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themstems.bsky.social
multimedia maker, meddler + decoder I seek truth via patterns & examine issues thru the lens of information integrity & tech ethics billionaires are needy, sucking black holes. đŸ€—
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Not sure if I’ve ever watched a Tesla drive by and not said in my head, “why are they driving with their laptop open like that?” My car was made in 2002 đŸ€­
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Yep, and he got results! Not gonna go for the “never mind—I was being silly—I’m just a car guy!” act no, he’s dangerous & destructive—he’s a threat to human life
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Is he pretending he didn’t get results? Are you? He bought a smash+grab ticket with his election donation, & used it to go in and loot & destroy everything he thought he could use or feels threatened by. He got big results. He chose this path. He’s not a victim of people knowing what he did.
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If you want a party in destructive lockstep, you need to be a Republican—that’s where you can find that vibe
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Dems at this point is a coalition of many different sub parties & without the bootlicking marching orders of fascism bringing them together, not only will there be disagreement at times but rogue reps will make appearances “order” isn’t gonna happen, only dealing with each problem as it comes up
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Maybe there is a proverb or something about the kind of man who would crush a kitten to death with his bare hands to prove his “strength,” but would run and hide from a tiger that’s eating his family. Trump is that kind of man. Men who only attack the vulnerable are weirdo insecure cowards.
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Elon is having to deal with people turning on him who previously somehow still thought he was admirable & does seem to have his tail between his legs a bit about making everyone embarrassed to drive a Tesla but he probably takes solace in imagining eventually using our looted data to control us all.
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Here’s an age+numbers thing that got me: Biden wasn’t getting that prostate blood test bc he aged out. At 70 they approximate you’ll die of something else first within 10 years. We shouldn’t have reps within “not worth testing bc they will die soon” range. It is an unwise investment on our part!
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Well I’m not very active on here, was a Twitter girl đŸ’€đŸ„Ž But anything you agree with is rooted in pattern recognition/data collection But the same things about my brain that make me see/trust patterns, will have me unable to have a convo about age if it’s introduced it under a false premise
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Me? I’d say—look, there were additional R yes votes available. So this isn’t about one dead guy. It’s a bigger problem about gaining & holding ground. Which not only means winning seats but loosening individual reps’ grip on “their” seat & keeping them relatively fresh. It’s OUR seat. Not theirs.
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I don’t understand this response. Side? You’re lying? No I’m not suggesting anything about you or you lying 🧐 This is conceptual Wherein particularly neurodivergent brains are gonna get pissed if someone wants to ignore facts/numbers to try to make a point. And it’s not necessary—
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What I think is that I can and do talk about the age of candidates all the time and I can do it as its own worthwhile discussion without lies or bad math
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In March 2020 I was doing research because I was sure that against the guidance we should all be wearing masks. I found something written in 2009 about respiratory droplets/how they behaved and it included this image & I tried to stay away from everyone—6ft being a starting pt (with mask)
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my brain cares way more about facts and math than any political party or stance, all of my positions are fact and math checked—maybe you don’t understand a brain like that—you seem more emotionally driven
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I care about what’s happening in Gaza. Putting that in the hands of a literal sociopath let alone one who is a real estate developer who was praised by Israel his first term for breaking from 7 decades of US policy and kissing up to Netanyahu tells me you do not actually care.
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3/Because when I vote I just think of what will happen to all of us as a result of the admin that wins. I do not see a win as a reward to the candidate. I see it as protection for us—for the people. I make a strategic, harm reductive choice. In a general election, it’s never been a tough decision.
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2/That candidate is just one person. And even if you want to “punish” all party officials
 it’s not that many people. If you’re punishing an idea
 you’ve become harmfully reductive. Yet your intent isn’t to reward the other candidate? To reward the opposing party? Their ideas? It’s fucking weird:
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How grotesque that the media elected this thing so they could produce WWE style entertainment & make money off the Americans who survive(physically or financially) the results of this thing having presidential power
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Me: once all of these people with different identities have the same rights a rich able-bodied cishet white man has, we won’t have to advocate for them, so let’s just extend rights to everyone & we can stop talking about it. I’d love that. The right: no!
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but truly all of our politics are about identity & the only reason anyone thinks they aren’t, is because people assume certain identities simply as the norm & when those are being catered to, it’s imagined no one is being catered to which is completely false
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EXACTLY Trump’s elections are honestly about identity—more than anything else
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Truly. Like what would the plan be? A time machine? If we had a time machine I don’t think we’d just go back to 2023 to tell Biden not to run in 2024 because he’s gonna get a cancer diagnosis in 2025 after already dropping out of the election
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I mean
 if the idea is that people should know they have cancer the moment they have it, they should be writing an article about Trump defunding research because that technology doesn’t exist yet
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I do not have unsettling new questions I have routinely met people who didn’t realize(or whose family member or friend didn’t realize) they had cancer, but did not feel great or were tired, it’s really not confusing unless you have no understanding of cancer
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I think many of them instinctively know that
 so they don’t look 🙈
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Anyway, here we are đŸ« 
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Exactly—before he dropped out & there were “Biden old” comments I was like
 Have you read a transcript of Trump? It’s utter NONSENSE. He just delivers it without stuttering. I’d vote for Biden’s corpse over elderly Trump cuz Biden’s cabinet is very competent and that WILL NOT be the case with Trump
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I don’t know anyone who doesn’t fear violence. The only difference is some people admit to it. The others
 after all of their big talk, I see them crumble when push comes to shove. I see them hide out. But they can’t! They have a family!
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Discontent
 absolutely. That’s not new. But I always see people talking about “revolution” who believe it’s *someone else* who will be sacrificing themselves while they watch Just because people like going to stuff and getting cute pics doesn’t mean they are willing to engage in violence
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Most of the people online do lot like going outside love writing words about revolution but do not want to put on pants and yet many of them also fuckin blew it when it came to something so obvious as protecting the Supreme Court from conservatives so none of those solutions look realistic cool
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Simple on paper
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Jared is in prison
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Wait was this guy being serious? He thinks Trump actually pardoned him? No 😅
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Well I’m not *tolerating* gay people, they just are, as I am but from the right wing perspective, they perceive or have convinced themselves that they are being harmed by the existence of gay people (for example) but “gay” isn’t an ideology to tolerate !
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And as complex as my situation is, I think we can assume there are people with far more complex situations.
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I mean
 it’s not easy tho
 I started the process last year and gave up. You need so much documentation & crap. I can’t get mail at my residence & yet need multiple pieces of mail etc that have my place of residence on it. None of that kind of mail can be delivered to my residence so
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damn, the term “slopsquatting” is the first interesting ai news I’ve heard I’m impressed with that one whew
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Yeah well that’s a term popularized by conservatives to complain when the left is accepting of
 let’s say a gay person(not a choice) but is condemning racist conservatives(a choice) “so much for the tolerant left” so I’d say you’re right about the willful Nazi enabler part—full on Nazi probably
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Oh yeah his dad is
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