sassy-molassy.bsky.social
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Maybe you should have a neo-Nazi on and ask them what Dems can do to earn their vote? Maybe a member of the KKK?
It’s not ridiculous for people to suggest that Portnoy is a bad faith actor and that perhaps politics is how it is because people keep platforming shitheads.
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I tend to think that as the world is flooded with slop, people will discover a new appreciation for things that they know were crafted carefully by people, which may lead to a renaissance in people carefully crafting things
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The Republicans are unpopular but at least a majority of Dems are mad at their own party that they’re not trying hard enough to throw Republicans in prison.
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Hard to overstate how much I don’t think the Dem approval rating is a thing that’s good for Republicans
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I honestly expected way more people in positions of power to be indignant at how stupid all of it is. Like, regardless of the politics, to just respond with, “No, fuck that, it’s beneath your office to act that way and I won’t comply out of principle.”
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Turns out you need just as much political savvy (maybe more!) to stay "apolitical." Who knew!
And trying to be apolitical without being savvy just makes you a pawn.
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I would love to hear more thoughts about this if you've got any you can share!
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"Lack of blunt talk" and yet! When they come on Bluesky they complain about how mean people are to them.
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Only if the stock price stays high
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I'd rather if they said they don't actually think Trump is a threat to democracy. Obviously I'd prefer it if they agreed with me, but it's shockingly hard to figure out what congressional Dems believe and I don't trust most of them farther than I can throw them.
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I personally prefer authenticity, even if I disagree. For example, I've been truly alarmed at the number of D's in Congress who are willing to say whatever about Trump being a threat to democracy and then not *acting* like it. I can only interpret this as inauthenticity.
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I take some comfort from how desperately they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for "talent."
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The golf world is also filled with stories of aspiring pros who had maaaybe made it through a Monday qualifier once just showing up at some Reddit randos course and shooting a 60 from the tips without ever having played there before.
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I played football in college, briefly, and part of what made it brief was realizing that I had NO chance competing against guys who were much better than me and also only lifted when coach made them and otherwise spent all day smoking weed.
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Plus, you don’t even have to give them a cookie if they’re posting online, you just post something vaguely welcoming and move on! It’s free real estate!
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trillion*
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And! It says both estimates rounded! The rounding on the 2 trillions by itself *dwarfs* the entire amount of DOGE cuts, which seems relevant.
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I thought the same thing. Absolute journalistic malpractice to not have the graphics be sized at least somewhat differently to reflect the size of the numbers. Also funny to think that, like, two proportionally sized circles would probably make it hard to actually see the DOGE cuts.
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I tend to think that there's still time for it to get bad enough, fast enough, that even Republicans learn to stay away from tariffs, but I agree that the uncertainty is here. America's connection to the global economy will just break and fray in a million little ways that will take decades to undo.
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But I think the reason this works for tariffs is that they are undone with the stroke of a pen until the uncertainty is baked in. For things like climate change, the harms are permanent as soon as they're incurred.
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I've thought that the best outcome for tariffs is that they get so high, so fast, that it becomes obvious that everything will break and so they are undone. I believe the worst outcome is uncertainty that gets baked in and hobbles the economy for 20 years, which I'm afraid is where we're headed.
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I would be so mad if my plane got re-routed for this - will certainly never be flying Southwest again.
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He’s in *completely* over his head at the ONE thing he’s supposedly good at
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I knew that Trump’s record as a businessman wasn’t good but I wasn’t prepared for the fact that he seems to actually have no idea how to negotiate with someone who has as much leverage as him?? A random person haggling at a farmer’s market would have a better intuition than he seems to have!
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They ask “What if a trans person uses a bathroom?” but they mean “what if a pervert uses a bathroom while being menacing?” and if they can sort out the difference between those two things, the contradictions will evaporate
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He always stands a little sideways in his interviews, like he’s well positioned to dodge a thrown tomato
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Underrated how many people behave as if almost none of the things they say they believe are true.
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More like Leonards eating faces, amirite?
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Also funny that they didn’t even insult *him* personally, and they didn’t do any damage to the car. Literally the most polite “defacing” possible
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Also, the idea that people are turned off by a "moralizing tone." You can't listen to literally any Republican talk for 3 seconds without hearing moralizing! They LOVE being judgmental, they just hate being judged.
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Teaching kids to read and spell has taught me a surprising amount about how *I* pronounce things!
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I think this is a brilliant point. I've been thinking that "left masculinity" should be something like happily taking care of *all* of your responsibilities, from work to parenting to being a good partner, but of course, this is what women have been doing forever.
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These are important things to say and it’s good that you’re saying them.
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Athy, athier, athiest
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This goes really well with my unconfirmable pet theory that most people who say they’ve read any “great work” either haven’t actually read it, or didn’t imbibe any meaning from it beyond a plot summary
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Someone should tell Matt that his idea is actually really unpopular so he should talk about something else
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I’m starting to think that maybe the number of masters of the universe on Wall St is much smaller than I was led to believe.
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We need to retcon “red tape” to mean things the GOP, specifically, does to make government not work for people
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My first thought upon reading that tweet re gulf states was “why do you need AGI if you’re fine with having a basically enslaved underclass?” The fantasy of escaping the dilemma sounds exactly right!
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I didn’t yell “fore,” because I was too busy saying “ain’t no *way* it’s gonna hit him.”
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The number of things I’ve decided *not* to look up because I don’t want to taint the algorithm is too damn high
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This is the case for so. many. things. They responded to being called racist by being incredibly racist. They responded to being called misogynist by being incredibly misogynist. And the whole time, they theatrically clutched their pearls that someone could suggest they weren't trying their best.
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Classic problem for really excellent craftsmen
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I've long thought that a lot of peoples' political opinions would be *very* different if they had to look the person on the receiving end of their policies in the eye and say, "I think it's fine that this is happening to you."
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lol my mind actually jumped to sports metaphors, too. There's a type of person who wants the ball at the end of the game and is willing to be blamed for the loss, and not everyone is that person.
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Pondering orb incoming?
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Not only is it a very hard problem, but being unwilling to acknowledge it makes it *much* harder to deal with!
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I don’t wanna sound like a whiner but that’s not the face I’d be making
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I wonder if you could get together a critical mass of local businesses to rebrand this way at the same time...
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Yeah, the last election made me way more pro-propaganda. If the world of media is going to be full of slop, then the slop should encourage people to be good citizens and good people. Like you said, try things!