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Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: https://linktr.ee/drownedinink
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Thank you! Oh yeah, I'd call that "barely even trying to make an excuse", I think.
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Is it a "game" to point out that Israel's occupation of Palestine is considered illegal under international law and that the two occupations you mention only lasted four and seven years respectively, rather than almost six decades now? Or that Germans and the Japanese still had freedom of movement?
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Did she just grab those names off a list? Just at a glance I know several of these countries have large national minorities with equal rights, like Slovakia's large Hungarian minority.
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I can't get past the paywall so I have to ask, are they even bothering to give an excuse for this?
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Beat me to it. I can't think of another Democrat who's so beholden to Silicon Valley in a way that can't even be explained by just money. He'd probably also propose running Musk for president in 2028.
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They better 1) have Rashid and 2) cast someone hot to play him *shakes fist*.
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1) That was some painful sound editing, 2) it never fails that when someone is "called out" by such people for being cruel and lacking empathy it's in a video or a podcast full of insults and devoid of actual claims.
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It's probably the best thing that could happen along with Thune saying the Senate would go along with what the parliamentarian decides.
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Their falling out isn't a distraction, the bill was a catalyst! What are we doing here?
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The threat of revoking any of Musk's contracts, too. I feel like that was always an unspoken threat until now.
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One person I saw said it's to "distract" from the big shitty bill, even though the bill is the catalyst and is the obvious stakes of all this.
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The smart thing would have been for Musk to genuinely slink into the shadows (although the REAL smart thing would have been for him not to place all his chips on MAGA in the first place). He can't help himself anymore than Trump can.
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I get why they say it - the idea we're just at the mercy of morons and chaos is worse for many than even a malevolent plan - but it gets less and less plausible as the reign drags on.
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I was thinking the same thing!
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Not gonna let the "iT'S a DiStrAcTioN" gang ruin this one.
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Pick up a shirtless pic while you're at it.
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Neoliberalism still sucks, though, of course.
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I think David Hume is one of the most influential philosophers in world history right up there with Socrates and Confucius and Kant and he just worked a long series of basically office jobs until he wrote his bestselling book...in history.
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There's nothing like still hearing from data ghouls that the Democrats have to be moderate after the 84th peer-reviewed academic article with quantitative data proving that the idea of politically moderate is subjective and is at best empty branding.
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Yeah, especially with the "TACO" thing I worry the Dems will take the wrong lessons from online political culture and reduce everything to drama and personalities even when it comes to something as terrible and frightening as Trump's big shitty bill.
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Not just that, but for a solid few months "Don't Say Gay" was proverbial for Republican authoritarian excess across the entire nation and they treated it like a serious PR problem.
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More specifically majorities lean more left on many cultural/social issues than the Mattys of the world want to think and voters need to be but *can* be guided and educated on progressive economic reforms.
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That's more or less where I'm at. I feel like the most accurate understanding is a middle ground between "policies don't matter, only personalities" and "voters will come out for good policy no matter what."
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I'm not even sure what that *means* unless they really are literally saying we should just throw trans people under the bus.
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"Dem lawmakers try to placate online posters more and more" is just completely untrue though.
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You could just describe Matty's entire project as "Democrats should do less objectively good things and more objectively dumb things people don't care about if not outright hate" and it wouldn't be hyperbole or unfair.
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I might have to start going to Costco even though it's pretty far.
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Has there been any constituency besides the rich he *hasn't* stabbed in the back in the most gruesome way possible?
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That vaguely reminds me of how if I get into a game that's a numbered entry in a series especially a RPG I have to play all the previous installments first even if the plot and setting are completely unconnected.
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It's just always telling that they assure us that "AI" is just a tool but they're excited not about its capacity to handle tedium like creating believable cloud or landscape patterns but to completely strip away the most rewarding parts of art like creating characters and their personalities.