It just makes me so infuriatingly upset how right you were on just about all of it, btw. It was like watching a slow motion train wreck to watch them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Who cares what they think, USA Today? It’s not relevant because they never act on it. They’re just taking up space.

Every time

I recognize what you’re saying but I’m done having this particular conversation, you know? I’m not saying you’re wrong if we fight, etc., or anything like that. I’m just saying I guess I’m comfortable with the futility and I don’t think it’s going to shut me up on this one.

Prison.

Just before he fled and hid like the chickenshit jabroni he is, too

Glad we’re talking about what we all think should die next, Musk. Thanks for bringing it up. Glad you’ve said something. Since we’re talking about orgs that need to die, criminal ones, let’s start with yours.

lol yeah it’s only been two weeks

Amen. They have no grasp of what’s going on. They’re convinced that some West Wing witticism is going to dunk so hard on a fascist reader that it’ll turn the tide. When it inevitably does nothing at all, they’ll think, “Oh well I did what I could” with no self awareness that they did nothing at all.

Fuck these headlines. Man. We’ve clickbaited ourselves into this mess and these brunch party editors think that means we can clickbait ourselves out. Hell no. It’s time to put up or shut up.

The world will be smart to tariff in return only those goods that Trump supporters peddle. This happened last time with bourbon, and it cratered corn producers and we wound up bailing out Agriculture. They made the country pay for the tariffs and our deficit zoomed. It made Trump scramble for months to try and fix the damage. He’s even more vulnerable to reprisal like that now that he relies on the oligarchs to keep prevalence, all the world has to do is make Amazon, FB, and Tesla / Twitter suffer

Lives, almost certainly.

Ah yeah, I remember watching it happen. I’m sorry that it happened there, and now here as well. We really are just an incredibly gullible species.

Which country?

The good news is these segregationists have no hoods on. It isn’t much but it’s something to remember. Ken Paxton, Klan attorney.

I honestly haven’t got any idea. But it will fully distract him and I like the thought of him scattering his attention in exactly the way he scatters everyone else’s.

Do it Donald. Attack the church. You know you can’t resist, can you?

His fans think they’re sticking it to everyone by doing this. It’s maybe the most incredible confidence man job I’ve ever seen. He’s harvesting everything they can yield and they’re sneering at us while they lose it all.

The only problem with blocking people early and often is that it produces no signal for everyone else, downvote style.

Think about it: “shithead42088 (blocked by 83 people)”. Or more subtly just downgrade the relative sorting of their posts for everyone else if you don’t want to reveal the number.

Our world is a network of networks, just like these apps are. In the real world, echo chambers are highly desirable. We carefully shape them. My neighborhood, my city, all of it is a narrower set of people that I’ve chosen. Beyond that, my crowds are echo chambers. My family.

Being forced to listen to the abhorrent is the unnatural state. Drinking from the firehose of repulsive opinion is something that never occurs in the real world without conflict. Sometimes violent.

I don’t have to listen to something I don’t want to listen to, and that, too, is freedom.

Peach