Posts by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #AWK0Fu9elOWk1WU0Ei by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-06-03T00:19:23Z
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@isaacfreeman @hosford42 @Piousunyn @StillIRise1963 Media gives it the unearned veneer of respectability.
(DIR) Post #AWewo0Vte25B3rCuQ4 by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-06-13T20:17:19Z
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@vriska I was a teenage Randroid, to my eternal embarrassment, but that is completely on me. And, I hope, comparatively rare.
(DIR) Post #AWlfKZ3n7wEsIq02hE by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-06-17T02:04:24Z
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@lowqualityfacts And it STILL beats the office.
(DIR) Post #AXI0IWRkfLAWYWPf9s by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-02T16:30:06Z
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@stux He actually went there, did he? “It works for the Republicans… worth a shot”?!?!
(DIR) Post #AXTg1lgwfSab1O6zlw by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-08T03:54:09Z
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@BrentToderian This is an example of why I sometimes think European countries ARE saner than the USA....
(DIR) Post #AXTg1n6VPud5Ox4vFg by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-08T03:55:20Z
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@BrentToderian "Welfare state" is a dirty compound word here, but imagine a govt that actually prioritized the well-being of its citizens.
(DIR) Post #AXUlaLXWaNUmycyNNI by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-08T20:16:30Z
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@rato I get that, but I feel I can probably be more effective, such as it is, on my home turf.
(DIR) Post #AXcKOiASXNxeUOpkyO by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-11T02:34:55Z
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More like this, Democrats:“I use the words ‘MAGA fascists’ because it’s the truth. These people are not Grand Old Party Republicans; they are MAGA fascists.“There is no reason for me to call them by anything other than what they are. If they feel a little sensitive about that, then maybe they ought to reconsider their position vis-a-vis American democracy and stop acting like fascists.”https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2023/07/05/adrian-fontes-stephen-richer-antidote-kari-lake/70382321007/
(DIR) Post #AXlHS7CFO0avXmEzUO by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-07-16T19:29:01Z
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@todayilearned A reminder that they don't have to like each other to work together.
(DIR) Post #AYIL6LqfW9SfASDBAG by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-01T18:15:18Z
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@lowqualityfacts In Fred's defense, Mr. Slate had it coming.
(DIR) Post #AYX22Df1oDTTdtqeqO by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-08T20:19:42Z
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The US, where it’s very easy for a candidate to be “too far to the left” but almost impossible to be “too far to the right.”
(DIR) Post #AYg4an7mPVpBoAY61Q by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-12T16:52:04Z
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Biden “overturning forty years of political economy to return to the system on which the U.S. relied from 1933 to 1981, and yet it got far less traction than the fight over the protective order designed to keep Trump from attacking witnesses.”https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-11-2023?r=e1all&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AYg4anxtHlVaPmviFM by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-12T17:00:34Z
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Voters are basically lazy,” one of Nixon’s media advisors wrote. “Reason requires a high degree of discipline, of concentration; impression is easier. Reason pushes the viewer back, it assaults him, it demands that he agree or disagree; impression can envelop him, invite him in, without making an intellectual demand…. When we argue with him, we…seek to engage his intellect…. The emotions are more easily roused, closer to the surface, more malleable.”
(DIR) Post #AYxyTL1m4v70tvCKem by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-21T20:13:02Z
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“In times of terror, we choose monsters to protect us.” --Mia Couto, quoted here:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/javier-milei-says-hes-the-future-of-argentina-he-looks-a-lot-like-its-past-argentina-election-milton-friedman/
(DIR) Post #AYxyTMihmn2y9MI8DA by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-21T20:17:09Z
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A writer I've not heard of. Sounds interesting. Anybody got recs?
(DIR) Post #AZ65GpnUcV4lViBLpA by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-08-25T18:13:35Z
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@KimPerales We were turning this society upside-down and inside-out just to placate an influential minority who are afraid to go grocery shopping if they're not armed.
(DIR) Post #AaO0y87Gh1nqFN30ng by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-10-03T02:14:33Z
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That a sub-mediocrity like Matt Gaetz can bring Congress to a halt.Something went very badly wrong when George W. Bush's campaign announcement wasn't laughed off the podium.The bar for who's qualified keeps getting lower (as long as you're a white male, I guess).
(DIR) Post #AaPPY9UVePQmzgaW6i by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-10-03T23:42:48Z
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Now we see the motive behind Elons' brain implant. It's to take stuff out.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/business/training-repayment-agreement-debt.html
(DIR) Post #AbdeoqjLYdynD8GcNs by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-11-09T18:01:20Z
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Whatever nurses and other health care workers get paid: it’s not enough.7/8
(DIR) Post #AdVoQPUsFGSIVJzIie by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2024-01-04T16:59:42Z
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@pluralistic