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Squire Boone@isomorphism.net |
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I have been a nerd for a really long time. 25+ years in IT, have been on my local school board since 2015, dad to two trans kids Ed and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters
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Uncle Dude
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The real question, dead serious not being a smartass, is what the fuck is Nate Cohn's obsession with people who were eligible but didn't bother to vote and slapping the label "likely voter" on them for no apparent reason?
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Squire Boone
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Man, I hate the U.S. incarceration system, but if your dog bites someone and you're a rabies vax denier the person who got bit should just get all of your stuff.
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Squire Boone
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This guy in gif form
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Squire Boone
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"Public Universal Ally" man if there ever was a username that says, "I'm going to be a dipshit in your mentions"
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Squire Boone
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The absolute last opinion anybody on this web site should care about, or amplify, is "what unnamed Trump/GOP person thinks about the Presidential race". Just roundfile that shit, it's not for human consumption.
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Squire Boone
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There are lots of relatively untrustworthy people in politics, but one thing you can pretty much bank on is that the opposition is going to tell you things to weaken your case, your resolve, or your actions. Those can be lies, damn lies, truths, true things that are irrelevant, etc.
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Squire Boone
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Folks, I know it's been a rough week, but do yourself a favor and don't start falling for a line fed to you by someone who works for the opposition just because it matches what you already think.
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Squire Boone
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But looping back to the previous comment: elected local officials are often unmoved by loud and angry public comment by large numbers of people. They do sit up and listen when 5% of the voters (not the citizenry, the folks on their walksheets as "voted in the last 2 elections" speak with one voice.
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Squire Boone
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Note that lots of local offices are small potatoes for reaching voters (1,000-2,500 voters is a population you can hit with not much money)
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Squire Boone
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That's the ask, yes. Well, you can also organize and make a stink with your existing officials, but in order to convince them you mean business, you need to show them a list of supporters for your cause that vote. There isn't a civil society alternative, unfortunately.
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Squire Boone
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That's not what I said.
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Squire Boone
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The absolute value is not what is important.
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Shiv Ramdas
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They told Jimmy Carter that by going into that reactor his reproductive system would be affected and he would never have kids. He has 4
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Squire Boone
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Well whaddya know, one bullet weft!
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Squire Boone
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You can absolutely be critical that's fine. There are plenty of things to argue about... but the bulk of your effort needs to be on the ball, and the ball is trying not to have Trump in office in 2025.
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Squire Boone
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I honestly don't give a shit if you are a communist, a liberal, or a Never Trumper Republican by brand, if all you are spending your time doing is arguing with the other two groups you're not useful at this moment and everyone should just block you and move on.
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Squire Boone
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I wouldn't call it *well* written... it's readable, for certain, but it doesn't really hang together as a thesis or anything
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Squire Boone
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I will say it's certainly an interesting read if you want to capture a sense of the zeitgeist that got it on the bestseller list and the subject of book clubs and whatnot. But yeah, check it out of the library if anything, don't give that slug a penny.
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Squire Boone
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I read it and no, not really. The strange part of the book is that he lays bare how absolutely warped his grandparents and mother were and then was all, "yup, these people are the ones left behind," and people thought that he was being complimentary and exculpatory when he wasn't really either.
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Squire Boone
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LOL
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Squire Boone
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"Why does the City Council..." "Keep doing things that make you young renters, who are a majority in this city now, mad? Because you don't vote and the older folks who own property and don't like you in their parks do vote"
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Squire Boone
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This is *painfully* evident in local politics.
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Squire Boone
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This and: It's broadly true that the American public supports policies that don't come to pass and the main reason why is that a whole shitload of them don't vote.
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Squire Boone
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He's going to wind up drawing more from Trump than Biden is my guess.
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Squire Boone
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If you are quote-skeeting because you admire the post and want to boost the poster, good.
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Squire Boone
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He already played his hand, though. He can't back up and lose the support of the folks that would like him as Veep, and being the Veep means he has to appeal to normies in the general, and he can't do both of those at the same time
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Squire Boone
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Some subset of them freak out and do something colossally dumb that gets them shot in the street, and the rest pack their bigotry back up until 15 years from now when they have a powerful need to still have relationships with their grandkids.
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Squire Boone
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It would be the third or fourth worst possible pick which puts it right in his wheelhouse
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Squire Boone
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He also is just brainpoisoned at this point can you imagine him speaking in public as a veep candidate
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Squire Boone
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Most importantly, if Trump loses, he goes to jail, broke. And a whole lotta air comes out of his movement.
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Squire Boone
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Challenge accepted
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Squire Boone
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Mnunchin was the only guy who came close to his potential the entire rest of Trump's cabinet was laughably bad at fucking up their jobs. Not that they didn't do a ton of damage anyway, but they could have done *so* much more.
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Squire Boone
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Once got defriended on FB by an ex-coworker who was hugely pissed off that I called The Heritage Foundation an explicitly biased hack job of a think tank
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Squire Boone
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DJT is gonna be so hopped up on his own farts he's gonna pick Ivanka
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Squire Boone
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Now that's going too far
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Pretending to understand Azure
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like im doing great but im squinting at an incoming nuke like damn that’s crazy
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Squire Boone
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Heck I can love the sin and hate the sinner
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Squire Boone
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They also are just manefestly bad at everything
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Squire Boone
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"Blake didn't make only $57,000 last year that guy bought a goddamn boat"
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Squire Boone
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Actually telling the IRS to post every tax record with only the SSN's redacted would rapidly increase the average American's support for the IRS.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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look, you can look at me, i feel embarrassed to even say it, but every column i have read from a black american and every comment i have read from a black american tells a different story than almost every column i read and if these pricks need me to say it to believe it, i will, because i am stupid
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Squire Boone
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It's really astonishing that Cliven Bundy had guys with guns drawn on federal agents and the dude is still walking around
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ApocalypticaNow
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They still don't want to say the real reasons out loud and scare some allies off
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Mitchell Epner
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For the same reason handlers of search & rescue dogs occasionally have volunteers put themselves in a position to be "found" alive in a grim disaster scene -- to keep up morale so that these dogs keep working -- I give you this screen shot from the BOP showing the current location of Steve Bannon.
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Peter Sagal
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It is remarkable to me that when they ever deign to name a specific complaint that requires them to overthrow American society (ie, a “revolution”) it’s always something like faculty senates or website DEI statements or calorie counts on menus.
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Missing The Point
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The Second Trump Administration
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☀️ Starshine
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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Squire Boone
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Not passing a renewal of the VRA was a huge screwup
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