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Consider this post a fair explanation of my approach to Bluesky: this is not Twitter. I make my points, I am happy to discuss those points, and I move on. I'm not here to *debate*: especially on utterly banal bullshit like the meaning of words. I'm just going to block you and go about my day. FOH.
At the heart of Project 2025 is the hope that the people are yearning for a retvrn (is that how the morons spell it?) to 'dignified' manual labor where everyone stayed in their hometowns, grinded away during the day, got drunk together at night, and died young.
“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.
Even if society provided the food/shelter level needs for everyone, humans also need to perform useful work just for basic fulfillment. The vast majority of people cannot sit around all day letting AI and robots do everything.

(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
Frankly I’d rather gambling be run by organize crime at this point. The mob wasn’t nearly as parasitic.
Called it, sad to say
I've often said it, but a major factor in what drives the MAGA movement is that they've created communities that are unwelcoming to young people — and then they get mad young people want to leave.

And the only "solution" they can think of is to trap them.

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WHY DID HE THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA
'Move Fast and Break Things' may be the things that topple this entire ugly experiment. They spooked the normies.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
Today's winner of the "Please STFU" Award is Kat Abughazaleh.

She was right to hang up! Don't talk about the facts of your federal indictment on a podcast! Or anywhere except your lawyer's office!

Sincerely,

Every Lawyer, Literally All Of Us, Heed Our Counsel And Shut The Fuck Up
I mean, if you're only counting Gen Z men because you think the US should remain a patriarchal society, then yes they will be far more nationalistic and reactionary than their fathers and possibly their grandfathers.

But Gen Z as a whole? Rabidly progressive and nearly socialist. FOH.
Including Trump himself.

To be absolutely clear, if Trump had been at the Capitol like he wanted to be, his own supporters would have ripped him apart. We are not talking about a mentally-well element, and no one knows that better than Donald Trump.
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Voters discover that hot stove, yet again, turns out to be hot
Independents blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown by a 2:1 margin.

Trump’s approval with people under 30 has completely cratered.

63% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s management of the federal government.

#GOPShutdown
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Trump’s top foreign policy goal is lying to the American people, so the main US demand in trade negotiations is to say there’s a deal and give him something to tout (such as “we’ll invest billions in America”). You don’t have to actually deliver it.

Other countries have figured this out.
Trump is absolute crap at making deals. He thinks he's good because he make so many of them. But it's easy to make deals when you (a) provoke an unnecessary fight; and then (b) fold on all the important stuff. But he's rich so he'll never fell the consequences of his blundering.
The United States is in a weaker position today vis a vis trade with China than it was at this time last year.

Weaker in other ways too, but one glaring area is trade. Among the ways America: China got more access to high level American chips, while the US got less access to Chinese rare earths.
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The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.
KICK OUR ASSES CANADA!
The Blue Jays lead 6-1 and are 3 outs away from taking a 3-games-to-2 lead back to Toronto.

In the previous 19 World Series that were tied at 2-2, when the road team won Game 5, it went on to win 15 of those 19 World Series.

(This doesn't count the 2020 bubble year.)
So nothing has changed.

We really are in the Era of the Possible.
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I was right about her 10 years ago.
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Every good thing this society half-assedly started due to COVID should've been not just continued but constantly improved upon; but too many of y'all have The Fear, & those programs remind you of the thing that scared you.

So instead you burn down your house 'cause your basement made spooky shadows
It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.
The food security report is out, and it's bad news: 13.5% of households were food insecure in 2023, up from 12.8% in 2022. This is what happens when you abruptly end "pandemic" supports that should have been there all along.
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I know people like to treat Trump as a supervillain. There is a certain appeal to that. For me though, Occam's Razor gives the answer closest to the truth: he knows he's getting old. He may not ADMIT he's getting old, but clearly enough is happening behind the scenes for him to acknowledge it.
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Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
They just want to be kids forever, and they will gladly kill anyone who doesn’t let them play make believe.
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