gibbers.bsky.social
More of a reply guy - pr flack that's used to catching flak. Trying to be better. Prev: AB21, Kay Hagan, Cory Booker, Obama ‘12
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Directionally I agree with them but I gotta ask, does getting Omidyar money require you to shut off your brain and become a giant pos or do you only get the money for being a pita?
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The between the lines premise here is that the Civil Rights movement got in the way of True Populism™️ and it was bad the poor rural segregationists got chased out www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Allegedly it's over the tax bill - but it kind of feels like when your partner says they're going to take out the trash and they don't and now you're fighting over the trash but it's not actually about the trash.
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A big part of the problem is that conservative messaging has adapted to this and takes advantage of the absence of specifics to push the counter-message.
Hell even with the specifics they'll just lie.
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AITA? My primary voting demographic is highly educated and closely following my votes and said it’s “morally wrong” that I’m still approving Trump nominees. What should I do?
NOTE: Don’t say vote against them.
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Sometimes I think “we should build a grand unifying theory for why Trump won in 2016” is somehow easier for people to grok compared to “Under a normal system Hillary would have won.”
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One of the things that really sticks with me post-Elden Ring is how very flat (in an almost literal sense) most open world games are.
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These are the same people who say that Obama, Pelosi and Reid should have "done something" to get Lieberman on board with a public option.
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"yeah, yeah, like, the encounters are all right but idk why he spends so much time talking about how sexy the prisoners are and then gets really mad that I let them go."
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Garibaldi might be the exception here.
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And now they're trying to figure out who got it first and spread it.
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IMO this feels like something that should be like the Olympics where we just alternate the first four every 4 years.
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The real sin from the Obama years wasn’t just that state and county parties atrophied but that what we have now are these shitty little fiefdoms that are almost unmovable.
2024 should have been the wake up call that we need a heavier hand or we’re going to lose our blue states.
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My very limited exposure to NJ Dem campaigns (3 month stint on a special election in 2013) is that campaign capacity is outsourced to consultancies?
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As someone that grew up on GameFAQs and prefers written guides this shit slaps
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"If these bozos would adopt MY position they'd win in a landslide easily."
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Getting cut off my in-laws because I stand by the principle that a gene-edited child should have an equal ratio of the DNA all members of the Joint Familial Polycule (JFP) instead of being weighted toward any one particular person, even if that person has very pretty eyelashes.
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Dems have this historic opportunity to say "I'm with the party that will let you live your life in peace." and I'm baffled that we're just....leaving this on the ground.
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Yeaaaa usually this leads to "Our methods are objectionable but our outcome will vindicate us."
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I've gathered that many of them see political utility in NIMBYism. I haven't read Sandeep's book yet but the review makes it clearly he really sees the NIMBY process as a positive wants to adopt the same for utilities. jacobin.com/2025/01/ener...
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Exactly. I'm very empathetic to the arg that 'Abundance', is too vague and doesn't highlight the of role corporate power/capital.
Yet the common critique I see: "The Abundance Vox Boys are shitlib reaganite shills" which tells me it's not about overlapping consensus, it's about elimination.
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Matt Bruenig had alluded that this artificial tension was likely due to competition over scarce donors and honestly it really does feel that way considering how wildly off-base the anti-abundance folks are.
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I'm still really struggling to understand if there's a real constituency here or if it really is all "cryptobros flooding the zone". Like all signs point to the latter but stuff like this throws me considering Morgan's background bitcoinmagazine.com/business/us-...
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Tbh among my blue-collar fam that have crypto, they use it as an investment tool. If you're someone with unreliable work that's never had an employer sponsored 401k then it's way more intuitive to start directing money to a bitcoin vs. grabbing a mutual market fund.
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A lot of states have their identity tied up in specific industries that hold historical value but are no longer economic powerhouses.
Like in West Virginia, more people work in healthcare than coal by a wide margin.
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In terms of "depth" of gameplay/mechanics I'd say the game fits firmly in the mold of late 90s/early 2000s FF games. Not as deep as the sphere grid, not as busted as junctions, but also busted in its own ways (especially in the final act/NG+).
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That said, I had a blast and found mastering the parry/dodge system very satisfying. I'm on my second playthrough, there's a lot to enjoy from a character customization/mechanics standpoint, and I love how it handles resources.
