thinkrealist.bsky.social
All the wit and wisdom you loved from Twitter come to Bluesky because the old place is a Xithole now. Veteran, academic, well-versed in right wing discourse, and insufferable.
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Something I’m waiting for on this platform are more accounts that follow the insanity of Twitter. Back in the day, there used to be Parler, Gab, and TruthSocial accounts that routinely posted the most insane stuff you’d see there.
I’m too lazy to go back and forth.
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“Repeated, near constant, trauma” is a part of a lot of American’s lives… especially those at the low end of the earnings spectrum.
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I was in the infantry. Most everyone I served with played high school football.
New studies show the weapons we shot had concussive force affecting the brain. I had to get punched in the face to be combatives certified. I can’t imagine someone using a jackhammer is much different.
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At this point I’m convinced we all have CTE if we do anything that involves roughness.
How are we baking that into our retirement system?
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Then test critical thinking.
I’ve taken all the grad exams. They all have some form of “evaluate an argument” questions.
I will say that most people I know who are homeschoolers lack critical thinking, and it’s not hard to figure out, and that’s my real issue. Are they even learning to read?
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Why can’t we pass testing for homeschool families?
I want to make sure my tax dollars are going to a good education.
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Well, to be fair, it is a Congress undergoing an active viral infection.
Likely due to a disease that is vaccine preventable.
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You miss a major point: Dems cannot cut through so long as the media remains divided.
Look at what Trumpers believe.
There is no vision clear enough or good enough to cut through.
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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I left twitter.
Please just post the same snark here.
We need people telling us the stupidity going on there.
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21 (or at least 18) to possess a handgun without a parent or guardian supervising them.
There needs to be reporting requirements for stolen firearms, and giving a firearm to a child needs to be a felony.
There is no competing vision on gun violence.
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There needs to be a focus on the gun violence that plagues our streets.
Instead of passing laws that tie the hands of police trying to stop gun violence, we need to be attacking the precursors. Take guns away from domestic abusers.
We need to pass a law that makes it illegal for someone under
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Zelensky said that he would be good with Trump cutting Ukraine out of the negotiations if the outcome had 3 things:
1- Russia withdraws from all Ukrainian territory
2- Ukraine can join NATO
3- Putin is in jail
Seems pretty simple for Trump to negotiate.
Let’s see it Mr. President!
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In the words of Green Day and Rage Against the Machine: know your enemy.
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ethnic and social minorities, and his relationship with people who have money and power currently. Also, I think Trump is less concerned with seizing the media because social media is such a more powerful tool.
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our country), he has the same willingness to rewrite history focusing on the glory of some time in our country’s history that never actually existed, and he has no problem using the wheels of government to get there.
I do think there is some difference in how Trump views the media, how he views
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same, I do think he shares the same underlying conspiratorial bent for an out group (in this case “Mexicans” who he has accused of being part of a transnational plot, spearheaded by the Mexican government to send prisoners, mental patients, and other undesirables to the US to “poison the blood” of
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I have a degree in history and studied insurgent movements for the military for the better part of a decade.
I’ve long said one of the issues with calling this group of fascists “fascist” is that everyone wants to say “you’re calling Trump ‘Hitler!’”
I’m not. I don’t think his aims are exactly the
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I do think there is something different in the current crop of fascists. I’ve called them “Neo-fascists.” I’ve heard others say “illiberal democrats.”
They’re a little less exclusionary in purely racial terms and their method of assuming power and maintaining a message is different.
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That’s what I was going to ask.
It’s more about article 3.
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I didn’t care when Musk went all in on Trump with Twitter, but I really left because I noticed the trend you describe there.
I had someone on Twitter try to tell me that they need paid content providers to survive as a platform, even though I didn’t follow one account like that in years on the app
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Please do one with this.
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had been doing in the EU.
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When you say “that’s a good question,” it implies all my questions aren’t good. J/k
I’m honestly kind of interested in how it will affect consumers on a lot of levels, especially with the emergence and consolidation of big tech. It seems like CFPB was doing a lot of the job European regulators
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I saw a report in the NY Post that food stamp recipients may have to start purchasing “healthy” foods only.
Is this true, and is there stomach for this among Midwest Republicans in Congress? I can’t imagine king corn wants everyone eating non-shelf stable food.
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Will the elimination of the CFPB have any short term economic impact either good or bad on inflation?
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Is there any movement on any of the “no tax on tips” and other tax breaks for commoners that Trump promised in the campaign?
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America is based on conspiracy theories, half truths, and out-and-out lies. If they were forced to be shown next to the best information we have at any time, the entire movement would fall apart.
They need to look to Wikipedia for a model on such a system, but right wingers would scream “bias.”
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I actually like the community notes idea, but at the end of the day they need to realize that the pure democratization of truth is flawed. There are so many musk fanboys in the system that no relevant information is coming forth fast enough.
But that’s the point. The right wing movement in
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I can’t think of one billionaire I’m a fan of. I’m just inherently against centralized power and wealth, unless it’s in myself, so making anyone more wealthy isn’t really an issue.
I just can’t stand how he’s totally wrecked anything good with the platform.
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I’ve been trying to stay on, but even the non-pundit people I follow are leaving or not posting meaningfully.
Between that, the $8 blue checks, and the broken community note system… I’m just keeping my account in the hopes someone saves it.
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That’s what I don’t think they get: they’ll never get Trumpers looking for “fair” coverage. They want someone who will lie to them and parrot the Trump lines.
You can either be for facts or against them.
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People are struggling because they don’t get the news.
I’ve heard the same things. The same person complaining he can’t read a story because he doesn’t subscribe. That same person is missing out on economic news they can’t take advantage of.