Nick Simmonds
@diacriticaz.bsky.social
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IRL support main | Hoosier expat | Wobbly | Utah Phillips socialist, not podcast socialist | left-YIMBY
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Fucking Josh Shapiro decided to fly the flag at half mast in honor of Kirk, which is bonkers enough, but forgot about 9/11 in the process, a thing you are famously not supposed to forget
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It's like instead of aping the working class, the current crop are aping suburban Walmart managers because that's the closest to a working class person they can imagine.
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"I am a prompt engineer! Prompting is an artform!"
The prompts:
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tbf it doesn't work if you only protect hate speech, which is what most of these platforms have started doing
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
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Until halfway through the sentence I thought this was going to be about the poet and that you were going to complain about his Lincolnism.
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Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
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Fortunately I’m well established as a filthy elitist libertarian, so I can say it without too much fear of contaminating nice progressives. But that’s the sell. Are you vulgar, unlettered, and sick of hearing it’s not OK to drop casual racial slurs or smack your wife around? We’re your people!
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I think you should have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, just like my ancestors did when they pulled themselves up by your ancestors' bootstraps.
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Three of the people Donald Trump pardoned last week have already been arrested on charges related to child sexual abuse. Chuck Schumer is tweeting about how your salsa will cost more next week. Failure in communication is a choice.
“Does [getting on TV and social media] directly help solve a problem like an FBI purge?”
YES. Yes!
Because a major problem right now is that the public is not paying attention to the coup. Step 1 is driving media coverage, to blanket the nation with the message that a coup is happening.
