2026-08-29T02:43:34Z https://njump.me humanadverb https://njump.me/npub15n5kgg60ddq80adyx9zalxm4rqgp667vrm92arcvq5dl28d6e69s0nc5cu https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/accounts/avatars/109/886/896/881/585/031/original/472a89454a8507c6.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/accounts/avatars/109/886/896/881/585/031/original/472a89454a8507c6.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqszsce6mu2d4xvqpv5shhpdm4pwezxr37cwakx3y7u9z0ymcavcyxszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk5ytcd8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvks7q4cfz7advaj2tl5tvy8gehy9txm2kznjpfu06r4hhgz28kfsf853et'>nevent1q…53et</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You know what what bugs me about this?<br/><br/>The people you pay to answer emails are the next generation of election operatives. You take the huge warchest you&#39;ve got for the campaign and hire some 20-somethings to hang around and get a feel for how this stuff all works. Reading and responding to email, answering phones---it is good for the campaign, and helps sustain a functioning election machine.<br/><br/>It&#39;s how you maintain a political party, in other words.<br/><br/>This is malpractice. 2026-08-20T15:52:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs02q24jwtdca3de9ewepr730rlkvf7n3nkr9pjq7pkshpqzen3pmszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkpsmmle In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst32nuxhuxsefnav4mkfc6f06l4ylfc5fcl6m2chr4y6rmqzc5xqqskfx2z'>nevent1q…fx2z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder if Tony Gilroy is keeping his politics under wraps so they keep letting him play with the toys.<br/><br/>Especially given how Star Wars keeps getting derailed by fan reactions, I imagine they find media discipline extremely important in anyone they work with 2026-08-18T14:06:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswv5h4v7p0g9nh5mp599t39nh2peed86u2lczvkms50gyggfltjpszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkyve4ph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvsc4n6d6gp2h92jdderu08545zwz4mwvzc4cmgf30uf87z5ux3yc807w8t'>nevent1q…7w8t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think this is a really good track to go down. Like you said, not to turn them into allies, but just to undermine the enemy.<br/><br/>Like how they don&#39;t want to be made fun of, I didn&#39;t think they want to be pittied either.<br/><br/>&#34;Look at these sad sack lonely guys, who after everything don&#39;t even get their signing bonuses. You know they&#39;re not going to get any help when it turns out the shit they&#39;re spraying around causes cancer, either. They&#39;re not scary, really, just kinda sad and gross.&#34; 2026-02-13T16:54:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgg29gpdqfqp459telnk3jxakw0p3w48ce80rkqhxgcsd0szdxtfqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk9vxaw7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst2j5xvm4u0usndc76cg2j8j28qysy4j4zfj2x06m0g3rqrt07ufslkpufr'>nevent1q…pufr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And it&#39;s got Flex Mentallo. 2026-02-12T03:48:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ahzr7sttu0e0f8qs7tc4qnvnvwe43sfypat8n36alxxn5f8er3gzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkzcr44r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffspcsg794x4ytl6qskkl3nw0y5n72cw6skajcd589tmncd3pg6q0qqrev'>nevent1q…qrev</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One caveat: it is going as planned.<br/><br/>The plan was to push and push and push until met by meaningful resistance. Then they back up a bit, establish all the previous pushing as a new normal, and get ready to launch the next wave.<br/><br/>It&#39;s the Cycle of Abuse. The solution is to recognize the honeymoon that&#39;s about to start for what it is and end the cycle. 2026-01-30T18:44:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszdgzrf3d600arulsqnz5k20trc5337tvyzck5fqk0fjcpj3psazqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkfkhhft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd4w9sx3q5964r9zk22jt8qhja9vrchdfdq8ura96892lxfqhekyqda9sln'>nevent1q…9sln</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think a lot about how we were taught in school that Rosa Parks was &#34;just tired, on her way home from work,&#34; rather than part of an organized and sustained movement.<br/><br/>Kinda feel like calling Minneapolis&#39;s resistance &#34;protestors&#34; is a similar type of thing.<br/><br/>Anyway, like the civil rights movement, the FBI is on its way to break down all that movement infrastructure you&#39;re talking about. 2026-01-28T22:39:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs972z6pezl5s4tj2q230g9fcqdqu46l5mjxyd5970htp5n45fp4yqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gklm9wf2 Learning a bit about what happens to an IEP when a kid doesn&#39;t come to school anymore because ICE had been prowling his neighborhood daily for a month.<br/><br/>In California. 2026-01-26T18:05:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs05cue3elmz08k22hqju3cjwzf0u05v38s4r7rgfgn38974s0djzszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkhnyxkh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrk060klpqkdsevlkgxh5fnfk7f6trmn80rm3s373xqx2q7umn62qu09l3f'>nevent1q…9l3f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was hoping to see a positive update about this soon, but it is probably more realistic to expect any change to be in slow motion.<br/><br/>I have all of these Trump types in my life, through my partner, and I can see good values and empathy in them, distorted by a lot of false facts and bad ideology. It feels like I&#39;m seeing them get truly shaken by this past year, though.<br/><br/>I remain hopeful. 2026-01-22T15:36:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy53rjcarydn8keczj2mwwspwndadvgjtrpr6hpgjf6dn6w5cqx0gzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gksrwy49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0qecad65fwsjp73s678gl2drdfthea3u70cy6nkterj4lmnem5acdky0m6'>nevent1q…y0m6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A former friend of mine with DID had an alter named &#34;Red.&#34; Guess what they were all about?<br/><br/>Powerful color. And powerful emotions that even us singletons are usually trained to partition. 2026-01-14T20:32:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2hu7rsz3hhpkzn533plp5wxkh5t3n8wnumvlsqsjzer7vkqa3cfszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk3wrw6x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz74dr3yh99xz67sxptzxsrm5hqzp3fas7c7l6j45nc5nw8635ecgmud3sc'>nevent1q…d3sc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You did free labor to help what I said reach more people?<br/><br/>How very dare you. 2026-01-14T16:59:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxask40kk6qdgn65gte4fxsxuzydyuhs0nzetqnzv4fprg5c8zqpszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkptrdwd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszdt6lr3l5cjceu6nttge6m509kpxlq43zakqw3mjjuur3e76uyaq30cv2h'>nevent1q…cv2h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;What, you want to ban duct tape and zip ties now, because of what someone might do with them?&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;If you could make it so duct tape and zip ties can&#39;t be used for that, why wouldn&#39;t you?&#34; 2026-01-06T18:04:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfh6dw9pawcqjsj45es0kvefud0z29uzfj2c5n5r920qr07y4wzdczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkqqf2ez In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8eqh2d3r7823rg707nt80k78a5xkhkuuywycthqg53cccm62dyksk3jez5'>nevent1q…jez5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In the early 00s, I caught this quote in the Christian Science Monitor bemoaning that &#34;we have raised a generation of Christians who know nothing about their religion except how they feel about it.&#34;<br/><br/>Maybe one of a half-dozen things that best helped me understand this horrific epoch of American politics. 2026-01-05T19:14:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0cq0fvdkczsld2u3pamsdkzhdyr53nwmw5e07kcrnrh5ha5r28wqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk677qre One problem with military intervention: unpredictable shit happens when you start blowing stuff up, and before you know it, you have shown yourself to be far weaker than everyone thought. I&#39;m thinking a lot about the F-117 America lost in the Balkans, and Argentina&#39;s blunder in the Falklands, and the USS Cole.<br/><br/>I&#39;m in the United States so I think it&#39;s actually illegal for me to suggest we aren&#39;t omnipotent and invincible, but...<br/><br/>...I keep wondering what is about to go wrong. 2026-01-04T01:53:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs82mg8mmal9gpd3fa76vvqqad2ne2447sc3q29qmcc3nk4t9gyghqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkwk27tm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxc27dq897wy8f0njlpxeum6ymnqwt9x8txlcnzfhn4vvpps90jlqu4sjsp'>nevent1q…sjsp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think so. I definitely don&#39;t regret what I spent on mine. 2025-12-26T16:36:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8jzhdz5r4a89kc8xs9dx0ccw30qfrzlzmz8z7kkrugddnk9xfv5szyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gknjl6d4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2qz394pt6666ax5v54khrk5f6e9ma9wq8wwxet7ynr24y7dvklngng2cl4'>nevent1q…2cl4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I really lean into performative spoiler guarding in just one situation: to get people to shut up about Harry Potter.<br/><br/>I wonder if a lot of people are going that, to some degree, for other hated franchises or just movies generally. 2025-12-25T14:10:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz0cpaaffc468cjdkzqx693fcdq04e3j3pnnn35xqdd48nd7xdsaczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkhxsxvj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq32v57twedanex50wj9pjgnct4kpsqgcfqpl0mqzdw2scsshsnxqhqzvvf'>nevent1q…zvvf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know it&#39;s more complicated and stuff, but it&#39;s not hard to imagine, every time a protestant youth minister gets busted for the usual, a Jesuit somewhere sneers, &#34;amateurs.