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Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social · 22m

private group chats are awesome places where everybody sends all their best posts and funniest bits to that one guy everybody knows will be outed as a sexual predator in a few months

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

one of the features everyone wants here is one of the features that consistently drives posters insane: group chats. absolute fetid breeding grounds for the most pointless folie a deux

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 22m

they don't need to attack us they can just sit there and watch us kicking ourselves to death

svl @droseph.bsky.social · 24m

Disturbing that this sort of approach to war gaming: putting yourself in the assumed adversary's shoes and imagining how they might do it, if they do it, is such an innovation in practice. The 'Great Power Conflict' drones in DC are so up their own ass it seems downright novel. read this and marvel:

"Calculated Restraint

Participants quickly discovered that when confronted with the decision to attack U.S. forces, this seemed to make little strategic sense when they attempted to look at it from Beijing’s perspective. A typical assumption held by many analysts, including most participants prior to the game, and one that features prominently in American wargames, is that China will simply launch a preemptive surprise strike against U.S. forces in a manner somewhat analogous to Pearl Harbor. But why start a war with America when you might avoid one? As the game participants soon found, there is no guarantee of U.S. military involvement, nor Japan’s, nor other countries‘, if China refrains from attacking them in an opening round. By placing themselves in the shoes of Chinese planners — who in real life are presumably familiar with the contemporary American political scene and the historical record of how Washington reacts to unprovoked attacks — participants recognized there would almost certainly be a natural hesitancy to initiate a war against the United States. In other words, rather than assume Chinese planners simply ignore the difficulties any U.S. administration would face in starting a war with China if American forces are not attacked first, they might instead use these difficulties to Beijing’s advantage and design their war plans accordingly. Indeed, it is precisely because of these difficulties that most U.S. wargame designers wanting to get a war going between Chinese and American forces begin with the Chinese attacking American forces rather than the other way around."

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

here's a question: if twitter never had group chats, would jd vance be vice president? the answer is "not a chance"

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

one of the features everyone wants here is one of the features that consistently drives posters insane: group chats. absolute fetid breeding grounds for the most pointless folie a deux

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 26m

correct

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 45m

bluesky does not need group DMs, group DMs are breeding grounds for madness.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 31m

do you see the word "anyone" in my post. who is going to change right now? who are we alienating by not splitting hairs finely enough to spare amanda marcottes feelings

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 33m

you're not responding to my argument either and you're getting tedious. the soil is not fertile enough to hunt for unicorns like her. it's a non issue.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 35m

she's arguing that you shouldnt be mean to her for saying that she comes from the one brief slice of time (between the racists now and the racists that were her parents) and that being mean to her undermines your ability to bring unicorn republicans like her into your coalition

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 38m

"stop being mean to me for saying this is new, even though it was also the way my parents were as well. for a specific brief moment in time we weren't racist and for some reason this is relevant to something"

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Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · 40m

What's her argument other than that we should be nicer to her personally. Because as far as I can tell this is all her doing weird projection out of guilt.

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Jimmy D @jimmy-d.bsky.social · 50m

“Enjoy the cookie (sarcastic, dismissive) but really I truly do deserve a cookie (earnest, desperate)”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 46m

i mean i keep coming back to this and it's hard to really comprehend, but these guys, from the donald on down, do not believe you can even pick your own mayor or comptroller. really think about that for a minute. what in my tone is going to change that

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CD @pesto-on-errything.bsky.social · 49m

All true but I’m stuck by how off the defenses of this are: frankly, if those little shits want to talk like that in their private group chat, it’s not illegal. Who cares about the legality. The Republican Party can decide who it wants to be: and it’s THIS until they make clear it isn’t. Up to them!

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bruce @gayarmada.bsky.social · 49m

there’s like 100m people in this country that don’t vote - why must we convince republican voters

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 49m

you can gather together whatever coalition you like, but these people represent about 30% of the electorate and believe a secular democracy is a concept whose time has passed. it will take a lot more than tonal tweaks to change that. we are where we are

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 51m

another glaring issue here is that "convincing people to join your coalition" may be an incredibly quaint thing to say now. i certainly prefer to live in a democracy and have a say in how my government operates, but these people disagree. they do not believe you have a legitimate coalition to join

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 55m

few things wrong with this: (a) there's zero evidence that any of these guys have changed or wish to change; (b) indeed, senior regime officials have rushed to ratify this behavior; and (c) unless this kind of thing is "frowned upon" or meets with general disapproval, why would anyone change

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4h

I know people are eager to claim they were born perfect and never had to learn and change, unlike losers like me.

So congrats! You were born knowing conservatives are inherently racist. Eat your cookie rewards.

But remember: Telling people they aren't allowed to grow and change hurts us.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

they're all sucking off maga now and bringing gold and frankincense to the WH and the one or two who aren't are under investigation

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

monocle pops out to reveal another monocle which also pops out

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 1h

There's a deep irony to JD Vance spending so long mocking liberals for being so soy and gay and snowflakes with his buddies and now every time he's on TV it's just "sir, if you really cared about this country, you'd criticize Chuck Schumer for shutting down the government!!!"

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Jason McMaster @mcmaster.bsky.social · 1h

The government in Dr. Strangelove was more functional. What a world.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

every pronouncement from this regime now is exactly in the tone and context of general buck turgidson indignantly saying "perhaps it might be better mr. president if you were more concerned with the american people than with your image in the history books!!"

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

an outrage!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

I loled

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