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charliefraggle.bsky.social
@charliefraggle.bsky.social
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Not even a smug snake with a crown and two staffs complete with two extra, smaller snakes. May be a smug woman without crowns or staffs, lacking even small snakes. Have dogs and opinions, which seems less cool.
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But scallions, seasame oil, soy sauce, and fermented chili oil exist…
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Actually he’s more like a Batman villain I guess
have you seen the guy who has used snail farms in london to get away with incredible levels of tax fraud tho? the punchline is that he used shell companies and the meta punchline is that he actually exists
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A consistent ideological thread among a certain type of populist charlatan is the baseless but unshakeable conviction that all governance and every policy problem has instant-win buttons that previous incumbents simply lacked the conviction to press.
i feel like half of this admin can be explained by the fact that they genuinely think they didn't press the instant-win button during the 2020 unrest
have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away
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The question then becomes one of tactics: what is most likely to get a critical mass of Americans on side so that when the decisive moment of confrontation comes - not if it comes, but *when* - it is met with sufficiently overwhelming numbers.

Non-violence is, for now, the optimal approach.
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but the scary thing is precisely that we’ve moved from an environment in which the rule of law at least governed in spirit to one in which true constraints unmistakably come from power politics calculations
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the issue is that he is violating an enormous amount of laws daily and only a fraction of this accrues any consequences. the enforcement mechanisms working depend on political assumptions that have now been proven invalid
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
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Normalising ideas which just a few years ago would have been regarded as career ending extremism but now are seen as legit, because they are constantly in every centre right MP and journalist's X replies, may end being Elon Musk's most lasting, and most destructive, impact on British politics.
My bald husband has been getting nonstop hair care adverts. It’s like his YouTube is taunting him
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The NoKings Protest numbered in the millions across the US.

By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.

The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.

NYC today had over 100,000.
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I have no idea why this, which doesn't even crack the Top 15 weirdest things that Trump did, but this... this kind of broke me. Maybe b/c it hits you over the head with the realization that all the norms are broken. Nothing is too low or too stupid for this administration. A government of 12yos.
okay but like it *is* insane that the literal president/whoever is running his socials posted an ai generated video of him flying a plane and carpet bombing people protesting him with shit, right? like

like what the fuck are we even doing here
I’m sure it’s taxes and not the rise of mobile phone based gambling apps
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Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
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I do like that cringe resist winemums have turned out to be democracy's strongest soldiers.
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I mean, this isn’t why Charles is King, is it? Pretty sure this isn’t why Charles is King
I kind of just half heard a podcast about it so tbh nor was I…
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honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"
You say that but didn’t Gilgamesh sort of marry his chicken boyfriend or at least his chicken boyfriend died so he had to go find immortality?
I am 45 years old and the most depressing thjng I have learned about life is all the bullshit stuff like regular sleep schedules, daily exercise, restricting alcohol, not getting fat and spf are all fucking true. Oh and the worse one - meaningful things require regular practice in small increments…
The main idea was ‘what if all clubs were like the one in the matrix’
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definitely become a little more small c conservative with regard to culture (like art and shit, not stuff like abortion) in that I think if everyone is trying to be transgressive and bohemian you just end up with a sort of muddled mess of "Bold" slop. good disruptive art needs a straight man
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He’s done something heinous recently that the royals can’t forgive him for. probably has a date with a black woman, because raping 16 years olds got the machine going full bore to protect him…
He’s done something heinous recently that the royals can’t forgive him for. probably has a date with a black woman, because raping 16 years olds got the machine going full bore to protect him…