cubicdan.bsky.social
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I have no interest in such a thing unless it helps us better understand the enemy.
We need to stop wasting time and empathy on people who are at the very bottom of the list of people who need our time and attention.
There are huge amounts of vulnerable and good people who need this attention.
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It does indeed. And the Bible was used quite extensively by the south as a justification for slavery.
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And Google is even worse, so unless you go back to a flip phone (not the worst idea, honestly) there aren’t a lot of options…
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I don’t disagree with you. My point was that Republican politicians simply do it and damn the consequences. Democrat politicians could do that just as effectively, but don’t for many reasons. One of which is an obsession with following norms. Even when that could mean the collapse of the country.
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Great replacement theory. They’re all white supremacists.
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And, yes, I'm aware pedestrians DO do that, but no one condones it.
Basically, stop trying to make privileged exceptions for group X. Everyone just fucking follow the traffic laws that exist expressly for the purpose of safety.
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I also find this argument laughably ironic as cyclists not stopping at stop signs is very dangerous for pedestrians.
Exactly the same argument, but no one is arguing that pedestrians shouldn't have to follow pedestrian traffic laws and be allowed to just dash across intersections willy-nilly.
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Well, a better solution would also include excellent infrastructure for biking.
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How does this make any sense at all? If you were to argue that cars also roll through stop signs and that's illegal and dangerous for cyclists (and pedestrians) that would be a true and relevant statement.
But the solution is not for cyclists to ignore laws, but for everyone to follow them.
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No, this is very much Christian. Christianity has a long documented history of this shit.
We need to stop invoking religion of any kind as part of a solution to anything. The "good" religious people are vastly outnumbered and always fighting a losing battle. And they always have been.
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Because democrats generally obey the law even if the law is abhorrent.
Biden could have declared a state of emergency and removed all the Supreme Court justices and locked up Trump and his coterie of criminals. Nothing could have stopped him from doing it.
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Ugh. He can get help AND also be subject to the consequences of his actions.
This illness lies squarely at the feet of right wing Christians who think that "repenting" magically makes everything okay. Say this magic words and your sky Daddy will make everything go away!
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Wait, you mean better EVs for less is a winning strategy??
I thought the manly marketing strategy was all about suing your customers for not buying your product...
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And they're all so irredeemably ugly...
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I'd be totally onboard with it being a conspiracy theory. I wouldn't even care if people made fun of me every day for the rest of my life as long as we weren't on fire.
Alas...
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Truth. Still entertaining, though.
Knob and tube, though, is not strictly Canadian but common to North America in general. It's just the old way of how they used to run wires, doesn't have a ground wire, and can be unsafe. And sounds moderately obscene.
Thank you for listening to my pedantness.
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This. He utterly repulses people. He underperformed significantly in his Senate races winning only because of the Republican advantage in his state.
If Trump karks it and Vance becomes president he'll be immediately sidelined by the people currently bowing before Trump.
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She has a great example of all the things *not* to be
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Normally I'd agree but Texas always seems to unearth more vile politicians...
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Someone's gotta eat those faces and the leopards are getting full.
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I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked and stunned.
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Conservative cosplaying.
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"I'm a disgusting, lying, worthless piece of shit and those are my good qualities"
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I read that too fast and thought the first hashtag said #TheExplanationRoom and thought to myself: "that's a badass hashtag".
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And if it succeeds, at that point they need to remove Trump and then his entire cabinet, making it a military coup.
I don't see the appetite for that.
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Because otherwise it's a court martial and likely the end of that soldier's or officer's life metaphorically, if not physically. And given what we've seen from Trump so far, it might just be straight into a foreign gulag.
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I wouldn't put a lot of faith in the military saving us from the Trump regime.
This requires a full scale mutiny. A few, or even a few thousand, soldiers refusing to obey orders won't do anything. It needs to be a significant portion of the officers who also remove the other, "loyal" officers.
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A DEI trans athlete paid by George Soros and using space lasers.
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They'll find someone worse for the next AG. Republicans can't do much else well, but they excel in finding the worst possible human beings to run for elected office.
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To conservatives, everything is a zero sum game. Understand that, and their behavior, while still disgusting, starts to make more sense.
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This is what humans are. Let's stop fooling ourselves. Those of us advocating for a better, kinder society are in the minority. We'll need to keep fighting a battle in which we're outnumbered until humans evolve into something better. If we ever do.
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Hell, I'm only 45 but I remember the Charles River in Boston when I was a kid. You didn't dare touch that water.
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This is definitely forgotten. Major US cities had pollution as bad or worse than anything you'd see in China or India today.
We did such a good job of cleaning them up that no one remembers anymore. That's an *actual* American success story.
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That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me!
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Would be wonderfully ironic if the impending recession wiped out his entire fortune and he had to rely on the non existent social safety net...
I know, I know, not gonna happen. But a boy can dream, right?
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What the actual fuck? In any remotely sane society this would result in immediate termination of Roberts from the Supreme Court. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. The bailiffs will frog march you out to make sure you don't steal anything.
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Don't get me started on that... Anyone who even so much as thinks that any part of the prison system should be privately owned and run should be run out of town and never afforded shelter again.
Fuck that evil shit.
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I think, contrary to all the talking heads we have to listen babble, it's super easy to set a wealth tax:
100% tax rate on wealth that is significant enough to buy the votes of politicians.
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*good options
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If you have the means, leaving is a viable option. But the US has a large effect on the entire world and you'll eventually run out of places to go.
The VERY last option is a hot revolution. Everyone loses in the short run there. There is a point when it becomes necessary, I suppose. Like WW2.
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Choosing to keep your head down isn't going to end well. Joining the evil side isn't either; they're all backstabbing each other and it's emotionally devastating for a decent human being to commit the acts required to prove fealty.
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It's historically worked! Not without sacrifice, mind you. We need to recognize that all options are bad here, though. Sometimes you just have shitty choices and need to make the least shitty one in order to get to a place where we have actual food options.
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There are a few like AOC or Jasmine Crockett or Maxwell Frost and others who have been doing this. We're just starting to see the "mainstream" Dems start to do this.
The people are doing their part now and protesting. We need to keep that up and grow it.
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...and repeat the message. Ignore the baiting from conservative hosts, don't go on the defensive, stay on topic. Repeat the same thing over and over.
They've been woefully negligent on this, sticking to "safe" media outlets and not having a coherent, unified, simple message.
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You have to force them to pay attention to you. And that is done by protesting. When black people protested and were abused by cops and mowed down with high pressure water hoses on live TV it forced media to engage with it.
Democrat politicians need to go on all forms of media...
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Right, that's why I said they've been flooded with propaganda their entire lives, which for lots of them includes before Fox. Fox supercharged it, but the conservative propaganda network existed well before.
And it's a difficult problem if the other side controls the media, like they do now.
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...is a terrible strategy, so it should be the long game while we focus in turning out non voters, turning out the base, and giving the few real swing virus a reason to vote for us.
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...what the social paradigm of the time we grew up was, what different paradigms we have been exposed to, etc.
It takes incredible effort to question and break free of the things programmed into us while we were still learning critical thinking.
Electorally, trying to effect this change...