fwordleproblems.bsky.social
Should not have been old till I had been wise.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
"Go crazy?" "Don't mind if I do!"
Purple. Monkey. Dishwasher
Shantih shantih shantih
midwest office guy, he/him
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You get the seven-year-old out of that truck as quickly and safely as you can, rather than screaming about how this stupid small child will destroy the whole city.
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My, point, as always, is that these are scoundrels and fools who can’t do a fraction of the stuff they have blustered about for years. And we shouldn’t pretend they can.
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It’s terrible! I’m against it! It should never have come to this, and there was a very easy way to prevent it. But the electorate in its wisdom found the burgers too expensive so
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“Follow-up questions” have never been a strong suit for ANY of these idiots.
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Yep. Let’s always, always remember to put the blame squarely where it belongs. These people are hideous but they would be entirely irrelevant if there weren’t a permanent constituency for this kind of hideousness. (It’s called “GOP voters”).
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And was just a world-historical fuck-up! You still hear about it all the time! It was a huge mess. There’s a song. There were indictments, blah blah. It was not a terrifying example of successful repression, etc.
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The Insurrection Act would be a huge reach and be widely condemned. It’s also not “martial law” or anything close to it.
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No legal framework, either. We don’t have “martial law” here. Why would anyone stand for that?
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Really? Have we seen this? I haven’t seen ANYTHING positive about this embarrassing spectacle at all. Everybody seems to understand it’s a joke.
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I know, right? So many of our friends take the hysterical bluster you sometimes get from these maniacs as a thing for us to get terrified about rather than a sign of weakness to be sneered at.
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Ha yeah I said Freemasons because it’s less offensive but yeah deep down it’s usually Them, you know the ones.
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Believing true stuff is just playing Reality on “easy” mode
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Right, yeah. This gets at a key point! Tacky, depressing real-life stuff is too boring for the conspiratorial worldview. You need an underground base or some Freemasons to make it worth worrying about.
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Hey, you know me. The best time to stop being a doomer was the day you became an adult, but the second best time is today!
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And literally the First Joke was “what if I put this in my butt”. It’s the Origin Story of all comedy. Basic stuff.
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I can be flexible
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Trump was re-elected because "borger expensive, make TV Business Boi the boss again" and "I dunno, black lady President? maybe not."
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And...just...this is all silly. Neither Liz Cheney nor GAZA of all things had anything to do with the outcome of the US presidential election, which was decided by low-info voters who don't even know who DICK Cheney is and who couldn't find Gaza (or possibly the Middle East) on a map.
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I didn’t even watch the show! (A shameful thing to admit on this website.) I do remember the character from the movie though and have seen this gif going around. Seems very handy!
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just a humble country poster sir
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Always the self importance with these folks! Just a huge tell. I mean, I work hard to post like Shitlib Sephiroth so I’m one to talk but the thing is you’re supposed to hear the smirk the whole time. I find MYSELF ridiculous and this cannot lose lol.
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Came to say this lol. You need the whole thing though. “I don’t watch tv. I study people.” It’s giving Rohrschach, or Dr Lecter.
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I cannot follow any of this. What do cops have to do with…anything?
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Yeah. I don’t care about winning arguments (or I wouldn’t mute people like this, and I do!). Nor do I think the world is burning any more or less than usual, historically speaking. Each era has its battles to fight. I do what I can and that’s all there is to say.
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I mean the Cheney stuff was entirely trivial and it’s bizarre that we’re even still talking about it. But it triggered something in the usual suspects and they have yet to recover lol. I think really it’s a win all around. (Cheney debased herself and endorsed a Dem lol!)
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Basically we agree that people love the idea of “change” but you think these idiot vandals should be CATERED to lol.
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You believe lovely things about people lol. None of this conforms to my view of reality. People might be sick of what they think the “status quo” is but odds are such people couldn’t describe the status quo in any accurate or meaningful way. As we’ve seen. Populism is the socialism of fools.
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It's like entirely uncontroversial, or should be. But both left and right have bizarre ideas about what the word means or refers to. It's either "an attempt to impose elite cultural values" or "an elite plot to privilege property rights over democracy". Both are ahistorical bullshit.
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I'm not talking about Harris, I'm talking about liberalism. You know, politcal equality, democracy, individual rights. Bog-standard liberal stuff. That kind of thing. People like it, by and large!
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what is even happening here lol. I guess I jumped in late. I was talking about liberalism, not Kamala Harris or genocide lol. Though I guess if "genocide" is a big concern, liberal states are way less likely to perpetrate them, historically speaking, than illiberal ones.
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He walked so we wife guys of the future could soar.
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It’s liberalism’s secret superpower! There’s this notion that it’s some artificial effete “ideology” imposed by elites when it’s mostly just normal obvious stuff that normal people like. (Hey, we can vote? Awesome!)
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And I mean I like space stations and I DON’T want to be the guy just sneeringly dismissing all this either. But even with current technology just routinely getting people back and forth from a space station to a planetary surface is not cheap or trivial.
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There was less excuse after Griff got bounced from the group for saying the quiet part out loud lol. But we were like "well Chuck dealt with THAT internal problem".
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When you're a kid (or nearly so, as I was) it's just odd; you don't really give it much thought. You're like "this guy clearly thinks racism is bad, I can get behind that! He's also into this slightly weird pseudo-muslim sect of some kind?" It didn't maybe set off the alarm bells lol.
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In my own case, I listened to and enjoyed Public Enemy a great deal back in the day. Defensible, sure! But hoo boy.
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Weren’t like multiple British teams barred from playing in front of crowds for a while?
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Makes sense. Would be really inefficient to have a separate cohort of wolves for each. Economies of scale and whatnot!
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Are these the same as the time wolves? Different group of wolves?
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would definitely show up if I were comped tickets!
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All he really did was demonstrate himself to be arrogant, clueless and in over his head, and get himself hated by the whole damned country. And become tossed away as a liability by the guy he thought he’d co-opted to HIS grand plans. A great American story lol.
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He did indeed! Did it make a difference? It might have! We’ll never know, but that IS a lot of money. He probably thought he’d get a lot more out of that money than this, though. He thought he’d remake government and be a beloved hero lol.
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Nah. Neither owns the other, but they do deserve each other I guess. I predicted Musk would last like a month; I was a couple months off.
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I dunno it kinda sounds like Musk is sad for real lol. Maybe he’s still nominally involved in some way but he’s clearly over it.
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Yeah I mean there’s a famous guy who wrote about this a very long time ago! It’s not a new idea! And the intervening time has pretty much refuted him.
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Always a good sign when this starts getting likes again! I am here for it.