kidyossarian.bsky.social
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Discord: Yossarianis
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Willing to teach people to play D&D
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A good rule is "Never turn a politician into a hero", though it is safer to do well after they're dead.
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If Nate Silver isn't talking about other people as NPCs already, I'm sure he will be in a few years.
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That seems to me to be the correct explanation, and explains why the question of "Are parents supposed to help children grow to be their own people, or are children there to become whatever their parents want them to be?" is a pretty good (not perfect) predictor of where someone lies politically.
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Mine is "Well that was fucking stupid of me"
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They have no desire to ever do anything to benefit others, and assume everyone else feels the same way.
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And neither one is capable of making a parking lot that doesn't suck.
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Anything other than a series of short term spending bills (with the understanding that there will be no future spending bills if the Trump Administration doesn't follow through) would be a massive failure on the part of the Democrats.
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The absolute best case scenario is that they drive it down far enough and fast enough that Republicans join in pushing back before the midterms. And that's what they need to aim for: making the environment so bad for Trump that siding with Dems is in the nest interest of the Republicans in Congress.
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Libertarianism is the cloak his racism wore, but now that Trump is embracing it, he'd have lined up like Rand.
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The inevitable fate of Libertarians.
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The best crank thing I ever found on the internet is people claiming it had passed and that it barred lawyers from public office because Esquire is a Title of Nobility bestowed upon lawyers.
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"There can't be homeless people if nobody has a home."
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Swing voters are vibes based voters. The job for the Democrats right now is to make the vibes toxic for Trump. Make it so bad that Republicans have to side with you to push back against Trump simply out of their own self interest.
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Traffic signs are The Government telling me what to do.
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Playing trivia in a team that consists of myself and my 16 year old son losing by exactly one point to a team that has 8 adults.
There is definitely a word for it because I've felt it.
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They signed up to siphon money from the economy into their own pockets, they didn't sign up to try to understand simple causality.
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They all move like they're paralyzed from the waist down.
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Look at that, look at that!
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I measured, and the nails are actually 8 11/16 inches.
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Very bold to decide the party that can't build anything under the thumb of a man that can't run anything is actually the vanguard of competence.
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There is no anger as strong as that felt by a person who has never suffered hardship being mildly annoyed or inconvenienced.
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It's like how a child with divorced parents will lash out at the kind parent but fall in line for the abusive parent. They only lash out where and when they feel safe.
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They are taking a hatchet to one of the things that props up our economy even as more of it is devoted to scams and services that add nothing, and no one will like the result.
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Pasta is a vehicle to allow me to stuff my face with meat sauce. I am not ashamed and will say it proudly!
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Most of the rest of the media seems to be doing its best to back that up.
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So what you're saying is that traditional media is so incompetent that they can't win that conflict?
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My number one hope was a filing where they explicitly say it the dismissal is a quid pro quo, but number two was definitely a fakeout.
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P2025 wanted to turn everything to their own ends and destroy what wouldn't be helpful. This is destruction of everything for no real reason.
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"Sovereign Citizen Magic Words" but for the economy.
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I would erect a statue in their honor if they filed a motion to dismiss that literally says it's because Adams is going to help Trump politically but Trump won't pardon him to retain leverage over Adams.
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Druids
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I will accept this only if you will refer to me as "Slugger" or "Tiger" from now on.
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What's the point of buying three shrimp?
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We should just remind them of why Obama beat Clinton in the 2008 Presidential Primary, and tell them it'll apply to the question of "Should we push back on Trump?" in every future primary.
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I can do the last part
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If nothing else, you push back everywhere because everything they destroy is something you have to rebuild later.
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Practicing for the part by eating a baby every day.
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Chuck E. Cheese tricking people into buying their pizzas by calling the restaurant Pasqually's was somewhat funny.
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We are run entirely by people who believe the "Lone man who breaks all the rules to save the day" story trope is based on reality.
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The most valuable thing in combat is The Troops, and everything else exists to make sure there as many of The Troops where they need to be as possible.
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That's how I was. I really wanted to like both, but the actual gameplay was boring.
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Hearing "Gadzooks!" and thinking it a quaint little exclamation while the people surrounding the character yell at them to go to confession post haste.
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The very easy question to ask is "What's the point of passing a budget that the Executive Branch will just ignore?" Make short term deals with the understanding that any future deals will only happen if the money is being spent appropriately.
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"What if we made profit while competing rather than operate at massive losses to drive everyone else out so that have to pay whatever we charge?:
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Oompa Loompas were Haters of the highest caliber. They made up songs on the fly to mock children who just had accidents.
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I bet there is a 1:1 ratio of Pundits Criticizing The Halftime Show to Pundits Feeling Called Out Because They Want To Date A 16 Year Old.
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We're EarthLings!
Let's blow up Earth Things!
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Then you try to find a way to make the diaper genie not smell like rancid poop and end up with it smelling like rancid poop and lavender.