other than the mass deportation question, which I think people are parsing as "rule of law" rather than "predictable atrocity", these are actually pretty dovish answers. 49% of Trump supporters want to take more refugees!

VBvikrambath.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 12:13pm

56% of voters including 27% of Harris supporters want mass deportations. If you can’t figure out how Trump despite his criminal background and Vance is running neck-and-neck, it’s this

One of the responses this thread (on the Bad Place) got, a few times, ran roughly "if magic is common, magicians become engineers" or variations of that theme - the assumption that magic would be rapidly systematized by fictional pre-modern societies. And I don't think this is right. 1/

In a world where "turn it off and on again, and see if that helps" is normal tech support advice with uncertain outcomes in a supposedly deterministic system where we DO understand the physics...

And without accurate timekeeping, no longitude. It's a lot easier not to have any useful idea of where you, or anything else, is!

The level of success they're having with a nontrivial fraction of the population either speaks to their success overcoming that basic issue, or suggests that almost half the country are complicit in the bald-faced lie... 😢

I want more brightly colored houses and cars in the world. Too much black, white, gray, and beige.

40% is pretty bad for people who didn't have cell phones!

If the people who make up the Democrats end up being an overwhelming majority, they will—I promise you this—fight each other so hard that there will be two parties. Democrats are already nineteen parties in a trench coat.

And yet, it's still somehow managing to be better than Truth Social, amazingly

Rogaine?