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The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Heh. I hope not too.
Haven’t played COD in awhile. I forgot how addictive it is.
I guess this is the same claim, subsumed in the notion of “gettable”. Just want to emphasize that the issue isn’t that their numbers are too small to throw an election, they can, but they are just not gettable in a way that makes the investment pay off.
I think it takes Apple’s audience size and capture to make it work.
I guess this is the same claim, subsumed in the notion of “gettable”. Just want to emphasize that the issue isn’t that their numbers are too small to throw an election, they can, but they are just not gettable in a way that makes the investment pay off.
I think the threat is credible but candidates judge that there is no reliable way to get them on board and keep them from bailing anyway. And so while they might hurt a candidate they function more like acts of god, out of a politicians control, than a constituency they can negotiate with.
I think the threat is credible but candidates judge that there is no reliable way to get them on board and keep them from bailing anyway. And so while they might hurt a candidate they function more like acts of god, out of politicians control, than a constituency you negotiate with.
Lot less fun, tho.
I’m not well versed in the tradition. Is there an idea of a John the Baptist type figure who ushers in the antichrist? If so the Trump-Vance progression would have me raising an eyebrow.
Like if you are concerned that they don’t understand our liberal norms then at least make a stab at educating them. Maybe a visa needs to come with a required civics class or something. At least go through the motions that this is your real concern.
Many will cloak this in culture and there’s a grain of truth to the idea that people from illiberal places might not fully be on board with liberal democracy and pluralism, but they have so little faith in our ideas and culture to win and also never propose anything to address that directly
Ironically, I think this serves as a handy chart of alignment with Jesus’ teachings.
My mom thinks Musk has invented a totally new type of almost free energy that is being suppressed. That whole Tony Stark fantasy really stuck.
My theory is that there is *one* way to raise birth rates, and it is to normalise hands off French-style parenting. France is the only country in the world where the amount of time parents spend on care has fallen rather than risen, and has the highest fertility rate in Europe
Twin A caught out by private somatic mutations, presumably early enough in development to be fixed at a high frequency
The extent of somatic mutations people carry is widely under appreciated. I think even many people in biology and medicine are not aware just how much there is because so little of it has (easily) observable effects.
They have The Bulwark, and Bloomberg, and National Geographic, LA Times, WaPo, LeMonde, the Times of London,Sports Illustrated, amd many local papers and niche pubs It’s not comprehensive of what I want, but enough to be worth it.
Heh, I was afraid someone would ask.. I think $12.99/ month by itself. I got it as part of a bundle of other things I wanted so it’s a little unclear how much it costs me. Getting just The Atlantic, Wired, and Rolling Stone is $14/mo. WSJ is $40/mo by itself. And none of the newspapers are cheap.
This is why I finally broke down and added Apple News to my Apple subscriptions. For one price I get The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Wired, WSJ, New Yorker, Houston Chronicle, SF Chronicle,… you get the picture.
I still see people getting mad at paywalls. On the one hand, I understand because I don't want to pay for most journalism, especially as it is. Otoh, the clicks for advertising model has given us fascism.
I'll add that I think people here refuse to distinguish between those with fundamentally different values and those who just disagree on electoral stuff
Like as much as people are sequestering themselves it’s clearly still just one big forum now with clique tables. Which is fine, probably good, but amusing.
It’s like a former boyfriend who totally doesn’t think about you any more who just happens to keep showing up at all the events you go to.
I think it’s funny that the topic of the day, the relative good or bad qualities of X versus BlueSky, is the same on both sites right now.
Yeah. He’s a definite bad and dangerous person, but it’s a bit unclear to me what, if anything, he believes specifically because he is so willing to say anything. He may be completely sincere about throwing out election results if he was in Pence shoes but that was also very obviously an audition.
This is true for most of the reasons we give for the actions we take!
Yes. I should have led with that. It’s sort of trivially true given tons of psychological research.
In a very real sense I think asking the question creates their answer on the spot, and they themselves will tend to adopt that as their line then on when the actual answer is probably, and always, just “vibes” (which encompasses a lot of bigotries, and also inchoate impressions of the parties).
I don’t think swing voters can even retrospectively tell you why they voted the way they did. When you ask someone “Why did you vote for candidate X?” the words that come out of their mouths are as more like rationalizations meant to make themselves seem reasonable to others that accurate reports.
