worstplace.bsky.social
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Sorry, man, but if your emergent "movement" has a whole book about it, no clear principles, and no adherents, then you're talking about a scam
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(listening intently)
Oh, you consider that sexual? Then yes, I suppose I am a sex pervert.
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I understand why guys like Paul and Aaron designed a moderation system that's guaranteed to crumble at scale, but I don't think I'll ever understand those of you who defended their terrible decisions.
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Turns out that if you let people create huge lists of users, those can be used by bad actors, and then you have to moderate the lists, and then you have to set the kind of moderation policies you didn't want to set in the first place, and then you end up nuking someone's anodyne lists. Whoopsie!
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Going on CNBC to say "I think both the President and Elmo are WACK" and not even finishing before they cut to a rerun of Mad Money
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your emotional regulation is outstanding
are you going to cry
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"Jonathan Chait follower"
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No
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What's the joke
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You can say "I like the panzer division" and someone will say "so you hate the waffen ss?"
No, mein freund. That's a whole new sentence.
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it's hard to imagine you're real: the rare person who would actually be smarter and better informed for watching The West Wing
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Hey just wanted to jump in to say that you're about 1/1,000th as smart as you think you are, have no idea how elections work, and have no moral compass to speak of. A true waste.
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Medicare for All would be a good one! An actual plan for addressing rising housing costs could work, too. They need to be big and universal and easy to understand.
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Absolutely, the Sanders campaign fell down in many important ways!
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People love to condense "the black vote" into a single bloc and then act like they're doing it antiracistly
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Have you ever cast a ballot for a candidate you weren't enthused about?
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It's good policy, but that doesn't make it an effective tent pole for a campaign. Like, re-expanding the CTC would be great policy and has even more salience to voters but I wouldn't view that as a good centerpiece either.
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Why are you talking about bigotry and superstition? You've lost the plot.
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I think Parker has done a fine job of framing the traits that a signature policy proposal needs to have, so it's confounding that you would reply that it's "good policy." I know that. That's inherent in my argument.
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Which is a great policy for winning votes from the exact constituency she'd already won.
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I'm muting you now. Have fun!
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two options if you want to make an impact on the prevalence of abuse against women: tear down the patriarchy, or address the relatively smaller associated problems like economic conditions and our joke of a safety net. These are two completely different modes of change and both are necessary.
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that men are secretly and consciously voting for Trump because they hate women, rather than that they vote for Trump because it is yet another way for them to regain a feeling of control over their lives - a feeling that is heavily informed by broad economic conditions.
More to the point, you have
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It's not a rewording, it's a completely different argument. The argument isn't that they actually have more respect for women. In fact, that is my point: that patriarchal norms that say men's place is in dominance over women are not in competition with economic conditions. It's ludicrous to argue
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No, he's claiming that survey respondents are lying about why they made their choices - that they voted how they did because they want to dominate women but know they have to lie about it in public.
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lol, lmao even
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It's astounding that you continue to write like a snot while continuing to misread my posts (who said "one study?").
At no point did I say abuse could be ended by fixing economic problems. That's something you made up.
I suggest rereading the post I was responding to and my OP.
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bolsters my argument, which you didn't understand.
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Your "thing" is that you don't know anything about this. The research I'm referencing is not "divorced from the context it was collected in." It's research specifically on the prevalence and severity of abuse in relation to broad economic conditions. Increases in other antisocial behavior only
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You keep saying this but you have no idea what research I'm referencing, and we already established you misread my initial post. Do you win some kind of prize for being annoying? You're out of your depth.
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Research is extremely important to solving these problems, actually. The LAP came directly out of a research project.
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I'm not addressing it because it's irrelevant. You don't know what the terms mean, you don't know how abuse functions or why it happens. You have nothing to add to this conversation.
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Sorry, next time I'll write my post for aggro know-nothing pseudo intellectuals
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You know almost nothing about this subject to the point that you're claiming financial abuse is a precursor to violence. This is funny because 99% of abuse victims are abused financially.
By the way, the literature supports that economic anxiety increases the rate and severity of abuse. 🤷
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It's not hard to connect the two because they're both forms of abuse meant to give the abuser a feeling of power and control over their victim. I have no idea what you're hinting at.
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Financial abuse is the most common form of abuse, actually. You should read up on this subject!
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Abuse does not mean violence. There are many kinds of abuse.
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I didn't say anything about violence.
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What I like about this story is that there was exactly one reason to ever take a meeting with SBF - to receive huge sums of money - and Matt's story is that he was too stupid to take it