Brian Klass is a political scientist who recently put out his own philosophy of chaos theory. I think it’s a pretty useful tool to look at contemporary movements and really refutes the “it couldn’t possibly happen here” message.

Pre-2011 there was a paper published on why middle eastern dictatorships were so stable. The next year almost all of them fell. Klass argues that the author wasn’t wrong, they just were working with the rules and tools we knew at the time, but didn’t know the rules had changed with the invention of social media.

In his perspective, the idea of a “fluke” is not a fluke at all, it’s a data point showing that things are changing and changing fast. Things just feel like flukes when our assumptions of the way things work become outdated.

When I say “not my president”, it’s not me refusing to acknowledge Trump’s authority/ being a sovereign citizen. It’s me saying he is acting in a deliberately antagonist way. He sees us as the enemy. He isn’t leading, in fact he’s doing the opposite.

Here’s what’s supposed to be normal: even if you don’t vote for someone in office, you are still their responsibility. JB Pritzker still has a responsibility to protect Republicans in Illinois. Greg Abbott still has the responsibility to protect democrats in Texas.

I mean I’ve been told this is the year to fudge on your taxes since the IRS is fucked so I mean maybe there’s some silver lining. Frankly Elon isn’t as bad as- hold on someone’s knocking on my door, I’ll be back in a bit.

Welcome to American politics, when the 2028 election begins in 2024 and the 2028 primary began in 2020.

I’m so tired.

My hope is that more “quiet Democrats” get primary’d. Usually they would say “don’t primary me, you’ll risk losing us to the Republican candidate in the general and we have a moderate agenda that’s the lesser evil”.

Right now they don’t have an agenda at all, no rudder, no direction. This is the time to primary tf out of the old Dems.

Also didn’t the Supreme Court just rule that you can’t charge the president for crimes made in their official capacity? He can just say it was in his official capacity to ignore the orders so tough titties.

I mean if you take the internet as a monolith, you’ll find contradictions every where. Some people will hate A because of B, some people will hate A because of C, but either way A is getting hate for both B and C.

So either there are millions of people online with different opinions but the crowd looks the same, or there is one very, very busy troll who is running all the accounts.

~help I’m so tired they won’t give me a break to pee~

Heaven is a peanut farm

One for you and me

With friends and music, banquets and balls

And a good man named Jimmy

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Heaven is a peanut farm

Surely it’s the best

There’s a porch with a sleeping dog

One where you can find rest

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They say there is a man out there

Who made sure every heart he would fill

When God said “it’s okay, you can stop your work now”

He said “no, I don’t think I will”

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When you come to this peanut farm

You will be filled with this delight

Friends and family, we gather 'round

To wish Mr. Carter goodnight

Trump succeeded on COVID. Solidifying his base to confirm his death cult was his success.

His success is our failure. Our priorities are not aligned.

Well at least you got your shit together.

Where in the immense caverns of your colon did you get that number?

Pretty sure leftists fall in the former camp. They’ll gladly throw Democrats under the bus, and to a leftist there is no difference between the DNC and GOP.

Granted, the take that it’s not a binary is much more reasonable than the assumptions you are making at the top.

As we all know, leftists never disagree with eachother.

On an unrelated note, have you seen any good deals on ice picks on Facebook marketplace?

I think the problem you have is you think these two thoughts are coming the same person. It’s like saying “Americans are so hypocritical- one moment you hear someone say gay people have rights and then the next you hear someone say that they shouldn’t- make up your mind!” As if it was one person talking.

The internet isn’t just you talking to one person who is busy creating threads with millions of accounts. There are at least a few dozen people here.

What do you mean “you people”? 🤔

Now he did it. IT’S DONE. WE GOT EM. Donald will finally feel the FULL FORCE of our justice system telling him that they are VERY CONCERNED.

Mark your calendars everyone, we have a new holiday.

And naturally when the king dies, the throne will go to his heirs.

Every rhetorically cautious bone in my body doesn’t want me to say it, but I think we elected the king.

^I’m saying rhetorically cautious because I feel if I said “careful moderation” people would think “politically moderate” where I mean being careful not to jump to conclusions and make wild claims (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)^

Personally if it were my magic wand, we would nominate the 🥾 (Buttigieg)

He would STOMP that orange.