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Plus he deals with things they view as "smart people" things. The second he starts talking about any subject people have even basic knowledge of, it's clear to them he's an idiot. Look at the nonsense he says about anything he's read or watched - it's clear he misunderstands and misses the point.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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I asked for no plane crash and many egg
I received no egg and many plane crash
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—the Clintonesque New Dems in the 90s that valued play-nice and work-together, sunshine-and-rainbows politics, it's dead and dust at this point.
What you see is very much what you get. The GOP 100% has capitalized on that, and plays a heavy role in how we got here.
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Part of how all this has gone on as long as it has — is because both parties have maintained the illusion of those kinds of things happening. That there's some grander plan.
That kind of politics largely died with LBJ, after he pissed off his own party with the CRA, but with the rise of—
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This is particularly true of the Southern left. Guns are largely a fact of life, growing up in the South. A lot of us grew up hunting, no matter where we ended up falling on the political spectrum.
We just also grow up knowing the diff between "someone who owns a gun," and "a gun nut."
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They're finally learning the truth — go far enough left, and you get your guns back.
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I was radicalized long ago by Ray Bradbury, but if I hadn't been — that would've done it for me. It's a brilliant book.
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Deborah Cohen's Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is TECHNICALLY history — but it talks about interwar reporters and their methods with chronicling the rise of the Axis through their dispatches back home. Very readable too, Cohen's great.
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Since it's inclusive of "literary," maybe the Painkiller series? Fictionalized, but it's based on a lot of real-world accounts, and is one of the most truly "based on a true story," pieces of creative media I've seen in a long time.
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The Bar Assn is no different than the AMA and (the target of my very own, special, ire) APA.
They talk a good game, but when it comes time to do gangster things, they forget where their spine is.
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YoU bEtTer WraP yUr he—
Boy, shut your dick holster with that condescending little tone.
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Schrodinger's leftist.
Simultaneously capable of ruining every election for them, but not enough of us to ever matter when it comes to policy.
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This is the governmental equivalent (at absolute best) of going to r/ELI5 and asking about people's jobs.
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Darcy too, really. You can read him as either socially anxious or somewhat autistic. Not good with groups of people, uncomfortable with social settings, doesn't care for social niceties, his perfectionist streak, etc.
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The exact same number as the guy in charge of DOGE.
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I remember when I was in elementary school, we were all encouraged to write letters to the white house.
The mental image of OPM getting inundated with emails from kindergarteners telling them about their day is cracking me tf up right now.
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1. Looked into potential corruption in the Department of BOFA
2. Investigated potential LIGMA violations in accordance with established guidelines
3. Called the USDA to seek updates on the government Frumunda Cheese supply
4. Changed the office Twitter handle to AltBigBalls
5. Verified weekly KPIs
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Hindenberg famously had tea with Hitler, and allegedly was reassured by Hitler being respectful and chatty for it. He also famously supported the Reichstag Fire Decree and Enabling Act, and was otherwise helping (or at least not obstructing) everything through as though it was "business as usual."
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Hating shopping for pants
Tall people
🤝
Short people
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SNIFFFFFFFF
I LOVE THE SMELL OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMANITARIAN AID IN THE MORNING
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Honestly.
It's much less important than it used to be, it's just still stuck in the "common logic," at the local office levels.
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"Obama just continued it" is both wrong (he strengthened and expanded the Patriot Act) and not the flex you seem to think it is.
Even without having control of the exec, lege, and SCOTUS at the time.
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That's really how we lost the election for them. We should've called him Humanitarian Joe.
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My own education really disillusioned me on academia, being honest. It's very apparent, especially at higher levels, that unis see their job as being 80% networking and 20% educating.
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Yep. Those types...I'm not exactly sure are capable of little things like "logic," and I give you the poltergeist of "the left."
We're simultaneously capable of ruining entire elections for them, and don't have the numbers to warrant representation in the party.
It's not a people good at math.
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Honestly though. It's the same kind of HOA Blue No Matter Who Dems that have been unbothered by ICE's snatch and grabs on farms.
"It's sad bc they're brown ppl but white people will take those jobs! It's just like going to the pumpkin patch in the fall!"
These are an inherently unserious people.
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That's literally a genocide
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Absolutely. Bush the Elder famously called trickle-down "voodoo economics," but all this — it's no better.
It's just working the data to make things sound much better than they are. Lies, damned lies, and statistics, as it were.
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Fuck me, right.
"Obama expanded domestic surveillance to obscene levels"
OH SO YOU LIKE TRUMP HUH YOU RUSSIAN BOT
Some people's kids, man.
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It's this. One of those ways is that we don't adjust well (or at all) for underemployment. We don't break down *what kind of* jobs are created. Under Biden, it was mostly high-skilled white collar and low-paid retail/service, leaving everybody else out to dry. Same as Trump's job creation 1st term
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Which is, really, the same way the Germans did. It wasn't JUST the inflation. That was a symptom of a much bigger problem. Wealth inequality under the Weimars, and having been through an incredibly demoralizing war.