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midwestdude.bsky.social
Midwest prickly. Reefer mad. Chock full of mental illness (ADHD, OCD, depression, etc.) and not at all bitter about it. Politics, Packers, computers, sci-fi... Nerd stuff. SocDem. Not a fan of "teaching Dems a lesson" at the expense of the poor.
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There are so many good avenues to attack billionaires, so when someone tells Mark Cuban (or any billionaire) that they could end world hunger and then posts a link to that old challenge to Elon ("$6b could end world hunger!") and the link itself says "this would not end world hunger..."

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Ahead of the curve.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

My uneducated ass looking at patterns thinks the idea of Original Sin was probably always meant as a metaphor for the trauma passed down between generations. "Who started it?" Doesn't matter. Someone traumatized their kid who traumatized their kid who...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Thinking of some of society's ills and trying to figure out how @mcuban.bsky.social could disrupt the relevant industries. So far, I've got: -Mental health screening centers for things like ADHD that impair people for a lifetime. Genuinely think this has far-reaching implications in things...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A couple of things synthesizing: -An article came out that links gingivitis to Alzheimer's. -I don't remember if it was from the same article or a different one, but we spend a TON of money on diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia. I think it's going to come out in the future that the cost...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

"We like Luigi because of what he did. Also, I don't think he did it." What. This is a troll, right?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think there's a misconception with a lot of young voters about why people in government do what they do. (This is probably true for all ages, but less so with people who have more life experience.) I don't think most (Dem) politicians are evil, or want bad things for people. I think they get...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is the article I mentioned the other day. I think it's probably par for the course for most "profiles"--I can think of any number of tech giants who get these kinds of laudatory pieces written about them--but those pieces are just puff pieces.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Directionally correct" means you were wrong. "Well, so I repeated a falsehood, it was *directionally correct.* Don't be a scold." No. This is how misinformation spreads. This is how anger builds. On the backs of a million little falsehoods. We're all part of the problem.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I legitimately think Briahna Joy Gray is a grifter and a bad person. Bernie fucked up trusting her to be part of his campaign. To go on a slight tangent, there are some posters from outside the US who criticize liberals without appreciating the context of our electoral system, which doesn't...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment