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Mezentine
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I think you and I have been totally aligned so far, and I should probably do this too
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Making cool things. Industrial designer and engineer in Chicago
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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I think you and I have been totally aligned so far, and I should probably do this too
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Mezentine
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Munising Falls at Pictured Rock State Park
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Ed Burmila
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There’s an obvious undercurrent in all of this suggesting that whatever the Democrats do to resolve this problem needs to be entertaining to journalists. And I gotta be honest I’m not sure that’s very important.
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Mezentine
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I don't love the implications of this
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Mezentine
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That's not an argument for or against a course of action but a plea for things to be done for the right reasons. There may be a serious case that voters will actually respond differently to Harris; right now it feels like everyone is scrambling to "fix the optics" as if they're a weather phenomenon
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Mezentine
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I both think that if he does step down the only alternative is Harris and also that anyone who thinks that this sort of move will improve media optics is naive bordering on delusional. The media will flip to open racism and misogyny overnight, they won't miss a beat
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Mezentine
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This has been extremely obvious to anyone paying attention and I'm glad the media is catching up. The sooner this shit crashes and burns the better.
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Mezentine
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How many times do we have to learn "Abusers are drawn to and love to found small isolated groups." Part of why I generally believe its better for people to live in large communities or cities is to increase the chance of someone spotting something is wrong and putting a hand on your shoulder
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Mezentine
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"Will Riker splits in two and his transporter clone goes on to pose as the original in order to steal a warship for some Federation separatists" remains one of the coolest plotlines they've ever done.
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Mezentine
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They're openly saying it! Like half these fucking op eds openly say "This convention would of course be tremendously exciting and make for great television"
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Mezentine
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I feel like I'm losing my mind. If people think the media is bad now, any sort of replacement whether its a convention or just Harris stepping in is going to be a feeding frenzy
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Alexandra Manglis
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As someone who's born and raised in the MENA and I know heat: do not go outside during the hottest part of the day, do not go for a walk, do not decide to do DIY, do not do manual labor, just do not! You can weed your damn garden at 7pm. Go back inside, turn on the ac/fan, hydrate, eat popsicles.
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Mezentine
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They will transition into racism and misogyny overnight without skipping a beat
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Mezentine
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I think people are being kind of delusional in denying this. Whoever is on the top of the ticket is going to meet a firehose of hostility.
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Mezentine
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I don't disagree with this, but I just...expect them to do the same thing to Harris? They'll find something else. Hell, the racism will just be out in the open. Anyone running on the D ticket is going to face a hostile media environment, and it feels like some people think a new candidate won't
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Mezentine
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I really think we are operating in a fundamentally low information ecosystem that's freaking a LOT of people out, especially so called election professionals
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Mezentine
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I simply don't know how anyone is supposed to be making decisions that are based on nonsensical results like this. RFK is not going to win 20% of the Hispanic vote. I would bet my life savings on that.
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Mezentine
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I'm really trying not to fall into the "all the polls are wrong" trap but I am convinced that something very weird is going on
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Mezentine
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Yes this is exactly why I like Sekiro. I actually think that the leveling systems in their other games make the experience a bit too irregular for my tastes; Sekiro asked me to master a very specific skillset and once I did I felt like a master
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Mezentine
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Its not even *political* exactly, its just who they think their friends are
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Mezentine
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There's probably a lot of theories, but the one I find most straightforwardly useful and matches my observations is that the ownership class is always buddy buddy with fascism because they think it'll be good for them, and the modern media is very cozy with the ownership class
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Mezentine
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"If we find the right message they'll change how they cover it" no they won't! They keep lying to your face when they tell you that. It's one of the clearest Lucy footballs I've ever experienced
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Mezentine
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I understand why people are saying "whining about the media being unfair is pointless" but I do think we need to break some illusions about purported neutrality and recognize the ways in which big media pillars are actively hostile to pluralistic democracy
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Mezentine
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I've been trying to manifest
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Mezentine
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It was very nice walking throat park today and seeing hundreds of people setting up for extended family relaxation time with cookouts and sports and also we should have space for and reasons for this kind of time that aren't flag waving day
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violet allen
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i don't think a "nice guy" persona is a sign of someone secretly being a bad person. men with "i'm a huge piece of shit" personas have done this shit. so have men with "i'm just a regular guy" and "i'm a serious thinker" and "i'm a huge mess but fun." personality is not really what is at issue here.
