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Beer Laimbill@beerlaimbill.bsky.social |
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thirty or forty years old with two young children, please excuse me I am very tired
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Beer Laimbill
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ok, sure, yeah, but here in the real world the people who control that power structure make the decisions over who gets kicked out of it, and while it would be nice to kick a lot more out, its still a good thing that they recognized one of the worst in their crowd and kicked him out
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Beer Laimbill
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Vigano is a fascist crank, a conspiracy theorist who has openly rejected that the Pope is, well, the pope. That alone is enough to merit this in the church's eyes, but he's a terrible person for a host of other reasons and he absolutely deserved to get got
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Beer Laimbill
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Well, Vigano also exploited the church's pedophilia scandal for political gain, by misrepresenting his own involvement and (apparently falsely) accusing Pope Francis and others of covering for Cardinal McCarrick (a pedophile who was eventually defrocked by Francis)
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Beer Laimbill
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Vigano is a sedevacantist who refuses to recognize Francis as pope, rejects the Second Vatican Council, espouses a ton of far-right conspiracy theories, and openly supports Donald Trump. He's not a critic, he's a fascist crank
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@SIfill
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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.
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Beer Laimbill
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In Serwer's case I think it's the trauma, but overall I think there's more that are doing it just for the clicks
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Beer Laimbill
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don't know if you've seen it elsewhere yet, but Serwer completely whiffed on that, the original version of the article did not even acknowledge that the House has to vote on a new VP as well as the Senate. The reference to the House (and handwavey "bigger risk" line) were not there when I read it
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Beer Laimbill
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Serwer is the first writer I respect to push the "Biden should resign" idea, and even he got caught shooting from the hip instead of thinking it through. No VP in place to preside on 1/6, and Mike Johnson being 2nd in line until 1/20/25, seem like bad ideas!
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Beer Laimbill
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Biden's elderly, not dead! He's still a nice and toasty 98° F!
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Beer Laimbill
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perhaps we're at the point where Plan B gives us a better chance than Plan A, but we need to be frank about the fact that we *only* have the choice between Plans A and B now, and once we go to plan B, that's it, there's no take-backsies and no Plan C!
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Beer Laimbill
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most ridiculous part of this freakout has been watching so many pundits pushing the idea that Biden should quit while ignoring the realities that 1) Harris is the only real alternative and 2) her smallest gaffes will be on the front page while Trump's latest rally ramblings barely get a mention
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Beer Laimbill
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"Lambda’s heat pumps use R290, or propane, as a refrigerant, which is considered both more efficient and more environmentally friendly than some older refrigerants on the market."
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Beer Laimbill
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Texas also has more black people than any other state! Whenever one of these posters suggests that we should just write-off the red states and their residents, they're implying that we should leave roughly 60% of the US' black population on their own to fend with fascist governments!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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☀️ Starshine
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Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you
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Beer Laimbill
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trip to the neighborhood pool with the kids, followed by a nerf war at home. (foam dart blaster technology has come a long way since I was a kid, we got a battery-powered magazine-fed semi-auto dart blaster for $22 from Target!)
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL
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Logged in here and holy shit I need democrats to have less shame and more composure like hell yeah it’s Weekend at Bernie’s and we’re gonna run the shit out of our dead President WATCH HIM WAVE [tugs at sleeve to make his arm move]
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Beer Laimbill
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I was replying to a post that made a claim about the "vast majority" of Catholic schools, not about one school. I could believe that there's some Catholic schools out there that are not explicitly religious and don't require religion classes, but it's ridiculous to claim that's true for the majority
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Beer Laimbill
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If you have a problem with Church clergy and laypeople who desire schools like this, your problem is not with some extremists, your problem is with a great many clergy and laypeople whose opinions are much closer to the mainstream of the Church than they are to any extremist sects
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Beer Laimbill
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So while I agree that the American church does have a problem with far-right priests, it is not useful to blame this school's existence on "extremist sub-sects" when it clearly has the blessing of various Church officials in an archdiocese that actually seems pretty close to the church's mainstream!
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Beer Laimbill
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Exactly how many Church officials in America has he defrocked and excommunicated? As far as I know, he's dismissed one bishop in recent memory - and he definitely was not defrocked or excommunicated. It is still extremely unusual to defrock or excommunicate a bishop (in America, at least)!
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Beer Laimbill
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IMO the fact that Tesla's pitch is "you will buy a car that you can use a robotaxi" rather than "we will ourselves create and operate a robotaxi business that will eat Uber's lunch" is a big tell that they can't even figure out how the economics of it would actually work
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Beer Laimbill
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the robotaxi pitch really has layers to its stupidity. first you gotta buy that musk's self-driving cars will work right (lol), then you gotta buy that you can make a real profit using it as a taxi, and *then* you gotta buy that Tesla wouldn't just keep the cars/profitable taxi biz for itself if so!
