sibben.bsky.social
Dazed and confused, and still strangely certain of most things. All opinions expressed are mostly unoriginal and lifted from someone else’s timeline.
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Because they have no interest in governing. It’s all performative and for effect. These people are not public servants, they’re entertainers playing to the front rows. It’s both vulgar and unbecoming.
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You can bring a hot dog out of Iceland but you’re not allowed to bring it back again.
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You also had to get out and ask strangers to tell you the way. Which meant you had to make a face to face connection with people who lived somewhere else than you. How crazy is that?
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Frightening. It sounds like the stuff I made up as a kid for my RPG campaigns. Seriously. Just made stuff up that sounded kind of plausible on a cursory glance.
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The beautiful pipe dream of man’s better nature will once again deliver us to fascism and cruelty. And another generation of thinkers can then write books trying to explain how this could happen.
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Liberals are obsessed with the notion that common swing voters are Dana Scullys, when all evidence points to them being more Fox Mulders. They’re not picking positions because the facts point to them, but rather pick the facts that confirms their preconceptions.
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When you like being boss but you’re too lazy to actually do the work.
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2005 Tech: If people steal our work we’re all fucked!
2025 Tech: If we can’t steal people’s work we’re all fucked!
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And the directions this helpful assistant nudges us in will in no way be related to Google’s advertising business, right?
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Entertainment politics.
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Musk is the gift that keeps giving.
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Vitamins are woke too. Ban fruit now!
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Needs more gold.
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As far as classic retcons go, it makes Bobby coming out of the shower seem both subtle and believable.
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Trump is always saved by the reprieve of low expectations.
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Yes. Blatantly lying and hammering the same ludicrous message until enough people just relent and accept it as either the truth, or ”just the view that one side has”. Either is good enough for a dictatorial regime.
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So now he’s pro free trade? Yay.
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Hand, meet stove.
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He will still prance around like he made a great deal, Fox will tout is as such and regular media will be as vague as usual. When it has blown over all but the most informed will have the notion that ”he at least did some good deals”.
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Electing grandpa for president was a bold move.
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They can always use Wee Britain.
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Let’s reopen Alcatraz. Let’s build an awesome space force. Incorporate Canada.
These are literally the kind of fantasies twelve year olds have.
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That crowd is insufferable with their prejudices and superstitions. The extra knob is very useful for those angelic cleans.
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Silverfaces are lit.
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The amp of Theseus?
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The left’s debilitating fear of ideology is just sad at this point.
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Don’t want to give the impression you can learn from mistakes.
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Queen urges peasants to eat cakes.
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Trump may be crazy, but he’s *their* kind of crazy.
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Oh, you don’t want to look stunty in this current media climate where sensible political discourse is had between gentlemen over a cup of tea. Stunty is for noisy, multichannel media climates with super short news cycles totally unlike the one we have.
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How ironic would it be if the GOP dysfunction ends up breaking the dems instead.
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Cue endless rants of ’’ABC is so unfair and must be prosecuted ’’.
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Slop.
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I wonder if he thought that through. Slandering people is, after all, his only shtick
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Oh yes, thrust was involved in getting this article written.
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A disdain for vulgarity has been a common conservative trait since ancient times. It’s telling how it’s now something that MAGA celebrates.
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Good point. I used a vague term at my own peril.
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Yeah, I am probably guilty of using the term a bit carelessly.
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Socialism is still the big bogeyman. As soon as any liberal left/center party starts developing a proper reformative agenda they’re labeled left loons and banished to an existence of 8% powerlessness in coalition. I guess fascism is just more compatible with capitalism than real liberal freedoms.
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My making sense is that liberalism got hijacked by capitalism post-war and its evolution hampered. Token civic freedoms could be developed to an extent but not economic ones. Strains of social democracy and socially conscious liberalism were strangled post 80s leaving us with the austerity gospel.
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Interesting. I’ve always been curious about this aping as you call it, that the centrist do. Trying to adopt fr right agendas only to lose more. It’s empirically and ideologically counterproductive and yet all over the west it’s happened in the last few decades. Why keep doing it?
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This will surely motivate them to write many letters with tough questions.
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Yes.
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When you have an uneducated base you can just make up words and string them together like they do with technology in Star Trek.
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That look.
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If Nosferatu and Mussolini had a baby it wouldn’t just look exactly like Stephen Miller.
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The classic problem of organizations optimizing for the metrics rather than the intentions. Who could have guessed this would happen?
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It’s eerie how well these predictions have panned put. You only have to realize that the violent mobs that always accompany fascist movements are online now, and then you pretty much have a one to one relationship between history and the current.