jbyrdmarshall.bsky.social
Politics and culture with a bit of technology. I know a good bit about two of those things, and imma get real weird about it.
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I don't give a rat's ass if they work. I want them to have medicine if they're sick.
That's... that's pretty much my whole position.
People should get medicine if they're sick. All of them. Whenever they might need it.
But Democrats have a "messaging problem".
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WTF?
Of course it was an intentional act of evil!
Greed is fucking EVIL, Hank.
What the shit?
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The actress' name is Bilie Piper.
She wasn't credited as "Rose" or "The Doctor" in the episode.
You daft droog.
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Even further, those "squishy" "Dems" constitute an entirely evanescent voting base. Democrats do ANYTHING to the left of Joe Biden, and they disappear.
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The "result" would be yet another 51% or so victory that invites a bunch of dipshit, low - information, "taxes should be LOW" voters into the Dem tent. We quite simply don't need them.
Let them bitch about "not having a home" for awhile. Maybe an original thought will enter their heads.
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Yeah, I gotta call bullshit on this being "key".
It's just an argument for the status quo, and for Dems to stick to the "center"
There's a whole 30% of voters that are dormant, and doing more of the same "centrist Dem" bullshit guarantees that they'll stay dormant.
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Mon Mothma dancing - a solemn meditation on radical normalization and the tiny moments of joy that can be found while the world around you crumbles into fascism.
Alex Garland - Violence is bad and scary but also looks super badass.
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My wife has a titanium bar in her leg from a break a few years ago. She can walk really well, but stairs can be awkward, and running is definitely out.
So I guess she doesn't deserve any accommodation according to your arbitrary judgement?
GTFO.
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Like ignoring a deadly disease because it mostly impacted the LGBTQ+ community?
Like ignoring a Presidential briefing about an eminent terrorist attack?
Like ignoring a growing pandemic as thousands died?
It's kind of how Republicans roll.
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I'm sorry, I'm just not wrapping my head around "donors pressuring politicians" around important decisions. The fact that that sentence exists and is entirely normalized seems to be the problem, and geriatric leaders is just a symptom.
Who's really in charge, here?
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Sorry they did this to your brain, man. Must be rough out there for you.
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You printed AI - generated garbage.
You do NOT - by any metric - value your readers' trust.
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In New York? At those prices?
Just go to your local grocery store and ask if they have any produce that they're discarding.
And throw from your shoulder, not your elbow. Lean into heaving that tomato and point at where you want it to go.
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Ron Howard: No, no they haven't.
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Because they are bad at politics and deserve unemployment more than anyone has deserved it maybe ever.
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This is just... deeply unserious.
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This is deranged and utterly baffling.
There is simply no reality in which Biden's health is an issue in 2028.
If you had the slightest bit of self awareness, you'd resign in disgrace. But we know you don't, so...
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So because of this particular bribe he's going to do the depraved, fascist shit that he was already going to do in his dementia - addled brain... even harder than he would have done otherwise?
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To do the same with Republicans is to court madness.
"I just think Medicare for all- "
"SoCiALisM NeveR WorKS and JebUS hatES FreELoaDerS!"
Lefties argue amongst themselves because the alternative is just bugfuck insanity.
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My only quibble is that the center left and the far left are both - despite protestations to the contrary - populated by sane people.
There's this thing about sane people. You can - mostly - argue with them. It's the right room for an argument.
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What do you mean?
The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" was totally catchy and could have totally gone viral.
You're telling me that "access to affordable healthcare" isn't on the tip of everyone's tongue?
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From space lasers to electric boats running out of power to "trying to get women to have more children", rando Republican B in a relatively moderate district doesn't have to answer for ANY of that shit. EVER.
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Did you hit your fucking head on something?
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Forget about the fact for a second that it's insane and deeply un - American that any politician should have a "religious agenda" of any kind.
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"Highlander" was always a weird thing to make the core of the concept. It just means "guy from north Scotland".
"Avatar". Same thing. He's not even an Avatar in the second movie. Should be called "Pandora".
I am willing to die on these hills.
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Utterly obnoxious because they're not standing on any kind of principle at all.
They just know the whole plane thing is a political winner that's easy to describe to the rubes.
Fascism that's any more complex than that takes WORK to make it important.
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Fucking Republicans keep choosing Oddjob in Golden Gun mode.
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I wouldn't trust your ass to feed my cats overnight.
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Or maybe, I don't know, try persuading people?
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Women in MAGA-land are firmly second class citizens. God forbid they do anything that might put them in third place.
And the result of that is weird assholes like these people who are more than willing to throw apostates under the bus.
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While no one's discounting the white supremacist nationalist angle, a LOT of that they're doing serves the powerful and the wealthy while manipulating the hoi polloi into thinking their real enemy is anyone BUT them.
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I have to agree with the other folks here.
Demonizing immigrants distracts from oligarchs robbing you blind.
Shredding the DOJ eliminates legal recourse against oligarchs and their insider trading.
Tariffs reinforce that it's those filthy foreigners who are your REAL enemy.
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I find this whole thing... juvenile?
Like a child whining that mommy didn't keep her promise to buy ice cream.
"Keeping promises" is a child's view of how politics works.
What is our media's actual JOB if they can't help the public parse if the things that politicians are saying are true or not?
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100%
The ideology hasn't changed even a little. They just started ignoring Atwater's plea to use dog whistles to say what they are really after.