&#34; 2025-12-18T15:56:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstg7vuuc4kt8uce54fsk5mqaxn7pasm7yxr8cvdfgzr979ljhxj2szyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk05w58w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdf747uytxpzz8jcle8h7laqehmlncpr3n3n7eexfzg4yv0mh7r0s05d6e5'>nevent1q…d6e5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you&#39;re uncool.&#34;<br/><br/>I had a feeling if I rewatched that scene from Almost Famous, there would be some really problematic shit in there. And yep! It&#39;s like 50% incel screed.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/WzY2pWrXB_0?si=h-n9_9BTnyF2_KNi">https://youtu.be/WzY2pWrXB_0?si=h-n9_9BTnyF2_KNi</a> 2025-12-17T21:05:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg9p5dy43v2dxkjhy66sjhnu0dvua6hlam2lmfs6dn3h4wt8yua3qzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkd24ku9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq00wt04vxkexlev92ayqp6n49g7q3fsgj8p33q6aaqfm6ndrusmg08yuez'>nevent1q…yuez</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Tarantino hasn&#39;t been kind to the people who have done some of his other screenplays (Natural Born Killers, True Romance). And Fincher is resentful of interference. <br/><br/>I&#39;m still hopeful it all falls apart. 2025-12-15T19:07:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd42gdvzxyph8693x2vzm036p8qdecltz42jtnwqdkp5px0ju3c2gzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk5f4kcf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2jcz60uwjgwqp9fqzwt55j9mdvnarvats5vauh0e73fyame92hcvumfwn'>nevent1q…mfwn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>David Fincher is doing a sequel to Hollywood that Tarantino wrote, apparently. I&#39;m sick about it.<br/><br/>Just, actual talent being forced to swim in the wake of that pig. 2025-12-15T19:03:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqqrpsnx08s2r28gxjx266ztgjy4phykep2c9h8dzx0lrzk2232pszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkctf6h8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmeexrwmd0kdh0m5tuu678ddhczrjmzg2qczg03cczf2m3l04mlqlrsxh6'>nevent1q…sxh6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This was me the other night trying to explain Marx&#39;s end of history by way of Star Trek TNG.<br/><br/>Which itself was prompted at me being mad at someone saying &#34;replicators in Star Trek give you anything you want so no one has to work.&#34; No, replicators make work far more productive, but people still make a choice to work and fix the replicator when it breaks.<br/><br/>For the same reason people grow their own tomatoes. 2025-12-11T19:03:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwx8k5gkl54aw0kqnw69splc7nwsyxm4y4cz8sykp8a72qv8g7dczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk3xlp7u No one:<br/><br/>No one at all: <br/><br/>Me: I wonder if I pick the right moment to tell the evangelical at work that getting help from a fertility doctor is &#34;gender affirming care&#34; it might have a positive impact. 2025-12-11T02:16:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst4vwc3wnalrmh98p0xgl7hfaw30wf762hcghyd77qmqmphl7j65qzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk8cs8hm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94xcfqvas9a2746ud6hfcxavs9rkahh22lsmztmlp2n5png8l4gc94u9td'>nevent1q…u9td</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It reminds me a *lot* of the final season of Game of Thrones, where everyone involved seemed over it and were just hurrying to finish it off and cash their checks.<br/><br/>Prediction: we never find out what the Big Bad in the upside down is, which is actually a pretty daring good choice but also convenient for show runners who are bored. 2025-12-10T18:58:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2uh0rvlzqvers0ncrmpxjtycx7jwqn88wk7x4p5qlmma2smv9zfqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkj8yek7 So, like, Maya Hawke has a monologue about accepting being gay and ... does this scene strike anyone else as being slightly off somehow?<br/><br/>I can&#39;t out my finger on why, but I keep thinking &#34;cis het actor performing gay scene written by cis het writers?&#34; Maybe I&#39;m wrong.<br/><br/>Re: Maya Hawke, no idea about her gender or sexuality. She doesn&#39;t ping my radar much, though. 2025-12-10T17:09:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0g0ntzp06jvj3cnsl5t5psxj32mq9pq4mv3xxyqhyqakwkt2qpwqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkrmyvjx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvxedjq382dqx6zgzr9wqd0ftnxa3hrehhwxqj4wqp35fwfk0k8sttdecs'>nevent1q…decs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>By circling back, she&#39;d seem to be realizing that the way she&#39;s handled things so far might be hurting her career.<br/><br/>Whether it&#39;s people not wanting to work with a Nazi or just that she keeps failing to bring any energy to any project she does, I give her a few years before she plays Kevin Sorbo&#39;s daughter in a movie about the true meaning of Christmas (firearms). 