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Jacob

@jgsimmerman.bsky.social

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Carnivorous Plant Farmer, fan of the Pistons and Packers sweetleafnursery.com

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · Jan 3

Time to break out this oldie from Trump 1.

Two small animals carry sign that says "if you kill yourself the fascists win"

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 1h

This ties in with my observation that Michigan has a bunch of mini-Detroit's sprinkled throughout the lower part of the state. Smaller population, same basic city. Satellite cities.

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 2h

I admit, they got me. I was surprised when I read that they were "Young Republicans" and then I googled the names and they looked like they were born in the 80s.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

just tremendous.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 4h

youtu.be/WWfewi8J2jc?...

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5h

Economists right now are like "the US economy is extremely healthy, and also on the brink of collapse" lol

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 6h

This is part of Plato's argument that the tyrant harms themselves.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 7h

this is 5000% correct. bring a couple friends and you'll run the joint.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 7h

He keeps saying it and I don't think it's going to be as popular as he thinks.

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 18h

"They spoke the moral discourse of man in fables."
- Simulacra and Simulation

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 1d

New camera makes old dragons so gorgeous

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Puchainus McBussy @namitomoon.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, classic "Millennials sucked because they managed to be happy and optimistic for a brief moment during the Obama era unlike me" salt disguised as anti-racism.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

When you say they literally think Hitler was good, people do not believe you because it sounds like Godwin’s law in action. But some of them do literally think Hitler was good.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

"it is your turn to study statistical mechanics" is the funniest way to say "kys" which will not get you banned

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

We lost sight of the idea politics is something that you do, not just electoralism or numbers fuckstein wonkism

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

There's a book called "Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur" where "Gifted Amateur" means "professional physicist who is not working in the specific field of particle physics."

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foucaultshi.bsky.social @foucaultshi.bsky.social · 1d

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 1d

He is a true conservative in that he thinks doing a bit of food racism is a neat little personality quirk.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2d

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know