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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 13m

moderate to severe ulcerative colitis

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 1h

“it’s not MY job to drive politics”

—Nearly Every Left-Of-Center Celebrity, While Every Right-Of-Center Celebrity Gleefully Cheered On The Rise Of Fascism, 2024

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 1h

”she would have won the election”

Enjoy life in a fantasy bubble

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 1h

He long ago gave up on any possibility of salvation, so he substitutes that with a vow to get vengeance on everyone he’s ever hated before he dies.

To him, revenge is literally the same thing as confession and redemption.

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 1h

Is he barking mad

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13h

In a new video, Pope Leo tells U.S. bishops they must be even more united and forceful in fighting Donald Trump’s abuse of migrants.

Pope Leo Presses U.S. Bishops to Fight Harder Against Trump Deportation Raids

While some bishops have spoken up, the pope says the entire Church must act “with one voice” against cruelty at the border.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9h

Do you not have the shirts, friend? I can see you are oath-bound to Zenithar to deliver them. You had better recover them and deliver them to me.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

And yes, you can counter with "So inflation was an 'excuse'? Great. So WHY GIVE THE VOTERS THAT EXCUSE??"

Which is fair. But we all know the success rate of those who look for excuses.

Generally, one way or another, they find one. 😕

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

You not only saw it in social media addiction and depression of voters online, you saw it in falling media ratings (an underrated reason why the media all but cheered Trump on in 2024--but I digress).

Trump promised to bring excitement back. Even if it was the excitement of a plunge from the sky.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

"Things can't get any worse than they are now, look at prices/trans kids/all de immigrants"

Obvious excuse-making and rationalizing, no?

There was one thing, though, that was worse than it had been in decades: The gap between expectations and reality for EXCITEMENT in political news.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

I think it's more on the nose to say voters were looking for excuses to throw the Democrats out, and they found one. Several, really.

The real reason I think Trump won again is that people were bored. They thought of politics and government as a circus and they wanted that circus back.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

not a fan of thiel, but what in the ever-living fuck are you talking about

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

Mark my words, Ross's entire intent here is to watch, from his tenured position at the Times, Trump's destruction of blue America, all the while smirkingly tut-tutting "the left" for being so "unreasonable".

While secretly, only in private, rejoicing at the suffering of all those he resents.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

He'll never put that down in writing, especially not in the Times--But you see it, clear as day, whenever he gets interviewed.

The one time he gets animated, or raises his voice, is when describing how "the left" "went extreme" during the Trump era. Only time you see him actually angry.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

Douthat is just a bottomless pit of bad faith at this point. I don't think the man sincerely believes most of what he writes anymore.

Well, with one exception: He truly does, with a volcanic passion, HATE the cultural left.

His entire being is now dedicated to supporting their destruction. No lie.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

lol

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

Even at the slightest bit of actual thinking, the argument proves false and falls apart. But thinking doesn't factor into voting, much of the time, especially in this social media-besotted age.

Only association, vibes, and (increasingly defective) memory. 😕

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 10h

For all his idiocy, Nate Silver has made exactly one excellent point about politics since the election:

That Trump won in part because enough voters came to associate Biden, not Trump, with COVID.

At the base level, they thought: COVID had lockdowns + Dems like lockdowns = Dems gave us COVID.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 11h

you don't say 😕

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 11h

they're so L

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 12h

The Captain is in his chambers. You'll need to go up one more level. It's on the south side of the building.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 11h

I was gonna make a joke, but that's a real good pic. Kudos

David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 11h

Gotta outrun those street crimers! For 26 miles!

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