BOLT VANDERHUGE
Nightmare Hellperson (He/Him)
- Being anti gerontocracy is the silliest ideology. Class not age is responsible for the monsters running the show.
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- Well, I can understand that, but given that the only thing the current generation of leaders do with any degree of competence is left-punching, I'd still rather roll the dice on a new generation
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- Yeah, like I appreciate the point that swapping old capitalists for young capitalists means you still have a bourgeoisie party, but you have to admit that the gerontocracy has led to some insane operational/tactical issues
- For the next 4 years.
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- It's clear that you've totally given up and are more interested in nursing factional grievances than pursuing a political project. Your premise is wrong: if people voted in their own interests, Trump wouldn't be president! People need to be reached out to and motivated and you seem to wish otherwise
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- I appreciate that you have a lot invested in this fantasy of the prodigal voter coming back to you, begging for mercy, but it's delusional. While you're waiting for those voters to return, someone else is out there telling them a story, and giving them a reason to vote a certain way.
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- Look where that got us! He fucked up the one thing he was supposed to do! He ate shit and fucked us all! Biden's the biggest moron of all!
- "I can't vote in good conscience." "Stop moralizing about not voting!"
- Where did I say anything about what my conscience, good or bad said? Assuming there's another election, you're going to need to get people to vote for you, and my point is this histrionic shaming is the opposite of persuasive
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- So you're betting the farm on your opponent fucking up and the electorate voting for your team, the 'death to traitors' team. Aside from how off-putting your rhetoric is, that's a strategy that has repeatedly failed in the past couple election cycles. You can't just run against something!
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- You're ignoring my question in favor of these self indulgent monologues, so let me state it more plainly: how do you propose to get more people to vote for your candidate, and how does talking like Rorschach fit into that strategy? 'Good' or 'evil', everyone's vote counts, and you need more of them.
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- But that's gibberish? People will vote as you like or suffer and die? How is that supposed to persuade anyone? Talking like sephiroth is not bringing people into the coalition. It's actually really weirding me out!
- It's really fucking hard to forgive people that looked at Harris and Trump and said "these two are exactly the same." There comes a point where the distinction between stupid and evil is irrelevant and we reached it last election.
- So what is the plan here? You can write off a portion of the electorate as stupid/evil, but where does that get you? It's not going to increase vote share. This moralizing seems to get in the way of actually doing politics
- wait, they can just detain people now? What's next? Kicking in a woman's door and killing her while she was sleeping? Never seen law enforcement display this type of power. Bad times that's just now happening for the first time ever
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View full threadexactly. kick rocks ho
- More bemusing than amusing
- Apparently it does. Anyway, happy he is able to experience this for clout. Hopefully he gets lots of subs for being a stupid bitch
- What?
- What is the point you're trying to make here? Police brutality in the past doesn't diminish what's happening now, it's arguably what has enabled it
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- Holy Christ, how much are you losing to the wallet inspector every week if you're this easy to trick? Do you have object permeance? Have you mastered peekaboo? I've got some very nice bridges you might be interested in, DM your SSN for details!
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- That's an incredible bit
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- Am I supposed to be surprised that hogs love slop?
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- Why would I be concerned with the people in the replies of this?
- For your sake, I hope you never go through this experience. It destroys you. I appreciate the impulse to make light of things, but I don't think you've succeeded here.
- I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.
- A key element of the administration’s repurposing of wartime and counterterrorism framings to other ends is aesthetic. Here ICE agents are kitted out like wannabe GWOT operators while conducting a raid in the badlands of the Berkshires. www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...
- I lived in Stockbridge for years and spent an enormous amount of time in Great Barrington. There is no scenario that could justify this: it's a pure intimidation tactic.
- Bush was a terrible president. But he could successfully complete a college application. He’d be an at-least replacement level regional business manager. I’d let him babysit my kids for an evening, in a pinch. If I insured his car I’d be at least mostly confident he wouldn’t try to defraud me.
- I'm starting to think you deserve all the criticism you get!
- I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”
- You realise all the other popes also had university roommates, highschool buddies, uncles, aunts, etc? Right? Just because it didn't happen in the US popes seem so alien to you guys.
- I think part of what he's speaking to is generational. Pope Francis was born in the 30's and Pope Leo was born in the 50's, and his life before the papacy has left more traces that are more easily accessible than those of his predecessor
- Last fall Niall Ferguson chastised me on Xitter for suggesting Trump could turn fascist, asserting, "fascism was all about state control of the economy and militarisation in preparation for war, pretty much the opposite of Trump's philosophy." Just thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.
- Noted legal scholar Stephen Miller says Trump’s White House is considering suspending habeas corpus because the US is “under invasion.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=evIs...
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- Oh my God I forgot who he married. Good Lord
- I have to disagree a little. I know his credentials are impressive, but beyond that he always seemed to me to be a court intellectual willing to legitimize the historical revisionism of the powerful. MAYBE you could invert that and say his revisionism is 'converting' the powerful to his viewpoint
- But at a certain point who cares, there's nothing about what he's doing that's unique to him, or couldn't be done by a bunch of other shitheads on a moments notice
- Well, you can always take solace in the fact that Niall Ferguson is fucking moron
- You asked, I listened As an act of civic journalism, I contacted the Privy Council Office and the Speaker of the House of Commons to clarify if Pierre Poilievre can still serve as Leader of the Opposition and if he can continue living in his public mansion The official answers: No and no
- This rocks. So this shithead lost the election so bad he's unemployed and homeless?
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- Like holy shit is this guy in a hermetically sealed fart huffing chamber! How can your pitch be more expensive stuff and less of it?!
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- It's such an awful stretch of 22 but I have to drive it multiple times a week
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- I grew up a couple towns over from this, and later moved back as an adult. This was a tough one to explain to my wife
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- Didn't he also claim to be trained in no rules street fighting before backing out of the zuck fight?
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- Didn't someone push him down the stairs as a kid?
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- You cannot possibly be this stupid
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- They rock. It's wild how long they've been rocking and continuing to rock
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View full threadI think about this one constantly
- It's not even an especially good episode, and I always feel their frustration. It's sooo cathartic when they start hollering
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- Ontario Moron
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- It certainly became the stupidest discourse when you weighed in on it!
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- Praying for you to fix your heart
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- That's basically my understanding at least. It's also kind of self aggrandizing?
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- Same girl same
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- Yeah, to be fair I'm just reacting to what I've been reading today, and people I know personally.
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- It's certainly worth thinking about. Something I haven't really seen discussed about having kids or not is that for a lot of people it's not a question of whether or not they want kids, but of navigating the structural factors that keep them from having kids they do want.
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- Some of the older suburbs have good rail access to NYC and downtowns, but yeah it's very much car country in the rest of the state. Not a fan of Connecticut either.
- Not everyone is cut out for the Garden state
- Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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- What the fuck is wrong with you?
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- watch out the wallet inspector you fucking idiot
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- A lot of good California wine these days. Champagne and prosecco however!
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- We live in hope
[This account was taken down by their PDS (Bluesky PBC)]- Hey, you're really being an asshole here, and it undermines the point you're making. You should apologize for misgendering.
- My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
- You will NEVER vote for a shutdown? That just makes you sound like an enormous dummy who will happily chow down on whatever shit sandwich is put in front of him.
