comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Ted Cruz can't even stand up for his own wife. He won't stand up for anyone else.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Would I get called a heretic if I suggested doing the same to the #SuperBowl?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
As #Beginyahu has been known to say, "I wish great success to both sides!"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Not at all surprising to hear #oligarchs talking like that. They probably all grew up surrounded by suckups telling them they were entitled to other people's resources, money and even body parts. And not that far from what rich #libertarians have been saying here either.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Did this guy also call his parents "slave-drivers" when they tried to get him to take a bath or clean up his room? Because that's the level of "maturity" we're seeing here.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Did this guy also call his parents "slave-drivers" when they tried to get him to take a bath or clean up his room? Because that's the level of "maturity" we're seeing here.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Her role has been to keep her own hands clean of Youngkin's malfeasance. And it seems to be working -- at least until Democrats manage to start talking about Youngkin's policies and their consequences.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
John Goodman is such a career scene-stealer I'm wondering why he isn't in jail for life?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
We're gonna have to do more than portray Earle-Sears as "Clarence Thomas Lite." Has she said anything about the Minnesota shooting yet?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"I'm less scare than you are!" "No, I'M less scary!" "Are not!" "Am too!"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
It was "never debated properly" because neither major party had the guts to take a stand on it, one way or the other. That's why they had a "non-binding referendum" on it (instead of, you know, voting on a bill like a normal lege); and that's also why they considered it "binding" after it passed.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
That name choice should have been a tip-off, but all the techbro-fanboys took it as proof of how cool and edgy and insightful their billionaire class was.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Who's creating an "AI rights advocacy group?" The guys who built "Mecha-Hitler?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Who the hell is this guy?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
First he blithers about women's sexual orientation, then he says "we" don't understand women's sexual orientation. Classic #KnowNothingism: "I don't know what I'm talking about, but no one else can possibly know more than me!"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that's even more disgracefully stupid than he's been before. Is he still on ketamine? This clown isn't even talking serious sci-fi anymore -- he's talking "The Jetsons."
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
She's also a pro-slavery apologist. Here's a bit more on her: freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
How are Democrats responsible for that?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
#InsanelyBrilliant or #BrilliantlyInsane?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
And, while Americans didn't invent slavery, we did "upgrade" it to it's most systematically, efficiently cruel and dehumanizing form (so far at least).
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
And sell it to the highest bidder -- most likely terrified Trumpers buying gold 'cuz Democrats are gonna destroy civilization -- to raise money to fund at least some of what NIH were doing before RFKwack took over.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
So...would this Cantor guy call #Trump a "Gold Star Pedophile?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Look on the bright side: at least his little head is admitting that transwomen are women. For people like him, that's progress!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
ALL of our thoughts and feelings can be said to have a "neurological origin." This is a pretty obvious, and lame, way to kinda-sorta-maybe excuse pedophilia.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
So THAT'S the "Gold Standard Science" RFKwack has been talking about! I was wondering if they'd published anything. So...do we have a safer COVID vaccine yet?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
That's really good news -- unless all those solar farms he builds are dedicated solely to powering data centers...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Which "serious countries" are you referring to? And what "math?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I've known some good people from several Morris teams in England. I really hope Morris and other English folk dances/traditions aren't getting caught up in all this racist bullshit.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they know they can trust the police NOT to look for them?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If you think what Trump is doing is preferable to you paying more taxes, then no, you're not "the furthest from a Trump fan" -- you ARE a Trump fan, and for much the same reasons all your fellow bazillionaires are Trump fans.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
And no answer from Mark. What a jucking foke.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it's a bit like #BillMaher trying to pretend he's relevant because he had dinner with Trump and Trump listened to him, so that means he's accomplishing more than all those nasty critics that Trump is ignoring.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Since when has complimenting Donald Trump "definitely" guaranteed anyone anything? Like I said in the thread you cited, this guy is giving stoopid "thought exercises" a bad name. #WhoWritesThisStuff?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG that just gives stoopid "thought exercises" a bad name. Just for starters, pitching and hitting anything other than a regulation baseball wouldn't count as a valid play at all. So you wouldn't "win" anything by killing a baby, full stop. #WhoWritesThisStuff?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"Hypothetically," there's really no chance that complimenting Trump would do anyone any good. When has Trump ever reciprocated when anyone -- even his most longstanding "friends" -- did him a solid?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
