Not everyone who signed up for TS is on the Trump train especially anymore, a lot are, but many aren’t. I know 3 in my family alone that are getting annoyed with the whole MAGA movement but have accounts from before his indictments and have unfollowed the crazy ones they used to follow but still use it as it’s the path of least resistance for their social media.

Gotta go where the people are. If they truely believe there are republicans that will vote for them because he is that alternative to the Trump they are tired of (an admittedly small amount), this is as good of a place to go to speak to them. The country right now is biased enough that the margins of swing are super small and if this can help attract those people it makes sense for a campaign like Biden who has maintained that there’s a subset of republicans that are non-MAGA and just want to get back to “normal”.

I see it on this local account

But not as the same username on literature.cafe

That’s where I first noticed it. Posts on literature.cafe never posted but did show in my Midwest.social profile.

We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some… headlight fluid for the Puma too.

Look, I know you don’t know me, but you have to believe what I’m about to tell you. Sometime in your future, I get stationed here in Blood Gulch and we meet. And this guy here, he gets promoted to Sergeant of the red army and we spy on them. And they get this new jeep and I’m all like, “There is no way you can pick up chicks in a tank!”

I know it’s not quite the same sort of content as we normally get here, but Red vs Blue is solid 2000’s nostalgia for me.

I hear this guy is super excited

I read this in Maurice Moss’ voice

Is 4 out of 55 Chinese ethnic groups a good percentage?

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I’m torn. While I highly support right to repair, I also support measures that make high-value theft targets like cellphones and catalytic converters worthless or extremely hard to convert to a payout.

How many consumers who are buying phones at the non-pro levels use their port for anything other than charging more than 5-times a year?

I’d bet those that do would be buying the Pro line of phones which are faster.

Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” He was mostly right, this is also true about personal identity.  From spending a bunch of time hanging around in anti-conservative libertarian spaces, I met a bunch of people in the early years of this movement (and in the spirit of full disclosure, I did occasionally use the spirit of communism as a repudiation of thoughtless defenses of capitalism). It’s absolutely about anticapitalism and a reactionary swing 100% in the opposite direction. And when anti-capitalism is the only motivator, you haven’t argued yourself into a position based on reason, and therefore, your chosen position is unassailable by reason.

That was my take too. Their overall point wasn’t bad but the start was a complete non sequitur that made me question if I wanted to finish because it’s a bad foundation for their actual argument. 

Apollo… (Too soon?)

Seems like a simple acronym to me:

Everyone Do Your Thing, Just Episode Downloads (for) Home & Great Movie Downloads. Happy Media.

“…[Y]ou lack a basic understanding of the law, … and ethic[s]…”

Not taking away from her stunning writing, but this shorter version wouldn’t be wrong either.

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USB or PS/2 version?