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Serving up food for thought.
Universal basic income, health care, & education. Tax me for it.
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Ether-weight philosophizer.
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You've stated that you feel America will get through this.
But do you think the Pax Americana will survive?
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Very significant.
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When Kudlow can't even pretend to sugar coat it...
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I'm tired of these damn reruns!
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"practically every American dislikes the irs"
Yeah, largely because the right wing vilifies them in the zeitgeist, and hamstrings them so they can't go after the real tax cheats, while also keeping the filing process a labyrinthine maze of competing interests.
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Don't forget the Laurah Ingrahm at the 2016 CPAC.
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That's why I call them societal shingles.
They normally hide, knowing being themselves will get them fucked up.
They only take hold when we allow them. We need to make them afraid to make themselves known. We need them to know that there are consequences for being a bigot shit head, and they're bad.
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Another crime to add to the pile is that this administration has made me have to pause watching some of my favorite content creators, because I can only take in so much of this insanity at once.
I can't take a deep dive on something I'm already aware of from another angle.
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"deep state" rhetoric was always just a complaint that there were other people in the room. i.e. not an autocracy.
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No LLM should ever be trusted to represent anything real, ever. On a fundamental level, the concept is incapable of reaching such a standard.
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s'all good, man
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at this point it's also worth remembering that the US presidential election is the largest poll in history. Trying to figure out what happened over hundreds of millions of people across different regions is a huge undertaking.
And yet right now it's also critical.
egh...
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Move fast and break things is a concept that has been criminally misapplied. Literally criminal in this case.
It's for software DEVELOPMENT, not even software service maintenance.
Sure as SHIT isn't for public policy.
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Not really grunge, myself. Honestly never dug Nirvana, personally. But Soundgarden and Alice in Chains both worked for me.
Nothing against, just most grunge doesn't hit for me.
I generally go for up-tempo, major key, energizing music. Power metal, glitch hop, electro swing, that kind.
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To be clear, I'm not pooh-poohing the idea. Just considering other aspects and approaching with the caution the scope and scale of the idea deserves.
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This is exactly what happened with the "ok" hand sign.
A BS thing about "It means white power"
Then they started using it to upset people upset about white power signs
Then it became a white power sign.
That's why I say there's no such thing as an ironic nazi.
Now they'll do it with the salute.
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I once had that song stuck in my head continuously for a solid 3 months.
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A general poll like that might be interesting, but it would also require things like demographic profiles to check representation.
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It seems like the shift from landlines to cell phones with caller ID has really hurt polling methodology, and even though polls have been within margin of error to results, they have been farther off and more volatile, creating a cascading failure of confidence and process.
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It's like a zen riddle.
How stupid do you have to be to say so that the whole world can hear you call one of the stupidest motherfuckers in history one of the smartest people you've ever met.
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We have a big problem that's been decades in the making. It's not going to have a single point solution. Doing one thing doesn't mean we're not doing another.
What we DO need to do is to keep pushing the dems to do more and better, rather than reject what they are doing.
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Exactly. Democrats have ceded the zeitgeist for my whole life, and that's not an option right now.
There are some promising signs along these lines, but not enough yet.
Doesn't help when attempts to set the narrative are met from the left with "why is this all you're doing?" and purity testing.
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"what people are talking about" and the perception of that is still largely driven by major media, and major media has mostly gotten in bed with the felon.
What we need is for the national conversation to be overpowering so that to ignore it would be so obvious that the disconnect can't be sustained
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It's time for another Good Messaging/Bad Messaging
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I'll take the good part as good...
But I won't be fooled into overlooking everything else.
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Unless there's something outside the context of this clip, then hiding in the negative space is aggressive rhetoric against Canada, Greenland, the gulf naming stupidity...
Motherfucking NATO!
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It's absolutely a good thing that he's unequivocally calling Putin bad. No doubts on that
However, it's a shame that he couldn't go all the way with it, framing it as "It's just this one thing wrong with Trump's position"
That's an escape door, an attempt at weasel language to appeal to both sides
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The statistical signal became apparent before they could destroy the ability to collect the stats.
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I'm glad to hear someone is enjoying my philosophising rambling.
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How much damage will be needed to penetrate the willful ignorance?
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They are really REALLY horny to drop the pretense. The more power they get, the more they itch and yearn to just yell it out loud. One reason for that is because they're 4th grade bullies at heart, and are just aching to rub it in our faces.
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For me, while I wish I could do more, my "THE" thing for now is trying to help people keep perspective. Neither polyanna nor doomer. No red meat baited rabbit holes. No over simplified solutions. No ignoring how we got here. No acceptance of our disempowerment. etc.
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Like they say, pick one thing and focus on that. No one person has to worry about everything, and no one person is equipped to worry about everything. Other people will have other "THE" things for them that they can focus on perfectly well.
We're all in this together.
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It gets real tempting to zoom in on one thing as "THE" problem, especially because if it's a singular thing it's more manageable. It can be helpful to zoom out and keep some connections in mind. Rarely is a problem just one thing. But that doesn't mean "THE" thing shouldn't be attended to.