birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
1d ago
A while back, somebody on this site said "Democrats lie like lawyers. Trump lies like a car salesman". That's stuck with me ever since, and I think it's part of what makes the PMCs so irate.
The problem isn't that it's a lie, but that it's a lie expressed outside of the expected class-coding.
birb_cromble
2d ago
For me, I can tell because I can't sleep right.
Maybe it's a placebo effect?
birb_cromble
2d ago
How's your magnesium intake?
I've noticed that I have restless sleep when I get deficient.
birb_cromble
3d ago
Historically a lot of work is put into determining who does and doesn't get pardoned.
How do you feel about Biden's various preemptive and retroactive pardons before he left office?
birb_cromble
3d ago
It takes a very specific set of skills developed in a pretty specific environment to get where he was rather than where Crowder is (or, worse, where Milo ended up).
The thing is, once one person threads that needle, it provides a map for everyone who follows. It's going to be a lot easier for the next person to develop those skills, since they don't have to cultivate them ex nihilo.
birb_cromble
4d ago
General construction: there’s a stereotype of them as crackheads, but recent trends make that unfair- they mostly do meth instead.
Around me, that's the stereotype for roofers. Even the "calm" roofers I know go through 4+ energy drinks a day.
birb_cromble
4d ago
has anyone else noticed this new “lawmaker” noun? I just picked up on it in the last few weeks but it’s absolutely everywhere
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=lawmaker&hl=en
It really does seem abrupt. My personal assumption is somebody sent out talking points, though I couldn't predict who.
birb_cromble
4d ago
told to eat the Paul Pelosi attack as a right wing thing.
I have not seen anyone in my real life bubble claim that Depape was right wing. I have heard, incessantly, that "right wing hate" radicalized and activated Depape like some kind of MKULTRA program.
Conceptually, it's an interesting mix of stochastic terrorism and magickal law.
birb_cromble
4d ago
My general rule though is that languages are separate if they aren't mutually intelligible.
This is why I sometimes bear the suspicion that young people aren't speaking English.
birb_cromble
4d ago
I live in a deep blue enclave inside a blood red part of the country. Around here, people are still saying truly fucked up shit, but they're saying it in person when nobody has their phones out.
They're aware of the reputational risk, but they don't seem to be aware of the genuine anger from the right that seems to be driving it.
birb_cromble
7d ago
I genuinely hope I'm wrong and you're right.
birb_cromble
7d ago
The crime scene. I've seen this claim, but no proof, and I'm interested in it.
birb_cromble
7d ago
Also I'll voice here that if you're not acting in an official role I don't think you should get fired for speech.
I think a lot of people here will agree with you, but that bell rang on Brendan Eich and it's never going to unring itself. This is the new, worse equilibrium. We're all stuck in it for now.
birb_cromble
7d ago
Is there a picture of this?
birb_cromble
8d ago
Don't forget about the Pennsylvania governor's mansion getting Molotov-ed.
birb_cromble
9d ago
But if they still don't know who it was, idk how they ever will
They found Mangione. It's not impossible.
birb_cromble
9d ago
100 yards is dicey enough that they'll think twice about taking the shot.
You're east coast/Pittsburgh right? A 200 yard shot in southwest PA is difficult because of the elevation changes, dense foliage, unpredictable winds, and inversion-effect haze that smears everything in your visual field.
Out west, things are different because the terrain is a lot more open. 200 yards is table stakes just to keep the game from getting spooked. If it's a local assailant, I wouldn't be surprised if he was familiar with shooting at longer ranges.
birb_cromble
9d ago
It would seem fairly plausible that schizos with incoherent political beliefs are disproportionately likely to try and shoot a politician.
I haven't done an extensive meta-analysis, but my gut feeling from assassinations over the last 60 years is that successful schizos tend to operate at closer ranges than this shooting.
birb_cromble
14d ago
The Dread Jim
Help me out here, please. Who is this guy? What makes him notable?
birb_cromble
17d ago
To see why either Trump or BLM are scary to people
I don't know about Trump, but I can speak to BLM somewhat.
Back during the fiery but mostly peaceful protests of 2020, the police had to shoot a man in the large town close to my father.
Protests formed, and the protestors almost immediately started burning and looting. My father, who lives outside the town, spent the day on his porch watching the smoke clouds get closer with every passing hour. By sundown, the sirens were close enough that he sent his wife and other kid away to stay with their relatives.
He's a "normal person" who watches a lot of TV, so up until that point he completely believed the Peaceful Protests narrative that the newsman told him.
The fires didn't make it outside the city limits, but it was still a huge shock to his worldview. Now almost everything he hears on the news is tempered with "but are they lying about it"? He's also views the local large town as a powder keg that could go off at any moment.
He doesn't go downtown much anymore.
birb_cromble
17d ago
Those were all mainstream narratives.
The tinfoil conspiracies involved Bush invading Iraq to steal priceless (and sometimes alien) artifacts on behalf of various shadowy cabals.
birb_cromble
17d ago
It's been 25 years, but I remember Democrats being quite certain that the governor of Florida pulled a fast one during the recount, and that the supreme court "handed" Bush the presidency. Usually all of this was expressed in conjunction with a belief that the Iraq war was repayment for that gift.
birb_cromble
18d ago
Still, on the national level, outright election denial was very rare before Trump.
Are we including the hanging Chad conspiracies in this comparison or no? If not, what makes them substantivel different?
birb_cromble
18d ago
Is it possible that some of our civic dysfunction rests on the back of sheer misconceptions about how a republic is intended to operate…?
Probably. There's a definite overlap between the degree of distress and how often I hear catch-phrases like "Our Democracy".
One of the most interesting gigs I ever played was at a hell's Angels clubhouse.
One of my bandmates took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and ended up in a non-public area. A biker that must have been at least 6'5" picked him up by the jacket and held him against the wall while another guy searched him to make sure he wasn't a cop or a thief. Once they cleared him, they frog-marched him to the John and told him that PRIVATE means PRIVATE.
I have absolutely no doubt that those guys would have killed the guy if anything had looked out of place.
Other than that they were great clients. The guy tending bar kept us two hours past our booked time by handing each of us a $50 bill at the top of each hour. Some of them even helped us load out.
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