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@somethingmanzo.bsky.social

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Twitter exile. Econ/Media/STEM/Politics interested. Also, birds are pretty cool. Subhumanism is Nazism

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SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Not saying it does.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

I just caught up on Black Mirror after a few years of it falling off my radar. Very "ripped from the headlines" stuff.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

It's social media. I would be doing it a disservice if I didn't speculate. Also, the dude's objectively nuts.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Severe, untreated bipolar disorder (guessing type 1). Or maybe worse.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Severe, untreated bipolar disorder (guessing type 1). Or maybe worse.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Severe, untreated bipolar disorder (guessing type 1). Or maybe worse.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

And she had a partner in crime across the pond. Our Reagan was worse than yours, and yours sucked.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Don't start a trade war you can't win. Or better yet, just don't start a trade war.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 2d

Don't start a trade war you can't win. Or better yet, just don't start a trade war.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 8d

I guess the black "patriots" didn't get the evite.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 9d

Lotto winners and shortcut takers (modern GOP leadership) love the trappings of power but hate (or can't handle or are unqualified for) the mostly thankless work of governing.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 10d

Where can I invest in guillotines?

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 10d

If you can't run your farm without selling to China, and you voted for Trump, you've earned your bankruptcy - not another bailout.

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SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 12d

First there was the quest for 'experts' to fill the time not occupied by news reporting. Then, somehow, the politicians took over for the experts. Talking Heads are best experienced as a band, then and now.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 12d

But "just following orders" is making a huge comeback.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 13d

Turns out that 'Presidential character' might actually matter.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 14d

Banning books is never enough for fascists; the language itself must be cleansed of anything construed critical of the regime. Their paranoia and cowardness is unrivaled.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

Quantum computing could render these places into warehouses inside of a decade. Or not.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

Trump beats up Americans and our allies, but is desperately thirsty to be accepted by America's adversaries. A literal un-president. Factor in his unnecessary COVID deaths, relative to the Western World, and he also he owns a US death count multiples higher than Viet Nam's.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

It's an easy claim to make when statistically no one bought one. There's almost no one (except for testers, reviewers, and regulators) who can disagree.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

Global labor and goods markets will find a new ex-US equilibrium, not shrink. The US is only fucking itself.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

By joining different rape clubs... or maybe forming their own.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 15d

Everywhere Epstein operated is "Epstein Island." Including Mar-a-Lago.

SM @somethingmanzo.bsky.social · 17d

Does this sleaze bag ever stop whining?