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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 2h

Mr. House? Really?

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 3h

Responding to a complaint of mine about AI videos -- which I said "aren't real" -- someone did an "Um, actually the videos themselves are real, they just don't depict real things" and I will throw people like that down the stairs.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

Your examples seem _strongly_ slanted towards relitigating the parochial Democratic concerns and primaries of 2016, 2020, and 2024 and utterly fail to explain Trump's general election wins in 2016 and 2024. I strongly suspect you of motivated reasoning.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

Your theory, as outlined right here, is that voters _would_ vote for candidates based on their policy preferences, but don't because they are being bamboozled into supporting someone else.

I suggest to you that the majority of voters simply aren't strongly motivated by policy preferences.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

Given the evidence before our eyes, I'm going to have to ask _you_ for your evidence that voters vote for policies over candidates. You are _yourself_ mad that voters didn't pick your guy based on his policies. They didn't because they don't vote for policy!

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

See also; all the people that wanted to vote for Trump and simply attributed to him the policies they wanted him to support, ignoring all the policies he said he supported (and, in point of fact, went on to implement as president).

People don't support policies. They support candidates.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

Twice, as it happens. The second time he didn't even get second place.

AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

I'm actually fully capable of accusing you of antisemitism if that's what I think you're doing, and I don't. I think you _are_ making up stories to explain away the otherwise simple fact that your guy had his shot, specifically in the Democratic primaries, and lost.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

You appear utterly convinced that some unnamed group is somehow exerting a Rasputin-like mind control on (Democratic primary) voters.

Your agenda here couldn't be clearer if it were lab-grade helium gas.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 3h

Again, there is no evidence that holding more popular policy positions is a major driver of electoral outcomes. It sounds like you are simply very mad that this is the case and are making up just-so stories about 'electability' Dolchstosslegendes to explain away your preferred candidate's losses.

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

Either popular positions sway voters or they don't. Could I get you to make up your mind?

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

What evidence do you have for your "people vote for candidates that support their preferred policies" thesis?

Any?

Any at all?

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

I'd argue this is wrong. The point isn't power via cruelty. The point is cruelty, that is to say the pleasures of sadism, gained via the exercise of power. They want power because they want to hurt people, but without power, people just walk away. That's why small, weak men are so angry.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

Fie on "a world where everybody is sexy and nobody is horny".

Thank you for carrying the torch forward.

AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

> I don‘t understand why you would support a candidate who opposes the policies you support.

I don't either.

But.
Here.
We.
Are.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 10h

Listening to a woman at the airport talk about how they had to double what they were offering for a highly specialized position because they "weren't attracting the right candidates."

It's amazing how easy it is to "find the right people" when you actually pay them what the position is worth 😆

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 5h

"This city is a complicated place, but I’ve found two truths: The Golden Age is a myth and S.F. is never 'over.'"

At the core of my Benioff piece: The fallacy of an S.F. utopia that we need to get back to. When in fact it's defined by imperfection & reinvention.

www.sfchronicle.com/culture/arti...

Here’s a history lesson for all the people saying San Francisco is ‘over’

With San Francisco in the middle of a much-publicized tech exodus, we look at all the...

www.sfchronicle.com

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

Is it really so difficult to understand that people supported M4A but also supported Clinton over Sanders?

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

When you're too damn stupid to do actual work, they make you a C-suite executive and tell you to come up with ideas like this.

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 7h

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 4h

[CITATION NEEDED]

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 8h

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 7h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

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Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 20h

I think that might be the proper title, yes. I can't keep the maze of title nonsense in that event straight in my head.

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