My main problem with these guys is that they think polls tell you how to win elections, as if voters know what they want. Now I doubt what they want is full-communism or mandatory land acknowledgments, but what messages stick can’t be found in polls but only in trying things and seeing what sticks.
Read a long back and forth between a somewhat known leftist and a somewhat known liberal and I regret to inform you that the right has not achieved a monopoly on being brain dead or on being noxious.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Stencil is right. I think we may have to ban algorithmic feeds. Sounds bizarre and illiberal but the incentives for algorithmic feeds make them relentlessly corrosive to society and individual well being. It’s like a new Schedule 1 drug and we better act before it destroys us.
And his rhetoric is like the party can’t be salvaged, it can only be burned to the ground (correct). Maybe he’s got the converts zeal, that is a common phenomena, but it’s head spinning. Many of his anti-GOP posts are really good which is a conundrum. Such strange times.
It’s bizarre to read this, to see his clarity of thought about the GOP and how long they have been on this trajectory, and know he voted for Trump in 2024. I mean all day every day now he’s out there tearing the GOP a new one as if he’d been fighting them for decades.
It’s a wonder you have survived this long.
Extreme longevity lolol
angry that with nothing to do but sit on the couch for the last 15 years retired they have not bothered to dispel their abject ignorance one iota by reading even History for Dummies. That’s their choice, and it’s one I’m now willing to point out and say I don’t respect. Unthinkable ten years ago.
Not to belabor it, but I used to feel guilty for leaving their small town and going off to college and making something of myself. They encouraged that guilt. That sentiment has totally flipped. Now I’m actively angry at them, 24/7, forever trying that shit on me, and
At least I know that my right wing family’s pretense to be the genuine patriotic American salt who were condescended to by people like me used to work to make me back off and tip toe around them. It doesn’t work on me any more. I can’t be the only one.
Leaders are, they are too set and too cowardly to change much. But I think a lot of Dems are reversing this internalization in their minds and I think we need to encourage it and over time we’ll get new leaders without this flaw hopefully.
Yes. Trump provides us with an opportunity to break free of this that we shouldn’t ignore. Trump is such an obvious traitor that it makes it much easier to snort and laugh when someone on the right claims the mantle of patriotism, and snort and laugh is what we should all do.
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Of course people also can not handle the idea of ambiguity and difficult judgment calls, and that is something that plagues experts generally. Experts are human, so it’s incumbent on leaders to back them up in a general way not leverage mistakes to wage war on the very idea of expertise.
I think large blocks of people and groups (not all on the right, see RFK) were already in that camp and covid just provided a fertile playground , while many others found an exploitable attack. I think people were more influenced by these voices than the events themselves.
“I’ve never voted for Trump, I just support and help elect the Republicans who enable him,” is absolutely what Trende tells himself and friends.
Yes, I am worried about the transformation of America’s government. But I’m more worried about what three more years of this will do to the American people. Fascism conditions us to serve our worst, most animal impulses. What sort of country will we be by 2028?
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This is correct. It is fun, though. That’s the thing.
People also can’t handle ambiguity and uncertainty. A lot of this boiled down to various judgment calls that reasonable people could disagree on, but which unreasonable people can’t accept and cynical people exploit for their own purposes.
One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
Radicalization works both ways. Covid did nothing to make me think better of Republican government or of the decency of the average Republican voter. The anti-leadership came from the top. It should have black pilled everyone against GOP government for generations.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I suspect you’re going to start seeing a lot more of this: Just completely unhinged reactions to imaginary/fabricated things assigned to wokeness. This is just right wing politics now. Imagine this thing that’s happening that wouldn’t have anything to do with politics… /1
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The essence of the right is this. My dad is the perfect target. There is nothing on the earth that displeases him that is just due to natural change or impersonal forces. Every irritation is caused by some villain. You name it. Steaks not as good at Texas Roadhouse? Must be a plot against him.
That is exactly what they think. Any thing someone from the outside says is automatically dismissed w/o engaging their brain. It’s how they work. But I do think this strategy, while not likely to do any real good, has a chance of at least vexing them for a bit and that’s good enough for me.
Apparently? They need to somehow get themselves denounced by the White House if they want this to succeed.
