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pteridoid@pteridoid.bsky.social |
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Normie lib. he/him. Mayor's Income, TN
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pteridoid
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I don't know why we keep wanting to forgive student debt without solving the root cause in the first place. Predatory loans from unscrupulous lenders and universities.
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pteridoid
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Guy blocked me after replying. Annoying. In response: No, I actually started behaving this insufferably in response to all the badgering and criticism I was getting. I was quite friendly at first.
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pteridoid
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Untrue. I started acting like this in response to all the badgering and criticism.
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pteridoid
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"liberal echo chamber" Funny. I keep getting told that I'm the enemy on here, as a lib.
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pteridoid
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Ah, so it's literally just some racist doing custom print jobs on door mats. I feel better now. I mean, fuck that guy, but it's just some guy.
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pteridoid
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The next step is to ferret out which of you is least ideologically pure, and the excoriate them ruthlessly. The next step after that is the same. And so on. Revolution? We never get to that part. We're not pure enough. This is the way.
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pteridoid
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Oh great. The anti-DEI train is making its first stop. Capitalism will be saved. /s
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pteridoid
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What did Tractor Supply do? Why do we dislike them?
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I had no idea that was a thing still. I don't think he was about to act on this; he was just telling me the "official" answer about eating cow meat. This was right after he ate at a place called Buffalo Burger, thinking it would be bison. When I told him it was beef, he was upset but not overly so.
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pteridoid
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I had an Indian coworker who said that eating beef was considered worse in Hindu than, and I quote, "taking the life of a virtuous person." He wasn't the most observant Hindu, but he took that one seriously.
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pteridoid
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Most Americans, if they eat sheep at all, will eat lamb, which is much more tender. Not many people eat mutton. And no, there's no taboo against goat. It's just not commonly found in American grocery stores. You have to find a halal butcher around here if you want it. Which you totally can.
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pteridoid
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just out here making enemies online by asking leftists to vote. aaaand back to Twitter I goooo...
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pteridoid
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right back atcha
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pteridoid
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Good news everyone the firefighters in my mentions think if they can douse the fire with water just one more time the rising tide of house fires will be defeated. That's how you sound. Vote Biden this November. No, it won't fix everything. It's still 100% necessary.
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Look, the supreme court just made most of this moot, at least for now. Biden is the guy; it's too late to change; we all gotta back Biden in order to stop fascism. I'm just saying, for next time, perhaps we could have someone younger. Perhaps the primary could be less of a pro-forma exercise.
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Just to be clear, I am voting for Genocide Joe or whatever non-Trump option I have in November. And for the rest of my life. Always vote against fascism.
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Biden already promised not to abuse his power, but I am begging him to abuse his power, while he still can.
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I sure hope you're right. The past six years or so have not given me very much encouragement that you are.
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"yes but you see my direct action of letting the air out of cop car tires is so much more..." And who told you you couldn't do both? Go vote, AND whatever other meaningless BS you want to do.
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pteridoid
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Unironically, yes.
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This is a good one
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pteridoid
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And to be clear: having intersectional space to center indigenous voices "or whatever" is still a good thing. But can we stop being so self-defeating with the purity culture? Not everything has to solve all problems perfectly.
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pteridoid
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It means a lot of leftists are so concerned with being "right," and with making sure everyone else is "right" that they're afraid to take any actual, meaningful action. Your conference didn't have enough intersectional spaces to center indigenous voices or whatever. May as well not have put one on.
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pteridoid
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Yes but any leftist who's doing anything wrong is actually a lib. It's just science; don't question it.
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pteridoid
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That's well put.
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One time Microsoft came to do a presentation, and my boss complained that it'd be just another sales pitch for their cloud services stuff. Apparently that comment made it to the MS team, cause their lead person afterward said "There. Was that more than just a sales pitch?" Nah. It wasn't really.
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pteridoid
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I just couldn't take any HB animation that wasn't Mike Mignola. Personal hangup.
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Unfortunately, yeah.
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pteridoid
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But My Vote is sacred, and it needs to feel Special or I'm not voting. How dare you suggest that I vote for someone who doesn't give me the Special Good Feelings.
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Got relentlessly bullied on here quite recently for trying to say the same. The "genocide joe" folks are a lot quieter after the SCOTUS ruling, perhaps because they realized they were full of shit.
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pteridoid
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Twelve seems like a good number.
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pteridoid
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For what it's worth, I'm sorry about whatever Christians did to hurt you in the past. Me too. Religions are made of people, and people are inconstant, fallible, petty, and stupid.
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pteridoid
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He came off looking feeble. It doesn't help anything to pretend otherwise. However, he gave clear answers (if you overlook his speech problems). He actually answered questions and wasn't lying all night. That matters to me more than how loud he was. Still have no qualms about voting for him.
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pteridoid
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I didn't say I was, so let's not be disingenuous, hm? But if I were to do that, how would you suggest go about that here, on Bluesky dot app, friend?
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pteridoid
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And turning the other cheek in this context would be allowing snide comments without responding in kind, I suppose? By all means, unleash your pent up rage about Christianity at me. I've had worse. I'm clearly not about to debate you into anything.
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pteridoid
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I don't think it's my job to defend everything the church has ever done or said, but as far as remaining in communion with anti-lgbt groups, the alternative is cutting them loose to do whatever. This way they can still exert some limited influence from Canterbury or whatever.
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pteridoid
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The guy who just asked me to shoot Baptists is concerned about violence. Go for it. I'm all ears.
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pteridoid
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What part of "Episcopalian" screams "holy war" to you?
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pteridoid
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I would require the DNC to change at least.
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pteridoid
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When was that?
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pteridoid
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That's right. We never really had Liz as an option. Why is that? Perhaps we could ask Hillary.
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pteridoid
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Just leaving this here because almost everyone on this app needs to hear it.
NB4 I get called a fascist
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/o...
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pteridoid
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Are they saying "shut up" or are they saying "here are some specific critiques"?
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pteridoid
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Sorry. I try all new foods with a closed mind. I go into it thinking "if this doesn't taste like chicken nuggets, I'm going to be upset!" It's gratifying to be proven right so often. But I hate most foods, so there is a trade off.
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pteridoid
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My brother in law told his daughter (6) never to apologize unless she meant it. No fake apologies, great idea! But the reality is that... she just never apologizes for anything and is terrible to be around.
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pteridoid
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But with less racism (thankfully) and more petty meanness (somehow).
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pteridoid
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Yeah, people on here are the worst. Don't even know what you were dealing with, but I can imagine. Sorry that happened.
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pteridoid
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Check out Bill Bryson in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Very good at breaking science down for the lay reader, and making it seem interesting. Like a narrative rather than a series of unlinked events.
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pteridoid
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"Mars isn't happening on anywhere near the timeline of the problems I'm talking about" Are you on the "we're all dead in three years" train? Cause that's unrealistic. "We don't need 'advancements' we need to deploy existing solutions." We need both. Yesterday. There's no magic silver bullet.
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pteridoid
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Disagree. I think the rigors of living on Mars will actually help us with our own problems back on earth. Efficient water usage and solar power, for example. We're still benefiting from lots of the advancements they came up with in the Apollo program.
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