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Catbus
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this is great
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bad person everyone hates
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Catbus
@catbus.bsky.social
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this is great
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mav
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Unsurprisingly, people with the most to lose recognize that the best chance to defeat someone who literally wants to exterminate them lies with the candidate they have
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mav
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They've been touring with Dethklok and yes, it was a good time.
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mav
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I was gonna say the grimdark version of Donna from Doctor Who
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mav
@mav.wtf
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And they might stab me in the back, But there's no way to know since their words are essentially meaningless.
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mav
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I mean, if where we're getting is that the only progressives who are electable are people I would trespass from my own property because I can't trust them, aren't we completely fucked?
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mav
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mav
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It just doesn't seem that running on a platform of lying to your constituents is sustainable. And it's ethically dubious.
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mav
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Isn't that... deceptive? "Trans people aren't really people" *gets elected" "Haha psych, trans people are humans you idiot" I mean, I'm in favor of it on paper I guess, but if the same thing happened in reverse I would be FUCKING PISSED
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mav
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so essentially, politicians run on being further right than they actually are and then they move left once they're elected?
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mav
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Okay, fair enough. "Get with the program" being "compromise core values or die" is still in incredibly bad taste though. It would be nice if we ever got to a point where we could, say, acknowledge the humanity of all humans, but that's a bridge too far
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mav
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What legislation was progressive?
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mav
@mav.wtf
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this is how the left becomes something other than the left, though. You can't just constantly leave left politics behind and keep claiming to be left
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jon rosenberg
@jonrosenberg.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when the NYT was a newspaper and not shameless propaganda
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mav
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As an idahoan it is all too god damn real
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.
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mav
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*Reasonable* politics. Us Americans are jealous of reasonable politics.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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mav
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@legaleagle.bsky.social did a great job with this absolutely fucking terrifying video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQ4...
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mav
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But instead it's "is this cognitive decline? Gasp!?!" No, he's lying because he's a liar and he lies all the time. Let's not stack a bunch of ageism on it.
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mav
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I think at least part of it is journos repeatedly acting like he doesn't lie about literally fucking everything. We're being perpetually gaslit by journalism. This article would be totally reasonable if it was like "Trump lied again and here's 34 pages of proof."
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Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social
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The scary bit is when you realize that Bond villains were invented by Ian Fleming—former journalist, secretary to the Chief of Naval Intelligence during WW2, and UPPER CLASS NOB WHO KNEW THESE PEOPLE IRL. (By "these people" I mean rich entitled bastards with hench-thugs.)
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mav
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Oh and I'm still a touch puzzled about why the "Trump can't read" conspiracy didn't cover more distance, on account of the fact that it seems totally reasonable.
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mav
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I am once again reminding everyone that I will not take you seriously if you write on #substack
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mav
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"But it seems like such a blatant falsehood could be easily factchecked and denounced by media as disqualifying." Is this a real quote? Of course he's lying, he lies constantly, why would it matter if anyone fact-checks him? This whole article is based on a bizarre premise.
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mav
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You should have a plan for when one of these sociopathic, regulation-less companies decides to drop in and fuck your life a little bit.
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mav
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Your card can be flagged at any time for anything and considering the increasing dependence on AI systems, expect these error rates to rise dramatically.
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mav
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Until the end of time I'm just going to occasionally remind everyone that once a card is flagged in Stripe's system, you can never use it again, and you have to throw it out and get a new one. They will not help you, and will in fact not respond to any requests you send.
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mav
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Agreed but holy shit it's hard. I mean, we need to do it, but it's really fucking hard.
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Micah
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regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November and those people are worth celebrating
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mav
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slept like 3.5 hours last night, I feel the hell out of this
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mav
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yeah I imagine he probably did it but god damn it this would be a lot easier to deal with if it hadn't been reported by some of the worst people in the whole world. I mean if Joseph Smith arose from the dead with significant evidence Bitwarden was an NSA op I would be angry for many many reasons
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mav
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Good point
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mav
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we're only a couple months away from the predicted start of the Bell Riots
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mav
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it'll be fun, at least, to bring up this post in six months or a year and see how prescient it is (I suspect "very")
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mav
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It sounds like an engineering project that could be a real global boon, that is instead locked up behind a for-profit startup whose goal, as they always are, is wealth extraction.
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mav
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So is pretty much everyone else that's been trying to get through to you.
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mav
@mav.wtf
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So, water then
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mav
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mav
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Now the puzzle is, would it work on either end?
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🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊
@professorkiosk.bsky.social
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The world is full of terrible people, but at least it's also trying to kill us
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mav
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I just know that given the choice between getting gunned down while trying to hold off the people trying to take my friends to the prison camp, and people threatening to build a prison camp, the latter gives us vastly more latitude for not being dead
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mav
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Yeah, maybe. I don't know what happens after this. Maybe we figure out some way of dealing with project 2025, and the GOP? Maybe all this ends here. I don't know. Given the choice between actively ending it all here and trying to make it end a little later I'll take option B every time.
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mav
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Agreed. No delusions about why Biden is the best choice. The choice is between an authoritarian regime and a really, really shitty democracy. And honestly the only real difference is that with option b it might actually be possible to replace the people in charge later.
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mav
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Oooohhhh, ok, gotcha. That would weirdly make sense.
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mav
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That's just a crazy idea. I'm sorry but I don't know how else to say it. You don't casually create a third party inside a system ruled by an authoritarian government. You overturn an authoritarian government with guerrilla warfare. either oppose this as it stands right now or a lot of people die
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mav
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If so we need to find that person and fire everybody but them.
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mav
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Defeating this asshole in the short-term has to be done before we can do anything in the long term.
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mav
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Any opposition that follows a Trump win in 2024 will have to be kinetic. Anyone claiming otherwise is delusional. A
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mav
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You're not wrong. At the same time, voting is a pretty low friction thing for most people (definitely not for everyone) and one choice is much less likely to outlaw voting and protest and any other objection to the gov't entirely. So there's that
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