Trevor Wolff
@snarkywolff.bsky.social
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Trevor Wolff
@snarkywolff.bsky.social
· Apr 2
"you have to pick your battles"
ok I pick no battles ever
ok I pick no battles ever
Counter offer: pick every battle. No fight is too petty.
If you should you will fight over everything, people will just leave you alone.
If you should you will fight over everything, people will just leave you alone.
Rare moment where @gameonysus.bsky.social and I hardcore disagree. as a non-platformer, I love the fact that Silksong wants to kick my ass and force me to make tough choices. I love that it makes me just “get gud”.
BUT maybe I’m the masochist and Janet is correct for her hater-ade, and I love it
BUT maybe I’m the masochist and Janet is correct for her hater-ade, and I love it
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Rare moment where @gameonysus.bsky.social and I hardcore disagree. as a non-platformer, I love the fact that Silksong wants to kick my ass and force me to make tough choices. I love that it makes me just “get gud”.
BUT maybe I’m the masochist and Janet is correct for her hater-ade, and I love it
BUT maybe I’m the masochist and Janet is correct for her hater-ade, and I love it
James Gunn you did it again you son of a bitch @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social I will be stalking social media for your thoughts
July 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
James Gunn you did it again you son of a bitch @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social I will be stalking social media for your thoughts
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Hmmm... seems bad that Senate Dems are pretending not to know anything about this specific provision in the bill when asked by @ericmgarcia.bsky.social... Seems like coordinated faux ignorance.
June 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hmmm... seems bad that Senate Dems are pretending not to know anything about this specific provision in the bill when asked by @ericmgarcia.bsky.social... Seems like coordinated faux ignorance.
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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
I really liked the interview @karaswisher.bsky.social had with the new gen of elected Dems. But I had one major issue — Rep. McBride talked about getting the majority with imperfect allies to change hearts and minds re: LGBTQ people.
The Dems have never passed a bill to push the ball forward
The Dems have never passed a bill to push the ball forward
June 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I really liked the interview @karaswisher.bsky.social had with the new gen of elected Dems. But I had one major issue — Rep. McBride talked about getting the majority with imperfect allies to change hearts and minds re: LGBTQ people.
The Dems have never passed a bill to push the ball forward
The Dems have never passed a bill to push the ball forward
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The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.
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ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX.
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says | Houston Public Media
The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
June 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX.
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
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Bitch you're the only person talking about this shit! This is letting the other side dictate the debate!
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
June 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Bitch you're the only person talking about this shit! This is letting the other side dictate the debate!
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
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Somehow this belief persists even as public opinion on issues like trans rights, gay rights, Russia, whether the president should be a king, whether immigrants should be put in camps, etc., just whipsaws around madly in response to media messages and political narratives
a large number democrats keep making the mistake of thinking that there is an objective, static, and identifiable middle ground on any given issue and the best response to decades-long right-wing propaganda is to divine the position on that issue that polls best on that particular date
Rahm Emanuel neatly demonstrates the basic error that Democrats make when they try to step back from social issues: IT’S THE REPUBLICANS, NOT THEM, who are “talking about bathrooms and locker rooms.”
You can’t fix this by changing the topic, only by defending your ideas and going on offense.
You can’t fix this by changing the topic, only by defending your ideas and going on offense.
June 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Somehow this belief persists even as public opinion on issues like trans rights, gay rights, Russia, whether the president should be a king, whether immigrants should be put in camps, etc., just whipsaws around madly in response to media messages and political narratives
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The regime is looking to provoke violence so they have an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, criminalize dissent, and federalize the National Guard.
The movement can win with mass participation if we maintain non-violent discipline and win defections from the security forces.
The movement can win with mass participation if we maintain non-violent discipline and win defections from the security forces.
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The regime is looking to provoke violence so they have an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, criminalize dissent, and federalize the National Guard.
The movement can win with mass participation if we maintain non-violent discipline and win defections from the security forces.
The movement can win with mass participation if we maintain non-violent discipline and win defections from the security forces.
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seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them
it's still wild to me that so many centrists want to triangulate on social issues when half the reason 2024 fundamentals were what they were was the economy
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
The Great Un-Awokening
Democrats eyeing a presidential bid in 2028 scramble to move to the center.
www.politico.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them
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"Well the thing you have to understand is that fascism is a very specific term referring to a vague and undefinable set of precepts, Trumpism is more of a sort of hybrid populist strongman movement that-" shut the fuck up you insufferable failson it's fascism
The "it's not fascism" intellectuals looks pretty silly right about now.
June 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Well the thing you have to understand is that fascism is a very specific term referring to a vague and undefinable set of precepts, Trumpism is more of a sort of hybrid populist strongman movement that-" shut the fuck up you insufferable failson it's fascism
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the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
June 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
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The story about how the military covered up the fact it spread disinformation about UFOs being real for decades is one of the wildest pieces of reporting I've ever read. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs
www.wsj.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The story about how the military covered up the fact it spread disinformation about UFOs being real for decades is one of the wildest pieces of reporting I've ever read. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Man imagine being such a combination of malicious and incompetent that the LAPD think it’s too much
Yep. LAPD released a statement on their Facebook page that they are not cooperating at all: www.facebook.com/share/p/16Dk...
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June 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Man imagine being such a combination of malicious and incompetent that the LAPD think it’s too much
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I'm very interested in what people's read of the National Guard is, in general but obviously especially in California specifically
My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.
June 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'm very interested in what people's read of the National Guard is, in general but obviously especially in California specifically
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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I used to think that 'medieval peasants had it better than US office workers' was the ultimate in online self-pity and historical ignorance but 'video games were cheaper in the 1990s and life as a gamer was better' might have it beaten just because some of these dumb fucks were actually alive then.
May 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I used to think that 'medieval peasants had it better than US office workers' was the ultimate in online self-pity and historical ignorance but 'video games were cheaper in the 1990s and life as a gamer was better' might have it beaten just because some of these dumb fucks were actually alive then.
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as I wrote recently, the Trump administration - and seemingly 'supply chain experts!' - have a view of Chinese manufacturing that's decades out of date and weirdly racialized. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/15/c...
China's manufacturing has decades of built-up expertise and specialization!
China's manufacturing has decades of built-up expertise and specialization!
May 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
as I wrote recently, the Trump administration - and seemingly 'supply chain experts!' - have a view of Chinese manufacturing that's decades out of date and weirdly racialized. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/15/c...
China's manufacturing has decades of built-up expertise and specialization!
China's manufacturing has decades of built-up expertise and specialization!
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Since I am officially a dad now I will be updating both my politics and posts accordingly.
in:
earnest climate posting
cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist
discussions of snack praxis
out:
doomerist takes
sectarian squabbling
commentary on anime with excessive fan service
in:
earnest climate posting
cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist
discussions of snack praxis
out:
doomerist takes
sectarian squabbling
commentary on anime with excessive fan service
May 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Since I am officially a dad now I will be updating both my politics and posts accordingly.
in:
earnest climate posting
cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist
discussions of snack praxis
out:
doomerist takes
sectarian squabbling
commentary on anime with excessive fan service
in:
earnest climate posting
cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist
discussions of snack praxis
out:
doomerist takes
sectarian squabbling
commentary on anime with excessive fan service