WatDabney @ WatDabney @sopuli.xyz

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These groups understand the Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.

Or in other words, Democrats are more likely to actually think about their votes and find things to appreciate in multiple candidates, while Republicans are more likely to just slavishly vote for whoever has an [R] after their name and disregard everything and everyone else.

And arguably more to the point, Republican politicians count on that.

Take note that this is from the government that the MAGA Republicans support.

This, to them, is honor and strength - to invade a sovereign nation, then threaten to drop nuclear bombs on them for daring to fight back.

That's the world the MAGA Republicans want - one in which they and their allies are fully entitled to do whatever they want to whoever they want, and the only choices others are to be granted are to submit or die.

Yeah - I obviously don't know, and it is possible that he's just naturally and coincidentally so reminiscent of a tweaker, but still...

It just clicked when I thought of it. It's all there - the constant effortless and entirely self-serving dishonesty and avarice, the revolving door of obsessions, the paranoia and the specific focus on (perceived) loyalty vs. (perceived) betrayal...

I'm not sure that it would be relevant anyway - the issue is who and what he is rather than how he ended up that way. Still though...

Mmm... possibly. Though I did know one flabby tweaker, years ago. I have no idea how he managed it - maybe he was just flabby instead of obese?

But yeah... as a general rule...

And it is possible I guess that Trump naturally developed a personality that just coincidentally is a spot-on match for a tweaker.

It's just that thinking about Trump's behavior of late, and particularly this thing with Loomer, put me so in mind of paranoid Hitler withdrawing to the bunker with Eva, and then it all just clicked.

As I've said a number of times now, I'm convinced that Trump can't meaningfully recognize the difference between true and false and right and wrong. I think his mind has been so warped by his pathological and increasingly delusional narcissism that his standard for whether something is true or false or right or wrong is entirely subjective and entirely internalized - that, quite simply, if he believes it then it's true and if he doesn't believe it then it's false, and if he wants it then it's right and if he doesn't want it then it's wrong. That's it - trapped in his self-serving delusions, he has no other basis on which to judge.

So of course he's defending Loomer - she tells him things he wants to hear, so in his deranged view, she tells him the truth. And since he's visibly coming apart at the seams and on track to lose the election, she's likely one of the few who are telling him things he wants to hear, so one of the few he trusts to tell him the "truth."

And it just now struck me, mostly because that all made me think of Hitler in his final days, and I have no idea now why it took so long because it suddenly seems so terribly obvious - Trump's almost certainly a long time meth user, isn't he?

Yeah - that fits. That absolutely fits.

I think you have forums confused with microblogs.

I presume I'm supposed to care, but I dont, and I don't know why anyone would.

It still surprises me sometimes how stupid he is.

The donor class doesn't really care about Trump's mental (and psychological) issues, and really don't even care much about Trump at all. They're not actually supporting him - they're supporting the handlers and advisers with which they intend to surround him, and the policies (and primarily Project 2025) that they intend to enact through him.

If anything, his incoherence is, to them, a benefit, since he's just that much easier to manipulate. Since he can't form a coherent thought on his own, he can be readily filled up with someone else's ideas, just so long as they're framed correctly.

He's like a wind-up toy - all they have to do is feed him carefully crafted stories and get him wound up and pointed in the right direction, then just let him go.

It's really very simple.

If Haley sucks up to Trump and he wins, she'll likely be appointed to a sinecure.

Harris isnt going to appoint her to anything, no matter how hard she sucks up.

And that's it right there. To Haley, that's the entire difference.

No - I mean Trump personally. Not the Trump campaign, which is a separate thing.

Yeah - the campaign, between the cultish rank and file and the cynically power-hungry donors and operatives - still has a lot of energy.

But Trump the person is visibly coming apart at the seams.

At this point, we're watching Trump disintegrate day by day and virtually minute by minute.

I'm not sure if he's even going to make it to the election. It's really starting to look like he's going to come apart at the seams before that.

Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

Yellowstone is an odd and awkward combination of things.

I grew up in that part of the world and, unlike the author of the linked article (and the people he writes about), I spent a lot of my time in the outdoors. In fact, in the summer, my family spent more time traveling and camping than they did at home. I don't even remember learning about the outdoors - it's as if I've just always known how to function in it.

And from that point of view, there are two distinctive facts about Yellowstone.

First, as noted and as is obvious, it's packed full of tourists, most of whom know nothing at all about the outdoors.

The other thing though - the odd and awkward thing - is that it's unusually dangerous - not just to ignorant tourists, but to anyone. As a matter of fact, between the geysers, the terrain and the wildlife, I'm hard-pressed to think of another place in the whole of the northwest that's more immediately and inherently dangerous than Yellowstone. I mean - there are certainly places you can get to that are more dangerous - high in the mountains or deep in the deserts - but those all require significant effort. To just get out of a car and walk 50 feet into danger - nowhere else is even close to Yellowstone.

So it's just sort of ironic that it's also the place stuffed to the brim with dumb tourists.

Trump is rather obviously profoundly mentally ill, and it's long past time for that to be noted every single time he goes off on another of his delusional rants.

Exactly as noted in the article, it's not even enough to fact check him (though that should be done as a matter of course) because it's not just that so much of what he says is false. The much more significant fact is that so much of what he says is insane. It's not ideas and beliefs shaped and presented by a rational mind, but the disjointed ravings of a lunatic, and that's exactly how it should be treated.

Love the responses from the influencers. They're all silent about it until Johnson claims that he's a "victim," then there's this sudden rush of "Yeah... yeah - that's it. Me too! I'm a victim too!"

Uh huh...

So... Meta's "plan" is to dodge responsibility?

Gee whiz... I sure never saw that coming....

Just be patient.

With all due respect, fuck the normies. The fediverse is better off without them.

People on every single relatively small forum ever in the history of the internet have gotten frustrated and angry when other people do that, because it's spammy.

Do you not know the history of the term "spam?"

It's from a Monty Python skit

That's what the front page of a forum (or the inbox of an email account) looks like when someone "spams" it - like "spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam."