gnutelephony

lowqualityfacts , 6 months ago to random

I can confirm that my cats don't watch it.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts The Bob Newhart Show was intended to be an action series.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts You I will miss

lowqualityfacts , 11 months ago to random

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.

Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.

Everyone: Okay.

Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts they charge you for the echos, too...

lowqualityfacts , 5 months ago to random

Well you can't be good at everything.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts he was also bad at tic-tac-toe.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

Daily Beast reports,

"Trump told supporters in Indianola on Sunday that even if they were 'sick as a dog,' it was worth braving the chill to vote. If they then passed away, 'it’s worth it,' the former president added."

Andy Levy responds:

“So ‘Vote and Die,’ ... that is the new slogan. If you want anything that sums up Trump perfectly, I mean, this is it. ‘Go out and do this thing for me, and then if you die, it’s fine.’”

#Trump #cult #messianism

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-slogan-sums-him-up-perfectly

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy the problem is "vote blue no matter who" is really no different. It is a gun held to your head telling you who to vote for, and so your not permitted to try changing who is in power, and this is true regardless of the circumstances it happened under. Voting in America is just as free as Putin's Russia at that point. Whether it ever resurrects or not, Democracy is already effectively dead in the US right now.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy Biden telling people this is "saving democracy" is gas lighting and purely insulting. Telling people why we are stuck here more honestly, and then how or what you will try to do to prevent this from ever happening again would be a far more decent thing to do. Decency is dead too, it seems.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy yes, actually, at some level, he is too. I don't like being a hostage. He could have stepped aside and said let's have a genuine primary, and then made rule changes to assure it too. That would have been saving democracy rather than exploiting the present moment.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy vote blue no matter who is being just as much a hostage with a gun to the head. Is it even worse in some ways that other people hold it for Biden since it makes everyone else accomplices, too? I am not sure, but I know this is not democracy, and as much not democracy as Russia or NK. To pretend otherwise is to lie to ourselves, too.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy I am tired of living this hellhole, and I am out of this fucking country. I am not going to live a lala fake democracy or a nazi utoptia.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy I don't, but will do so anyway. I can go back to Indian country, and we will continue to arm ourselves because we have no choice. I'd rather fight and die the deprivations there than live in this shithole.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy I had meant to go 2 years ago since I was not getting any help with anything I was trying to do, before becoming sick and blind. Destitution is not as harsh in Indian country because people help each other rather than watch you suffer and hope to see you die in front of their eyes. While the IHS hospitals have very few resources, they also don't throw sick people too inconveniently unprofitable to treat out on the street like garbage.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy at Pine Ridge (where avg male life expectancy is 47 years...yes, you heard that correct) the land is in "trust", and so no new house have been permitted to be built by the US govt since the 1970's. This is why sometimes we have up to 20 people living in a house. Often unrelated families. Because, hard as it is to do, really we will not let our people sleep on the streets.

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy other PoC in poor places I have seen who, maybe not to the same degree, seem to understand this, too. Living "white poverty", on the other hand, actually looks and feels much worse to me. I will leave you that to think about, because I think you do understand what is behind that better than many.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

Robert B. Hubbell offers (citing NBC News) a rundown of the Iowa electorate:

∙ White voters account for 97% of Iowa caucusgoers.
∙ Evangelical white Christians account for 51% of caucusgoers.
∙ 66% said they don't think President Joe Biden legitimately won in 2020.
∙ 58% of GOP caucusgoers say they'd favor a federal law banning all or most abortion.
∙ 63% of caucusgoers say they consider Trump fit for office even if he is convicted.

#Republicans #Trump #Iowa
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/reflections-on-iowa

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy they are not a true random sample, though, but a self selecting one, and represent perhaps 5% of total Iowa voters. But that is the most positive take-away I can offer...

lowqualityfacts , 5 months ago to random

Smart.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts "bad girls" was a tv series about one such girl scout troop often confused with "mean girls", which was a movie about mafia wives made on location in north Jersey.