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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 31m

It's basically holding onto tiny progress, instead of stopping things and taking steps to ensure a whole bunch of progress. Paralysis in the face of complexity really.

Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 31m

Finally pulled the trigger and tried out an overhaul mod on Factorio to make it harder. All of a sudden you got so much more complexity and I'm falling back into my worst habits of just running around manually installing the inputs as opposed to building up the factory automation.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 40m

Putting aside even more, it was Trump and Musk who both waited until the last minute to endorse Cuomo, really was political malpractice on their part if they wanted to make the difference.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 3h

Wait they're at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 now. LOL.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 3h

Unrelated but it's funny how both Call of Duty and Battlefield had twisting naming conventions (instead of just 1,2,3,4,5...) but Battlefield at least got to 6, meanwhile Call of Duty has gotten to CoD:Black ops 6 before they got to a real Call of Duty 5.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 3h

I have a suggestion for something better Elon Musk could do.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sorry, "lose the midterm and the next Presidential election."

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 3h

It is sort of amazing to see a President be like "Our Party is fucked and we are going to lose the midterm" less than a year in.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 5h

Not saying it was more genuine, but you have to admit the bullshit had more sincerity. The bullshit was so much better back then, especially the stupid bullshit.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 5h

Don't listen, double down.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

It wasn't in any way just a right wing media thing. This permeated all media for years.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

There is so much more to life and politcs that meta textual debates on moderation of just the Democratic Party.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile Dems keep pushing kitchen table issues, for better or worse, and the world keeps turning, Trump and the GOP get less popular, but these OpEds keep getting churned out on civility and moderation or whathaveyou. Just do an OpEd in favor or against the Death Penalty, shake it up!

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

It's not just that we keep getting these opinions, though it is that too, it's that we are getting it from the same exact writers saying the same exact thing.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

What's extra annoying to me is that they just all keep putting out the exact same OpEd every month, I'm not just talking about the papers, I am talking about the writers of those OpEds.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Looks like they’re following protocol. At least until Trump realizes it.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7h

No doubt things which are so obvious in their correctness and numerous in their severalhood that they need not be enumerated or elaborate upon

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 10h

I think the American right is in fact correct about several things and it would be wise to concede that.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

I don't want to call this person out because they're not entirely wrong, but I think what this misses was that right after 9/11 the political culture were in fact scared shitless that 9/11 was going to happen again and again. It wasn't about civility that made people support WOT, it was fear.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

Feelings about feelings, the authors vague feeling about other people's feelings, that they will use to convince you.... well sometimes it isn't even clear what they're trying to convince you of, just that the Dem Party needs to change mainly, but that isn't aimed at the reader in any way.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

Oh and some of those takes arent even really unique takes or even takes of the author per see, they just sort of use their writing as a way to summarize a bunch of other stories that feed into some meta narrative, usually one about other people's supposed perceptions of things like the Dem Party.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

It feels like something weird has happened with the bulk of opinion writers, or really the oped environment. Where instead of getting OpEds where the writers would weigh in on things like the Death Penalty, then move on to other topics next time, they just keep churning out the same takes.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

He doesn't want it to mention the War on Terror and Cheney's part in it, he wants a full accounting and condemnation which really isn't something obituaries can do.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

I know, I was talking about Mehndi's original claim. I don't think any obituary would satisfy him, because he's asking for something else.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

Reminds me of the observation that 'Trump only knew like ten guys,' or whatever number, as a way to talk about how guys like Bannon, Rudy, and Lewandowski would get on the outs and then come back in.

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Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8h

I am hard pressed to imagine an obituary not mentioning Cheney's role in the War on Terror, but I don't think any obituary could fully explore the ramifications of the War in Terror in a way that would satisfactorily encapsulate it without turning the obituary into an op ed on the War on Terror.

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