And if you don't care enough to write your own work, you probably also won't care enough to properly edit and fact-check whatever you got your AI pal to write for you.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't remember anyone saying you gotta wear 3M sun-block if you're near a solar farm, in case of accidental sunlight-leak. And we've pretty much got the hang of not building wind-turbines in known bird-migration paths.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, that kind of convinced me that if even the Japanese, with their longstanding reputation for honor, competence and good order, couldn't do nuclear power right, than no one could.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
...at least one of that lot still believed and parroted the old Soviet propaganda-point that less than 40 people died as a result of the #Chernobyl fiasco. Some old technocratic-utopian fantasies die harder than others.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair, I've seen people far more emotionally invested/entrenched in yesterday's nuclear future than Ducky seems to be. Some of them couldn't even admit that anyone could possibly have any sound rational objection to the One True Way of nuclear power for everyone/everything. Hell...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Illegal orders are illegal, both to issue and to follow.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, in the (LONG) time it takes to design, approve and build a #nuclear plant, what are the people it's expected to serve do while they wait for this ideal solution? Stick with #FossilFuels, or build #Renewables to tide them over? Either way, that nuclear plant is gonna look kinda superfluous.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Would you trust ANYONE in the current #US #Government, #regulatory or #corporate sectors to do a decent job building, operating or managing a #nuclear plant, AND being at all honest to the public about it? Last century's pro-business hacks were bad enough.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"Safer than ever" ain't saying much. And the up-front costs (money and time) of designing and building them are prohibitive, as is the sunk-capital problem. I used to be pro #nuclear, but advancement in #CleanEnergy sources has gone WAY beyond what we predicted back in the '80s.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
That's kinda funny on two levels: first because it could seriously happen, and second because I'm suddenly not sure whether I want it to seriously happen.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Why the fuck are they taking ANYONE from the #US who isn't a #Ugandan national? Are we taking people from #Uganda whom their government don't like? Oh wait, no, that's immigration and therefore bad...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Which genocide am I allegedly "justifying?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I suddenly want to work for this guy! Anyone know how I can contact him?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn, it don't take much to get blocked up in here...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If the US had ANY evidence of gang activity, none of this would be necessary: they could have just charged and tried him, and likely had him convicted and locked away forever, and no one would have looked back. This threat of rendition to Uganda is proof they never had anything, and knew it.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but does this pass the test of "Gold Standard Science?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"They've been fighting for so long they don't know what the fuck they're doing!"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
And the worst part of all this is that all this backstabbing and shifting about DOESN'T help him politically. All it does is demoralize and discourage potential supporters without winning any respect or votes from our opponents or "uncommitted" folks.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"The WHOLE pronoun thing?" Sounds like a pretty tall order... ๐
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but pointing and laughing doesn't change that much either -- they were already "mad."
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
What we SHOULD be doing is pushing #Newsom (and any other potential #2028 candidate) to stop being so wobbly and start improving their strategy. Whatever stoopid mistakes they're making this year, they have plenty of time to correct them, and they need to start doing that YESTERDAY.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
You mean the terrorist group whom Israeli officials have explicitly said "helps us?"
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
It certainly seems okay with the #Likudniks who knowingly allowed #Hamas to enter #Israel and kill their own people, despite being warned in advance, by #US and #Egyptian intel, that the attack was coming. #Beginyahu wanted an "Israeli 9/11" and Hamas gave them one.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If "the public aren't sure," that's probably because our "news" media aren't giving them nearly enough information about what's going on. And whose fault is that...?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
"Eyesore?" Please. America is #1 in eyesores! You Old Europe folks aren't even close!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
What "wrong thing" am I focusing on, and why is it wrong?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social)
#Bolton left the FIRST Trump admin when Trump was still in office; so if he made off with classified documents, why didn't any of Trump's admin go after him back then? Either Trump & Co. were incompetent, or they were totally okay with stealing govt. property on the way out. (Or, could be both...)
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, this is the third pro-Israel apologist who's blocked me since I got this account. If "conservatives" or "Israel supporters" are being censored, they're not being censored by the "illiberal left."
