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They sure do love to bust out their Sharpies to edit the truth.
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#allplanetsmatter
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It's so hard to manage the anger that wells up when confronted with gleeful, performative cruelty. It helps to remind yourself that it leads nowhere good, and helps nothing.
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That sounds oddly familiar...
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Oh, THAT guy. He sucks.
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Who?
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He uses "productivity" as code for "profit flowing to billionaires." Government jobs = low to negative profit for billionaires. Private-sector jobs = profit for billionaires.
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No. They already look bad. It will make them look WEAK.
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Russia and China agree to disagree.
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It was never intended as anything but a smirk and a big middle finger to anyone outside of MAGA.
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Personally, I'm reading them in Elmer Fudd's voice, but you do you
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It's only the wind, Governor. Only the wind. Keep telling yourself that.
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Something about tea? And another couple of T-words, I think? It'll come to me.
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Havoc deliberately and by design. Not theirs, of course, they're idiots.
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IMO "Boredom: The Exciting Details" is funnier. Right away I imagine a Malcolm Gladwell parody. Though there's not a lot of air between that and the self-parody he's been practicing lately.
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It's as though they're afraid time is running out on the whole thing, and if they don't move fast now, it'll all fall apart. Passing legislation takes too long.
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CAPT. AMERICA: "I got that reference."
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Who knew a novel about sociopathic billionaire tech bros conspiring to despoil the planet would be having a moment?
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I think you're overlooking the far simpler explanation that he simply lies and distances himself as soon as anything he does backfires. He does it all the time.
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Stories are good. History is better. wagingnonviolence.org/2017/01/hist...
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Well, it's because you still have a job. Unlike thousands of people who until very recently worked for USAID, the VA, NOAA, the CDC, the IRS, NIH, etc.
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With any luck.
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Did you say, "You're welcome"?
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Also: eliminating cybersecurity.
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Hannibal Lecter would approve.
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That's not it. Uncle Vlad told Krasnov to put a stop to it. That's it, that's the whole story. Hegseth isn't thinking anything.
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They did try. But their timing was bad - it was after the one-percenters had crashed the stock market, instead of before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Na...
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If you're not doing it while residing in the Dūmskrøl region of Norway, it's only sparkling anxiety disorder.
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It's like a Mad Libs where every blank is labeled "dog whistle" instead of, "noun," "verb," or "adjective."
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An LLM. Because they literally don't care about the responses.
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It works great if you just want to fire a lot of people and scare the rest, with the goal of destroying the government and replacing it with your own profitable enterprises.
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... and the alternative? Are we going back to call trees and corkboards?
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Costco carries many of the same items FWIW