howdidwegethere.bsky.social
#actuallyautistic Late-diagnosed, still sorting that part out. Software professional, dad, serial-interest-haver
Current special interests: competitive cycling, cooking fancy, learning the history we weren't taught, unpacking my own neurodiversity
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You're not wrong 😞
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Yep. 😞
Clear signal: Not only will this DOJ not crack down on racial injustice, it is actively stopping efforts to hold those doing it accountable
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LOL there's no way to win with these people
It's as if these constructs are set up to reduce all interaction into unbounded contests of will instead of reasonable ones bounded by understanding that this 'man card' bullshit is stupid and pointless
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My above post is probably best enjoyed if you read it to yourself in a pirate accent and replace 'eggs' with 'booty'
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Seems like those should be separate
an act of aggression
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threat of aggression with nukes
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They only "care" about the children as a pretext for doing things like discriminating against gay and trans people or pregnant women.
...in other words, they don't genuinely care about them, they just use them to shield bad politics
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Trust me you do not want an additional 3 or 4 percent of the population without their anxiety or depression meds
That's just asking for trouble, y'all
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First, we eat the rich. 😉
Then, we divvy up the eggs 😂
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That's a lot of gravity to work with, yikes
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It's just a purge so they can replace experts with lackeys
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A modern Molotov-Ribbentropp
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TBH I don't think the Dems' problem is that they aren't sufficiently conciliatory to white nationalism, if anything it's that they throw too much liberalism under the bus to appeal to corporate power
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Wow.
So, not a public body, yet has public authority
That judge sucks
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We're so, so sorry
I wouldn't trust the USA either
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Translation: Trump is not in charge, and somehow that's worse than if he was
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Fair enough.
There's also no end of fuckery available when you try to do statistical analysis of any dirty/gap-ridden dataset, especially if it doesn't all conform to the same data standards and conventions
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Wow, infuriating that anyone will believe any part of his statement.
Also, he swore an oath to defend the constitution- and is breaking that oath
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A lot of hallucination probably arises in similar data parsing failures
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Doge is not a real government agency and Musk doesn't have the authority to do most of what he's doing.
The only reason this is going on is that nobody in control of congress has the spine to check it and court orders have been issued to stop it but DOJ refuses to enforce them
...it's all crime
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That's because when you made the bike lane terrifying to use, it convinces most people not to use it
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Faster and farther than this guy, that's how
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it's literally their job
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amazing he can be all at once a prick, an ass, and a boob
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So I'm wondering: who, apart from lobbyists for businesses that don't want to pay taxes, wants any of this shit?
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It's as if these people aren't as interested in accuracy or truth as much as they are interested in conducting a hostile corporate takeover of the United States
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Yeah we can have civil rights and democracy or billionaires with enough money to spend corrupting democracy but not both
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As they say, the dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed
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generative AI generally comes to mind
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who *didn't* see it coming?
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Really?
When I hear the term 'professional left' I think of neoliberals, and I wonder in what way they've been anything but ruthless
But I'll agree that politically, the democrats (especially the 'centrists') have extended the benefit of the doubt for far too long to bad-faith right wingers
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Being autistic with a special interest in history, I'll never not forget that the Nazis murdered autistic people too
Elon can fuck off into the sun
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I think the lesson we might be learning from here forward is that we can have democracy and civil rights or billionaires funding political corruption
The problem isn't that there was inclusiveness or that it got too confrontational; it's that nepo babies with too much power are shitty citizens
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Yeah. When I visit my boomer parents and see the news they're watching tell them it's all normal except it's scandalous that liberals object to how DOGE is firing civil servants despite laws against that, that's when I realize the left in this country is decades behind in propaganda effectiveness
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if only there had been warnings of any kind
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It's probably helpful to understand that DOGE is only really about shutting down agencies that regulate musk businesses
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When his prescription for what ails people is enslavement, it's as if he doesn't care one bit about health or human services
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Yeah but the guy lying about saving anything while intentionally crashing the economy and subverting the constitution is certainly violating laws and saving nothing
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For sure not a quid pro quo this time, I'm sure
Didn't we impeach him over this sort of thing but back then it was about getting dirt on Biden?
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If we tolerate this sort of thing, it means it can happen to anyone for whatever reason they need to do it.
The logical consequence of doing so is that people are afraid to speak truth or be authentic in the face of anyone who doesn't like that and is willing to escalate.
IOW, rule by the bullies
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Curious they didn't just call it the Sturmabteilung act but they do seem to love their Orwellian naming conventions that pretend the act is something other than authorizing privateers to go vigilante
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Yeah it might be more efficient to just light the money and personnel on fire right now at this point
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I mean okay it's funny but
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I've just been mentally bookmarking it as the "Gulf of pettiness and spite"