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Beer Laimbill
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probably around the same time that we manage to get some mainstream publications that aren't owned by and/or named after billionaire investment bankers/software salesmen
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Beer Laimbill
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Where are you getting these ideas from? This school is sanctioned by the Diocese of Tulsa and the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, this is not some rogue operation. And mandatory theology classes and crucifixes hanging everywhere at all "normal" Catholic schools seems pretty explicitly religious to me.
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Beer Laimbill
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it's been years since I've seen it (though I've seen it more than once), and I still remember a scene where someone's hating on Hawkeye because he's a bad rule-follower and wondering how he's in the military, and someone answers "he was drafted!" It's not subtle at all!!
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Beer Laimbill
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hate that antisocial bad boy stuff like blackmailing the commander of a military hospital (in order to allow for lifesaving surgery for a local infant left behind by an American soldier) ... and the movie was shot in 1969! the thing was all but done before the 1970s started!
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Micah
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the combination of the Federalist Society's efforts to raise a generation of judicial reactionaries and the fact that judicial impeachment is a dead letter have led to an unsustainable situation far from threatening it, court packing and reform are necessary for rule of law to exist at all
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Beer Laimbill
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maybe this is wishful thinking on my part, but... "massive white voter shift away from Trump, massive black voter shift away from Joe and ~25% chance of President Kamala (per actuarial tables)" is a believe-it-when-i-see-it thing for me
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Beer Laimbill
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log off and go ask your wife for a hug, you really seem to need one
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Beer Laimbill
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its remarkable that you invoke "Africa" to do this interracial-relationship stolen valor bit, but cannot even be bothered to look up a place inside of Africa to pick where your "wife" is from. a continent housing billions, and you have not mentioned one detail about it beyond the name "Africa"
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Beer Laimbill
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i keep going back and forth between "untreated personality disorder" and "professional troll", their posting stamina is unusually high but also their English is surprisingly good for that kind of troll
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Beer Laimbill
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so did you misunderstand my post because you didn't actually take the time to read it, or because english is your second language
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Beer Laimbill
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that fucking guy is a bullshit race traitor, personality so repellent that he will never even have the opportunity to become a race traitor because no woman of any color could stand to be around him. deeply shameful display of race traitor stolen valor
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Beer Laimbill
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i'm glad to learn that your wife does not actually exist, nobody deserves to be married to this kind of asshole
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Beer Laimbill
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My point was that caring about problems to which you have a personal attachment, should not preclude caring about problems to which you do not have a personal attachment. Out of curiosity, which part of Africa are they from? Africa is big, being "from Africa" could mean lots of different things!
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Beer Laimbill
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you ever heard the aphorism "if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." if one poster calls you a troll, you ran into a troll. if 879 posters over 20 hours call you a troll...
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Beer Laimbill
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Sure, it's great when your personal experiences help you to empathize with a different group of people, but it seems real weird and regressive to use that connection as a shield against having to consider all the *other* groups of people dealing with other big problems!
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Beer Laimbill
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it (understandably) gets outshined by the meltdown over "normie", but I'm fascinated that the dude's "my concern is Africa"/"I don't care about Europe" attitude seemingly derives not from any principle (progressive or otherwise), but from the fact that... they know someone from there?
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Beer Laimbill
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see this is another good example, the need to make a hostile reply to *every* comment is Very Online, but the lamely self-incriminating reply (you're the one rolling around in this shitsite, man!) has the feel of a news site's comment section, or a decade-old reddit thread
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Beer Laimbill
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they argue with the aggression and self-assuredness of someone who is Too Online... but use euphemisms and insults like someone who is not currently very online, or is online but in more obscure, possibly nastier, corners of the internet than bluesky. it's a very strange posting style!
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Beer Laimbill
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the reason to do it is because it's a moral imperative, but also, the average chinese restaurant in my town is thoroughly mediocre, and improving the quality of chinese food in my town is... not a *good* reason to do it, but also not *not* a good reason to do it
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Tony Corsentino
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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚
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Beer Laimbill
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And the anti-social effects can act like a feedback loop - there's a lot of grandparents out there who were given permission by Trump to be their worst possible selves, took it, and are now missing out on the pro-social influence of their kids and grandkids because they're too toxic to be around
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Beer Laimbill
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I think the impact of that corrosiveness on the elderly has a lot of parallels with its impact on the young, even if it doesn't have the same potential impact on the electorate. The anti-social effect of telling lonely olds every night that their neighbors are to blame for their problems is profound
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Beer Laimbill
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(other contenders include a certain five minute timespan from Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8)
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Beer Laimbill
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currently grappling with the realization that the Challengers score might be my favorite thing from Trent Reznor since the turn of the century. Gonna have to listen six more times to be sure
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