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Cake day: November 26th, 2023

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  • I don’t see how what conservatives say has to do with reality.

    Biden has been “senile” and “too old” for years now, during which time we’ve had a functioning Biden administration.

    The Trump admin was limp, chronically understaffed, weak, ineffectual. That’s what they’re pretending is better than Biden. Conservatives don’t even care about senility so if you hear them rag on Biden and think they’re right, you’re not understanding what they’re really saying.












  • I wonder if influencers are real. People will make decisions and then gravitate towards something, and others will end up thinking that that something is the cause. But I’ve never seen evidence that an influencer with 1 million followers is anything other than a mustering ground for people already wanting to act out. I guess “influencer” is just shorthand for “we don’t actually know what’s influencing all these people, but we know where they’ve assembled!”






  • Consider their law strategy: instead of targeting bad behavior, they target people they don’t like.

    He might not be able to understand a word being bad because of the actions ascribed to it. “So if Bernie did those things you’d call him a fascist?” “Uh yes, that’s not a gotcha.”

    He’s more likely to think something like “fascism isn’t actually a bad word because it just means conservatives and that’s my team”



  • “Both sides” is not discussion or criticism, it’s a fallacy.

    I’m excising the fallacy.

    What team do you think I’m on exactly? I don’t think people should shit on Trump by calling him fat. I’m conservative. I don’t think Democrats are as bad as Republicans. I’m liberal. I think geopolitics is a hard game to play. I’m Kissinger.

    Or maybe I’m just someone who doesn’t do tribalism to the same degree? Maybe I’m a one man sports team?