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Do you think there are headlines back on the Predator planet that are like “Dentist Speared By Earthling He Paid to Hunt” and there’s a bunch of Predators in ties around a watercooler going “Lol RIP.”
happy labor day
I am not gonna reply-guy disagree here, because what you are saying has some real value, and is a good place to start a conversation about the experience of "rationality". People report a lot of different somatic states associated with rationality, a few even including sexual arousal. Humans vary.
I suggest *Quantum Ignorance* for this situation. I can maintain a True/False qubit better than any quantum computer. However, I am capable of maximizing mirth by setting the truth value of a statement like "Trump fkn bought the Farm" wherever wish without collapsing the wave function.
It really is that simple. The financial and "access" incentives are utterly whack at legacy journalism shops, and much of the rightwingosphere is bathed in billionaire cash. I wish there was a way to better monetize what people like you do.
The bat crossed the plate, and was moving forward as the ball went paat it. He offered.
Swing.
Tom, I am not qualified to vet these experts. But it is more than just dirtbag leftists who seem to think this is a genocide. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Agree, and I will addI think people need to stop being dicks to one another about ideological labels ("liberals", "shitlib", "dirtbag leftist", etc.) Also: I will do everything in my power to defeat Gavin Newsom, both in the primary and the general. I owe this fair warning to my fellow liberals.
And if anyone wants to argue with me about this, I suggest you turn your amazing debate skills into changing Gavin's position, and then into making people feel safe voting for him. bsky.app/profile/righ...
I would not be gleeful about it (in fact it would suck), but I will turn all the energy I've been putting into electing dems over the last 30+ years into destroying them if they nominate Gavin. I am not kidding, this totally sucks, and I keep my promises. bsky.app/profile/righ...
Same. I was a baby when they aired, and only watched the show in the mid 70s. But boy, did I watch. From age 8 to 14 I had practice every day after school, and somehow the syndicate had Trek on right when I got home, exhausted and hungry. Plop on the couch with a giant bowl of cornflakes to watch.
You cant get to Tranya Time Without starting a countdown
The one thing that utterly destroys my hope for the future is AIPACs ownership of Dem leadership. The dark money is still gonna kill us, but dems beginning to see the light on AIPAC is a good thing.
That is def a 76th-minute own. It doesnt matter how good your form is, the guys you have been chasing around for over an hour are also very fkn fit. You wear down, and little mistakes just fkn kill you.
Thank you. The more of us who make this clear now, the better. bsky.app/profile/righ...
Again: I canvassed my ass off for both Biden '20 and Harris '24. I understand the stakes, in detail. My kid showed me solidarity in '24 and voted with me. So respectfully, I am not the one you gotta convince.
I don't break my promises, and it is stupid to ask me to. I, and many others, have told y'all what you need to know. Make your choice in the primaries wisely.
Matt. 7, 13-14: “...wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." I hear what you are saying Tom, and I pray you hear me. The way is indeed narrow.
JFC, I have a much clearer view of the threat than you do, and if you think you are **breaking news** to me, then you are truly a child. Reread this thread, and get back to me.: bsky.app/profile/righ...
It is political malpractice, and statistical lunacy, to covert a portion of your base into undecideds. Convince the undecideds that already exist and consolidate the base: PRITZGER IS SITTING RIGHT THERE.
I KNOW you understand this Tom, there is a significant portion of the base that fkn HATES Gavin Newsom and dems like him. I am a mathematician and data scientist. Even **if** you talked me into voting for Newsom, there is a proportion of the Dem base that you will not convince.
Again: I am not the one you have to convince. Convince my kid. convince the trans folks on this website.
No problem, I am a bit touchy about things like my kid's life, so I can go off half cocked sometimes. We're good
Tom, I been following you a long fkn time and I have no questions about your decency or loyalty to your allies. But you getting over policy differences and visceral dislike of Clintons is a different animal to what trans folks and their families would have to overcome to vote for Gavin.
