New Year’s Steve

New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

So, despair is the enemy. There are tons of people on this site that I really like, but I’m going stop posting and reading the skyline for a little while to avoid encouraging said enemy. I do have a couple DMs about non-politics related things to do, but I’m going to avoid SCOTUSposting, etc.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

You are being overly charitable, mostly they don’t think that the bad things were actually bad things.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

I read that as “Darwin” and had a very WTF reaction for a second.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

But if lefties hated Biden before 10/7, then what’s happening in Gaza can’t be what causes them to hate Biden. I wish the left had turned on Biden over his support for Israel but they didn’t.
Also one can make a similar point to the boat without being a flaming choad, see:

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Gaza isn’t really relevant to the argument, because Mr. boat et al hated him before that too. Also, you can search his feed and pretty easily find thing where he laments the lack of concern for Palestinian lives, calls Israel an apartheid state, etc.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:24 UTC

The (online doomer) left didn’t turn on Biden over Gaza, they hated him before that. Why would Biden care what a bunch of irony poisoned weirdos who said he was a union buster to the right of Reagan think?

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

“Lose” credit. Because if I look back to his tweets from before 10/7 he was a definitely a Biden Stan.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:04 UTC

Seeing some radical academics decided that yes, they can make common cause with reactionary freaks over hating liberals, the early days of Italian Fascism are making more sense to me.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

2) goes away pretty quick if he joins the ticket and plays his part 3) is, eh? Harris is better on the Palestinian’s basic humanity, which is big deal to a lot of them.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

This is basically a cognitohazard of a political campaign for everyone who has an unhealthy investment in politics, but the more o think about it the better it sounds.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

Whitmer got burned in October for being too evenhanded and backtracked kinda hard.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:16 UTC

Comma failure is a gentle way of saying that the revealed preferences of large portions of the left is that they do not in fact care about labor rights, economic inequality, or the environment, but rather about presenting themselves as someone who cares about these things.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

“We can’t replace Biden with someone who is less hostile to Palestinians” is IMO an extremely underrated factor in why all these radical centrists want to try some sort of triple bank shot rather than going with the fucking VP.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

Harris is pretty close to Biden on most issues but is noticeably more sympathetic to Palestinians, and Bret Stevens would take Trump before that.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

I don’t disagree, but it’s not like that argument was winning on October 6th. Before I/P it was student loans or inflation or Dobbs or the $600 or breaking the rail strike that made it impossible to support Biden.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

The actual mechanism by which postmodernism is a threat to American freedoms.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

Underpants gnome-ass political analysis.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

“Bernie would have won” *crowd cheers, applauds* “Because he wouldn’t have spent the whole campaign getting sabotaged by the Intercept left” *crowd boos, throws overripe fruit*

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

There are a *lot* of people who either straight up don’t, or are in denial about it, though.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

Yes? Neither Palestinians nor immigrants are likely to be better off under a second Trump term than a second Biden term.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

All I can say is that, for as shameful as Biden has been on I/P, Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir and Smotrich all badly want Trump to win, so I’m pressing the “Make Kahanists sad” button in November.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

I say this a a liberal, but libs are the biggest fucking marks on the planet. The NYT spends years as a gleeful participant in Bannon and Rudy’s ratfucking, and when it pays off libs buy the keyfabe and subscribe en masse as an anti-Trump move.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

Extremely funny that you allegedly want to get Joe a Biden out of power but aren’t actually willing to use the power you have to achieve that, instead you’ve convinced yourself posting is praxis. I guess, given your preference for fascists over liberals, I’m grateful you’ve so willingly given up.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Did you vote in the Dem primaries, because that’s a way of expressing displeasure with milquetoast centrists without empowering fascists.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

Or for ol’ Dash that’s a feature and not a bug.

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Also, a *trans* immigrant from TERF island!??

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:07 UTC

It’s not in their economic interest, but once you have the true believers in the drivers seat I’m not sure it matters. What’s produce being a little more expensive matter if you are preventing the genocide of the white race?

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

Oh, weird, how’d this link get here?
www.nlrb.gov/case/02-CA-2...

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New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Once again 1) transphobic nepo baby takes over the family business 2) said business prospers under Republicans and struggles under Drmocrats 3) said business is getting investigated by Biden’s NLRB Given 1+2+3 you should have a very solid guess as to whether said bigot wants Trump or Biden to win.

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