2025-12-08T22:57:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9jhgr2vs8tuv5vj5n2fn9ta5uangek4w2gmwxxcu6km6yvnmvkeqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk786tr5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvtytrkye275p4mdcrmjtfj7eutqm04umm7lczxy3vmxsxk87qeyqfvd7tg'>nevent1q…d7tg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So weird watching such a lauded director slowly shrink and turn into a corn cob. 2025-12-04T16:41:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvx09ht6ys80p9u8eahwavfvzkve6w8nll6fp69u5rfu6ycnyh29szyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkmrcsew In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxa9h77azxzm2rdksfpr6fyuuauwj6fveg7cwk2zpd53n5sdyp2tq96xe8s'>nevent1q…xe8s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am a little fixated on WB&#39;s efforts to launch a Stephen King Cinematic Universe. This Welcome to Derry show is pivoting off IT and looping in a bunch of other books&#39; characters and locations and just...<br/><br/>I know Dark Tower is Stephen King&#39;s pet project so this doesn&#39;t come out of the blue, but IT is a sewer clown who eats children. Revealing IT to be a cosmic force of primordial evil is gonna feel weak and weird.<br/><br/>I think Stranger Things kinda tried to grow too much in a similar way. 2025-12-03T16:13:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg6tl7rq77k0gg4mazt5qgkjzjuf8dyjzrcvt9x5emwjmg2fhntnszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk9v7vdu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxj3d5wrwxkcn406pd7evc66749r5u09z8nzhv7l8rdgdz92qh3ec3n0pgh'>nevent1q…0pgh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Finn Wolfhard(?) being 30 or whatever and playing a teen just kinda fits the 80s throwback vibe. But that with Holly... Very weird. 2025-12-03T13:50:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ucfe8nwuvgtxt7prlz3ql9j3mc0p3gdvxpcqt0zymmvm23vwpyqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gksahwqu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhmg3pjfz0lc62lnrd3ety3hqftv4y70yaeg6uvtgv3953gmjhuq6veyyt'>nevent1q…eyyt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m trying hard not to think anything too horrible about her, cuz hating on femme celebrities is usually pretty misogynistic. But ... Yeah, pretty much. <br/><br/>Though I imagine she&#39;d seem equally annoyed if she were being asked how she balances life and family. 2025-12-02T21:54:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2v6r9cvsy0d6j4mmgxwcc5u24l8mvc74xxsm3c4sh02st95g0m8qzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkphlg2c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdnee9tk94q6v7h26wkty4tz4u9v3ztc4rdlvd0s73jxdvlq6qg8c9umd4t'>nevent1q…md4t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The conclusion of it was the most cathartic moment I may have had in a new movie this year. I think I felt the same things you were, and it just tipped a different way for me.<br/><br/>I wonder if I&#39;m onto Cregger&#39;s intention with how he set that all up. Now I&#39;m wondering, though, about my personal experiences serving soup to adults who are jamming forks into their faces... how much was that essential to my strong reaction, you know? 2025-11-30T14:53:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsggzm6p9kdacreu5kunye7lnhy2ggq9scgss8jsx3lzfqhlnptf8qzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkjzzy5f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2pc7myvsplaat6vkel57tdkpcghtyayw3pvurme0qurhwvcn7es5ljrqq'>nevent1q…jrqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Really solid point, but okay, this is off the top of my head, so sorry that it&#39;s half baked ...<br/><br/>The shifting perspectives through these shitty adults do some sleight of hand around who the protagonist is, but it starts and ends with the kids. That&#39;s why they get the hero moment at the end. <br/><br/>...the journey through those other perspectives, though, is showing not telling the kids&#39; predicament---these adults are shitty and these kids are alone.<br/><br/>Like. It&#39;s all levels, man. 2025-11-30T14:42:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqcxwznkqy2adnhpqz0srdny940e47znuc0jdqf5cnd608j4vgagszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkgmqwjl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw0d3cxvy3apav6j0s2xvant9yt6pkhslkzyl99rx6x6az9yy2vzquujwxn'>nevent1q…jwxn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe this is all going to end up as Warhammer 40k, with the zombie god emperor locked in his golden throne.<br/><br/>But *so many* rich and powerful people are going to go down if this is released. What are they doing right now?<br/><br/>Is this why Peter Thiel just liquidated all that stock? To go seastead beyond the reach of any government, sitting on a mansion barge on top of a mountain of gold? (No, he liquidated because AI is bullshit, but still, is that what these people are doing right now?) 2025-11-20T18:27:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszk3gwjphc6yp5wxgtl80gkpf606ln73t78qz0cs9kdmx8e00f0agzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkgldqpr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9h6l7n4g2skfgvumc3uy4hd8jz8ghcrjluzhmwlsvxlpasllwdzsna683a'>nevent1q…683a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>...and Trump will be dead within six months, from whatever it is they keep imaging with an MRI, leaving behind a bunch of flunkies who may or may not end up in jail. 2025-11-20T18:12:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9h6l7n4g2skfgvumc3uy4hd8jz8ghcrjluzhmwlsvxlpasllwdzszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkg6ng93 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyghr5dd96vjgvs99un9wccs8thxrttnuyjl7aa37sgvuuu4k39xqmxs02t'>nevent1q…s02t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I keep thinking about the &#34;signing statement&#34; idea that Bush 43 introduced. Where he signs a bill but says &#34;obviously I&#39;m not going to do the stuff that intrudes on my Article II rights as president.