Ds00n
@ds00n.bsky.social
“In the instance of mass harassment and bullying, it's not really consoling to know there's a silent majority supporting you.”
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Ds00n
@ds00n.bsky.social
· Dec 4
You want to understand people who vote for Trump: He’s Palpatine. They’re Darth Vader.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
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I think
1. The people who know what happened are the people who were in the room.
But
2. The NYT has lost trust in their integrity and that's their fault. You can't pester people into not being worried about how bad the integrity fails are.
1. The people who know what happened are the people who were in the room.
But
2. The NYT has lost trust in their integrity and that's their fault. You can't pester people into not being worried about how bad the integrity fails are.
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think
1. The people who know what happened are the people who were in the room.
But
2. The NYT has lost trust in their integrity and that's their fault. You can't pester people into not being worried about how bad the integrity fails are.
1. The people who know what happened are the people who were in the room.
But
2. The NYT has lost trust in their integrity and that's their fault. You can't pester people into not being worried about how bad the integrity fails are.
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I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
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A lot of people see kids as items for ownership and consumption and control and it is our absolute sacred duty to protect children from that evil.
Very much including teenagers.
Very much including teenage girls.
Very much including teenagers.
Very much including teenage girls.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A lot of people see kids as items for ownership and consumption and control and it is our absolute sacred duty to protect children from that evil.
Very much including teenagers.
Very much including teenage girls.
Very much including teenagers.
Very much including teenage girls.
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Mess 2: the Christian hard right is having some explosive sex scandals at the exact same time. Things are looking pretty grim over at the Assemblies of God.
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Mess 2: the Christian hard right is having some explosive sex scandals at the exact same time. Things are looking pretty grim over at the Assemblies of God.
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Now the Christian Zionists at Heritage are furious (they can't afford for Nazis to wipe out the Jews, they need the Jews to spark the apocalypse).
The rest of the conservative establishment is freaked out realizing that a lot of DC staffers are Fuentes fans-- literal Nazis, in other words.
The rest of the conservative establishment is freaked out realizing that a lot of DC staffers are Fuentes fans-- literal Nazis, in other words.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Now the Christian Zionists at Heritage are furious (they can't afford for Nazis to wipe out the Jews, they need the Jews to spark the apocalypse).
The rest of the conservative establishment is freaked out realizing that a lot of DC staffers are Fuentes fans-- literal Nazis, in other words.
The rest of the conservative establishment is freaked out realizing that a lot of DC staffers are Fuentes fans-- literal Nazis, in other words.
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In the midst of all that, his coalition is fragmenting.
Perhaps most crucially, his base-- the hard right-- is an absolute mess, in two ways:
Mess 1: Tucker Carlson platformed a popular Nazi, and the establishment hard right (Heritage Foundation) defended that choice.
Perhaps most crucially, his base-- the hard right-- is an absolute mess, in two ways:
Mess 1: Tucker Carlson platformed a popular Nazi, and the establishment hard right (Heritage Foundation) defended that choice.
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
In the midst of all that, his coalition is fragmenting.
Perhaps most crucially, his base-- the hard right-- is an absolute mess, in two ways:
Mess 1: Tucker Carlson platformed a popular Nazi, and the establishment hard right (Heritage Foundation) defended that choice.
Perhaps most crucially, his base-- the hard right-- is an absolute mess, in two ways:
Mess 1: Tucker Carlson platformed a popular Nazi, and the establishment hard right (Heritage Foundation) defended that choice.
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His poll numbers are tanking. Last month's #NoKings was the biggest protest in US history.
And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.
And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
His poll numbers are tanking. Last month's #NoKings was the biggest protest in US history.
And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.
And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.
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The biggest is that the clock is running out on midterms, and they have not laid the groundwork for theft.
Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.
Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The biggest is that the clock is running out on midterms, and they have not laid the groundwork for theft.
Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.
Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
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The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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that doesn't mean it doesn't matter! horrific abuse matters! it matters to survivors; it matters to justice and truth.
but...like, we shouldn't fool ourselves that it will somehow overcome partisanship magically and we'll be saved.
but...like, we shouldn't fool ourselves that it will somehow overcome partisanship magically and we'll be saved.
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
that doesn't mean it doesn't matter! horrific abuse matters! it matters to survivors; it matters to justice and truth.
but...like, we shouldn't fool ourselves that it will somehow overcome partisanship magically and we'll be saved.
but...like, we shouldn't fool ourselves that it will somehow overcome partisanship magically and we'll be saved.
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I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
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one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
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"One of the first people to make public allegations against now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was Ava Cordero, a transgender Latina woman. Cordero, a model, was transphobically mocked in the media after she filed an October 2007 lawsuit"
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"One of the first people to make public allegations against now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was Ava Cordero, a transgender Latina woman. Cordero, a model, was transphobically mocked in the media after she filed an October 2007 lawsuit"
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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The really hard part is that in many cases it's both. The fundamental thesis was "your life sucks because of them (it doesn't) and if we're cruel enough to them it'll stop sucking (it won't)".
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The really hard part is that in many cases it's both. The fundamental thesis was "your life sucks because of them (it doesn't) and if we're cruel enough to them it'll stop sucking (it won't)".
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Like I don't want to hand it to anyone, but there were people who were celebrating Trump's election who thought that their lives were going to markedly improve! It wasn't just "we're cruel and we hate everyone and ourselves!"
Now that's insane because that's not what he ran on at all, but..
Now that's insane because that's not what he ran on at all, but..
We talk about this a lot, but one thing that does appear different in this current moment is that there are a lot of Trump and Trump adjacent voters who -did- expect things to get better for them. That getting rid of DEI and immigrants would give them jobs, houses, and girls, etc.
"He promised not fiscal discipline but social welfare for the right kind of American. For migrants and minorities, he offered deportation and incarceration."
Good that @aselrod.bsky.social gets this exactly right, very few do:
Good that @aselrod.bsky.social gets this exactly right, very few do:
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Like I don't want to hand it to anyone, but there were people who were celebrating Trump's election who thought that their lives were going to markedly improve! It wasn't just "we're cruel and we hate everyone and ourselves!"
Now that's insane because that's not what he ran on at all, but..
Now that's insane because that's not what he ran on at all, but..
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Solidarity with Starbucks workers! Starbucks makes BILLIONS every year.
The very least the company owes its workers is good faith negotiations for a fair contract and to END their illegal union-busting.
Everyone should be able to organize at work!
The very least the company owes its workers is good faith negotiations for a fair contract and to END their illegal union-busting.
Everyone should be able to organize at work!
Merkley, Wyden Call on Starbucks CEO to Stop Union-Busting and Negotiate a Fair Contract for Workers - Merkley
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues in a letter to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol demanding that the multibillion-dollar corporation stop its illegal uni...
www.merkley.senate.gov
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Solidarity with Starbucks workers! Starbucks makes BILLIONS every year.
The very least the company owes its workers is good faith negotiations for a fair contract and to END their illegal union-busting.
Everyone should be able to organize at work!
The very least the company owes its workers is good faith negotiations for a fair contract and to END their illegal union-busting.
Everyone should be able to organize at work!
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another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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AI tools can be super useful for certain research tasks, sorting and analyzing huge data sets for instance. in some specific areas it makes a transformative difference. but these are all pretty niche use cases compared to the trillions of dollars being invested into the tech
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
AI tools can be super useful for certain research tasks, sorting and analyzing huge data sets for instance. in some specific areas it makes a transformative difference. but these are all pretty niche use cases compared to the trillions of dollars being invested into the tech
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I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools
Anthropic is aggressively hitting me with ads on instagram for Claude and it’s all people being like “I use Claude to brainstorm” or asking Claude where they can find two colors together in a city. What a pile of crap, how does anybody still believe this is the future? It’s Search 2 and it sucks
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools