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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 1m

The meta-progression in Against the Storm is really annoying, yeah, lmao

Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 4m

Nudity absolutely kills people when you hit higher difficulties and the much nastier hostility modifiers show up (there's ones for any given general category of need that kills villagers which have it unfulfilled)

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 5m

Trans issues is the obvious case here, where the only people who actually care are either trans people and their families (who Democrats risk alienating) or dyed-in-the-wool reactionaries who would die before voting for a Democrat, so obviously the most strategic stance is trans rights maximalism

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20h

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10m

I like harpies mostly because their firekeeper bonus is god-tier and their needs are pretty easy to fulfill while fulfilling other species' needs

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 11m

If anything would revolutionize issue polling, it's actually asking respondents "...and how much do you care?" after their opinion on each issue

Because issue salience is not only not equal, it's not evenly distributed across different perspectives either! Weight the goddamn responses by salience!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 49m

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

www.thedissident.news

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 24m

I don't think anything is more reassuring of one's own moral righteousness than the scientific certainty that if one's opponents get their way, it won't just be bad - it will be the end of human civilization.

Reactionaries are not just people we disagree with - they are *enemies of the human race.*

Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 27m

There's a particular irony in pundits insisting Democrats should focus on "kitchen table issues" instead of climate change

As if there will still be anything to put on that kitchen table if climate change goes unchecked

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 39m

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 51m

Okay, let's get into the text...

Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!

This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 27m

I suppose there's a grim sort of solace to be found in the fact that if these people get their way, it won't just be trans people who die - it'll be *everyone*

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 27m

There's a particular irony in pundits insisting Democrats should focus on "kitchen table issues" instead of climate change

As if there will still be anything to put on that kitchen table if climate change goes unchecked

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 1h

That said even if these numbers bear out you'd merely expect Zohran to win by less than the polls predicted, not actually lose

Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 1h

If Zohran actually loses this there is no hope for this country lmao

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge

The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

gothamist.com

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Robot Girl (Warranty Void) @queererthing.bsky.social · 7h

yea we need to have real talks about how the current strain of misogyny is actually a very different, much worse, strain than the 'baseline'. The incel/conspiracy elements turn women, as a bloc, into ~the enemy~ so much more than the 'classic' misogyny did turning us into property and shit.

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 16h

No, this is real. A very common strain of thought in the 'new misogyny' is that women are hastening the Great White Replacement Theory through adopting liberal/left leaning politics, such as welcoming in refugees.

Désirée <- bottomphobic @desireemepls.bsky.social · 1d

New misogyny does mass shootings because women as a category have wronged you the white man. I think inceldom is repugnant even to misogynists. Sorry for rambling but I think that genuinely explains it

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3h

"That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves."

YES

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.

A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

newrepublic.com

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 2h

Genuinely think the combination of American wealth/convenience and America's failing education system has produced the stupidest population in the history of the world

Just a bunch of cattle convinced nothing *really* bad can possibly ever happen

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2h

One year ago, I went on CNN and expressed my concern that if Harris lost after not defending trans people that somehow the takeaway would still be that trans people were the reason. I hate being right! www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

TAPPER: What do you hear from trans individuals who maybe aren't as outspoken as you are, but see ads like this during the 2024 election cycle? Because we should know this isn't just a one-off. I think this is one of the main ads the Trump campaign airs.
MOLLOY: Yeah, I mean, they've spent tens of millions of dollars doing this. And it's not just the Trump campaign. It's Republicans across the country have been running ads making these similar points. They see trans people as a small group of just 1% of the population who's easy to demonize. And in talking to trans people, they've been very frustrated to deal with this. It's made a lot of people I know scared. And one thing that people are worried about is if the election does go to Trump, the trans people will be blamed for this outcome.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

This is the hard edge, while the “we must abandon identity” pundits are the soft edge of the same movement.

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3h

America... boy, I dunno.

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 2h

The day will come when the UK Greens are polling higher than Labour outright, and Labour supporters will still insist Greens supporters will tactically vote Labour to stop Reform

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 16h

Anyways, here's your reminder that, since unchecked climate change will KILL US ALL:

If it is not possible to fight climate change through the democratic process, that does mean we give up on fighting climate change. It means we give up on the democratic process.

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cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.com · 16h

imma be straight up i get that cis people don't understand us but i'm kinda tired of the "i don't really understand, it must be so hard for them" thing because lowkey gender dysphoria isn't that bad because it's actually easily treatable. what's soul crushing/mind breaking is how society treats us.

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 16h

Like it's the most obvious thing you can point to as to how these people have totally disappeared into the world of poll numbers and forgotten that policy actually has effects on the real world

If starting a nuclear war with China and killing everyone on the planet was popular, they'd support it

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 16h

Another day, another policy pitch from centrist Democratic consultants wanting to throw trans people (along with pretty much everyone else who's not white cishet gentry) overboard.

A reminder that not only is this incredibly evil it also wouldn't work, as @madycast.com laid out last year.

Opinion | Abandoning Trans People Would Be Costly For the Democratic Party: Here's the Simple Math

Our votes cannot be taken for granted.

transnews.network

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 19h

if you tell a trans woman "gender is a social construct" you get thrown in the gulag . Goodbye !

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 19h

if trans women aren't women, then explain why cissexuals are always mansplaining gender to them. checkmate, liberal

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