darlosing.bsky.social
Outdoor Educator, Fan of Natural History and Zoology
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I’m the one who is mad?
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Keep boosting engagement on Shaun’s post, I’m sure he’ll get some subscribers on patreon off it
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OK, buddy
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And I’ll call it sucking Trump’s dick to just use Obama as a rhetorical device to stifle criticism of Trump
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I never made the claims you accused me of making, didn’t stop you from lying. I’ll answer you the way you answer me, don’t patronize me
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You haven’t shown where I sucked Obama’s dick. Shaun hasn’t shown how anyone who likes Trump and doesn’t like Obama is just a fan of manners.
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What facts?
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If you get mad at me for making bad faith responses, maybe look in the mirror. Nobody is discussing politics or policy here, people are just posturing under a bait post, from a professional influencer
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Nobody said that lol. Making bait posts to get people to subscribe to your patreon doesn’t grant you moral superiority.
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I get a No Kings protest is gonna be offensive to the British and other people who support more conservative political structures, but in the US, it is an effective rhetorical position
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All your posts supporting Trump and Shaun’s original post, which suggested people were hypocritical to be angry with Trump
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Like you are right now?
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Oh, I don’t disagree that the response to the recession involved too little stimulus and too much bailout, but that was mostly bipartisan and not some Obama-unique policy. Obama actually favored more stimulus than average politician
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Obama was center-left on economic issues. Republican Party is the party that has shifted dramatically on issues of trade and immigration (less so on immigration, shifts there more the result of greater authoritarianism), leading to neither party being coherent anymore on economic policy
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Neoliberalism, as it is commonly described, is not Obama-specific and was actually more strongly advocated for by Obama’s political opponents, like Romney.
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Define neoliberal. Obama did disappoint left wing with his economic policies and some of the people he elevated in his admin, but he supported more government stimulus and involvement in economy than most politicians.
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Shaun specifically made his post as engagement bait for that - if he made a post talking about how awesome Obama was, the replies would be the opposite. He is an experienced online influencer
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Who is doing that?
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Fascism is a meaningless term if it just refers to any political action you don’t like.
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It isn’t sucking Obama’s dick to acknowledge that he was a much better president than Trump, in many ways - better economic policy, preservation of science funding, better judicial appointees, greater respect for civil rights and constitution
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Collapse of the buyout market, collapse of tank race, even stylistic shifts that make league slightly less star centric, all make for better quality basketball
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Honestly, one of my favorite trends of the modern NBA. Teams valuing players over prospects and trying to compete. NBA as a sport in a much better spot than it was 5-10 years ago, at least for the diehard fans
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“I know this is going to piss off a subset of people”
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So you’re just arguing about theoretical people you don’t know?
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Who are you talking about?
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Oh yeah, that is dumb. Not sure what connection that had to No Kings protests
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I’m pretty sure the people who attend the No Kings protest and the people who are most likely to vote Democrat are basically the same. Protest appeals specifically to Democratic voters
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What math?
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I think it is just playing with a lot of joy - perceived as corny and makes him a target. Also, very modern game, threat to old-school style it he is perceived as a genuine star. Reminds me of discussion of Steve Nash and resentment over Nash winning MVP over Shaq
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Abortion rates did decrease during the heyday of the bombings, although they were also a lot higher in general back then
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The pro-life movement has not had any holistic approach to reducing abortions, it is more concerned with criminalization. Maybe it reduces access, but abortion access has apparently improved since Roe was overturned, abortion rates increasing recently after declining for decades
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I’d agree it caused fear, I’m not sure it advanced the cause of repealing Roe v. Wade, might have been counterproductive. I’m not saying political violence is never successful, but causing fear isn’t sufficient to get what you want.
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Was that successful? I don’t think that actually was behind the successful elimination of Roe v. Wade, I think judicial and legislative movements over decades of effort were successful, while the murders and bombings failed
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I must admit, I assumed that was most people that use word “antinatalist.” Seems like extreme left wing to me
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Malthus’s thinking was super valuable, just not for people lol
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“My neighborhood was a racetrack” might have some potential. Or the police boosting the dog up in the sewer
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I don’t call anyone stupidity, I am defining educated by more years of schooling. There has been clear shift in voting trends in recent years as Republicans gain working class voters, but lose more educated voters, rallying around cuts to higher education and demands for domestic cheap labor
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OK. You can use both messages to different people. You can say business elites have too much power and push for zoning reform. Don’t really understand the grand political insight being passed off here
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You can run on abundance and on saying business elites have too much power
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Democrats obviously not united on any economic issue - but on some areas, any political movement that can succeed in increasing housing development will be delivering massive wins for the electorate, so the pro-growth side will have the edge right now
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Republicans are very pro-regulation in many areas and support more onerous restrictions on private enterprise. They are the party opposed to economic development, there is an obvious lane for any opposition to court those not a part of that bloc.
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You can do both. Discuss policy and have meaningless slogans that are poll tested to offend no one. The populist wing of the Democratic Party hadn’t exactly been very successful lately anyways, especially as Dems move towards a more educated voter base
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I think the benefit of the populist argument here is that it is so nonspecific that even Republicans have their own version of it - I guess it’s fine, but doesn’t do much to differentiate yourself from Trump
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How do you do action?
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Also, neither argument here necessarily contradicts the other
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The “populist” argument here is very nonspecific and meaningless - it might be viewed positively, but it isn’t really helpful if we are debating policy or even a way to differentiate Dems from other politicians
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Richard
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Wikipedia is imperfect, but it is still very effective at what it purports to be / an encyclopedia. ChatGPT is not actually good at what it purports to be - artificial intelligence. Machine learning technology obviously good for formatting/data sorting, but not good for generation of knowledge.
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I think a problem is that people are actively using it like Wikipedia, when it is not good at that job. The technology has good applications - encyclopedia and search engine are not good uses of the technology.
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IDK, maybe it can suggest that the solutions to the problems aren’t based on ending capitalism or some other utopian false hope