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Michael M
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If he's the guy I think he is, Tim Miller is playing recordings of him saying horrible things.
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Michael M@bedwyr.bsky.social |
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Drone dude. Sometimes athlete. Sometimes nerd.
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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If he's the guy I think he is, Tim Miller is playing recordings of him saying horrible things.
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Michael M
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I very quickly thought "Consider Phlebas".
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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So kinda in the vicinity of "numpty" then. :)
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Michael M
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Is it like "oik"?
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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"Pie" is a new term of art for this American. Do tell.
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Michael M
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Fair. I'll reserve the right to eyeroll at his approval of their historiography though.
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RaccoonMoose
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“Why are you spending so much time with these unhoused ex coworkers of yours? Aren’t there shelters, aren’t there services for them?” Let me explain to you how shelters and services work for unhoused people
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Michael M
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Isn't the trick here the same thing that Ross Douthat pulls though? Like, it's just gaslighting bullshit. Oh ho ho you don't need to worry your pretty little heads about that man over there ho ho ho. There's just no way this isn't part and parcel of their great project of sticking it to 'them'.
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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The failure of which started with Pickering, continued with Johnson, and now effectively ended with Trump.
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Ho ho ho, it is to laugh is it not? Ha ha the very thought. <sweats>
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Not the barber chairs I guess?
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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<cough>🐂💩<cough>
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Michael M
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How much you want to bet that their reply would be "impeachment and removal" and when pressed that it doesn't effing work in a party context the reply amounts to "lol sux 2 b u".
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Michael M
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Oh wow. Combine that with the two-step Senator McConnell put in (no we won't impeach but he is subject to the law) and there's a real webbing of a straitjacket they've put us all in.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Sneakers! It's terrific—lots of fun, incredible ensemble cast, ridiculous retro ('90s) hacker tropes. Just a delight. Perfect for summer.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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this would absolutely work on Teslas, because they don't have radar or lidar to bounce off the picture of the tunnel in order to confirm that it is in fact extremely solid
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Michael M
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Exactly. Putting a metaphor back in my wheelhouse, it's like how surprised people are to see how powerful hydraulic lifting action can be and me over here in my proverbial hard hat going "Oh honey child".
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Anyway, fuck accelerationists.
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Michael M
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I guess that's conservative of a sort. Maybe in the same way someone telling you, Seth, that we really need a new system and how bad can the replacement be <immediate historian thousand yard stare>.
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Michael M
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That's the key to understanding the sincerity. I'm probably closest to them in (ha) constitution and habit. I'm an engineer that hates watching control systems start oscillating wildly, like a rocket engine suddenly wobbling in multiple directions at once. It's this "Oh shit oh shit" sensibility.
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Daniel Drezner
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I wrote despairingly today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-rant-o...
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Popehat
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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A good way to challenge the authority of an illegitimate institution is to find an issue where their authority is unpopular and difficult to enforce and openly defy them on it.
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Michael M
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There's nuance to be had: that experts should act in concert with the policymakers who are accountable to the voting public. I can grok that and understand the border to the horizon of my own expertise (certain aspects of airspace safety). I wouldn't want to 'rule'. But yeah this is not that.
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Michael M
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Sigh.
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Narrator: It was not. 🤪
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Michael M
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If I'm being era appropriate, this is utterly predictable but it's sooo good.
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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what is your favorite black and white movie? (this is cheating but it's honest)
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Ok now I want to guess which maneuver you're in. Clover loop?
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Michael M
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I remember one of On the Media's primary theses is to never get between the press and a favorite Narrative for they'll grasp it to the death like a raccoon and a shiny thing.
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Stephen Nuñez
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Really is quite a thing that the creation of a fledgling multiracial democracy that began haltingly to take seriously the rights of women and minorities led to a political realignment that has brought us to the brink of collapse within 60 years.
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Michael M
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Oh. Ross.
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Thomas Zimmer
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Weekend Reading: I wrote about the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful new book “When the Clock Broke”
The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present.
🧵1/
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.
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Michael M
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Yeah I'd say Gingrich politics (w/Limbaugh) poisoned the well and it came to fruition in the Tea Party, iterating in successive and greater toxicity since then.
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Michael M
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I'm not clear how people make the connection. Intuitively and watching the electorate it just becomes a general malaise from a bunch of different paper cuts. Can cause and effect be linked that clearly for normies that, till last night, didn't really believe it was going to be Trump vs Biden?
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Read this story re Boeing's corporate culture, and ponder the fact that the Supreme Court (and those giving "gratuities" to certain justices) is in the midst of dismantling the administrative state.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/b...
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Kevin Elliott
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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court overrules Chevron on a 6-3 ideological vote.
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T. Greg Doucette
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges"
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Michael M
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Otherwise Trump wins a third term. <tongue-in-cheek... ???>
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Michael M
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I have a suspicion that 2028 could only be taken by another populist channeling rage from the other end, but only if the economy is actively being sunk by tariffs and inflation.
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Michael M
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If you can dodge a wrench...
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Michael M
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Once I figured out 'rasterize' and 'rasterize & trim', most all my editing needs were met. It's very good.
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Michael M
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Michael M
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Q: I have the pleasure of missing their company. Where do they come from or congregate? Years ago I would have pinned 4chan or Something Awful a as a gathering place. These twits mostly communities on X?
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Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
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Usenet rides again! :P
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eric gonzalez juenke
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It’s really important for these folks to do this and be applauded, regardless of their other politics. It’s (apparently) very very hard to stand on principals over party.
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