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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 7h

It's the vicarious revenge of the punkass losers.

Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 10h

One thing you have to hand to Boston, which can never be taken away, is that it’s marginally closer to Foxwoods than New York is. They should put up a commemorative billboard.

Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 10h

In fairness, Youngstown is a place which has lost almost two thirds of its population in the last sixty years. The overall trajectory of the place could be better.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 11h

I thought he was in the business of counting cards or whatever.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 11h

This is like Bismarck doing a voice recording for Thomas Edison.

Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 11h

When he was two, my older kid had somehow figured out that the guy on the book he was always pulling off the shelf was Voltaire. But now he's fourteen and really interested in political demography and I fear I might be raising a quant.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 12h

Toledo shows out better than one might suppose. Fremont and Elyria, less so.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 12h

It's fun to check the suggestions on a geolocated dating app when you take a road trip is pretty fun. Let's just say that you get some very different flavors as you leave New York and New Jersey and find yourself in rural central Pennsylvania.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, I would like them breaking rocks in Gitmo.

Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 12h

The Phillies Florida State League affiliate could have chosen a more assertive looking fish as its mascot.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 12h

Fuck ‘em up, Fonzie!

Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, it's annoying that our politics is presently reduced to primitive psychopathology. But tens of millions of our fellows have made the deliberate choice to make it so.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

I spent a few days in the Twin Cities last summer and St. Paul definitely seemed more like my vibe. Both less cool and less grungy. So story checks out.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, Trump has skated through his entire life because people who could have called his bluff decided it was advantageous to them or simply not worth the effort to say, "Not so fast, my friend!" The dude has never heard "What you gonna do, motherfucker?" and he really needed to.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

For sure. I probably should have said something like "There are no real superficially apparent phenotypic differences."

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

Because Americans have the fewest material problems of any people in history (not none - we still have plenty) and are fucking bored.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

Complexity is the mind-killer.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 13h

There is nothing new under the sun. Everything is a variation on a theme.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

Could be. On the other hand, it could well be an example of parallel evolution. When faced with dorkass wannabe goons, clowning them is a clear avenue to undermining their power. The Yippies had similar ideas. You see it in traditional role reversals around Carnival/Fat Tuesday, as well.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

Mojo Nixon singing "High School Is A Prison." The movie objectively sucks like you wouldn't believe, but it has fun with itself.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

As I recall (I never saw it), to capitalize on Halle Berry looking like Halle Berry.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

How many times did I watch "Rock And Roll High School Forever" (the Corey Feldman one) because Comedy Central stuck it on all the time? Or "Bloodsport" on WPIX?

A lot, man.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

It's really tactically smart (the suits actually offer a certain amount of protection) and strategically smart (it clowns on a bunch of losers who are desperate to believe in themselves as badass head-crackers). It reduces the sinister to the ridiculous and erodes the bad guys' rhetorical power.

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

The cure is worse than the disease.

(Also, as it happens, I was previously acquainted with a crustpunk whose last known whereabouts were in ... Indiana.)

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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 14h

How do you tell this fucker to eat shit in Ukrainian?