kirklonguski.bsky.social
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"Why do you fight the vibecession when Trump is in power, don't you want to win???"
Cause once you start believing untrue shit, it's just a short hop to falling for the shitbirds.
Cause once you start believing untrue shit, it's just a short hop to falling for the shitbirds.
December 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Why do you fight the vibecession when Trump is in power, don't you want to win???"
Cause once you start believing untrue shit, it's just a short hop to falling for the shitbirds.
Cause once you start believing untrue shit, it's just a short hop to falling for the shitbirds.
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A complementary pathology is that there's the perception that erring on the side of being too naive is somehow far worse than erring on the side of being too cynical, despite the fact that overly cynical predictions are wrong *all the fucking time*, wrong in just as consequential ways too!
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A complementary pathology is that there's the perception that erring on the side of being too naive is somehow far worse than erring on the side of being too cynical, despite the fact that overly cynical predictions are wrong *all the fucking time*, wrong in just as consequential ways too!
Usually I reserve my predictions for things that will suck but I'm calling my shot here the Odyssey movie is gonna rule.
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Usually I reserve my predictions for things that will suck but I'm calling my shot here the Odyssey movie is gonna rule.
I'm not here for negativity about the Odyssey now that Nolan is making actual movies.
December 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I'm not here for negativity about the Odyssey now that Nolan is making actual movies.
I love Asteroid City so much
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I love Asteroid City so much
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It is totally possible for data to be wrong. You cannot make definitive conclusions about it’s relative wrongness from your personal experiences when the universe the data is attempting to represent is “an economy composed of 340mn people”. You are not a serious person if you think you can.
This is a toddlers interpretation of the discussion. People are very clearly saying that the data doesn’t seem to line up with their experience. The enlightened centrist answer is “social media is lying to you”. Stancil is the cringiest of them because early on he explicitly went after
Literally a toddler’s understanding of the world. “Overall, a thing is not happening more than it has in the past.” interpreted as “oh so you think it happens to no one?! you think the people that it’s happening to are lying?!”
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It is totally possible for data to be wrong. You cannot make definitive conclusions about it’s relative wrongness from your personal experiences when the universe the data is attempting to represent is “an economy composed of 340mn people”. You are not a serious person if you think you can.
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You believe surveys over peoples lived experience?
Lived experience is so important we asked thousands of people about that experience! In a way that mathematically ensured a broad and diverse range of experiences! Asking about peoples' lived experience along dozens of different dimensions!
Lived experience is so important we asked thousands of people about that experience! In a way that mathematically ensured a broad and diverse range of experiences! Asking about peoples' lived experience along dozens of different dimensions!
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You believe surveys over peoples lived experience?
Lived experience is so important we asked thousands of people about that experience! In a way that mathematically ensured a broad and diverse range of experiences! Asking about peoples' lived experience along dozens of different dimensions!
Lived experience is so important we asked thousands of people about that experience! In a way that mathematically ensured a broad and diverse range of experiences! Asking about peoples' lived experience along dozens of different dimensions!
JFK didn't talk like normal people talk. I wouldn't let normal people talk me into a lifeboat if we'd already hit the iceberg.
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
JFK didn't talk like normal people talk. I wouldn't let normal people talk me into a lifeboat if we'd already hit the iceberg.
Watching my new Minority Report 4k and eating a burger :)
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Watching my new Minority Report 4k and eating a burger :)
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Low unemployment led to higher wages for poor service workers. This irritated middle class people who enjoy inexpensive services.
They metabolized this by thinking that if it annoyed them, a well to do person, it must have been really hard on the poor. (who got the raises)
They metabolized this by thinking that if it annoyed them, a well to do person, it must have been really hard on the poor. (who got the raises)
December 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Low unemployment led to higher wages for poor service workers. This irritated middle class people who enjoy inexpensive services.
They metabolized this by thinking that if it annoyed them, a well to do person, it must have been really hard on the poor. (who got the raises)
They metabolized this by thinking that if it annoyed them, a well to do person, it must have been really hard on the poor. (who got the raises)
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“The median American has seen their real wages rise and doesn’t face any kind of pronounced affordability crunch, even in housing”
“WHY ARE YOU DENYING MY LIVED EXPERIENCE”
“WHY ARE YOU DENYING MY LIVED EXPERIENCE”
So many people On Here think every single fucking thing is about them. Carly Simon was singing about you, even though she said she wasn’t!
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“The median American has seen their real wages rise and doesn’t face any kind of pronounced affordability crunch, even in housing”
“WHY ARE YOU DENYING MY LIVED EXPERIENCE”
“WHY ARE YOU DENYING MY LIVED EXPERIENCE”
One day I will post my Long Future Batman Take. But only after I've reached such a position of respect and admiration that no one will contradict me.
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One day I will post my Long Future Batman Take. But only after I've reached such a position of respect and admiration that no one will contradict me.
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a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
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I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
Just finally got around to Love Lies Bleeding. A) it rules b) do you think Ethan Coen watches it every night in mounting frustration.
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Just finally got around to Love Lies Bleeding. A) it rules b) do you think Ethan Coen watches it every night in mounting frustration.
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Every week of the year, I rank the comics I read from best to worst and give them a numerical score so that by December I know empirically what the best comics were.
It’s once again time for THE RANKENING!
It’s once again time for THE RANKENING!
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Every week of the year, I rank the comics I read from best to worst and give them a numerical score so that by December I know empirically what the best comics were.
It’s once again time for THE RANKENING!
It’s once again time for THE RANKENING!
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this is a perfectly good theory which presents the problem that it has not happened once in american history
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is a perfectly good theory which presents the problem that it has not happened once in american history
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I cannot emphasize enough that Americans do not act like they are in the middle of a recession.
U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online during Black Friday sales
Shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday despite wider economic uncertainty.
www.cbsnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that Americans do not act like they are in the middle of a recession.
I am an absolute sucker for the Roundup movies like yes please Ma Dong-seok hit someone and eat some fried food.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I am an absolute sucker for the Roundup movies like yes please Ma Dong-seok hit someone and eat some fried food.
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It's the left's version of climate denialism -- completely immune to data and something we need to change. We can't solve our actual problems if we're not living in reality.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's the left's version of climate denialism -- completely immune to data and something we need to change. We can't solve our actual problems if we're not living in reality.
He should have done it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
He should have done it.
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This post is going to make people INCANDESCENTLY mad but here we go: the annual Farm Bureau survey of a Thanksgiving meal (using the same basket of goods over time) priced out at $55.18 for 10 people this year, -5% YoY. In real terms (delf w/ CPI) it's the cheapest Thanksgiving meal ever.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This post is going to make people INCANDESCENTLY mad but here we go: the annual Farm Bureau survey of a Thanksgiving meal (using the same basket of goods over time) priced out at $55.18 for 10 people this year, -5% YoY. In real terms (delf w/ CPI) it's the cheapest Thanksgiving meal ever.
The Thorn of Emberlain WILL COME OUT AT SOME POINT. I still believe.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Thorn of Emberlain WILL COME OUT AT SOME POINT. I still believe.
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.