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Steve [redacted]
Radicalized by Shelby County v. Holder
Laura Kelly stan
He/him or they/them
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I’ve seen what happens when people roll over for him, they go for the jugular. Only way to stop a bully is to fight back and not give an inch.
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Yeah, that’s like three decades agoooh, oh no.
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Ooh, and there’s going to be selection pressure in favor of models that more effectively encourage grandiose delusions.
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Yep.
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I thought I was over the top enough, guess not though.
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Sorry, I was being sarcastic, his case is going to get yeeted out of court at high velocity imo. This way the WH can blame it in the courts rather than their own incompetence.
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Well, this trial is totally going to fly under the radar and he’s not going to have any good lawyers on his side, so I’m sure he’ll be railroaded even though the government case is laughable.
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Says Dems should do X->gets preemptively angry at Dems for not doing X->*Dems do X*->zero acknowledgment that Dems did X->new topic
That Twitter and the NYT are controlled by reactionaries isn’t the only problem with the information environment.
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Lotsa Marxists think that capitalism is the only Big Bad, so they see reactionary anti capitalist movements as progressive.
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Yep, the amount of freedom someone wishes to allow their kids and the amount of freedom the most nosy, call the cops enthusiast neighbor thinks their kids should have don’t always line up- and unfortunately this disagreement can be adjudicated by the state in rather arbitrary fashions.
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Revisions like this are par for the course, I’d be worried if there were never any downward revisions.
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36th dynasty incoming
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Thinking about one particular account that got preemptively angry at democrats for refusing to say anything about Epstein yesterday, and showed no indication of recognizing the Dems trolling trump about this issue in particular within the hour.
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True, but Trump removed even the (inadequate, ofc) oversight meant to reduce civilian casualties and ramped up the death from above. Biden cut back pretty drastically day 1, and eve though outlooks like The Intercept covered it, it bounced off the popular consciousness.
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I’m curious about the first. Like baptism in the cards Christian or y’all need Jesus Christian? If it’s not too intrusive, of course.
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Turns out one of the least popular things a politician can do is have the people undergo some moderate inconvenience in order to avoid large scale suffering and death.
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Roguelite, yes. Roguelike no.
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Trump wins it’s a victory for regime consolidation, Elon wins and POTUS is weakened is my logic.
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I think trump wins but it’s for the worst.
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…most pro-labor NLRB in generations, the biggest climate bill ever, Linda Kahn at FTC, ending Trump’s unaccountable drone war escalation…
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Healthy as a horse, and all that.
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Oh, god, that paper.
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Nah, failure to think like an economist breaks people. Ya gotta think on the margin.
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Nope, mute this thread and never look back.
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What they want, but don’t realize they want, is for social media to not steadily deliver them a stream of ragebait tailored to their specific prejudices.
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“Stalin’s Fixer” is what really makes it, tbh.
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Is this a “Four Futures” joke? Because if so it’s great and if not IDGI.
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I’m really looking forward to the subplot where Steve is scrambling to get term life insurance coverage before aging into the next bracket.
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Ok, so someone cheating the Occam’s razor explanation at this point, no?
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Can just delete the 11th through 13th words, tbh.
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Missing the detail that he was Canadian.
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The median American voter is a moral nitwit who thinks they can spray a firehose of cruelty around without a single drop getting on something they don’t want wet.
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The call, it is coming from inside the house.
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Or just membership in a secret hunting society.
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It’s impossible to place a bar low enough that you won’t have a distressing set of examples of people failing to clear it.
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Pretty sure that was a joke skeet, although I’ve been wrong before.
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Turns out it’s actually important for vice to pay homage to virtue.
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I’m gonna lay down a marker: 9/11 apologetics are going to have the same crank trajectory as antivaxxers: it will go from being left coded (even though it actually exists across the spectrum) to being accurately right coded, probably over the next 5 years.
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Glad to know you are still feeling optimistic.
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It’s still rattling around in my head.
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Are you telling me that a very complex pile of chemical reactions might have different outcomes in you add in some different chemicals?
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You might naively expect there to be one particular group which is immune to the universal tendency of edgelords to embrace antisemitic conspiracy theories, but you’d be wrong.
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We really are still paying for Dirty Harry and generations of propaganda about how the rules and restrictions we place on those with power are there to protect criminals.
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You beat me by 30 seconds. Glad I’m not the only one this dynamic is obvious to.
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We are at “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” for a different set of indulgences.
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We are in the middle of a political realignment around whether we actually live in a society, and a lot of theoretically counterculture folks need to figure that out.
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Incredible, the Tsar Bomba of discourse nukes.