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Christopher Bird
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"a good man will kill you with hardly a word"
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Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com |
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Lawyer, writer, boardgamer, cyclist, tries-not-to-be-a-dickhead-ist. T-dot 4 life (or until something better comes along). Likes are "I need to check this out later" and nothing else Email: mgk (at) (BS handle) (he/him)
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Christopher Bird
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"a good man will kill you with hardly a word"
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Christopher Bird
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the new "premium" stuff - their Haagen-Daaz competitor line - is perfectly good ice cream, but nothing remarkable
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Christopher Bird
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not just a bad take but literally an exact-opposite-of-reality take
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Christopher Bird
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"my fellow Americans: I would not trust Mike Johnson to run a Dairy Queen, let alone the most powerful country in the world"
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Christopher Bird
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can't wait to rewatch LOST so I can see my favorite characters: Nikki and Paolo!
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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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Christopher Bird
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... That we know of, at least. And if Biden is going downhill now (and it is entirely possible for that sort of thing to start fast, like "he was just fine as of the State of the Union and then ..." fast), some Dems might be figuring current polling is meaningless if there's worse news coming.
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Christopher Bird
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I agree, but the latest spate of "Biden is so old you guys" stories contains anonymous anecdotes that are pretty obviously from White House staffers, which speaks to people in Biden's inner circle - the ones who are supposed to be ride or die for him - losing faith. That's not a good sign.
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Christopher Bird
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After the debate I figured that wait and see for a week was the prudent position re Biden. Well, it's been a week, and the public polls aren't great, and judging by how Democrats are publicly moving away from him the internals may be worse. I'm starting to think he's done.
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Christopher Bird
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This is true, but national polling is also kind of meaningless right now - Democrats are looking at specific crosstabs for suburban moms, Latinx occasional voters, etc. Tammy Baldwin refusing to appear with Biden in Wisconsin is probably a better indicator for what those specifics are saying.
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Luke O'Neil
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Bernie Bros have to pretend to be Khivers now is the most O'Henry/ Ambrose Bierce ass election outcome and while I do not like it as a citizen or human I appreciate the ironic twist.
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Elon Green
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The reality is that, so far, there's little polling evidence that Biden's lost much support since the debate. But that's not gonna permeate the bluesky ecosystem because election/polling twitter didn't migrate over here.
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Christopher Bird
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and yeah, Blob should probably be in there, and M'Baku
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Christopher Bird
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depends. He is absolutely not GOOD, but playing him is fun as balls even though I've lost like seven ranks already
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Christopher Bird
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MARVEL SNAPDATE: spent four keys (!) to get Arishem because I wanted the stupid, stupid card and made this stupid, stupid deck with it Arguably I should find room for Quinjet, but eh whatever
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Christopher Bird
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Ska, reggae, and dancehall all exist because Jamaica didn't enforce copyright laws until the late 80s, so calypso artists were free to do unregulated/pirate covers of American and British pop songs in their own idiom, which effectively created the aforementioned styles
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Ygrene ✔️
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[arriving in hell] Satan: welco- Me: hit me with a plate of your eggs bro Satan: Me: (sprinkling motion) with the paprika
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Christopher Bird
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The associated implication that anybody cis who vocally supports trans rights must themselves be secretly trans is also just fucking annoying
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Eric Rauchway
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sadly, “it’s racism” is often the correct analysis
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Christopher Bird
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it's like: there WAS an open, democratic process to pick the nominee! four years ago! and then the Democrats went with "default" this year so that's where they are
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Christopher Bird
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the old-timer Dems seem to be creating a framework: yes, you can call on Biden to drop out, but only - ONLY - if you say "so Kamala can take the reigns" and that's honestly the best call for a Biden-replacement scenario
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Christopher Bird
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Praxis is a second-generation Decepticon, that one's easy
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e.w. niedermeyer
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this would absolutely work on Teslas, because they don't have radar or lidar to bounce off the picture of the tunnel in order to confirm that it is in fact extremely solid
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Christopher Bird
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One of the primary arguments against Biden dropping out is that nobody polls better than he does for the Democrats - in particular Kamala Harris, the only person who can actually realistically replace him. This is just one poll, but if Harris now polls better than Biden, that's a BIG change.
