mattsaler.bsky.social
Love Wins. No kings. Aurë entuluva! He/him
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that's a very dangerous game to play
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put a little differently, trump is creating a clear hierarchy of states based on nothing other than his arbitrary political preferences. some states, and thus some citizens, will be disadvantaged for no other reason than that the president does not like they don't obey his will.
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Ugh. Why not just put professors in a room with a mic wired to an AI tool and cut the "students" out altogether. At least *something* will be learning in that case
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I mean, the US Army was still killing native people while putting down traitors to the Union
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Something special about the administration currently torching American leadership putting out this statement: “elucidate the historical and ongoing role of the United States as a leader in global affairs…”
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Watching that like 4 days after finally seeing Thunderbolts was … something
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I want to know how the airline pilot ranks get filled in this paradigm. He just avoided the selection question by pushing it back a little—is it the current crop of airline pilots? Some future crop? Do they gain immortality somehow?
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I for one would welcome rule by *checks notes* airline pilots, who will avoid the question of how their ranks are refreshed over time by *bong rip* gaining immortality
(I would not)
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I do want to hear this same story but with more traction on the why young men are shifting toward religious organizations with rigid traditional gender hierarchies and less acceptance without response of the given reasons.
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Yeah. Somehow, even after the last ~45 years of observable events, the reputational inertia of the label “Republican” is such that it covers over their actual beliefs, to the point where you can’t even neutrally explain those positions w/o sounding like a hack. Been a wildly successful PR campaign.
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Yeah, it’s how reputational inertia on the label “Republican” covers over the absolutely unhinged actual views of certain people now in power
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… beef … tallow? sunscreen?
Is the idea there “cows don’t get sunburned soooo slather on some rendered beef fat”?