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If you enjoy turn-based/00s-90s style JRPGs then it really boils down to how you feel about Sekiro-lite style parrying. As someone who enjoys, but is bad, at FromSoft games it took me awhile to grok. The amount of "game over"s I got was very very frontloaded.
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I'm public bus & BRTpilled but consumer/rider attitudes on this stuff is really bad and I don't know how we address it.
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You're very right but also the number of parents I've spoken with that act like it'd be utter insanity for their 13 year old to ride a public bus but are okay with them riding a streetcar is enough to lead me to think this is a very very real psychological barrier we need to break.
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It sometimes feels like "Yeah we all watched October Sky in high school but half of us said 'yeah actually, the dad was right and that stupid kid was way to into rockets.'"
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This used to be a massive point of pride in West Virginia. Senator Byrd was a hardcore proponent of investing in the University of West Virginia and he's part of the reason it has it's own personal rapid transit system.
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Thing about this conversion is that it's elevating "low value land-use to marginally higher value land-use", it's not lead to gold, it's "low grade lead to higher grade lead" which is really a policy stinker for everyone imo
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One of the weirder class friction points I think is underdiscussed is that the data center boom is also being driven by farmers who are trying to sell their family plot to speculators who will flip it to the data center.
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I went to the source of this monstrosity and none of it looks appealing catalog.loyaltyfeed.com/roadster/rdm...
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“Person that is directionally aligned with me but disagrees on one issue and therefore is The Enemy™️” is a shockingly common person.
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There are people who walk around thinking "We shouldn't spend so much on tiny parts that can only be made in America" and "We should bring manufacturing back to the U.S." without connecting how the two are intertwined.
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Horror movies of that era were insanely moralist. Drinking, partying, drugs, promiscuity, all of it lead to problems or death. The final girl was usually the "good girl" and would even get mocked for it. Action movies relied heavily on "former Vietnam vet gets revenge" tropes. It was nuts.
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One of the things I'm really struggling to grapple with is how popular women's/YA romance is so toxically heteronormative. Before the Romantasy craze we had Fifty Shades of Grey, before that Twilight. These were not great books either!
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I really don't understand how a movement can so confidently act as if they'll never lose elections while simultaneously doing everything they can to ruin the lives of those that support them.
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I think the bigger hurdle is less the ending and more distance & time. I think GRRM has all these plot threads and can't square how to tie them off AND get the characters where they need to be at the right time. The show just threw that to the wind but I think it's a major hurdle for GRRM.
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GRRM has spoken positively of the Scouring of the Shire which leads me to believe that A) we were going to "get" a Night's King, whether it's Euron or someone else is unclear B) The Battle of Winterfell would occur in some form and C) Dany would still immolate Kings Landing.
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Like this is bad of course, but for the longest I was stumped. I'd always think "man, you could bounce out of there and get a cushiony job/retire."
These people just don't want that and cannot be persuaded otherwise. Ironically, political machines used to be a check on this.
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It really wasn't until I saw the Mitt Romney blurb from his last book that helped me understand that, for many of these dudes, they just cannot fathom a life outside of Congress.
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I feel like the discourse around this race is going to get very weird. Not as weird as IL-9 discourse but I'm pretty sure we'll see folks hallucinate narratives/impose their grievances in weird ways.
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There's all sorts of stories about underaged kids developing a lifelong addiction to gambling and this stuff is the entry point and I'm honestly baffled this isn't setting off more alarm bells.
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They end up looking like Elon.
Really that’s a theory why he’s shaped like that. He’s on gear but not exercising regularly (if at all).
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Which is why some of the antitrust folks tariff-curiosity never made sense.
You’re giving big corporations the option of raising prices higher than needed to offset the tariff while putting in place an environment where consumers are sympathetic to the corp., why open that door?
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I think this is definitely more of a YouTube/Instagram issue instead of TikTok. No matter how much I downvote it my feed gets swamped with this stuff.
What I find interesting about TT is the timing of the content, idk why but it always serves me cooking content late at night.
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She has an unspoken cameo, I want to say she's in the funeral process for Padme? But there was also a deleted scene where they lay the foundations for rebellion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WGK...