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Werner Herzog should do professional wrestling color commentary
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Okay, maybe Hegseth had a point about the fitness standards.
wesleymorgan.bsky.social
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
spherical-cow.bsky.social
I've wondered for a while about applying psychometric methods to try and identify specific factors.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
There may be plenty of people who suffer from any one of those deficits, but it could require the intersection of several of them to result in something like schizophrenia or manic psychosis.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Combine that with an inability to regulate extreme emotional states, and that sounds a lot like the typical psychotic episode.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Imagine that you're experiencing hallucinations while suffering from a cognitive deficite that impares your ability to hold a coherent train of thought that would allow you to reflect rationally on your sensory experience.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Imho, it might be useful to think in terms of specific functional deficits. For example, I suspect that certain positive symptoms, like delusions, are at least partially downstream of negative symptoms like cognitive impairment.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
I think Miller genuinely believes that he's protecting white America from invasion and subjugation.
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Manafort is, of course, a world-historical scumbag, but he's only right-wing in the crudest sense of seeking proximity to power.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Atwater was ultimately an opertunist who doesn't seem to have had the slightest intention of delivering anything of substance to the people whose resentments he was exploiting. Miller is a true believer.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
This seems like outgroup homogeneity bias. I don't particularly like the patrician neoconsevitism of Bill Kristol or David Frum, but their worldview is fundamentally opposed to that of someone like Stephen Miller.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Building a few more Fort Irwin style NTCs and grading officers on their performance there seems like a good idea. Doing klingon promotions based on people's ability to play Pentagon 40k is nuts and far easier to game (no pun intended) than what we do now.
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markpopham.bsky.social
if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out
spherical-cow.bsky.social
He was apparently of the opinion that (possibly only male) homosexuals could not whistle.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
An "insurgent" with the FDN?
Is that some very strange way of describing him being part of the CIA mission to support the Contras?
spherical-cow.bsky.social
The weird thing about a whole bunch of conservative grievances is that they're only really comprehensible when they're coming from members of the conservative media class.
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my guy thinks the floyd protests were about floyd
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Old: Congress declares War.

New: POTUS unilaterally "determines" there's an armed conflict, giving himself permission to kill whoever he decides is the enemy.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
That Tucker 9/11 series has to be the ultimate example of this meme:
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Of course, the *checks notes* People's Liberation Army would never emphasize leftist ideology over millitary necessity.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
I just realized that "can a system prompt violate the rule against rule against perpetuities" is going to have to be ruled on.
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Are we far enough past peak wokeness that I can advance my speech-act theory of slurs?
spherical-cow.bsky.social
Did we ever get to the bottom of whether that phrase was problematic or not?