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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 12h

it may just be to bait trump into imposing even larger, and more self-destructive, port fees (and other ill-thought-out retaliatory methods)

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 13h

delusions about the power of AI are driving the sharp right turn among both the administration and elites. they believe that they don’t need a competent government, or lots of skilled employees, or even popular support, because they can just replace people with AI 1-to-1.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 13h

this means you can equip druid’s eyes, multibinder, and just hug her with the wanderer’s crest and go unga bunga on her face. you’ll parry some attacks and others will miss you because you’re in i-frames from taking contact damage. when you are down 4 masks, just retreat, go high, and heal.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 13h

so the trick with karmelita (which i don’t love, for the record) is that her attacks all deal 2 damage but her contact damage is only 1. you can also heal in complete safety by leaping to the top of one wall than leaping and double jumping again to be WAY high up in the middle

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 14h

it’s not just that they’re all in on culture war, it’s that they’re all in AND they’re taking very unpopular positions on lots of culture war issues because they’re so marinated in nazi media that they think these positions are mainstream

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 16h

i think that if trump isn’t either dead or mindlessly demented by 2029, the stress of whatever process ends with him being deposed will finish him off. he clearly doesn’t intend to leave, even though i don’t think he has a good way to save himself from having to leave.

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 16h

i think the next administration publicly demolishing every ugly-ass thing trump built during this term would make for some great TV.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 1d

on ACA subsidies democrats benefit from being “the health care party.” poll after poll shows that democrats are more trusted on health care and are perceived as the ones who fight for it. the GOP isn’t going to get credit for saving the ACA or making it more available, even if they did.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 4d

it’s hard to assess how intelligent anton is because much of his writing is consciously aimed at a tremendously stupid audience

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 4d

stephen miller is driving between TV hits with his phone in one hand and a pez dispenser full of stuka tablets in the other

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 4d

the problem with writing actually feasible combat in a science fiction setting is that once you can drop rocks on people from orbit that pretty much obsoletes any kind of land-based warfare unless you engineer some specific technology to enable it (i.e. “a rock-proof but not dropship-proof shield”)

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

smart or not he’s falling into the same trap that animates the entire postliberal right: they fundamentally don’t believe that anyone organically and authentically holds liberal values. they think these values are being imposed from above and all they have to do is find the source and reprogram it.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

i think he also realizes that they’re on a pretty strict timer because 1) once the full force of the economic vandalism hits they’ll be too unpopular to accomplish anything and 2) the only thing holding their coalition together is the health of an extremely unwell old man

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

way down the list of priorities but i think one program for the Reconstruction 2 administration should be wielding diplomatic and military pressure to get these guys out of whatever hellholes they flee to in order to bring them to justice

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

one possible future is that the united states military experiences a larger scale version of what happened when all those Forest Troop baboons died of TB

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

pervitin

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

Cassilda’s Song (Taylor’s Version)

Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

hey. good post.

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

something i’ve been thinking about lately: when It Happens there are going to be spontaneous outpourings of joy in every major american city, and 1) not only will the right go absolutely berserk over it but 2) dems are going to do their best to throw a wet blanket over it

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

they will eventually rule that it is illegal for trump to have done many of the things he’s doing, but they are ruling today that it is illegal to stop him

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

there are decades where resident evil 6 and devil may cry 2 happen, and then there are weeks where hades 2 and silksong happen

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

man, between hades 2 and silksong september 2025 is a world-historical month in gaming sequels

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

this is one manifestation of a larger problem, which is that republican electeds and administration members are all completely batshit crazy and the only thing keeping them pointed in vaguely the same direction is trump himself, and as his health declines he loses the ability to do that

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 7d

don’t knock it until you’ve tried it

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 8d

it is completely accurate to say that the entirety of the supreme court’s 2025 jurisprudence is “it may or may not be legal for trump to do what he is doing, but it is illegal to stop him”

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