&#34;<br/><br/>But it does seem a little bit like competence is fleeing Trump, and there might not be anyone left who can muster a coherent strategy. <br/><br/>So Pam Bondi will stall and do limited releases and talk about &#34;a process,&#34; and it will all blow up in their faces like the Comey &#34;indictment.&#34; 2025-11-20T18:11:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0sa7p2xmty54qt32v5fwl3mzxsym43nrde02zfrkp5900vz0rrmszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkdh683q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8gjy0q3jn3mq35y2608czts7dxp46rcgxyxh6r5qruf97tnc64scegtkf9'>nevent1q…tkf9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Relevant to my interests.<br/><br/>I&#39;m trying to be discreet about it, but I&#39;m really struggling with my disposition towards my union. I&#39;ve got a kinda big job in the state level organization, and I just attended a conference where they seem to have announced a top-down decision to stop fighting the &#34;culture war.&#34;<br/><br/>Okay, so we&#39;re setting aside some issues so we can have broad unity across a huge organization with a very large minority of Republicans.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know if I can do that, though. 2025-11-17T19:42:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxmmuh3tagxgdyre43gql0e0e6m3fjqchx6gah4hrm5zhav3w2cdgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkryxfr6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvzr0pzg7x7str2fvc6flp369xpn84fmwcapuznxy6t0ktj00kh7gtsgtv8'>nevent1q…gtv8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To be clear, I&#39;d cheer if the guy had thrown a brick and the jury nullified it.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve just seen NPR-liberal concern trolling about how &#34;jury nullification was powerful tool of white supremacists in the kkk era, and I don&#39;t think we would celebrate this erosion of the rule of law just because we like the outcome.&#34;<br/><br/>That&#39;s some self-defeating bullshit that needs to be refuted on its own terms, BUT ALSO that isn&#39;t what happened here. 2025-11-07T12:17:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvzr0pzg7x7str2fvc6flp369xpn84fmwcapuznxy6t0ktj00kh7gzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk3d7xd9 The sandwich guy verdict is *not* jury nullification. <br/><br/>The jury had to decide if throwing a sandwich rose to the level of assault, and it just didn&#39;t.<br/><br/>If the sandwich guy had thrown a brick and was found not guilty? That&#39;s jury nullification.<br/><br/>This was cops pretending to be the real victims here, which is their usual lie to justify murdering poc, and a jury not playing along. 2025-11-07T12:12:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsygpdylw0sgedam7vmfcqt4ctle3fufshmrafnt5y7tacj34q5daczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk0xa5zw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy04fqq5xv2euyl0ddw9egw9v70jk6cqt3x4ggaankddxkdglqs6gshr794'>nevent1q…r794</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe it&#39;s that I don&#39;t drink anymore so I never do the &#34;have a beer with&#34; thought experiment but holy shit omg no, this dude is scary. <br/><br/>Yeah, nevermind. Ratfuck or not, good riddance.<br/><br/>I think of &#34;would you leave a child alone with this person&#34; as a good test, too, and he doesn&#39;t pass that one either. I hope he&#39;s got a great oyster future ahead of him, but not with my children or my Senate. 2025-10-31T19:28:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstud9dcd4jt3kwvylcsxfpdx8488xh8c4yrh35q5jpgwa0u8trrgszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkfhp3df In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv4y98r9y8udp9munvfvpmd5feg2y0j6ew0v2unz2vcak8eua8chgp9jatw'>nevent1q…jatw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not trying to defend the guy, exactly. And white guys don&#39;t need anyone making excuses for them.<br/><br/>I just have this growing feeling that he&#39;s being taken down to clear the way for Schumer&#39;s candidate.<br/><br/>When &#34;fuck this guy for his Nazi backstory&#34; is showing up in Politico of all places, I&#39;m just ... huh? 2025-10-31T19:09:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv4y98r9y8udp9munvfvpmd5feg2y0j6ew0v2unz2vcak8eua8chgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkleu6g0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9p8qrh24n8awyces0v7m6q5eftu9c7ljdmvara25axyv32r5yatc7g56pp'>nevent1q…56pp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I do get that, but, is there anything other than the tattoo?<br/><br/>The reddit thread stuff all seems very left wing. I was under the impression there was like a trove of stuff where he was using the R or N word or something.