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Mezentine
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This election has narrowed down for me significantly to the fact that if Biden is president again I think we will have another election in 2028 and another chance for things to be different, and if Trump wins I am fairly sure we won't
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Mezentine
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I am currently in camp A, but only because 1. At this point my only priority is keeping Trump out of power and 2. I remain very unconvinced that any other path will do that. Biden can die on January 22nd as far as I'm concerned
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Mezentine
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As I've gotten older I'vd had too many negative experiences with the "Skip the small talk, I want to jump straight in the DEEP end" types. I can better articulate that it feels invasive, actually
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rahaeli
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It is not funny. It is not just. It is not an appropriate part of a carceral sentence. We should not view it as an inevitability and we should not speak of it as "deserved". It is one of the many shames of our carceral system and one of the reasons we need radical prison reform.
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rahaeli
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It should not be controversial to say that prison sexual violence and/or coercion is never a good thing or an appropriate thing to joke or threaten about, even when the target is someone terrible. It is a deeply fucked up, traumatic part of our carceral system.
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Stephen Pimpare
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“To defend our lives and to defend the planet, we will need resilient networks of people who are more invested in each other and our collective survival than they are in the systems that would destroy us. . . “ Clear-eyed, practical, actionable advice for dark times.
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Mezentine
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My partner who used to work in publishing was sadly unsurprised to hear this today, she says industry people talked about negative experiences with him, although she hadn't heard specifically about something this bad
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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Different, not difficult
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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My fiancee just sent me this without comment
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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Yeah I don't know what to do about this. It's a serious problem. It would be difficult if the same energy was directed at Trump, but the disparity is really obvious
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Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
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Like if this is true its a really really bad look
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Mezentine
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Yeah I'm worried people are going to spend a lot of time litigating small details about what technically does or doesn't count as assault when what this points to is simply a pattern of unacceptable behavior (and some of the reactions I'm seeing suggest more stories are going to surface rapidly)
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Mezentine
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Maybe I'm succumbing to my own biases here, but "When was Matt Yglesias right about literally anything" is a not insignificant part of how I'm processing all of this
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Mezentine
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For me "Is Biden fit for office" and "Will running someone else give better odds of keeping Trump out in November" are pretty distinct questions, and the fact that a bunch of the dumbest people on the planet are super excited about the latter has me extremely hesitant
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Mezentine
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God can you IMAGINE
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Tim Onion
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"The Bernie Bros and K-Hive appear to be forming an alliance," I say at the 4th of July cookout. An anvil falls out of the sky directly onto my person, killing me instantly. God appears through the clouds. "I did that," he says. Family and friends applaud politely.
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Prisonculture
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When people were pointing out that the NYT was actively cheerleading Israel's genocide of Palestinians, several people said that this wasn't the case. Now some of these same people are witnessing their full court press to get Biden to step down and this is legible to them. What gives?
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Phil Lewis
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Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.
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Mezentine
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I think people are still slightly underestimating just how quick this couple happen, in large part because Trump's erosion of our norms so far has felt agonizingly slow. But this decision effectively destroys the last braking mechanism for any President bold enough to actually say "Just open fire"
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Mezentine
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This is the sort of thing that can rapidly cascade into a spiral of violence. I've resisted comparisons to Nazi Germany before but I think this specific moment warrants them, this is how the violence goes from putting up a veneer of respectable plausibility to nakedly instrumental
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Mezentine
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Where this gets extremely extremely bad is when prosecutors start declining to pursue valid cases against people acting on the Presidents orders because if they do someone else will show up at their house in the middle of the night on the Presidents orders
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Mezentine
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They so clearly think they're actually the ones in charge and nothing can ever touch them and they're so clearly wrong
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Mezentine
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Maybe it's because I went to a state school and had a great experience, but the factors in getting your degree in idk accounting from one of the best schools compared to just an okay school seem marginal. Most people don't go to the best schools and their careers turn out fine
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