Also, Tom: I will vote for Newsom if my kid tells me that they are reassured. So maybe get to work on backing off of lecturing trans folks and their loved ones, and put your skills to work among your natural allies to reassure my fkn kid that their lives and civil rights are not a bargaining chip.
That is not my problem with him. I don't demand perfection. But we are talking about my kid's life, here. They showed dems solidarity when asked. I will not stab my kid in the back, nor will I vote for anyone who returns my kid's loyalty with betrayal.
What part of "fair warning" is so hard to parse, Tom? Third rails exist, Tom. You of all people should understand that. People like me are begging you to listen. Alternatively, you can turn your considerable political talents to convincing dems like Newsom to back the fuck away from this rail.
You are being given fair warning: I and my kid and everyone who loves and cares for them cannot vote for Dems like Gavin Newsom. Solidarity aint hard, you just have to be enough of an adult to understand what people are telling you. There are dems we will vote for. But not those guys. Period. /end
So, here it is: My kid showed me, and you, solidarity when the chips were down. Sadly, in 2024 it wasn't enough. But Gavin Newsom, among others in the dem party, is saying out loud that he would deny people like my kids their civil rights. 4/
In addition, that kid is a research RNA biochemist, who does work on cancer cures. So if you have been paying attention, dipshit, that means my kid gets up in the morning and goes to work to save the lives of people who want her dead both as a trans person, and as an RNA biochemist. 3/
One of my kids is trans. They weren't particularly stoked to vote for Dems in '22 and '24, but they did at my request, because they fkn have an adult understanding of solidarity. Unlike you, apparently 2/
I think you are talking like a child. If you want to be talked to like an adult, here is what voters **like me** are trying to tell you: I and my entire family have been "voting blue no matter who" for 30+ years now, and I have been very active donating and canvassing from 2018 through 2024. ;1/
"New" Dems, LOL. Same old "bipartisan" bullshit that you fkn dinosaurs have been hawing for the last 50 years. Go fuck yourselves
'or', not 'are'
Tom, are you saying that there never were any "Third Rails" in GOP politics, are that there aren't any now?
Tom, you treat people like children, and I have never seen you fail to get the responses that prove you right. I mean this in the most derogatory sense possible, both for you and those who typically reapond
Woah, a STATEMENT! Such bold action! Will someone please primary this absolute loser? This is pathetic.
i must have this tshirt. take my money
Bibi is a genocidal monster, and he and his Lebensraum Settler Government have made Israel into a genocidal state. This isn't complicated.
Your reasoning is sound. Counterpoint: The current Supreme Court will rule in Trumps favor no matter what. Because a corrupt and partisan majority controls SCOTUS. The Constitution wasn't perfect, but it was all we had. The GOP didn't like limits on their power, so now we don't have it anymore
Yeah, what Mark is doing here is a pretty standard hypothetical methodology: "If this thing happened, which has never happened and will never happened, will you grant that X?" Hypotheticals like Mark's are used to manipulate others into granting absurd premises.
Paramount Minus
That one had the Prefix Code
Let Mamdani show the way. I grew up in Texas. I have traveled extensively, and now California is home. There is no place on Earth this awesome. It is fkn time, California. When Gov Hairdo terms out, lets elect someone as great as we are.
The fleet begins to pull in
I dunno, man. I tend to take people at their word and then do the math. If someone uses all the "right words", either as a Christian or as a Leftist, but then goes off on a hateful tirade about how Muslims, or Jews, or Redstate residents should suffer, I dont blame the "right words."
Damn Tom, you really try gonna try to tie into "performative empathy", a specific narcissistic trait? I mean, you could just go with tried-and-true "Social Justice Warrior" epithet, but it seems you are aiming a bit lower.
2025: The Year We Invent Coins
Look Tom, ONE of us is gonna end up with "one last duty to perform", or the keys to a shuttlecraft that we'll hafta fly into a space turd or amoeba, or locking ouselves in a radiation-filled engine room. Im just saying you should jam with the damned hippies instead of being a Herbert
I am now wondering about the thermonuclear yield of the 90's era GOPs impulse engines. Is it too late for me to register as a Republican?
