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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Jun 2

the past is a foreign country; we're at war with it.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

this is so good.

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 8h

lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckf...

Jim E. Brown - I'm Quitting Prozac to Continue Drinking

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

oh my god

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

this is an amazing bit

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

not since the beth's "future me hates me" have i felt so understood.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

oh my god

Jim E. Brown - Every Time I Speak I Regret It Immensely

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

lol with this headline.

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 8h

even bari weiss' cbs news has reported on it. we need to get real.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thinking a little about "pathological normality": the eugenic roots of "mediocrity," "neurotypical" as an insult, and scorn for "normies."

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

(another guy who's only heard Annie Lennox, in reply)
who am i to disagree

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiS...

Steel

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

closest i can think of is the controversy around "self deportations." what the obama campaign actually did was paint him as a plutocrat and ran a campaign well to the left how it actually governed.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

you were so right about this.

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

i really don't know what to say about this anymore except it's exhausting and fundamentally antipolitical.

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Dec 21

i'm honestly pretty tired of the whole "nobody warned us about donnie trump and his sidekick jd" song and dance. the media reported it. that's how you know about it. at the end of the day it's not the media's job to do what should be the work of parties, organizations, and politicians.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

i really don't feel like you're allowed to talk like this if an outlet like *politico* is making it a front page headline.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

i feel like a lot of people's media criticism works backwards from the idea that if the media *did* report on these things we wouldn't be in the situation.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

the media literally reported it though

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

hmmmmmmmm

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

hmmmm

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

hmm

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h

sherry turkle's online is an eriksonian "psychosocial moratorium" thesis undefeated.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 11h

yeah. part of my thinking on this is that this is about all the things people say it's about, but it's also about young men's relationship to irreverence and impiety?

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 11h

i mostly just want people with angry baby politics to stop replying to me.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 11h

yeah bsky.app/profile/kevi...

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Apr 20

the strange rhetorical style of pretending to directly address people who are absolutely not on this site.