nonsense-opinions.bsky.social
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This is a laudatory statement. He is saying that Lincoln as not a centrist liberal. That's true, he was chosen because he was an anti-slavery hardliner. The equivalent would be picking AOC in 2028.
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Ehhh, I think there's a lot of residual "this can't be real" on the other had there's also a real chance that Trump caves completely and declares victory.
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I can't think of any plausible competitors in absolute terms. Honestly not sure I can think of any relative ones either.
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Only way to stop mass proliferation now is harshly punishing the leaders in that. These guys view the world through the lens of rape, this is that coming out.
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That's not what happened post 2008 or 1929. Frankly we've figured out how to make recessions optional since then, so the party of cruelty and suffering will be associated with pathetic failure and personal pain. America has had 1 and a half party system for most of her history. We can do it again.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjQ...
I think she's on-side
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Well there are German antecedents (to make better soldiers against Napoleon.) The indoor gym is completely the invention of American white collar workers though.
It's probably just compression for an ad, but I would like to think they looked like this:
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The PMCman, in moments of candor, freely admits the Virtues of Physical Labor (having a nice little bike ride) and the Feminizing Evils of Modernity (shitty old laptops.)
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We really should just replace impeachment with "any 15 federal reps can request a grand jury" (limit one grand jury at a time) and an Athenian style Great Jury of 501 random citizens from DC. Also probably bring back ostracism.
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*Pre-30s
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It was very common on the left to believe that deficits were bad, because governments generally only had them to fund wars.
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D+15 would put AL in play. 16 R held states would be D+0 or better. 8 would start with a Dem advantage greater than 6 points.
Of the remaining R states up, only Wyoming and West Virginia would be more than D+5.
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One of the founding principles of a thousands of Golden Age of Technology human colonies was complete gender equality: therefore both men and women were genetically engineered to be peak specimens of humanity with the absolute minimum of sexual dimorphism.
TL;DR: 7ft musclewomen make good SMs
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I'm not sure I've ever seen *all* of them drop simultaneously.
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Why would you do this terrible thing?
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It really is unfortunate that the typical social conception of professionalism has barely anything to do with professional ethics.
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I don't think professionalism in the sense being used here is necessary for that. I wouldn't call many of the EDs in my area professional, but they would all act ethically in the scenarios you mention.
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I don't think you do? I'm talking about cultural change here.
Both of the groups I am talking about call *themselves* liberals, so what I think about their politics isn't terribly relevant.
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Until former can exert discipline on the latter or stomach calling themselves something else this conflation is unavoidable.
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The most important immediate distinction between leftists and socialists is "are you ok with hordes of wealth so large they exert their own gravity?" A ton of libs are radicalizing towards the correct side of that question, and many others (especially media/pols) are not.
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The Mad Rapist King is trying to manufacture a scenario where he metaphorically rapes the whole world and forces them to say they like it (by making concessions)
Or it could just be senility and whoever talked last. Probably someone told him we shouldn't have tariffs on important inputs/meds
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Obviously Trump is senile, but he does have his opponents' number. They are largely unwilling to fight so it doesn't matter how much he fucks up. That's why we need to rapidly add new foes or discipline existing ones.
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Ah, but he has read his foe: the Democratic Party and American Civil Society are aching to fold to a strongman.
To get out, we must add new foes.
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I don't know how you could misread that, but I did not mean that kind of will. You've done this several times now, if you are inebriated I am perfectly happy to continue in the morning.
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Of course it is nonsense, Yarvin said it. The application of COIN to police training and the reuse of GWOT era equipment by police departments is quite real, and an example of the kind of testing at the periphery. I don't mean that conspiratorially, it's just easier to experiment there.
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They *will* as in: in the future. The sharp end of repression usually is, and their vision, like the rapists they are or aspire to be, is all sharp end.
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We aren't talking about current methods, we are talking about their desired future methods. This is the topic of discussion:
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No it isn't, they will attempt their methods of control at the periphery before moving corewards. Therefore we must do what we can to frustrate their experimental applications.
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There actually are USA made toasters, all the way down to the $30 range. I'm sure there are a lot of foreign parts and materials, though.
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Yeah this is built like a structural member for a shed at least.
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Also, let's be honest it's gonna be major industrial concerns, 50 y/o machine shop owners named Earl, and 30 y/o machinists named Glenda who will step in to fill the gap. It won't Silly-Con Valley grifters.
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That looks way too small for a toaster body.
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Without that? Without a prepared population at their backs? They will be few enough that they can be carted off regardless of their willingness to fight.
To be clear, I don't think that path is likely to end well for the enemy.
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They certainly are, violence backed by a barely accountable to unaccountable civil authority depending on location is a different matter than sporadic paramilitary violence. If there is cultural preparation beforehand, if they are not blindsided by the possibility, I have every confidence in them.
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I'm actually very optimistic about our chances. I'm just saying that there is a tool that can be used to prevent the election. I think it is both avoidable with cultural preparation and likely to end very badly for them if they did it.
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No he doesn't. That's bigger than the force necessary to permanently occupy and suppress the US population (27:1 is the rule of thumb, so 12.7 million), disrupting a voting location requires maybe 10 cops per station while voting is open. Beatable certainly, but requires cultural preparation.
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Well, when you probably aren't going to face lasting consequences, the conservative martyr-industrial-complex will kick you up to a millionaire, and the orders are coming after a dozen years of increasingly deranged anti-election propaganda? I think those odds are worth hedging against.
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* Not in sufficient numbers to actually hold elections, to be clear.
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No, it was "prevent elections." Violent disruption would be sufficient to prevent elections. American poll workers are not going to be willing to risk police violence to hold elections without a ton of cultural preparation between now and then.
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Sure, but on [slurs] or urbanites? I'm not a pessimist, I don't think this is preordained to happen or unstoppable if it does. I'm just saying that there are extralegal means that do actually need to be considered and countered.
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They can't defend everywhere, yes. That does not mean they can't disrupt enough places. Those are two very different problems.
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The majority of big city cops don't live in the cities they police. Anecdotally they mostly don't live in same towns they police in the rural areas I work in.
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Mad enough to go kinetic? No better than 10 Cops:1 combatant under current conditions. It's a collective action problem and you need organization to meaningfully oppose that. America also doesn't have the kind of committed, experienced protest culture to overwhelm police at every polling station.
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They will tell their loyal police forces (when polled 84%-87% support Trump) to stop elections. Maybe that won't work out for them, but there isn't an actual force in place to stop that. There's no Democratic Schwarz-Rot-Gold to contest it everywhere. There's a clear mechanism here.
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Seems like an actual use for liquid cooling, put the heat sink in front of the intake/behind the propeller.
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Caffeine infused anything is mostly from coffee anyway. Pills are the only plausible source for a stockpile to last the next 1391 days.
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If he cowers now then the narrative will be that he's an all-bluster empty suit who can be ignored, not that he's random.
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What on Earth are you talking about?
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Unfortunately it seems like a supermajority of Dems would prefer Cuomo over a Democrat, and that would be enough to win an absolute majority.