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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 20h

Criminals tend to actually be pretty on the level with their word. When you can't go to the authorities, your word is your bond.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 20h

Remember when they said Bluesky was an echo chamber?
I'm pretty sure it's impossible for anything to be an echo chamber with Stancil in it.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 21h

The core problem is that the media thinks all they have to do is report what he does, and that the listener will hear the insanity in it. Same problem since 2016.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 21h

There's an underlying animus in the background that liberalism needs to solve. Fascism is the solution to a problem that does not exist but that is a salve to that issue.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 3d

Not off with his head, but I'd like MI6 to spend some time deconstructing every inch of what he knew about Epstein. Whether he lives through the experience would be about how forthcoming he is.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 3d

It's always weird looking at these conversations. Feels like people aren't red teaming the consequences.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 6d

I hadn't seen the paycheck to paycheck madness since I left Twitter.

Feels nostalgic.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 24d

Last I saw it was more an issue of the experts being like "whoa, wait, there's a lot of stuff we can do to fix these issues before we go crazy with it"

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 24d

Fundamentally events like this are a result of how people no longer believe their votes actually affect reality.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24d

TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals from serious work all over the world to give them a short lecture on “warrior ethos”.

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

www.washingtonpost.com

dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · 24d

Epstein's right there as the excuse why he wasn't the real messiah for their movement.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 19

Can they please not act like the worst stereotype of the leftist?

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 19

Delusional.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 19

Part of me is still stunned that the Truss catastrophe didn't have any weight internationally.
That was hard proof that bad government plans could trash a working economy with just a few soundbites.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 14

They went with the trans narrative pretty happily. To be fair they're not built for the FBI to be an unreliable source.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 14

Unfortunately, this is the issue we're now faced with.

It's not even how bad Reform's policies may be. It's the people who will campaign under that banner that could seize power.

PR isn't the cure, but it will force them out into the light.

dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 14

There's no way they have the framework to field enough competent MPs in that instance.

Unfortunately that makes the threat of them achieving this far worse. Parliment filled with idiots and monsters.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 14

There's no way they have the framework to field enough competent MPs in that instance.

Unfortunately that makes the threat of them achieving this far worse. Parliment filled with idiots and monsters.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'll be the one to quote Brandon Sanderson:
"Sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing"

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Aug 31

History books are going to write that the most interesting thing about the AI war is that we started it decades before AI was intelligent.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Worst part is, he should be very familiar with VPNs, because all government work should be running through one.
Guess nothing's changed since Braverman managed to send government documents to her private e-mail.

dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Aug 21

There was a time, when I was young, that I thought there'd be a day when the people in government would understand technology.

These people are young enough that they should understand these technologies well enough to not make this level of stupid mistakes.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Jun 26

On that, I strongly agree, this FPTP voting system is on the verge of utter collapse.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Maybe not, but it's a suprise in some ways the Tories held on as long as they did, through all the austerity years. The Tories never had a solid win except 2019.

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dalkuin.bsky.social @dalkuin.bsky.social · Jun 26

It feels like he had a strategy on how to win the election, but once won, never fully switched gears to a strategy to help people in order to win the one after.

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