Karl Bode

The Onion @theonion.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

four months to galvanize a party that's the political equivalent of herding cats behind an entirely new candidate would require uncharacteristic levels of unity, strategy and messaging competency and I understand completely why strategists aren't keen for it with fascism on the line

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

these organizations routinely have numerous people pulling down insane salaries to be perpetually wrong yet it's always the editors and journalists barely making a living wage that pay for it

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

the assumption the Democrats, which is "herding cats" in political form, can coherently coalesce behind an entirely new candidate in four months strikes me as wishful thinking quite honestly I think the ad engagement chasing press likes the drama

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

I assume somewhere he acknowledged reality that they're in a hole after his shitty performance and the press bitcjing endlessly about his age, but however he said it could easily be distorted by a game of telephone

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

basing journalism on ad engagement at global scale was fatal from the moment of inception

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

well you see he was a republican and trump is utterly incoherent and it's somehow a non issue

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

we had this conversation all fucking winter and spring! the fact it's being drummed up for drama is a clickbait cash grabbed fused with a right wing ratfucking op

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:45 UTC

love me a single source anonymous story about a conversation that may or may not have happened as described

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

he's fine. there's this weird pretense that the president doesn't delegate 95% of his responsibilities anyway, or that people won't step in to help him in a second term. or that a declining aging biden isn't still universes better than fascism under an also aging trump. it's not even a debate.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

also you have to prioritize customer service and product quality, which is just a money pit that doesn't bump stocks or nab headlines

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

they're mostly chasing ad engagement by over-amplifying drama. everybody knows he's old and will have to heavily delegate in a second term. none of this is new. but I also think the affluent white billionaire owners may just prefer mindless deregulation and lower tax rate of authoritarianism

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

you just have to shove his bones across the finish line to thwart fascism, kids herding the cats into agreeing on an entirely new candidate four months out is a risk I understand strategists wanting to avoid

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

the supreme court just declared the president a king and obliterated the last vestiges of regulatory corporate oversight but the press is positively obsessed with the fact biden is an old man

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

single anonymous source interpretation of a conversation that may or may not even happened as described? print it, boyo!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

yeah corporatist oligarchies pretending to be democracies really don't like it when you genuinely help the plebs they're also really pissed because there's been a fractional boost in efforts on antitrust reform by the Biden FTC

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

big telecom's big plan now is to force big tech to pay them billions of dollars for no coherent reason in exchange for fiber networks they never actually build. This is going to be a huge policy push should trump win election:

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

allowing the public the grace to work from home, and the data proving it's generally a good thing for productivity and morale, drove a large segment of the extraction class positively insane

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

much worse than I ever thought, and I spent my entire 20s and 30s being a fairly cynical bastard

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