<br/><br/>The tattoo is just a little less damning, in my mind, on its own. It fits with a Marine who was young and dumb but sincerely evolved. <br/><br/>But, getting the tattoo removed last week doesn&#39;t do much to defray it. 2025-10-31T19:02:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswz6m0egw2j4ct88xfqv75jrx4ge6mm8c83vj7yflqs0l5ryca2jszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkxf3hpa Can anyone point me to what Graham Platner said that was objectionable? When I actually started digging into quotes, I didn&#39;t see a crypto-fascist. Also, he *did* cover the tattoo, so...<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know. I don&#39;t want to get another John Fetterman elected. I&#39;m just not understanding the case against him, though.<br/><br/>Can anyone help me? Honest question. 2025-10-31T18:40:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspvcnmrd7cpta24vu8ev4t0lanx2cnpjr57tdhmgvqtazg8akm68szyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk3zxjqr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyrscq2uz8mhwewnyq6x5a2yzdn8n5v6zz7483zc5qvxjffgwmxrqn0ewqp'>nevent1q…ewqp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whoa. I&#39;d never heard that before, but it seems so obvious. <br/><br/>Like, what I got in school was Hobbes and Locke and &#34;actually the Founding Fathers were particularly inspired by this limited sovereignty the Basques held...&#34; And like, dudes.<br/><br/>You&#39;ve got several nations with their own highly developed political systems right next door that don&#39;t require a magic mace to open parliament and all the other dumb shit. 2025-10-30T18:19:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswq3n0lt9h0rs4su0w05pns6jxs994m8gxp8w0khlwx8re5p8kkdczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkpjhzfh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw72xsdhwr80azrwyqhlzm9yahp8tqygtlvx63xltkgqtfkyrsp9gh9hupj'>nevent1q…hupj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think &#34;Empire or nothing&#34; was basically Thomas Hobbes&#39;s argument. <br/><br/>They&#39;ve been laying these kinds of arguments (in the West) at us ever since the Renaissance and Enlightenment got people wondering &#34;wtf is this monarchy bullshit?&#34; 2025-10-30T17:57:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp4egdv6jvvf7tm6202taen4ltcl80gux5g7rj47yde63xhcd8v0szyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkgeuad2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyds6tgf6e6etsa0amje5sewxtmcdesf75dmahws0xrwqpf40jvusjvvnan'>nevent1q…vnan</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been keeping this quote handy for like a decade, mostly because of being a masculine-passing person active in feminist spaces:<br/><br/>Australian Aboriginal activist Lilla Watson summed up one of her people’s proverbs as such: &#34;If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.&#34; 2025-10-30T17:14:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyyuw0fsh9ufhpwjt4vjhlkykns0hwzqqf0gdvy490ktwzxc5pt0gzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkl0x94a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstcv7tukf96uqkxjy7hhgh4dm59tlcyg5cl42zzp0h39g8mvdqw6ctm5z9c'>nevent1q…5z9c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fair, and I&#39;ll go further...<br/><br/>When I feel panic at something changing for me, I need to recenter myself in the context of &#34;this is not new, it just finally came to my door.&#34;<br/><br/>I dunno, maybe there&#39;s a famous poem about that which people quote all the time.<br/><br/>And also too also: If you&#39;re asking to go back instead of go forward, then fuck off you&#39;re just wrong and a moral imbecile. 2025-10-30T16:16:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvsz6fenjknz5tdrcv063txpgdx640w4t4xrjrvy4dc2yknkthsmszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkslm9x6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs07qrgvkkac83uufzq97mejrgplvvemjapfshgny52kxsudpcavfs6tq8n0'>nevent1q…q8n0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m glad I watched that conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates about Charlie Kirk.<br/><br/>It was a lot along those same lines, with Ezra saying &#34;but things are so bad and we need to reach out to racists to fix it!&#34; and Ta-Nehisi saying &#34;this bad stuff is not new to us and we&#39;ve never had more woke white people to build alliances with; also wtf dude.&#34;<br/><br/>Except now I keep getting push notifications for Ezra&#39;s show, which is such bullshit. 2025-10-29T18:17:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgaks0epap64yagp58zv6pzs9td2hq47x57f46verzzkn74pk0azgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk4a5sd0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hrr0s3r6nve8g7uwzgcrzjqk6va72hgsm9tzuygg8xwwmpyc7tcew02tv'>nevent1q…02tv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Something that plays off the construction of the term &#34;suburban&#34;.<br/><br/>Submalevolence? I don&#39;t want to rely on two Latin prefixes, though. And &#34;sub&#34; is kinda ambiguous. 