to grant the executive branch the benefit of the doubt until there is none, our democracy will be gone by then. 47 understands this fatal latency in the system. He has exploited it throughout his life.
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No one should doubt at this point, that 47 sees an autocratic future for the US. His prime enablers, Musk, Thiel, et al. see democracy as a quaint ideal that is more trouble than it's worth. If congress doesn't flip in 2026, we are looking at oligarchy for the foreseeable future.
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It's both, plus a feeling that there's little that can be done about it.
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Capitulation seems to be a bipartisan impulse. Witness the re-tooling of the Washington Post and proactive cancel culture at MSNBC.
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Rep. Alford, I can only hope I live long enough to see the plan he has for yours.
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Let's drop the masquerade that the tech bro intelligentsia such as Musk and Andreeson support 47 due to his championing of free speech.
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The question is whether judges have the means to enforce rulings. Otherwise, in the short term, this post is correct.
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Their party views employment as a form of consensual bondage, so it's not surprising.
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Here, here and likewise. Connectivity is vital right now, to provide energy.
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Illustrates the point that mucking things up is much easier than getting anything to work. I don't think you can address each mucking along, although you have to do that. The only way to do this is to organically motivate people at a very grassroots level to consider what's at stake.
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For me, this is a flanking maneuver in the assault on democracy.
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Thank you so much for what you do and have done! We feel it out in the alveoli. Your work seeps into small spaces.
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I think it's naive to underestimate the chilling effect of violent retaliation against any judge or public figure who stands up to 47. Pardoning the J6'ers was strategic, not just symbolic. I think this is a huge reason why even retiring GOP members of congress refuse to say what they really feel.
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It's wise to consider that there are other information lenses out there that portray a very different reality.
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Yes, but it's like watching a football play with a dozen bootlegs. You don't know who's actually carrying the ball, until they're through the line. Ezra Klein hopefully noted that in flooding the zone with shit, you can end up flooding your own zone. How would he know the difference?
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So I'm wondering how this plays with the SCOTUS ruling on immunity for any "official" acts. I'm guessing Trump believes regardless of the legal outcome, he is beyond prosecution, so he is actually incentivized to attempt the worst, or at least have others attempt it for him.
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Yup.