sasquatch47.bsky.social
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This is the way
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He is a golem animated almost entirely by spite, envy, and a rapacious desire for vengeance. You'd need an electron microscope to take the measure of his spirit.
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Trump's super power has always been his ability to convince people that he's only serious about the policies like they like and that he's "just kidding" about the ones that scare the bejeesus out of them. It's all true. Always has been.
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Canadians have no problem understanding this. I remember a hazy, golden moment in the distant past (last year), when a statement by a sitting US president wanting to annex a fellow NATO member state would have been immediately disqualifying.
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Well, in fairness, her boss does appear in the file quite a bit
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As you note, those informational silos exist for solid legal reasons relating to individual privacy but the national security concerns it creates by centralizing all this data is hair on fire level stuff. Breaking down those barriers to hurt people *also* makes it easier for state actors to do same
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Show some fucking spine. Inhabit a world of hope and possibility. Imagine that you can still revive your democracy and stand on the right side of history, instead of abandoning your historical standing and civic duty to save your endowment. Become ungovernable
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Exactly. This is a class war. You can have billionaires or democracy. Not both.
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You can have your billionaires or your democracy but not both. Extreme levels of wealth inequality are cancerous to the functioning and health of liberal society. Obvious, yes. But too few have internalized this fact. At its root this is a class war. Act like it!
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Without: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Understand this axiom and understand much of the sickness that ails your nation.
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Oscar Wilde would have killed it too
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No, no. You're on solid ground. Episodic TV is modelled on the serialized novel of the 19th century. That's why movies were always the perfect vehicles for short story adaptations but longform TV series were needed to capture the complex character arcs of the novel. Carry on
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She's the LARPer in Chief
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I referred to the kidnapping of Venezuelan citizens to a foreign gulag as an amuse bouche. I wish I was kidding. Given the state of play, this will have to get much, much more worse before the third of Americans still watching Desperate Housewives reruns wakes the fuck up.
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Gotta be honest: don't know that it's possible at this point. The damage to your global standing is generational at this point. My kids might forgive you for this shit, but I wouldn't count on it.
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This ends in the streets or not at all. No one is coming to save you. So...are you ok with the destruction of everything you know and love - or are you going to do something about it? Tick tock Gringos.
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Fuckface Von Clownstick shows for the bajillionth time that his only animating principles are spite and revenge. You'd need an electron microscope to find a redeeming quality in this wreck of a human being. If he wasn't so dangerous, I'd feel sorry for him (no I wouldn't)
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AI cults are kissing cousins with conspiracy theories. A desire for structure, order, and sources of agency in a rudderless world. Their brains can't handle the thought that daddy isn't home, so they invent a surrogate. Daddy might be benign or malignant. But the critical thing is that he's there
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This is the only way. Surround the White House with 10 million Americans who refuse to leave until the madness ends. Nonviolent, righteous, unshakeable anger.
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American universities used to be the envy of the world. That era has clearly ended if drastic action isn't taken. If they aren't willing to risk their existence at this moment, then they were never the bastions of liberalism they were thought to be.
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Get yourself a hardcore trade unionist. Some bare knuckle brawler who understands the moment and the stakes. Enough with the lawyers. You don't call a plumber when the house is on fire.
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Your friend wouldn't need to ask. Any literate person with a pulse and access to the internet recognizes what a failed state looks like. You're Haiti with nukes unless and until you decide to do something about it.
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American businesses might fail if Canadians don't travel to their tire fire of a country? Don't threaten us with a good time
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So anyone who complains about not getting their cheque is, according to this asshat, definitionally a fraudster. Roger. Good luck with your boomer apocalypse. The most coddled generation in history is about to have a world historic hissy fit and I'm here for it
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Canadians *know* he means it. But FAFO Donny. You don't build a G7 nation out of a chunk of rock and ice by being a bunch of pushovers. Could he take it? Sure. Could he hold it? Lol
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His hair weave has the same super advanced properties. Undetectable, sir.
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Hi kids. Today's word is patrimonialism. Say it after me now...
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But who will buy it when a rogue government can cut you off from parts and service on a whim? Trump is to Lockheed what Musk is to Tesla. Alienating and antagonizing their primary customers and then screeching about radicals destroying their share value. Everything he touches dies.
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Big Law was never going to be the solution. The answer is in the streets. The sooner people figure that out the better
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The call is coming from inside the house, bud. You can stick your head in the sand and pretend only leftwing radicals are pissed but when you fuck over veterans and retirees the check is in the mail
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Chuck is too small and timid for the work that lies ahead. He is a man comfortably ensconced in wood panelled rooms with butlered service. The Ds need someone to man the barricade. They need a trade unionist not another goddamn lawyer
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Almost certainly. The talk of "vermin" and "polluting the blood of the nation" are the clarion calls of political violence. First dehumanize, then the horror show really begins. El Salvadoran gulags are just the amuse bouche
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To the extent that there is any remaining reason for optimism, it centers on the fact that you simply cannot fuck over this many people this quickly without dynamiting the foundations of your own political support. They are trying to speed run this thing and it's going to bite them in the ass. Bigly
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Thom Yorke: 🎵 "You do it to.yourself,.you do, and that's what really hurts." 🎵
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Truth. Major universities, in addition to having their funding gutted by the vandals in Washington, will see massive shortfalls in overseas students. Their contribution to the Canadian economy is over 20 billion a year, a fraction of the US number. Good luck with those recruiting fairs!
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“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream,”
- Bessent, first-rate bumper sticker sloganeer.
Run on that message in bumfuck Hicksville when the stagflation really takes hold. I triple dog dare 'ya
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You can't lose what you never had. This isn't a betrayal - it's a reveal. Same same but different