That’s quite literally not what they said. You’ll get better responses if you don’t argue against what people are not saying.

This isn’t infotainment. This is propaganda. It’s also par for the course in the conservative media ecosystem.

From the American Enterprise Institute: “But Kennedy’s candidacy, which was succored by mischief-making MAGA Republicans as a spoiler in the Democratic primaries, seems very much more likely to bite the hands that fed it than to harm Biden in a rematch with Trump.”

From the National Review: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential bid seems less a threat to Joe Biden than another obstacle in Donald Trump’s path back to the White House”

From the Daily Fail: “Shockingly, the poll shows that an independent bid from Kennedy could actually serve as more of a spoiler for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump rather than Democrat President Joe Biden in his reelection bid.”

schadenfreude intensifies

Stop trying to make “fetch” happen.

Boil it down even further than OP and everything, ultimately, is just binary impulses between differently oriented clusters of atoms.

Time and time again I find myself coming back to a deterministic interpretation of the physical world. We’re now at the point where a simple scrape-predict-regurgitate AI language model (ChatGPT) can convincingly imitate the communication pattern of a human being with good factual recall but low social acumen, almost like what we generally associate with the autism spectrum. It’s harder and harder to argue that we aren’t just walking flesh bags with simple electrical impulses that carry us from decision to decision based on a finite dataset. It’s amazingly complex and sometimes can seem unpredictable, but it’s still finite. Were we ever able to build a sufficiently complex computer, I believe it could predict every decision we ever make with remarkable accuracy. The concept of “free will”, at least to me, seems a comfortable agreed-upon illusion that keeps us from killing and eating one another.

NPR interviewed a woman in the local Republican Party in Gaetz’s district. Her response to this shitstorm:

“The less Congress does, the better it is for all Americans.”

These people are fucking morons.

The only thing that stops a bad pastor with a gun is a good toddler with a gun.

Sometimes it helps to reflect on the fact that this is what passes for journalism nowadays. We are a nation of clickbait removed.

Twen-TAY Twen-TAY Four!

Biden: “You should get paid more.”

Trump: indicted for 91 crimes and found liable for decades of tax fraud

Michigan Republicans: ¯\(ツ)/¯

I spent MONTHS saying that on every subreddit I could find. It’s baffling to me why that never sunk in with even the casual observers of Trump’s impeachment. It’s like putting a spoon full of food in a toddler’s mouth and watching it ooze out because they still don’t even realize it’s there.

He’s an opportunistic populist amoeba who says whatever floats into his brain that will get him attention. He has no beliefs or principles except raw, untethered narcissism, and he will abandon anyone and anything he consideres a liability. Anyone who hasn’t figured that out by now is a moron.

…Bueller?

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Yeah I wouldn’t call him progressive by any reasonable definition of the word, but he’s helped pass some of the most consequential legislation of our lifetime, and he did it while pulling the economy out of a dumpster fire tailspin and into an improbable soft landing, and also getting us onto the other side of an actual plague. He’s been far more effective than I ever imagined he’d be. I didn’t vote for him in the 2020 primary, but I’ll damn sure vote to reelect him. My only point of contention is that I wish he’d dump Harris and organize a kind of VP primary to pick another running mate. If he dies in office, I worry that she’s just not up to the task.

Yep, and he’s understood that very clearly since he was a young man, along with how to build and maintain a brand. Few other political figures understand how that works nowadays, including the entirety of the Democratic Party and the current President. Every marketing student alive understands that what you’re trying to get with advertising is attention. You can sell a message better with it than without it, and people pay handsomely for it. Sustaining attention is nigh impossible unless you know how to push the buttons of the outrage media ecosystem. The average US voter is disengaged and low-information and relies only on trusted sources of information, and so any press is good press as long as you can make your case through curated media outlets (i.e. Fox News and Twitter) while everyone else is incessantly talking about you.

People can claim he’s an idiot all they want, but it’s been clear since the beginning that he’s an absolute grandmaster at playing the media like fiddles. And they keep trying to kick Lucy’s football over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over…

Well I am:

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I didn’t say a damn thing about copyright. They might as well have performed sex in a see-through box in the middle of town square and expected people not to record it. It’s public, and they were foolish to expect it not to be public.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION

INFORMATION

You can’t even quote a comment correctly, and you feel compelled to do it twice. You want me to link Chaturbate’s ToS page? It’s there in black and white. Go touch grass.

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