The Left’s hull is solid Neutronium, Tom. There is no way to blast through it. Why dont you head down to sick bay and let the doctor help you.
Even if you can create an unbiased sample with key smashing, there is a huge difference between a "random" distribution and a "uniform" one. The "Runs Test" is one statistical method for determining if a human created a false random sequence.
I am from Texas, got family still there. At a nephew graduation I nearly started a riot in my section when told to stand for the "Texas Pledge of Allegiance". Being bothered by a Land Acknowledgment may or may not be sign that someone is a pussy, but pledging allegiance to fkn **texas** seals it.
Even now, I still might blow up some poor dad who was just out there for fun if the switch turned. I hate the old game with a hot passion
I had to stop playing in adult leagues in my late 20s. I could play a more beautiful possession game, but coaches had hardwired me "on 50/50 defensives, your job is to touch the ball first, eliminate the possibility of opponent advantage, and ensure they shied away for the rest of the match."
I am old school, 12 years as a defensive midfielder and backup keeper in the late 70s early eighties. I would have run laps that week if the striker had been able to get to his feet in the aftermath of such a 50/50 ball. I am glad footy is no longer like that
The only way the Dem base will ever get anything but the boot from party leaders is if they Eric Cantor him
Nah, I want dipshits like you to fuck all the way off, and if you don't, I will visit the same political harm on your interests that you propose to visit on my kid. I therefore invite you to fuck all the way off
Nah, it aint us that centers entire campaigns on transgender issues, you fkn idiot. The GOP spent approximately $200 PER TRANS PERSON IN AMERICA on anti-trans propaganda in the month before the election. Trans people didn't ask to be centered, they got put into the crosshairs. Now DO fuck off.
People who have been excessively redlined by overzealous and unskilled teachers and editors end up just being gunshy and timid. Some of them end up timid about big words. The only advice I ever give people is that the words they use should ideally be decodable by context
I mean, I know that you can sight the target. I don't care whether you use "warmth and hospitality" or "clowns with flamethrowers", as long as you stay on target. bsky.app/profile/vega...
I used to teach difficult tasks in challenging and dangerous environments. The most important thing I had to teach my students was to focus ALL of their attention to on-target behavior, and NONE on off-target behavior. You are focusing off-target, Tom. The target: bsky.app/profile/zohr...
All of your whining on this topic boils down to this: You are reduced to having to use bear skins and stone knives because the powerful messaging machinery of the right that you used to use is no longer at your disposal. My advice is to sharpen your OWN fkn stone knife, and aim it outside the cave.
"the Democrats have failed at basic messaging" can be said with a lot fewer words, Tom. You of all people know what we are up against. The GOP message machine was never concerned with the specific words the left used, and the Trumpist GOP is just an 'roided up version of the same.
Argh, fine, at the risk of becoming a character in one of your cartoon panels: Then what are you fkn waiting for, Tovarisch?
The exact comp to Leader Jeffries in 2025 is Leader Cantor in 2014. The comp falls apart tho. The GOP base was able to primary and remove the leader who failed to represent their interests, and the dem base seemingly will never shitcan Jeffries or Schumer. Side note: the GOP base gets listened to
jfc. There is never a moral imperative to vote for any fkn flavor of Hitler. If you need the logic spelled out: a person who says they'll commit fkn genocide to achieve their aims is not gonna have any moral qualms about lying to you about **who** they'll genocide in order to secure your support.
So at what point in the "race" do you start carrying bottles to piss in so that you aren't slowed down?
Be that as it may tho, the economics of theft now infects the art world, great. The same wage-thieves who have forever been impoverishing people who do manufacturing jobs have found a way to do the same to art jobs.
Of course, as I wrote that, I realized that is exactly something that little bitch Bezos would gleefully monetize, lol.
