salmon-of-doubt.bsky.social
My human name is Matt Rasmussen. As a former op ed contributor I try to only share my opinions when I know what I’m talking about. Said opinions are subject to change with new information. I often use humor to help convey messages and ideas.
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I also have the first Dethklok album in CD form and it’s follow ups purchased in my iTunes library. Brendon Small is a musical genius.
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I have that CD too! So good.
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As have a lot of US citizens. Hope the other nations can mitigate the blowback somehow. For the last 9 years I’ve had recurring nightmares about that orange buffoon starting WWIII. Ironically COVID may have saved us all from nuclear Armageddon by distracting him from stirring up shit with N Korea.
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This has been bugging me all night. I rescind my capitulation.
You pulled over for a civic? No, absolutely not. Do not pull over for civilian vehicles, do not climb into panel vans when offered candy or puppies, do not send Nigerian princes your bank information.
What the hell were you thinking?
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I’ll take that bet. I’m thinking he’s going to double down and be extra obnoxious.
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I stand corrected.
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Undercover, yes. Plainclothes, I’m not as confident. An unmarked cop car is still a cop car. If a LEO is wearing full tac gear and displaying a badge while climbing out of an obvious civ vehicle something is fishy.
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The Whitehouse cleaning crew is definitely on ketchup duty tonight. 🤣
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My favorite part is the lax marching.
I was in band, a lockstep march isn’t that hard. We just witnessed our military rank and file take a knee during the anthem.
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And a politician is right once in a career?
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Economically speaking, the only people who profit from war are in the military industrial complex. Peace diverts those funds to every thing else. It’s all about where he makes his money.
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Ew. That makes my skin crawl. I agree with something Rand Paul said.
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Government plates on commercial vehicles isn’t particularly unusual. PUDs have fleets of them.
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The lack of government license plates on the car is a big red flag too.
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It was my own post. It was a question I asked from a place of ignorance and no longer served the conversation. I removed it to avoid confusion, it seems that didn’t work as I intended.
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Oh, my apologies. I didn’t quite read your first comment correctly.
I’m not particularly surprised TACO brought way too many ‘security guards’ with him. He’s a massive coward and he thinks it makes him look more important than he actually is.
That’s what’s happening.
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Oh, my apologies. I didn’t quite read your first comment correctly.
I’m not particularly surprised TACO brought way too many ‘security guards’ with him. He’s a massive coward and he thinks it makes him look more important than he actually is.
That’s what’s happening.
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You mean other than the 156 personnel stationed at NORAD all the time?
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Only the true patriots were issued the stealth camouflage. 🤣
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Shouldn't the presumption be that if am/pm is not specified that it is using the 24 hour clock that has no am/pm?
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Kinda like how SCOTUS allows themselves to take bribes and not bother recusing themselves from cases that directly impact their own interests.
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I’ve heard the spaces in between the shantytowns and the city proper are a surreal landscape of abandoned and unfinished mega projects and half buried derelict luxury super cars. Like some kind of weird post apocalyptic world to that used to be populated by the ultra rich. There any truth to that?
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Well, you aren’t wrong.
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Well after the affair concluded, I presume. 💦 🤣
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The kid with matches may or may not be dangerous depending on what he manages to ignite.
The heap of dynamite will eventually sweat and self detonate if the kid doesn’t light it.
Thanks for proving my point.
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Well-meaning? No, you misunderstood my meaning. I’m referring specifically to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory. Willfully ignorant masses are an extraordinarily dangerous weapon.
Evil is still dangerous, but evil weaponizing stupidity is exponentially stronger.
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Yeah…
Just waiting till the ‘cold dead hands’ crowd overlaps enough with the ‘I voted for Trump but I didn’t vote for BLANK’ crowd in our current Venn diagram.
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The problem is these people have no empathy. They don’t ever realize what anything feels like until it happens to them.
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MAGA doesn’t think. They only follow.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil.
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Eh I don’t get the Bin Laden comparison so much. The orange one is more of a bastard love child of Hitler and Stalin.
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Heh, I forget to add emoji to indicate when I’m not being serious so often that I forgot to include it as an additional helpful indicator in my ‘analysis’. 🤓
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Not a binary question. It’s an innovation of the application of mass theft.
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I remember the US being a jack of all trades but master of none in manufacturing. If you couldn’t afford top quality equipment from wherever specialized in the product you were buying, Made in USA was always a safe choice. Our specialty was mass production of pretty good stuff.
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An amazing practical example of what makes our sweaty bipedal bodies so successful in nature. Her discipline and dedication to both her child and her passion for the sport are admirable.
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Forgive me if I don’t consider information from Kiwi Qanon ‘factual’. You are dismissed.
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Oh… I was laboring under the assumption I was debating a rational human being. My mistake. Cary on in your delusional conspiracy theories I guess. This conversation is now over.
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Actually. I take that first part back. Those 12% were in a position to be manipulated into voting Trump for the exact reasons I laid out in the second part of my statement. That post is not the gotcha you think it is.
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Why would I be able to explain that? All this says to me is that those 12% that voted Trump were never legitimate Bernie supporters to begin with.
I and many other people resent being told by the DNC over and over that their brand of “lesser of two evils” is the only option.
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The only thing that might’ve helped in this case is that here on Bluesky his statement was unlikely in this environment. It’s absurdity is the humor.
This concludes Professor Salmon’s crash course in dry humor on internet 101.
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*ahem* Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to grasp in text. It depends on context cues that you often just don’t have when the joke is being made by a stranger on the internet.
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I voted Clinton while I held my nose. But I’ll reserve those FUs for the DNC who created the situation in the first place. Bernie would have won.