far-far-away.bsky.social
If we’re arguing about politics it’s because you’re wrong
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TBF, when you can ride roughshod over the existing property owners and ignore any environmental concerns, this kind of stuff is possible.
Which is also kind of why we can't do stuff like this here without it being incredibly expensive and taking forever.
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That's LITERALLY the thing! All of these choads have been arguing against the dumbest strawmen in their safe rightwing spaces, nodding at their own smartness. And they all get absolutely BODIED when they have to mix it up in the real world.
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And what’s crazy is that GOP voters have been signaling this very loudly, but we still just ask them “traditional” q’s in polls & interviews and they fit their answers into that more important frame. They responded that the economy is bad b/c they think the country is going to shit
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That’s why all the traditional external markers (“if the economy does X, then the incumbent party wins”) and other materialistic political calculations are failing Dems. None of it matters to GOP voters right now /3
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white people and men to the pinnacle of the social order, to making everyone else’s lives dependent on their grace. After all of the current laws and systems have brought us to the “low” point, what good are they?
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But the most important thing is that their sense of the world has been completely rotted by the RW misinformation ecosystem they have marinated in for the past 20 years! They actually believe they are in a battle to save America and every rule, every law can be ignored in pursuit of restoring /1
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Yeah but that was also in the context of us winning the Cold War AND the original internet funny-money boom. Everything kinda seemed great! The federal gov’t was running a surplus and Greenspan was warning Congress about the dangers of paying off the national debt too fast!
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As a person living in the rectangular states region, it kinda feels right now like the czar is being failed? Anger is at Musk amongst those having their faces eaten by the leopards. Lots of “slow your roll, Trump will go back in & make sure only the correct people get hurt.”
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This is the way
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Golly
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Woah
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Ah, the ol’ “fuck I got owned but like haha look at how I am not owned at all ‘cause I’m doing the wow and woah thing guess I’m just cooler than you”
Don’t think those screenshots are gonna help you not look dumb
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Tell me that you realize you lost the argument without telling me
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Nah, you’re the only one who made the political choice to make the genocide worse and happen faster, and make sure that people who could NEVER be moved to stop it got all the power. That’s 100% on you!
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I hope you’ll stop throwing your support to Republicans!
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You’re so close to getting it
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Yet you got Trump to accelerate it. Congrats on getting what you really wanted, since you worked hard to defeat his opponent
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I guess you just want Trump and the Republicans to do the genocide harder and faster, so congrats, you got the thing you wanted most in the world
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Or, so Trump stopped the genocide?
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Vance and the rest all believe they are the warriors “doing what needs to be done” to save civilization and are sneering at morality and empathy because they look at that stuff as ways that the rest of us are trying to “trick” their voters into giving up the “fight”
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Congratulations, by not voting you have also supported and facilitated genocide.
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It's always a one-way ratchet. There no serious threat or harrassment to the kind of smarmy a-holes the GOP uses as props for their misinfo campaigns as props AND they also have wingnut welfare to look forward to. That's why RW social media is full of ppl claiming victimhood - its a kind of lottery
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It is likely to end up being a winning issue for them in the short term (for the ones in safe districts & states at least). Trump will be seen as strong and "doing what had to be done" but also a wise and merciful ruler who made sure to only hurt the right people in the end.
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I cannot express how off base people are at assessing this. This is *literally* what these congresspeople want, 100%. They can't pass this kind of agenda in Congress, even though they too want to only fund their own causes and punish Dems. Appeals to the king are a perfect workaround! /1
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Honestly I think a lot about how some anonymous corpsman at Walter Reed could swapped out his Paxlovid pills for a sugar placebo pill and let that evil sack of puss choke on his own failing lungs. Could have just let his own fucking hubris finally kill him, and spared this country so much pain...
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Looking forward to Trump showily giving a few people their jobs back so he can revel in lots of "How gracious is our King!" coverage and then like, 10,000 people show up and start camping on the Mall hoping for a chance to appeal to Trump for their jobs.
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I think it was Chris Hayes who said that one of the more maddening things about politics right now is being put in the position that you are defending the status quo when you really do want changes to Policy/System X
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The idea that a guy, who'd interned at a place that got $50K a decade ago from an NGO who shared a board member w/ another org that had gotten an email from Open Society, *might* get appointed to some obscure Pentagon job was enough to launch a thousand LOOGIT SOROS PULLING THE STRINGS memes
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He’s from the era that idolized Carlin and his cynical “they’re all the same, man” take on politics. Smarter ppl saw the turn that RW politics was making these last 20 years & have been calling out the GOP for it, but he has never been able to adjust his priors
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The only acceptable thing is a kind of Cliff Huxtable existence, where the ONLY different thing about you is the color of your skin.
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Kelly Johnson at Lockheed: "You fellas look like you need a downward firing ejection seat!"
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Meanwhile, the boys over at Vought: MOAR CHIN
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They probably canceled it because it has the word “Transition” in the study title
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Radical change in weapon systems development & procurement (& no techbros allowed) the current “20 years and a trillion $$$ for two airplanes” is unsustainable. We also need to be able to build existing weapons/replenish stock faster
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It should be noted that while Kansas elected a Democratic governor in the wake of Brownback, the tax fiasco has had no real effect on the state Senate or House, which have remained at veto proof majorities while becoming father right on culture and at issues
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With Mahomes it would have. Just watch the tape of his last two Super Bowl wins
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I can guarantee you right now that there are going to get the FEC filings of donors to the Democratic party and use it as a "only audit people on this list" tag in the database.
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It's also a shakedown. Starbucks will agree to remove DEI from it's corporate governance or something, and pay XY million dollars to Missouri, which the piece of shit AG will trumpet on his Fox News hits: "DEI has been a tax on whi- I mean hard-working Americans, and we're getting that money back"
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And you know this how? Lots out there abt how his trainers prioritize flexibility & strength over muscle mass; given the power + angle difficulty of his throwing, the fact that he's had 0 arm/shoulder/back injuries lends support to the idea that he does, in fact, takes good care of himself
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Yes, famously, no team has ever figured out "have your four down linemen be so much better than the other team's O-line that your are effectively preventing ANY play from developing at all." If KC had league-average LT & LG. Nobody got "exposed" b/c no QB even has a chance in those circumstances
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It wasn't a contract to buy "armored Teslas", it was more akin to an RFP soliciting third-parties to add armor to existing EVs in the fleet gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...
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This wasn't a contract to buy "armored Teslas", it was an RFP for a third party to armor existing vehicles in the fleet.
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You started this with “here is evidence that supports the idea that the DNC kept Bernie from winning” and end with “actually it’s just this after-the-process-is-over “nope!” button that’s never been used”