frankgrimesiv.bsky.social
Great-grandson of Frank Grimes, or "Grimey" as his friends call him. Historian, educator, and world-class houseguest.
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It's such terrible euphemism. If they are firing a projectile at someone from a gun, it's a bullet. And it's meant to be a part of police being desensitized to firing on other people.
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It's not that every personality is artificial, it's that people's personality adapts based on the situation/surroundings. Someone's "authentic self" might not be same everywhere, but Vance is an empty void with no personality so authenticity is impossible in all situations for him.
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It's because he is so clearly trying to be a person that he thinks he should be instead of the person he is. He is a dorky loser who found out if he debases himself and pretends the bullies are great guys he can be their little buddy and not be picked on.
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At school board meeting the same person said to me, a teacher, that "Covid isn't real," "that their neighbor had it and it wasn't a big deal," and "I hope you die from Covid" when they realized I didn't support getting rid of masking in schools during the height of the Delta variant.
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They don't even know themselves. Their entire ideology is a mishmash of grievance fed to them by Nazi lunatics. They just swing from one thought and burst of anger to another. I know it's not the issue, but Covid really was the perfect example.
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Isn't pretending to be law enforcement a crime? Why aren't all the "law and order" MAGA voters up in arms about this? What happened to "back the blue?" Surely dipshits pretending to be US Marshalls isn't good for them right?
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Like climate change "debate" in MSM should sole around "what is the best way to combat this issue." And any right-wing dipshit saying, "it's not real" should be dismissed immediately as full of shit and not worth entertaining.
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I hate "balance." There are many topics and subjects where there are delineations of "true or false" or " right and wrong" and we only need one "side" of those issues. Too often conservatives take insane, bad faith positions and then MSM has to pretend that their side is valid when it's just not.
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That's another problem. They often frame it around "He wasn't talking about me or people like me, this must just be a mistake" instead of recognizing that the cruelty is the point.
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I get it, it's not nice to revel in the harm being put on someone else and we should avoid doing it. But we live in a world where so much fucked up shit is going on, and empathy is sometimes finite. I can't blame people if their reaction amounts to "fuck this guy he's getting what he voted for."
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I think it's nuanced. What's happening to him is fucked up, but also, he is getting what he voted for. The fact that he thought he was immune from consequence is his fault. I hope he doesn't get sent to Cuba. But I also think if he does, he only has himself to blame.
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This why the lack of empathy among Trump supporters is so damaging. The idea that something bad has to personally affect them before they care about it is fucking disgusting.
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The reason why a football team watches game tape after they lose is so they can fix the mistakes for the next game. Democrats need to do the same. Examine what THEY did wrong and fix it. Protecting Biden's ego was a mistake. Both in letting him run again AND in how Harris campaigned.
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I will keep supporting and voting for Democrats because the alternative is literal fascists and people happy to enable fascists for their own personal gain. It's just absurd to me that people can't even use the gift of hindsight to see a mistake and learn from it so we can improve.
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I repeat my imperative that you kindly fuck off.
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Also, I'm criticizing the real actions of a real person. That is not a strawman.
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Too fucking late. He dropped out too late. THAT IS THE FUCKING POINT YOU ARE IGNORING! If I run a red light but hit the brakes right but I smash into you I can't say, "it's fine I hit the brakes and tried to stop."
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And yet you still insist on completely ignoring what I'm actually saying in favor of an idea you think you can refute. My entire point is Biden shouldn't have run for a 2nd term at all. That was the mistake. Him dropping out eventually was better than never, but still too late.
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Fuck off. If you're not going to bother to read what I'm writing there's no point.
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None whatsoever, I'm just pointing out that a lot of the GOP is incredibly stupid and lazy and certainly do not ever do their due diligence on things so it's very much possible they didn't know. But as you say, that's a problem in and of itself.
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Kamala wasn't popular, she fucking lost. Why are you convinced she'd have won a primary. And again, HE STEPPED DOWN TOO LATE! That's the fucking mistake. You like a dipshit who hits the brakes after running a red light saying, "I tried to stop, it's not my fault."
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He stepped aside in fucking July of 2024, months after the primary could have happened. The whole fucking point was he should have NEVER RUN FOR REELECTION at all. Biden fucked up. This shouldn't even been a conversation, it's so obvious from the reality we all lived through less than a year ago.
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It's very possible, even likely, they didn't know. But it is the not caring that is the key. They will only regret that if it means not holding Democrats somewhere accountable. And we all know that conservative judges will come up with some ad hoc bullshit to justify why it's different anyway.
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This is bad faith bullshit. They don't care, they just see the backlash and will try to play it both ways. Tout that they were behind Trump's bill when it suits them and pretend they don't like some of it when they think it will be the better play.
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Then it would have been better if Biden stepped aside and we had a primary where people could have chosen the person they thought had the best chance of beating Trump. Trump's reelection is not 100% Biden's fault, but his mistakes certainly helped bring it about.
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It's extremely likely that he will remain dead forever so it will never stop being worth remembering and celebrating.
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What part of fuck off was so hard for you to understand?
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And even so I knocked doors, made phone calls, donated money, spent all day at the polls, trying to help Harris and other Democrats get elected because for all her flaws she was still infinitely better than Trump. But I'm the MAGA. Go fuck yourself.
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We could be talking about working toward Medicare for All, improving the social safety net, making college more affordable, moving toward more renewable energy, protecting the rights of marginalized people. But instead we are watching fascist ascend.
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This is why Trump won. Ignorant morons like you who can't recognize that I am fucking progressive. That my anger comes from THE GODDAMN DNC not recognizing the liability that Joe Biden was. Biden himself not recognizing it. The Harris being handed a golden opportunity and fucking it up.
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She lost. By definition she fucked up. By definition her campaign failed. Every mistake should be vetted and work should be done to ensure they aren't made next time. That's all I am asking for. But by all means, keep lauding someone who couldn't beat the worst fucking person ever to run for office.
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What side are you on? The one that keeps fucking losing to fascists and dipshits? Progressive policy is wildly popular and Democrats spent more time enacting it instead of playing footsy with fascist to try to appear "bipartisan" then the GOP would either change or be rendered totally irrelevant.
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This is why no one should listen to a goddamn thing that any Republican or conservative says about education. They don't give even the tiniest shred of a fuck about kids being well-educated.
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That reads like a shitty pitch for a dystopian novel. Yet billionaire techbros probably think it's fucking genius.
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I say give the MAGA dipshits a taste of their own medicine. Logic, reason, facts, data...they don't mean a thing to the right. Free food that trolls the shit out of Trump and makes him the clown? Sounds like a good idea to me.
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There's no shame in making a mistake, but there is in not admitting it. There is not acknowledging it. The only think need is to make it clear they know they fucked up and to work to not make the same mistakes again.
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What's wild is I am a blue no matter who person. But that doesn't mean we can't look at mistakes and expect people who fucked up to take responsibility. Biden, Harris, DNC elites, "Democratic strategists..." they all own Trump's reelection to some degree.
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She a fucking dipshit who can't read. She didn't nail a fucking thing.
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Seriously, go fuck yourself. I mean that. If you aren't pissed off that Biden FUCKED this country by not putting defeating Trump ahead of his ego, then YOU are the one who wasn't paying attention. So fuck off to the moon with your dipshit take that I am on the side of MAGA.
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Again, you just make up arguments instead if reading what's actually there. I didn't say Joe Biden is addled with dementia, I'm not a right-wing dipshit. I said his age made him incapable of doing the job. Just like basically all other people who are a decade and a half past the retirement age.
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The "Lab Leak" theory gives people a feeling of control. If it was a human fuck up that gives someone (even if they can't pinpoint an actual person) to blame. It being passed from a wild animal in a market means there's a lot less people can do to prevent this because there's always wild animals.
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Nothing is more disappointing than the follow up Google of "can I have a raccoon dog as a pet" and the answer is basically, "it's a wild animal you fucking weirdo, so...no."
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Not at all what I said.
Joe Biden is old and incapable of doing the job of president. But his ego wouldn't allow him to admit or accept that. That doesn't mean he didn't know what he was doing. That's the problem he DID know and decided to run anyway.