I dunno, man. If Amazon had normal-ass store fronts for retailers of TVs that had been stolen via "smash-n-grab" thievery operations, I am sure that the low prices and appearance of being on the level would be attractive to customers.
Tom lives under the delusion that his brand of center-right "political savviness" will always remain more attractive to voters than "political correctness". He has terminal '90s era political brain
More physics aural kindness: Air is dispersive medium, and higher frequencies attenuate relative to lower. So when the sounds arrive on your balcony after their long journey, their frequency spectra are spread and shifted towards the long wavelengths, which softens the sounds and lends them depth.
Every time he posts that the left should "innovate", I have to refrain from reminding him that the Guillotine was a perfect example of effective leftist innovation
Nichols bitching about words that came from "academic hothouses", using a list from a right ring front group "astroturf hothouse" THINK TANK like Third Way would be funny if the stakes weren't so high.
I am big "from scratch" cooking fan, for two simple reasons: 1) I am absolutely whack 2) I married lucky. My wife puts up with weird shit while I am figuring stuff out.
I am fine with his delivery. I am way more intemperate than he will ever be. I actually think he is wrong on strategy here.
Christ said "The poor will always be with you", and I think he was saying more than just telling his disciples to relax for a minute. You gotta live with some problems, and find a way forward anyway. The dirty hippies and out of touch intellectuals will always be with you, Tom.
One of the sure signs that a person is an NPC is the ability to absolutely body a Galaxy Brain
No we do not have that luxury. Which is why some of us are amazed and bewildered that people like Tom pick ideological fights.
Nobody is asking you to cling to a word. Some of us are asking you to lay off telling others what words they can and can't use. Stand for something, or not, I don't care. Stop with the word police bs.
If you genuinely believe that we are all up against a fascist threat, I beg you to heed my warning about Gavin Newsom, for instance. I don't rug pull, Tom. I am giving plenty of advance warning.
I dunno, I think we should win elections for reasons other than "winning elections" I get it, you don't like the words people use. Nobody is telling you not to stand for something. Here is a hint on coalition building: let other people stand for what they stand for. The outcome might surprise you.
Like, I can see the baseball stitches starting to pop out of your forehead at this point
And more than that: I canvassed pretty exclusively among college-aged voters on behalf of Biden in '20 and Harris in '24. Sadly, '24 didnt work out. If Dems run to the center-right in '28, I plan on putting the same effort in asking the same voters to sit it out. We tried it once your way, Khan
It me bsky.app/profile/righ...
Watching your head turn into a baseball in real time is weird
Man, it is sad watching you spiral further off the rails, into being a full-blown crank. I get it that you are finding irrelevancy hard to deal with. If you had spent any time as a liberal, you would be better acclimated to it by now.
Terminal MBA brain: “We can increase revenue by 0.27% if we convert every “temprorarily former customer” into a “pemanent former customer”.
It aint complicated. A plurality of Trump voters dont agree with him on much, but they believe he stands with them. It is fkn political malpractice for any Democrat to tell me, a lifetime dem, that they will let the GOP kill my kid. Converting your base voters into undecideds is fkn idiocy
Cuban is not him
"Get loose honey, I need a left-hander"
Har! I fell in the Chasm!
As a courtesy, I will discontinue using epithets like Governor Hairdo and Slick Clintonesque Grifter, so as to not look like Im tryna evade your filter
There are dems who I'll vote for, but whats funny to me is that so many dems would rather shout at someone like you, instead of asking themselves: "How did we turn decent people against us so thoroughly?"
I have given up on explaining to smooth-brained arrogant twits like you that the "people are rude to me on social media" function has two independent variables. So maybe get a tutor or sumn who can explain that sentence to you
The land in between them (the deserts of northern nevada) have some of the most desolate terrain in the lower 48. It definitely has the feel of the space between two circles of Hell. tho I'll be damned if I can tell which of UNLV or Idaho State is the more inner circle
There is no hell hot enough for Bezos and his enablers at the Post