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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 6h

It's like the people who don't understand stats and doom whenever they see that 40% of the GOP would stand by Trump in the event it turned out he was caught in 4k in the Epstein Files

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think they think they're being tricked, they think winning once means you *instantly* win. So Dems winning and polls not showing 80% of the GOP opposing Trump means that Trump must be fought by me, the Luthen Rael of politics

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 6h

We don't need to induce internal migration on a Dust Bowl-level scale just to win back power

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 6h

I think many of our friends on the left have gotten a bit over their skis and seem to now think the general public only response to horrifying social shocks. The public is responding to what is happening right now. Poll numbers don't change that much until campaign season. People need to be patient.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 6h

People want the stove to be way hotter, but I live here. I like being able to make sure my wife is safe and has a fall back position. I don't want to be a hobo

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

for all the talk about how voters need to touch the stove, like, we are touching the stove. this [waves arms wildly] is what touching the stove looks like. nothing happens on a twitter timescale.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

The reason for the ceasefire has a lot more to do with support for Israel collapsing on the US right invalidating Bibi's strategy of using DC politics to shore himself up than the Trump admin.

To the extent Trump is having any influence, it's scaring Hamas into agreeing to the ceasefire

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 11h

It was really inevitable that the Trump administration would get to intactivism. I'm not much of a proponent of circumcision for non-religious reasons, but those are some of the weirdest freaks I've ever spoken to

Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

Now the American right is increasingly of the opinion that ZOG is real while the American left is, at best, calling for the immediate recognition of an independent Palestine

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

He assumed American antisemitism would stay entirely domestic (and thus their only negative externality would be diaspora Jews moving back to Israel). That is not how it played out

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

It cannot be overstated how big of a disaster it is for Israel that Bibi has turned support for Israel into an issue that identified as right-coded in a country where the right is increasingly embracing antisemitic conspiracy theories

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

The reason for the ceasefire has a lot more to do with support for Israel collapsing on the US right invalidating Bibi's strategy of using DC politics to shore himself up than the Trump admin.

To the extent Trump is having any influence, it's scaring Hamas into agreeing to the ceasefire

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 12h

President Deals can't actually make deals!

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 12h

When you definitely know what the fuck you're doing

Duffy hints at firing air traffic controller ‘problem children’ amid continuing delays

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was referring to a rash of air traffic controllers calling out sick from work, which has driven a smattering of flight delays across the country this week.

www.politico.com

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 13h

Your guy is running for fucking Mayor of NYC. He's not the pope.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 13h

Posting about how mean Stephen Colbert's staff treated your candidate who A. is winning and B. ended up vetoing those staff members' bad ideas is loser shit

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 13h

They've been floating this for a bit and Dems have previously said it isn't enough because there's no trust the GOP won't rugpull

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 13h

This is really it. I'll admit to skepticism that the Dem strategy would work or that they'd stick to it if it did, but it's clearly working and they're sticking to it. Gotta give credit where it's due

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a 20-page paper in an hour and a half to get it turned in on time. Got an A and a thank you from the prof for it being fun to read.

Relying on AI makes you weak. You will not survive the winter.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 13h

We must be clear-eyed: this is just the beginning. True peace will require building bridges, not deepening divisions. We urge all stakeholders to approach the next phases of this process with good faith, recognizing that sustainable peace is the only way forward.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 13h

Very weird combination of the declining support for Israel among the US right scaring Bibi and and Trump not suffering consequences for threatening carpet bombing of Gaza to force Hamas' hand.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 14h

FWIW it is both possible and appropriate to be grateful for the possible freeing of the hostages and withdrawal from Gaza without praising Trump, Bibi or Hamas, none of whom cares about anything but keeping power.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 15h

Really hoping this ceasefire holds. I have very little confidence that it will

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 15h

Classic failure to adapt. Yes letting people touch the stove is good politics for us, but we can make it abundantly clear the right is causing us to touch the stove. Maybe we win and the temperature is lowered but there's still an equal chance they bust the filibuster to pass a partisan budget

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