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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

Their attempt to Reichstag fire it really blew up in their stupid faces and it's just been a brutal slog ever since

Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 8h

It's really stupid but imo the big vibe shift this year against the Trump Admin came after the Charlie Kirk shooting and their overreach against Jimmy Kimmel.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

Admittedly Quinnipiac aside, most polls at this time in Biden's presidency showed him hovering in the mid-40s for approval. There's a lot further to fall for DT.

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Biden's approval rating sank as low as 35 percent. Trump is gleefully starving 42 million Americans, sending a fascist government $40 billion, overthrowing a country, and building a ballroom bunker while posting photos of his new bathroom. And his approval rating is 39 percent. Weird country.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 9h

Such a cool concept, Troika really cranked out these flawed masterpieces

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10h

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura had an incredibly nerdy title but I loved it and it also implanted in me a love of the idea that even if wizards were real we could just fucking shoot them and it would solve the problems they represent.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 15h

Another way to put it is they hate the actually existing country and its people, but they love the version of it they picked up from Twitter posts on 1950s commercials

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 15h

This is honestly because none of them have ever met actual rank and file conservatives. This also explains the reactionary centrist impulse, as annoying young woke people are more likely to be clear and present in their lives than basement dwelling groypers

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 17h

They fundamentally do not take things like religious belief, ideological motivation, or nationalist sentiment seriously as motivating factors, they think at best this is people deceiving themselves.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 17h

It's downstream of the vulgar Marxist worldview, everything is about economic interests, even when people tell you otherwise.
Relatedly it's one reason why a lot of dirtbag leftists still cling to the illusion that MAGA voters can be brought over with just the right economic programme.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

One consequence of this might be rapid cutbacks of internship programmes which can make it even harder for young graduates etc to get a start

thestinkfoot.bsky.social @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 2d

For me at least AI is useful for setting things up, providing mid-quality summaries, and finding citations/sources. It's frankly intern-stuff, but I'm happy to take it off my own plate.

The "our AI overlords are here and they can do everything" people are as nuts as the anti-AI-anything luddites.

Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

All downstream of the fact that their way of staying in touch public opinion is likes and retweets from BasedGroyper88 and HyperboreanAscendant on X, the Everything App

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

The dumbass administration really thinks voters are gonna mostly blame Dems for the whole not getting enough food thing don’t they

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

I mean there's a certain logic in their ideology to make things as unpleasant as possible for the diaspora so that aliyah seems like the only safe option, right?

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

There's a divide in right-wing politics between those who hate the poor (of all races) and those who just hate ethnic minorities

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

'Nazis were on the left' is a long-running talking point in American conservatism

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 2d

The collapse of the Somalian state in the aftermath of the fall of Siad Barre is a terrifying example of how a scenario like that plays out. No legitimate authority anywhere, just warlords and posses of armed men. See also Haiti

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Jihadist AI slop is going to be a sight to behold

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy and stupid are two different things

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d

also incorrect. oppenheimer is the most universal story in all of discourse, the relatable feeling of being leftist enough that you get persecuted about it by the government, but not leftist enough to get laid without having to apologize for being a lib

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 3d

tempting but incorrect analysis ; actually Oppenheimer is avant garde experimental film about how emaciated you can make Cillian Murphy before people stop considering him hot

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 3d

OPPENHEIMER is a meditation on bringing about the devil to earth, a warning about what paranoia will do to one's society, and also an instruction manual.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

on one hand, the next year of legislation (if they kill the filibuster) is going to be batshit insane

on the other, it's likely going to cause a much larger thermostatic backlash given the changes they want to make

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Also this is one of the most stupid ways to get the Senate to functionally start playing its role in the system again lmao

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but the Republican Senators are already showing signs of being restive against the White House (see the tariff resolutions), defying his authority like that is going to create a schism that can only be good.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes you don't need to be a strategic genius, you just need to be up against complete idiots

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

MattY sometimes reads like he's posting from an alternative universe where US politics hasn't fundamentally changed from the 1990s or 2000s tbh

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Trumpism works best in opposition when you can weaponise free floating resentment of the status quo and have people project their desires for change.

In government, where you actually have responsibility for actions, it works much less well.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

Hungary (under some kind of dictatorship till 1989), Turkey (democracy constantly interrupted by coups) are not really comparable. India funnily enough is in having a democratic tradition, and even though Modi has gone pretty far, he is not by any means an omnipotent dictator with no checks.

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 3d

I mean one reason I have been relatively sanguine about the US situation is that liberal and democratic values are pretty deeply rooted in state and society to an extent not true in other cases of democratic backsliding. Like there's no way the fash could roll in without heavy resistance *somewhere*

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