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Dale Emmons

@dpemmons.com

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Pilot for fun. Previously founding engineer & infra tech lead for YouTube Shorts; founder Vidmaker.

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Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 1d

Imho that's a symptom - there's no cultural cohesion on the left that overrides shorter term disagreements, so it's very easy to disrupt / distract meaningful segments of the coalition.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 1d

Right. The current conservative movement didn't come from nowhere, it's been slowly, steadily, methodically built since the mid 70s. You can't create a meaningful alternative over a weekend.

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Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 1d

Most "general strike" bros couldn't get their 3 closest friends to show up at a bar at the same time. Gotta start with attainable goals.

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Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 18d

They're on their way to ensuring Democrats never have power again.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 24d

He deserves rehab

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · 29d

Back in my day we just called that Fox News

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Sep 8

So according to SCOTUS private colleges can't profile but ICE can do whatever it wants. Cool, cool.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 31

Immense stupidity and senseless destruction are necessary byproducta of fascist systems.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 30

Why ask people who know what they're doing when you can just make shit up instead?

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 30

That smells like antitrust.

Not that it matters these days. 😞

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 29

In some people's minds it's unfathomable a wealthy person could possibly do good.

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Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 14

Democrats tried decency. It didn't work. Now we have Trump.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 10

Fire with fire

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Aug 8

😆

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jul 4

These fucking people.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jul 3

It always is

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · Jul 3

man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jun 12

Result of news reporting being less about the event and more about meta analysis bs.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jun 11

Propaganda works, sadly.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jun 11

I just wish they'd point out Republicans have used the same "we'll grow out of the deficit!" for every tax cut for 40 years and it has never actually worked.

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Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jun 9

Also... like... this is how you start a civil war.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · Jun 7

Ahem, a strongly worded letter! On official letterhead and everything!

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · May 29

When I was young and dumb and worked in Wisconsin state politics I vividly remember R legislators dumping on Madison saying "the best thing about it was seeing it in the rear view mirror driving back" to the district.

Bullshit. They *loved* that city.

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · May 29

What's wild is you know he has aids who helped write that and were like "oh yeah boss this is really good great job you're the best"

Dale Emmons @dpemmons.com · May 26

Reddit's recommendation algorithm also explicitly uses a civility score, though I'm not finding the interview right now...