blurplebleb.bsky.social
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
Till I came upon this dirty street.
I've never seen a stranger crowd;
Slubberdegullions on squeaky feet
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The article Iinked in this post is also *literally* what the controversy is about
What motivates you to say it’s “random stuff” when it isn’t?
Why should I take your arguments in good faith when you lie about the nature of counterarguments you don’t agree with?
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You’re calling other people dumbass but don’t even understand what you’re arguing about 🤡
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
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Bullshit. BCBS said they were going to start billing based on Medicaid metrics, rather than actual claims. That wasn’t a “reform” by Medicare, it was just a datapoint that BCBS tried to exploit. You’re a for-profit healthcare shill. There’s a 0% chance you voted for single-payer HC.
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Anthem BCBS changed their anesthesia repayment policy in response to public backlash amidst the UHC shooting, so no, it isn’t “dumbass”
And if you voted single-payer healthcare candidates then you voted for 3rd-party candidates and did more to elect Trump than anyone who voted for Harris, congrats
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So to follow my example, do you think public billboards should exist without an available procedure for criticizing them?
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Oh sorry, I don’t remember if it was on the trending or discovery tab, but given that I don’t follow this person, I would guess it was one of those two
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Ah, yes, the great moral feat of filling in a bubble once every four years, I stand in awe of you
And if you think you can conclude I voted for Trump based solely on the evidence available to you, you’re a narcissistic dipshit
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No, I don’t, and that’s a weird deflection from the point you raised?
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Of course you won’t take it seriously, you’re a moral coward
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When I get this email Monday morning, it will be the greatest test of self-restraint of my 52 years on this mortal coil
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Kind of looks like a botched penile implant to me
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Psychopathy is not defined by legality
The actions attributed to Luigi Mangione are far less psychopathic than the depth and extent of suffering, up to and including murder, caused by denial of care under Thompson’s oversight
So the question is, why is Thompson’s psychopathy so acceptable to you?
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Every single book you lay your finger on?
You can take it home
(well, as long as you’re not creeping around the hold shelves)
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It’s the one that’s not the first or second
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I’m curious how you came to the conclusion that this was a rule that exists
For instance, let’s say I put up a billboard on the highway
What’s the mechanism that makes that open to criticism?
Do we stand under the billboard and shake our fists at it?
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When we finally get him in the public square, I nominate as the method: A Fork in the Chode
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why are you wasting your time here when you could be laying on Brian Thompsons grave, a sad but loving human blanket
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*dotingly shades eyebrow nuance, looks at clock*
oh shit there are other people in this room besides me and him
*frantic red square crayon head*
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drugs r you smarter
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Line of attack one: Trump is a member of a global fascist alliance, a fact established by his ideological parallels with Putin. In this book/podcast/blog series I will
Line of attack two: Former KGB intelligence chief says Trump’s a KGB agent
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Minimizing a concrete, evidentiary formal tie in order to emphasize something as nebulous as ideological affinities might be an interesting academic exercise, but it’s an absurd inversion of what would actually compel public response and possible action
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Mass deportations, just as one example, were a central, fundamental part of Trump’s platform
The ongoing claim that votes for Trump were simply motivated by “economic anxiety” is transparently false
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But the point of this hypothetical is not that this person is fighting for the same cause, or had a change of heart
They are perfectly content with their vote for white nationalism, and they will vote for white nationalism again
They are simply angry that in this case they are also being harmed
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But the point is that they aren’t “in the struggle”
They would be perfectly content with the white nationalism they voted for continuing, as long as it doesn’t harm them specifically
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The person in this scenario is not admitting their fascism was a mistake
They’re angry that their fascism is being applied to them as well
Unless you are interested in facilitating that underlying fascism, these are not your allies
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I wouldn’t agree it’s out there, blackmail is the oldest trick in the book
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At the very least he was collecting kompromat on powerful and influential Americans via sex trafficking with Epstein and Maxwell
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“When I make love to a woman she can feel secure in the knowledge that I am focused on her ex-boyfriend’s penis”
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It would actually be 33%, and I assure you that thinking people can accommodate the concept of a nation’s productive value paying for something other than a capacity for death-dealing
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Sorry, there is no bad time to cut the US Defense budget
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No joke don’t approach an injured or snared bird with that shape beak unless you’re wearing ski goggles or a face shield, they WILL try to spear your eyes
(volunteered at a wildlife rehab)
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Every rainbow flag that’s been taken down should be replaced with the Virginia state flag
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Standing at the tee, waiting for the bunt signal
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Cut out? They tried to give him the AG position.
If anything, Gaetz demonstrated there are limits to their ability to normalize pedos in govt.
Gaetz’ problem was that they hadn’t controlled what was already in the public record, unlike with Trump et al.
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It’s why ideologues hate science
Data-derived practice and theory doesn’t simply go away with a charismatic handwave
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Yes, totally agree, but I also think there is significant institutional inertia that will force him to justify his policy from a data standpoint
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It’s going to be interesting watching RFKJ navigate the move from the antivaxx JoeRoganverse to a data-driven policy role, I suspect things will not go as smoothly as he expects
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It’s insidious, I raised a point recently on “migrant” camps at Guantanamo and saw, after the fact, unrelated admonishments on calling people migrants who are in fact immigrants
I unconsciously mirrored the right-wing talking point, & only recognized after the fact that I had adopted their framing
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Then criticize strategically, rather than treating as credible their lie that “non-critical positions” are a significant source of government waste
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The entire Federal civilian workforce represents 5-6% of the Federal budget
You are doing no favors by repeating the lie that these firings are about “cutting waste”
They are about creating an enemy, and making it appear that Trump/DOGE is “saving” us from them
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99.999% likelihood of perfect doggo
0.001% likelihood of storing it all up for a city-leveling fur frenzy apawcalypse
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Does he always talk that way or is he sloshed
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I am entirely convinced Ben Shapiro wrote this
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Once you’ve got one dog you might as well have four