2025-10-16T21:58:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2z958xjut0m6j6h2px88luz3zmeknj7mgw83ysfgxcee0w2tgwvgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gknhssfy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9u7q5qguyww0332uzspavfy6en7na3lafyaa7zawjamr2whx5lgcpjz2z9'>nevent1q…z2z9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This train of thought is bracing for me for two reasons: <br/><br/>(1) No, I&#39;m not being paranoid, because this and worse has happened before. It can happen again.<br/><br/>(2) By the same examples, survival and resistance is possible. 2025-10-08T20:53:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9svdnu979ppc0v0pjvd5vjj9xj6c00dadp22y79qtx5x85nuvmcczyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkan57ac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstjl847e8jv0806j46kh28axwyj5rfjcy50l7c4lwyhc36gv5c93ga4m637'>nevent1q…m637</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No coincidence that there was that Irish character in the middle of Sinners. 2025-10-08T20:47:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszwpr83y5y4279q5k0w3w9rfsu3xkg3p48auak6m04449z3fnzjdgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkq5wu03 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst44cgf4mxhwst0nmsf9sn7u0m0credyvxfklfus45hyjse9jx7eskssnrd'>nevent1q…snrd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel like every time I actually engage a Republican, the conversation kinda dissolves when I push back on whatever persecution fantasy they picked up who knows where. <br/><br/>My favorite version of this is, &#34;You know, construction workers are actually more likely to be injured or die at work than a cop?&#34;<br/><br/>They immediately understand how that&#39;s true. &#34;Well, we need to do better for construction workers, too.&#34; And a short walk later you&#39;ve got someone on board for socialized healthcare. 2025-10-08T16:21:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8p77a3m3c5mds0h7399xxqda3zysfd0tfqmtf5dfn2x3tfcfz6lgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gku9pfx3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs03wxautxtsv3mfd6cqyq6fcv0flp24updhn4e2a4due09sn8xn4ql4cgcx'>nevent1q…cgcx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Really a fun watch, too. Kinda a low key masterpiece. 2025-10-08T15:11:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszehhjcvhhcte66tlene28j0gvtpz8kajaef6kltmk3mhxv9fa2jszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gku0lhlq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvpwdql5yqwrrr05e0vjrtyyg3fnqn97wsksynvd63mg3kq9m94tq9ga4zh'>nevent1q…a4zh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was just wading in to the comments to figure out a way to tactfully say &#34;Common Side Effects?&#34; 2025-10-08T15:06:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxzudygpw92809vcawfu708lltndfe59jq3ae065slxghezxyq8nszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkudy5jl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsftvx8ksmxdq7g5qhmgh8ppc90rt5sguxrjsmr69eehvyd8yvl64qzzyvv7'>nevent1q…yvv7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pan&#39;s Labyrinth is incredible, but it&#39;s a hard watch with all the fascist stuff. And especially with all the developmentally inappropriate shit that little girl has to deal with.<br/><br/>Great film. Big emotional commitment. 2025-10-02T14:59:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsptfaqjwgrj3xtvhqgyx05pqxh3va35p0hte2dd98tnw55rfycgrqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk6wc75l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstn0n283ppxgrfxnc8hgwsw3a2a9qauxq6kndtrnw8awq2hrahy4ces4swu'>nevent1q…4swu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I used that Orwellian nightmare phrase, &#34;the paycheck to paycheck phenomenon&#34; thinking about a particular co-worker of mine. She owned a house in Marin (with mortgage), was sending her daughter to Berkeley including campus housing without student loans, and yet I&#39;ve never met a person with a more frantic energy of economic insecurity.<br/><br/>And yeah, she was embarrassed that she was paycheck to paycheck and constantly felt like she was doing something wrong.<br/><br/>Our society is so sick. 2025-10-01T20:46:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrr40kztag9qtk8tmxdq286cvuqw2mygj3zzdx2eepcyl0r605cgqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk2e078v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfn47xhc6g0nh98xsrq07vccln30pekevfy8kshvh5ay0hxvqe4gvk76n6'>nevent1q…76n6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not something I advertise, but my family have owned their house in California since before WWII, which means we have access to a level of security that most people just don&#39;t.<br/><br/>I was a free lunch kid. I didn&#39;t get to participate in pogs or any of those fads. All of my toys were from the flea market. My socks were paper thin and full of holes.<br/><br/>But I didn&#39;t have to WORRY the way the kids I ate lunch with did. It was a profound difference. And very hard to explain. 