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but if he did, it would be Trump and his first admin who didn't see that he'd returned them when he left. Did they not notice the missing docs until just now?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember #Steele. As #RNC chair (hastily elected in response to #Obama's election in 2008), his first official act was to criticize #RushLimbaugh. His second official act was to run away from those words and apologize for ever criticizing Rush Limbaugh. And his third official act was to resign.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
You mean, the genocide #Beginyahu ALLOWED by ignoring warnings from #Egyptian and #US intel sources? The genocide committed by #Hamas, whom Israeli officials have overtly credited with helping them, and whom Israel have allowed to run Gaza while their leaders lived in #Qatar? That genocide?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you specify anyone who's actually condemning #Beginyahu and no one else? It sure as hell ain't me -- I've been saying all along that #Arab tyrants share a lot of blame for our current mess, if only because they've always been incompetent and easily played by Israeli diplomats and propagandists.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
The meaning of #AntiSemitism has been hijacked by actual #AntiSemites. Like I said before, #Republicans and #Likud support a policy of one group of #Semites killing other Semites. It really don't get more anti-Semitic than that.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't think so.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
It's bad enough that the guy is trying to get her punished for allegedly deceiving him. But to equate "deception" (real or alleged) with #ASSAULT is ridiculous, inexcusable, and hateful beyond words.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If we're being consistent, yes, since having surgically-altered breasts is a modification just like surgically-altered genitalia. Why should not disclosing one, and not the other, be considered a crime?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you even DEFINE #Woke, let alone explain why it's bad?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, right, us folks advocating decency and respect for basic human rights are cruelly FORCING people like you to advocate violent opposition to basic human values and the welfare of innocent people. So...apologies for forcing you to be a hateful bigot I guess...?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
โEmpathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,โ said Allie Beth Stuckey... LACK of #empathy has the same effect when it encourages us to affirm #sins like #greed, #hate, #fraud, #child-rape and #con-artistry.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like her boss!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
We've all learned the hard way that being "diplomatic" and respectful toward #Trump doesn't work for anyone but Trump. And it sure as hell won't get Trump to stand up to #Russia. Trump is a coward and a #Putin suck-up, and no amount of "diplomatic" flattery will give him any courage or integrity.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Who the fuck is #ThirdWay? Sounds like #NoLabels minus #JoeLieberman. Did anyone ask for that? Or for their advice? I'm a #TechnicalWriter. If any #Democrats really need word-policing advice, they should call me instead -- I'm an actual Democrat who wants sensible Democrats to win elections.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social)
Kids these days... ๐ง ๐
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If they'd killed only their mom, Trump might have pardoned them.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, you're right, our #democracy is at stake -- so do you really think throwing one marginalized group under the bus is a good strategy for saving it? They're fighting for democracy too, and their motives for doing so are no more "selfish" than ours. They fight for us, we fight for them. #QEDuh.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish #JKRowling a shameful, humiliating, public exposure as the bigoted, lying, cowardly fraud she is, out of money and with no fans or friends to cover for her, cornered and facing the consequences of all her lazy hatemongering ALONE. Does that count as "ill?" I guess I'll soon find out...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
...and the London Underground is not a political movement.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
EVERYONE throw him a sandwich!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, if he takes Melania with him, we can see more footage of him looking disappointed and her smiling with obvious contempt at yet another pathetic PR stunt he'd dragged her to.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Even better is the stupid cow who admits her kids are making more money recently, but still wonders "who's gonna pay for it?" Like she's so desperate she's willing to see her own kids, and their entire generation, shafted out of a living wage so she can get cheaper eggs or something?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
No, just roads, sidewalks and crosswalks, so proper American feet or tires don't have to touch anything "woke."
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Another factor is the blatantly false but endlessly repeated claim that "conservative" opinions are being "censored" or "silenced" (which can easily be refuted with one word, #FOX) but which everyone is nonetheless afraid of being accused of. #IlliberalLeft is a boogeyman that needs to be retired.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
He's not sleepy or senile, he's the cool kid who always sleeps through every class! Because he's too cool for school donchaknow...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
So he hired a bunch of people to do AI work, but then stopped hiring till he finds a way to actually make AI pay? Looks like a bubble is starting to pop...
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
#CancelCulture!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like GBrett has blocked me; I can't see his posts anymore. Has he blocked you too?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Clay who?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's a little protip: an appalling number of Americans support #Likud's policy of #Isrealis (Semites) indiscriminately killing #Palestinians (also Semites). How much more #antisemitic can you get?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Which #Antisemitism are you talking about -- criticism of #Likud and #Beginyahu's genocide, or the REAL hatred of #Jews coming from #racist #Republicans?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Look on the bright side: he knows he's wrong now.
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
If you're really "fiercely pro trans," why can't you AT LEAST have a look at what sort of actions would be required to enforce any ban on trans people in sports? What would actual enforcement of a trans ban entail? What SPECIFICALLY would we be doing to boys and girls to ensure uniform compliance?
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
You're obviously not "fiercely pro trans" enough to do any actual research -- or even just skimming news and op-eds -- to get more informed about the reality of trans women in competitive sports. Seriously, it's not that hard: I can do that much without even caring about sports!
comrade-obvious.bsky.social (@comrade-obvious.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, if you're called a bigot for something you said that you didn't think was bigoted, maybe you should pause and get a little more information about the subject, so you can figure out where you might have been wrong.