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Zork
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No one knows anything about politics, my broskis
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Writer, banjo player. Author of Ghost in the Club (Metatron, 2016) and Chirp (Ursus Americanus, 2018) zorknogg.tumblr.com/
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No one knows anything about politics, my broskis
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Lana Del Roy Orbison
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Metatron Press
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Peter
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this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism
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Some major media that is nominally not directly controlled by the state, only by allies of the ruler. Expression of frustration with individual politicians/bureaucrats allowed but never the broader system.
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The economic and social decline caused by the policies of the right blamed on the barely surviving left until it’s completely gone.
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The token cultural resistance used as a pretext for more and more political repression.
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A far right competitive authoritarian state with pockets of mostly cultural resistance in large urban areas.
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In my darkest moments I believe there’s a good chance of a “Trump is still alive” Qanon cult developing and I think that he will be a significant write in candidate in the election after his death
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and the Republican Trump hagiography when he’s finally gone is going to be totally off the wall
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David_j_roth
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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This is actually a massive political advantage because it allows voters to ignore all the really really unpopular policies he’s put out
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Trump’s stated policy goals are never treated seriously by most media. It’s always “woah that’s way too evil/stupid so he probably doesn’t ACTUALLY mean it”
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work memes
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Seeing it made me think “This is just not something a major car company does” it’s like their only model in the pipeline. It would be a smarter investment to pay Elon to go away
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Zork
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Related: I don’t think Tesla will be a significant car company in 10 years
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I just saw my first wild Cybertruck!
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If you stick to the world viewed through anecdote and avoid data then a hot labor market can make people really mad at certain points. Ex Talk about how “no one wants to work anymore” bc casual restaurants are understaffed due to people having better options.
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And all along use media to convince people that the places experiencing huge in migration and economic growth are actually unlivable hell holes
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Adam Kotsko
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I'm excited for UK Labour to win an unprecedented landslide and then not pass a single identifiable policy throughout their entire term.
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Putting all others to shame by clearing the extremely high bar of “treating Climate change somewhat seriously”
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Kristaps is dominating
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It’s like an average euro league atmosphere (if that)
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It’s crazy for Doncic to get to the NBA finals and have it be like not even a top 5 most intense environment he’s played basketball in
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It’s totally possible that Trump has never had a chicken wing
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Trump added the extra flavor of paranoid white supremacist conspiracy, but the underlying policy is still big business saying, “we would like a lot of people we can abuse and not pay”
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Immigration is actually one area where very little changed from Bush-Obama-Trump-Biden. All accept that there should be a permanent undocumented underclass for corporations to exploit, just differ on exactly how harshly that underclass should be exploited and controlled.
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This is incredible bc Trump’s stated position on Iraq was that the US should have simply raided the country and stole all its natural resources. He repeated this many times.
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A good follow up would be “What specific policies did Trump propose and sign into law that contributed to keeping inflation low?” But I’d image it would make his head explode
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Not enough people remember that the J6 people were largely let in the building by police.
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They are all really old! Like, really old retirees are not the usual demographic for forming paramilitaries
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Also, huge percentage of Trump supporters are very old
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
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Zoomers are becoming blackpilled because they've never experienced the ecstatic joy of bros icing bros.
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If all economic indicators can be totally decoupled from people’s perceptions of the economy, then it’s also a massive problem for the Left, as we could not point to measurable economic improvements resulting from Left policy and have any effect
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I was just talking about them like an hour ago
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Really good piece
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The real threat is when the opposite happens: a measurably terrible economy (think 2009) that people say is great.
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This guy lurking
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I look a bit like Luka Doncic
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I don’t have DMs.
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Fantastic bar
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I think one issue is that anecdote can cut both ways. There were a lot of people in 2009 saying “just get a job it’s not that hard, it was easy for me and look at all these job openings!”
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There are official measures which do that though. Real wages are one part of that. In any case it’s not like these opinions about the economy are shaped by looking at data.
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Totally, that is literally something I’ve seen said multiple times in earnest.
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That’s the joke 👍
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Then you are correct ☑️
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“Real wages for the lowest paid workers are up significantly”….”Yeah but what if you adjust for Inflation?!?”
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when Bruce Springsteen said “heyerrrberderrgirrrl” , I felt that
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