Someone on Reddit just posted an "AI"-written story snippet in the Old Man's War universe, and it was the blandest bit of meh I have seen in a while. I'm not worried about losing my job anytime soon.

these debate questions have been terrible in part because they've been consistently Right-coded but mostly because they have almost entirely failed to capture the actual stakes of this election

The key to understanding this is to remember Trump’s support is not the working class, but the local aristocracy, the car dealership owners et al. who see themselves as Johnny Big Boy Business like Trump’s jmage.

my favorite Kris Kristofferson story remains this one townhallmeeting.org/2021/01/18/h...

here is the crux of the piece

"I won't vote unless my very specific, personal requirements for your platform are met, period" is baby-brain engagement for lazy assholes. You don't bend the will of the machine when you withhold your vote, you give them permission to ignore everything you say from that point forward.

QSqueersatanic.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 6:29am

what’s an opinion that’s got you like this around other leftists

Count me also as unimpressed with the moral and philosophical incoherence of people who insist on asking “does calling Amy Wax a bigot chill speech” but steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the question “does a professor saying black and Asian people don’t belong here chill speech.”

Twitter’s speech position, I’ve learned, is actually a prison of its own creation. You will always be responding to people who do not want answers to questions or solutions to problems. It will always and forever be 2015. If you like that, good on, but that’s masochism. I want to live better.

let’s hope he can’t run again because he’s in jail www.axios.com/2024/09/22/t...

Trump says he doesn't see himself running in 2028 if he loses in November

"No, I don't. I think … that will be it," the GOP nominee said when asked if he'd launch a 2028 bid.