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Christopher Bird
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Think about how much Karen energy Marjorie Taylor Greene has, and how although you might hate her (and with good reason), how effective she has been at advancing her pet causes, politically if not legislatively (which she can't do because she's stupid)
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Christopher Bird
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Would like to stress that this is also only a thing in the USA. In the rest of the developed world it's cheque, direct deposit or, at worst, PayPal.
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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I think about this Dick Gregory quote when I discover people I thought couldn't be racist totally are and how bigotry can present itself in certain contexts:
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dan solomon
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thinking about biden’s address last night, “the supreme court has given the president absolute power, i think that’s wrong and over the next four months you’ll see me reject that power, now imagine what trump will do with it” is an implicit argument for why he must stay in the race, which is clever
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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OK on a day like today I think we all need to read my absolute favorite judicial opinion ever as a palate cleanser.
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Christopher Bird
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Don't think any bit of Dropout content has ever made me howl as much as Brennan Lee Mulligan screaming "oh no, I buffed it, I shitted it, I'm supposed to be the smarty"
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Susan (George) Schorn
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The speech I just watched seemed to boil down to "the voters have to vote against Trump." Nothing about reining in the court, nothing about any damn thing he's going to do. Way to telegraph helplessness.
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Christopher Bird
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The cops can pull out all the military gear they like because they know damn well that if it ever goes down, military gear doesn't quite beat a 100:1 numbers advantage
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Seth Masket
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This seems like a good day for Sotomayor and/or Kagan to say "I can no longer work with colleagues who are using their positions of power to undermine the greatest constitutional republic the world has ever known. I am resigning now so that the President can find someone else who can stomach this."
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Christopher Bird
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Virginia was watching FERRARI in the other room for the first time and suddenly she yells JESUS CHRIST and so I knew which scene she just saw
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Christopher Bird
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In fairness posting the ASSASSIN'S CREED movie poster SHOULD be considered potential self harm
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Christopher Bird
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Four films you don't just dislike, you despise #Filmsky
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Christopher Bird
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Cynical and maybe a little self-impressed with their own senses of humour but on the right side of things, generally
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Col. Boozy Badger
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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
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Mitchell Epner
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A difference between me and many of my friends is that most of my friends believe that manners and decorum mean that a person will not participate in fascism. Maybe it is the lesson that my bitter Jewish grandmother taught me, but I've always believed that aristocrats can push us into the ovens.
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Pwnallthethings
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Also just tossing it out there, but SCOTUS saying "we need to do this to protect executive authority" when it's literally the executive branch arguing they shouldn't, sort of gives the lie to the idea this was about protecting constitutional departmental interests as opposed to protecting Mr Trump
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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Just to point out the obvious: the Emancipation Proclamation was unconstitutional. Sometimes it’s ok to break rules to do what’s right, is the point.
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Christopher Bird
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Christopher Bird
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Buns 'N' Roses
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Christopher Bird
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on the one hand I tend to dislike it when a crowd tries to hijack a match by chanting random shit they think is funny, but on the other hand Mercedes is famously a Bostonian so it sorta counts, and also fuck the Celtics
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Christopher Bird
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The Rolling Scones
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Christopher Bird
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I can at least understand the idea that Biden should step down and allow Harris to run in his place - there are actual rules to allow that! Scenarios involving literally anybody else are a joke, not least because that person's campaign wouldn't be able to access the $250m Biden/Harris warchest.
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Christopher Bird
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The current news cycle is best understood as a combination of cynical news organizations trying to collude with Democratic no-hoper centrist insiders who would never be able to win a primary campaign under normal circumstances to oust Joe Biden and, somehow, Kamala Harris as well
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Christopher Bird
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the best thing about #AEW is that Excalibur, on commentary for the main event of one of their premium special shows, is allowed and likely encouraged to say "hey after this you should go on Youtube and check out highlights of this wrestler from the 90s who inspired some of the current generation"
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