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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · May 21

Just gonna show this chart to everyone that complains about Joe Biden not dropping out soon enough or whatever.

America is a country full of obnoxious dipshits that have very strong opinions about things they know absolutely nothing about.

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · May 21

The 2024 Data Don't Lie:

The only issue voters can clearly associate with the modern D Party is support for gay rights.

That's it.

Voters are 50/50 on which party is on SS and Medicare.

Yes, really.

That's why we need to leave pound them on the economy and critical programs like Medicaid.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 11h

If they weren't constantly empowering fascists it would be really funny how leftists keep getting duped by the most obvious ploys by foreign autocracies.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 12h

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 10h

It's a Trump initiative. So he's going to hype the crap out of it, it wont do anything for 90% of people, he'll blame someone else and then lose interest almost immediately.

Who in his cabinet is going to spearhead this? Kennedy?

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 12h

America's largest churches have turned themselves into extractive consumerist experiences. (Starbucks, but for God.)

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 12h

Trump failing the "Who was President in 2020" test absolutely tracks.

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 12h

Video games and porn have made isolation less terrible at the same time as isolation has become an epidemic because young people experience community as paywalled.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, my point is that replacing communal churches with extractive consumerist experiences like Starbucks (or Evangelicalism) is pernicious for society.

Humans go to more 3rd spaces than ever before and get less from them than ever before.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

this is *really* interesting, both if you're interested in violence--but also if you're interested in history. there's so much in here about how easy it is to think evidence Y so obviously means X that you never bother to analyze whether it actually does

Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 2d

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Trump just learned, by China announcing it, a new trick to fuck with international trade and now he wants to do it all the time to everything.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

I accept your assertion that there are more places, but at least in my experience they're more like "destinations" that are built around consumerist extraction.

Is Disney World a 3rd Space?

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

What does it tell you if there are more 3rd spaces, but people feel less connected to their communities.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Really curious what you're defining as 3rd spaces and how you define "expanded"

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone is 12.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly, the "greying out" of America's communal third spaces is perhaps *the* fundamental problem of our society.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

This. The distance between what LLMs can do and what autonomous machines can do is entirely measured in the way our minds are built to map language to intelligence.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 13h

it’s not really that weird because you can bs a person but you can’t bs physics

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 14h

I think it's pretty wild that we made computer that can write with apparent (not real) intelligence long before we created animal-like robots that can be generally coordinated in 3D space

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 18h

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Promises made. Promises kept.

Trump also promises to allow Americans (even Democrats who didn't vote for him) to continue to stick to the earth.

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

"You're not even shouting at the water!"

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h

Trade war with China is back on because President Deals is losing his mind.

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Phoenix Rising @gototown.bsky.social · 15h

This is a direct violation of a federal judge's order yesterday not to arrest press. They are also violating orders that they must identify themselves. Time for contempt. If the US Marshals won't do it, the Illinois State Police or Chicago cops should.

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's strategy is "I'm taking my ball and going home" and China's like "Good. I brought a better ball and your game is stupid."

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's tariffs are getting tariffs.

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is going to keel over and die. Then and only then will he lose any support. And there will remain like a 20-30% of the voting age population of this country who will vote for the guy who promises to let Trump's disembodied spirit to possess him.