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I find it useful to consider them as cognitive mirrors or resonators.
They can amplify or distort, create positive or destructive interference - but any intelligence in the signal they return must perforce have come from the user.
And they are the ultimate narcissistic trap.
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If you're interested in punishing Trump voters, you'll never be as good at it as Donald Trump.
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The best (worst) part is that, as these people are struggling to ever-so-slowly come to grips with the sense that maybe, just maybe, Donnie doesn’t have their best interests at heart, they will NEVER understand the utter contempt that he has for them, and everyone like them.
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Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
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Wait WHAT??!
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They have already done so. It’s just that the catastrophes haven’t arrived yet.
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Those guys have no concept of center of mass.
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There are absolutely some exceptions to the pattern, and she’s one of them.
That said, I wonder if she has an understudy and a succession plan. Because at that age you have to be cultivating the next generation, even if you still feel like you’ve got a lot left in the tank.
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You defend those who are enabling fascism.
It’s a real fucking simple equation.
The fact that you can’t figure that out says all that needs to be said about you.
Goodbye.
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Yeah, well, that’s another place where you wouldn’t know shit about shit.
Big surprise.
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And don’t you dare tell me what I have and have not put at risk with my choices. You have no right.
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If they don’t want to be there, get a different fucking job. Vote with your feet. Don’t support a very clearly fascist and authoritarian regime that respects no boundaries.
Because if they aren’t told to shoot protesters today, they will be. Probably soon.
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No you’re not. You’re muted and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Yes, you will.
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JFC you sound like someone force fed you the entire self-help section at the bookstore with a foie gras rod.
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But they SHOULD be deeply uncomfortable with what they have been asked to do. That’s a healthy discomfort.
The fact that you are so uncomfortable with that idea - that they should be discomfitted by being ordered to act as a fascist’s enforcers - says something very troubling about YOU.
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I’m not saying that the Marines or the NG should necessarily have disobeyed orders. So far, they haven’t been asked to do anything that rises to that level, quite. (ICE is another matter, but ICE have always been a bunch of thugs.)
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If you can so easily justify comformance with fascism, maybe you’re not actually a liberal, but just like to tell yourself that you’re one of the good guys.
Lots of people like to tell themselves they’re one of the good guys, until there is a price to pay.
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So much good stuff in one essay!
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Same reason we don’t spend much time talking about how bad Republicans are at governing or how immature Trump is as a person.
Everyone who knows, already knows, and anyone who doesn’t is immune to being educated.
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IQ has very little to do with how smart one is, either.
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Is this what your Oath to the Constitution meant to you?
You’re going to do what they told you, to bring home a paycheck?
If so, dude, you were only ever a jackboot thug yourself, whether you actually were told to do something like this or not.
Because you would have.
And worse, no doubt.
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There’s a thread around here somewhere with some of his old CS writing.
He posits a boolean logic system whose great innovation is that 0 represents true and 1 represents false.
🤦♂️
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He’s not smart. He thinks he’s smart.
He’s got just enough brainpower to build sophistries in the air and not enough to realize how absurd they are.
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And only a very stupid one can tell you which way it’s already been blowing for a while.
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Unfortunately (or fortunately - remains to be seen) we here in America cannot afford actual full octane authoritarians like Stalin and have to make do with the dictator equivalent of a clip-on tie - seeing as how Peter Thiel apparently bankrolled this numbnutz and mistakes him for a deep thinker.
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And fails.
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That’s starting to sound dangerously like horseshoe theory of politics, since the GOP seems to largely exist in order to do sex crimes.
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I like him already.
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I believe it.
So much of that comes down to the messaging they’re getting. You’re swimming upstream in category 4 whitewater.
That’s California category 4, not that wimpy east coast category 4, to be clear. ;)
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We should have a plan people being too <XYZ> to drive.
(Old, drunk, stoned, tired, sick, broke, etc)
Which winds up looking exactly like having alternatives to the car as the primary means of mobility.
(Harder where you are than where I am. But in town cars should be superfluous.)
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Like, ALL of the plan should be that. And then have a plan for the rest of us. I hate needing a car for daily living.
(I don’t actually need to drive daily, but only because I’ve gone out of my way to design my life thus. Most Americans do. And I still “need” to own a car.)
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Still makes for good TV (ie. A bad look for them). And it’s going to bother some of them, even as they lemming along with the rest of their pack.
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Which is why he’s on TV, natch.
Good old Governor Hairgel. You can always count on him. That is to say, he’s predictable.
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Stopped clocks, etc
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Trump will be funny later, after this is over.
Newsome is absurd now.