violanorth.bsky.social
musician, arts administrator, Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
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If it makes you feel any better, these types of lists always and without exception include every single Democrat from New Hampshire, not just one.
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I see.
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But there is a chasm of a difference between allowing for the possibility that peaceful and less-than-peaceful protest can coexist in a productive way, and being the type of person who just wants to slaughter your enemies.
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Mm, I don't know that I agree with that. I think that discussions pointing out the limitations of non-violent protest and the way it gets disingenuously held up as the only appropriate way to oppose anything are extremely legitimate, and I say that as a Quaker committed to non-violent solutions.
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I'm not going to start naming specific accounts so people can argue each individual case into the ground.
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If there was really a circle of ideologies, you'd see far right figures joining the far left as often as the other way around, but of course, that never, ever happens, because the far right would never discourage anyone who just wants to kill people.
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This was not about Gaza.
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I don't believe in the circle theory where far left and far right eventually meet, but the reason that theory has legs is that there is always a contingent of people on the left far more interested in violence than in ideas, and they'll happily switch sides if their interest in violence is blunted.
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This is my biggest air travel gripe and has been for a decade. Zero consistency!
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Wrong.
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the twin visions of cities as nightmare hellholes of crime and violence that you would be suicidal to visit and city-dwellers as wimpy f——s who are too soft for Real America is quite the cognitive dissonance
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Real lawyers, please feel free to explain why I’m wrong. I’m going purely off vibes here.
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That place rules. I went over 20 years ago and I still probably think about it monthly.
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DeMisty, I started sweating halfway through that first sentence.
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I literally just said exactly that, thanks for reading.
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It would be an objectively, smart idea, but I'll bet not because it would look silly and people hate being made fun of on television.
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Anyway
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"So she got hit in the leg with a beanbag, so what" Well, they'll be going for her eye next time, you okay with that? Because that's what they do.
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Anyway, as I said several weeks back, it is truly wild to watch a government take an economy that was in pretty historically good shape and do their level best to drive it straight into the ground on purpose.
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I don't 100% agree with that, because I do think they're trying hard not to replicate the mistakes of leagues that expand and expect the expansion franchises to suck for a decade. But this was a pretty extreme pendulum swing!
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And this isn't me blaming those businesses, at all! Their generosity is predicated on having money to spread around, and if their supply chain is about to dry up or triple in price, they can't make the money appear out of nowhere.