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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

California must be governed by an egomaniac at all times

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1h

There’s a throughline here I think, people really just want to answer/debate the thing they think you said!!! They’ve prepared for that one!

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

Yeah sometimes it’s clearly important to keep the sleight of hand going. The OP there is himself a childfree guy who’d be paying his hypothetical tax so he got too much shit for being flippant about it imo but people’s reactions were very sincere!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

so many of our dysfunctional political problems feel like people just going “i refuse to admit hard choices are hard”

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

I do worry they are getting to “it feels different!” — which, sure! — from a motivated reasoned position of “I want to keep my money” though, deep deep down.

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

I have to admit I am not sure these people really would be willing to make this sacrifice, even reframed, for the kids though. It’s hard to forget what happened to the expanded CTC!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

People are getting very upset insisting the framing really matters, I am not sure it does but they are passionate enough it’s making me rethink things

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

This thread is fascinating to me, honestly. Any tax credit is effectively a tax on the people who aren’t getting it, obviously, which people frequently talk about explicitly in housing policy—you almost have to!—but it seems like you can’t when the subject is children

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

I have both good and bad news about what tax credits are functionally identical to.

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 3h

This was previously my criticism of the new Lion King, which is also pretty dire, but at least they changed SOME things, like they took a lot of the more cartoony gags out because they had a more realistic vision. There is no vision here except the first film!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 3h

It truly adds nothing to the film, like it feels straight up disrespectful to the very concept of animation to copy the first movie frame-by-frame like this

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 3h

I think How To Train Your Dragon is my least favorite of the “live action” remakes, though it’s definitely not the worst one I’ve seen

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 4h

I think this will be bad for Trump but won’t necessarily improve America’s poster’s Madness

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 4h

I don’t hate them!!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

I often wonder why so much of the world chooses to follow us considering everything but then I guess you gotta look around at the other options

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

People keep replying to this post with insults, and when I say “what are you talking about,” get miffed I don’t apologize to them. I take it all back, now I am genuinely wondering what is wrong with the Commonwealth

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 7h

Canadians and British people who mock ordinary Americans for not having healthcare really are pieces of work man

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

Apologize for what, specifically NOT insulting your country??

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

I am not saying “no u”, I am saying I was complaining specifically about the people who think it’s funny to mock the poor of my country, I said “Australians DON’T typically do this”, your friend replied to me to say “yes we do”, and now you and he are both offended I said “oh I guess also you”.

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

He replied to my post first!!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 5h

First Democrat that promises retribution and legally going after this lawless administration gets my money in the 2028 primary

Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social · 5h

"One of the fired FBI employees, a combat veteran who was months away from becoming eligible for retirement, was called back to the office after having left for the day and informed of the dismissal, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News."

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 12h

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

I hope you don’t! Honestly, I think some of the cruelest comments (sent directly to people who are really suffering) are coming from a place of fear, like they’re trying to reassure themselves that it can’t happen there

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

sometimes I think about the joke image a few months ago that categorized countries by “cooked” and “washed”

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

this place is genuinely much worse than Twitter was about this, three years ago when I left, though I bet X is at least as bad today

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5h

As my eyesight gets worse and I’m more reliant on speech-to-text I do have more typos, so some of the misreads are my bad, but I think half my fights on here are due to somebody who clearly skimmed the post

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 6h

I’m not kidding when I say I want to restrict replies to people who can read. You can disagree with me, but it has to be with things I’ve actually said. Is Bluesky working on this

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 6h

I feel like he’s personally too addled to personally post at all, so what, are the viziers just messaging each other back-and-forth, speaking as Trump. Insane

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