2025-10-01T20:39:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszq8fqzj6kflyfd0ezvl80l0cmh6vemq3sq46dd0z9p5py5nhd9kgzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkgmq9tn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhmq6dxxvxhuaexa53dnf8rvj5l5suf0h4g643xntr37xcz6nyxq4k922u'>nevent1q…922u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s especially hard because, it seems to me, the &#34;living paycheck to paycheck&#34; phenomenon is pretty much everyone all the way up into low six-figure household incomes. Whatever your standard of living, they&#39;ve dialed it into so you have nothing.<br/><br/>It&#39;s stratification of the working class more than stratification of the middle class.<br/><br/>...which doesn&#39;t really help with your &#34;how do I describe this&#34; problem, but I think it&#39;s okay of why the conventional terms fail us. 2025-10-01T20:27:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgtk879s4xvcamf03khdud6su90ag5l8dvrdyqgn0e94fe9e9n4sqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkxh004k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyn933u9rvauw2xr520r5u7wvts5jwq4uhpk33z96uys37mydyswsgk9ag0'>nevent1q…9ag0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You are 100% correct. <br/><br/>I appreciate it when someone just kinda owns being a bit of a sellout. 2025-09-29T15:24:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvvenvg3xyzzcavju0m77zg00ncdpu7kvau5kpsyqcw8nj3yspssszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkr0gvpd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02ktehh40jcusht4ylxktxpl78dfs69ujvg5xz6m58je07k0yh2gdrwrgh'>nevent1q…wrgh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Eh, or just asshole enough to do a shitty thing in exchange for a huge payday. Which is kinda the level of stranger danger I&#39;ve always gotten from him: basically decent, but inclined to look the other way if the bad thing doesn&#39;t impact him directly. <br/><br/>I thought he was kinda perfectly cast in The Mandalorian, as a shitty dude who was pushed a little past his limits by the extreme shittiness of the Empire.<br/><br/>But only after he did a set at EvilCon on Mustafar. 2025-09-29T14:55:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswgyswk0eypk5h6cl305ra3rc0jt0jgzu6qtvhr47vh8csgkxsgkqzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk557cfl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf7w6clwj24kwzah0fdw7ypv24300lt5kj7728fskwmluuqaz7png8gpfdz'>nevent1q…pfdz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like Bill Burr, but he triggers my &#34;this is an angry, cis white dude&#34; danger sense. So, not a huge surprise, even if a little disappointing. 2025-09-29T14:45:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0gamljh7gga8sqg0903u384y2ccvky0s3hhh5fzqqlppvrrun7ygzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkfgulp8 Bongino and probably Patel too are going to use this as an excuse to quit a job they didn&#39;t know would be 12 hour days minimum.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a teenager making a bold point of principle because they don&#39;t want to eat their broccoli, only broccoli is implicated in a sprawling child sex ring involving murders and the president. 2025-07-12T12:18:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9vdmvlz4vzzm922e0pezjdkl6c5kdlp22yk0c90nj7y0mlv6smgszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkv3dv0c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvgf9zm2eqequ4v3fd22g5yf2k6parysg694r45vh08jqeltkzrhg326h2t'>nevent1q…6h2t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not where you are, but I got to experience this during the Santa Rosa fires in the North Bay a few years ago. <br/><br/>You simply can&#39;t understand what this is like until you&#39;ve experienced it yourself. 2025-01-08T17:13:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvfac7727zf9jemwqp30n0vczduf5eqmr6u9s7dsqfmzk756pkxvszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkakwkym In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcjqu4ng2zu66nz8y4p09cuvrscd6xygp0tys37cue3ltwrx7l9cag7aq3'>nevent1q…7aq3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is that the cover? Amazing promo art. 2024-12-17T01:47:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspux6jetqfdy7qleky3ppdmu9a0y02nh8deu6qk0ghk70vegsf95qzyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gk0uzk4w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgy3yx02t4fhcy0k6xk8gq4k2gjscxgd776eaaj473dgnxu8t9yfgpejv8q'>nevent1q…jv8q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was just pointing out that &#34;stealing&#34; a word (literally taking ownership even though your figurative use is obvious), instead of just noting that it isn&#39;t yours, in a racialized context might come off more oafish than whimsical, but you do you.<br/><br/>Anyway, it&#39;s not like you would compound the faux pas by accusing anyone of being oversensitive or anything. 2024-09-18T21:20:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ke2jcx9sqhdyhumq024lv645plsfg9uv8fzrst94jkjzg2uuaqszyzjwjeprfa45qal45sc5thumw5vpq8ttes0v4t50psz3hagaht8gkk0xkra In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqew7fg79ahd4jw7rd8sewtakptclu9wu95cx7dhaqyy8na02m4q3gxw2t'>nevent1q…xw2t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, it&#39;s a pretty well-used word in more intersectional circles, and saying &#34;steal&#34; hits the wrong note.<br/><br/>Not scolding you, just offering a polite fyi. 2024-09-18T21:07:02Z