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Aimai

Aimai

@aimaiami.bsky.social

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Social worker, therapist, all around sardonic person. Largely unknown but I take up a lot of space in my own mind.

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Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 16m

I am Jewish so I’ll say that the party didn’t ”fuck him out of the primary” and the party is not “making him shill in defense of Nazism.” Bernie is a fucking independent and runs his mouth that way for his own goals.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 25m

Yes, I am starting to not be able to read/rely on anything that I don’t already know is written by a human being. And, honestly, Ican’t know that. Online articles? No. Genre books? No.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 13h

i definitely saw this movie (30) years ago. Sweet southern Hick comes to the big city and impresses the girl with his carpentry and plumbing skills. In fact he was stalking her and the film could have been a horror film but they played it as a romance.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 13h

No but they are a support, a guide, a person who I need to be able to trust. People get tested and show their mettle. It’s even in Tolkein, for fuck’s sake.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah: why shouldn’t there be purity tests? If I buy milk you should be damned sure I want it to be tested for purity. Why would I want different from a politician who is going to take my money and represent me?

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 16h

Vote blue no matter who doesn’t apply to primaries, obviously. So that is a weird thing to say. As for Fetterman—the lesson there is that he should have been better primaried and vetted just as platner has been. When he was running he was the better alternative compared to the republican.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, when you put it that way, it does seem somewhat problematic. Can’t you be nicer about it? Like maybe smile more?

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 21h

Do you think she is real?

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of these white guys feel the same about the nazi symbols as they do about various racial slurs—its not that they necessarily want to use them (though they do) but they can’t stand to be told that there are limits to their power to say or display racist imagery. Pathological privilige.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to you I’m rereading MD right now.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Insincere about his present views? Uh….If I were running against a party that is infested with Nazis I think, if I weren’t an edge lord who secretely admires Nazis *to this day* then I would have long since removed the tats. That he didn’t means he wasn’t really apologetic.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Its so petulant—“how do you expect me to [clean my room/do my homework/walk the dog] if you don’t flatter me and praise me for the hard work I’m doing even bothering to listen to your nagging.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

But they really believe that. Accountability and shame are for sissies.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

I heard her at the protest—she was incredible!

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Number go up.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

That is rather a good point. But you might need to sell the house to fund retirement or nursing care so how does that factor in?

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Greatest movie of all time.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when they attacked the Obamas and there were front page stories every day assuring people that they would pay the full costs for the play set they wanted for their kids and remove it instanter when they left. The papers were obsessed with stressing that the Obamas were rightfully there.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

I particularly liked the innocence with which the location, Croatia, was revealed. Like: Croatia had a *horrible* history with the Nazis and its own ethnic cleansings. It doesn’t take a whole lot of historical knowledge to get that.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Can’t wait!

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

sadly, yes.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 1d

Do you not feel any suspicion about the way “candor” and authenticity are coded as white, male, violent, warrior while all the attributes for women/jews/non white people don’t get the same value attributed to them? Sanctimony (btw) is some pretty loaded language as is prig.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 2d

The whole subplot with the sexy spook managing the submarine intel was, however, nuts and her behavior w/r/t him was absolutely impeachable for stupidity as well as cringe.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 2d

Just horrifying.

Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this! I want a restoration of shared values and constIntuitional integrity so we can continue the work of forming a more perfect union. I don’t want to blow the whole thing up.