Actually, the more beloved trope is enemy who joined us, the conversion story. Nothing gets them going like a conversion story. But the other thing is real too.
It is a beloved evangelical trope that God uses outsiders or sinners to teach his people. This is why when I tell evangelicals they’ll be thrown in the lake of fire and they say, “Wait, aren’t you an atheist?” I know it rattles them to reply, “You think God wouldn’t use an atheist to admonish you?
Obama almost certainly lied when he said it was a matter of personal belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman. A lie that was probably important to him getting elected. Then he appointed two of the five judges making it the law of the land. Being shrewd is a choice you can make.
Alas, this is Wilhoit’s insight at work again. It’s a “tyrannical federal government” when policies protect (or are benign toward) out groups; it’s time to cheer when the government deploys arms in “inner cities” on behalf of in groups.
What an image that has put in my mind.
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I guess Frodo can’t read the Black Speech. If he could he’d see that ∀R ∃! hom: ℤ → R.
So what do we do about it? What sort of regulation would address this? Ban algorithmic feeds? Or maybe we need AI powered bot armies promoting liberalism? Or just flood the zone completely, make all these online channels unusable. I don’t know, but seems urgent.
Probably the correct diagnosis. What’s the treatment?
The Republican voters are seeing their sadistic fantasies enacted before their eyes. This is what they voted for, let's not kid ourselves. This is the R equivalent of Biden enacting universal health care, free higher education and beer for everyone.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
Tulsi Gabbard has effectively dissolved FMIC, the Foreign Malign Influence Center. I’m shocked by her flagrant chutzpah to cater favors directly to Russia and China (& other actors), and at the same time, I am not surprised because this is exactly who I thought she is.
This is such a great idea/service!! Have Brendan-bot give you pre-submission comments on your paper!
Guy was COOKING
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
That is, fantastic.
Oughf. So correct but so exhausting!
you’ll know if the president buys the farm because really weird shit will start happening in the crypto markets out of nowhere at least three or four hours before anybody says anything publicly
Trump not showing up in public for multiple days is the strongest argument for him being sick or injured in some way because like, the guy is already orange and talks like a lunatic, it's not like it'd be easy to tell if he was looking bad or was short a few players
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Trump’s theory of people is that they are just as hollow as he is, that any show of virtue, character, or principle is just a con. The most disturbing thing about the Trump era is how comprehensively he has been proven right.
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Just put little Mexican flags on his grave in perpetuity.
Unless he beat her up, and then a pimp or boyfriend rammed him from behind in retaliation.
Sorry to the PetSmart clerk, I did not mean to give a hysterical laugh and say “why the fuck not, who knows how long we all have” when you asked if I wanted to use my $4 in PetPoints today
The dream.
One day it’ll be true. And I’m going to keep cocktail supplies and fireworks on hand so I’ll be ready.
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Those guys are charmless and kind of stupid in certain ways that will probably block them from achieving such goals, but it’s a real thing to worry about.
But it's the truth: the choice is between a small-d democratic coalition — one in which a majority either supports or is sympathetic to the causes we're talking about – and a fascist authoritarian regime that will use every tool at its disposal — including violence — to suppress vulnerable "others."
Pro-democracy politicians will *fail* if they don't have space to form alliances with people who don't share our beliefs and room to blunt successful wedge issues. That sucks.
Said another way, if the HGP had found 10% difference it would have no bearing on our moral judgments. Slavery and segregation would be just as wrong. The moral premise of the scientific racists is as wrong as the scientific one.
It’s good work to debunk scientific racism, keep going, I applaud it. But I just always feel the need to chime in and say that we geneticists aren’t in charge of who is human or how people should be treated.
It would be wrong to exclude him from any endeavor a priori. He will have a harder time learning what he needs to become a pilot, say, but if he does he does and nobody should block him from achieving that dream.
The humanity of other races is evident in their tears and laughter, in the songs they write and sing. A test is not needed. My white brother has a learning disability, this is an objective fact, but it would be wrong to make him an into a second class citizen for it.
I am a co-author (among hundreds) on the HGP paper and while I agree with your statement I think it’s also important to note that it shouldn’t matter what the HGP found. Your humanity and equal treatment as human should not be seen as contingent on a paper or a scientific project.