Notices by Dan Seitz (dseitz@mstdn.social)

There's going to be a lot of discourse about what's wrong with young male voters.

I speak from personal experience when I say: They're assholes. That's what's wrong. I'm not being glib either. They expect rights and privileges they haven't earned and don't deserve and are mad they haven't gotten them.

The question is what they'll learn when the consequences of their choices catch up with them.

So I looked up Chump's supposed advantage with young men and he leads with white men 18-29 by ten points in polls.

OK. This isn't surprising. Why are we acting like it is again?

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The biggest problem is cultural issues. A lot of places are vastly behind on LGBT issues, feminism, etc.

@aspensmonster @inthehands @Infrogmation
Yeah OK I'm out, I don't need Uncle Joe fanfic in my life.

@inthehands @GottaLaff

What bothers me is the noble hero narrative. If she hadn't gone under the bus she'd gleefully be throwing the rest of us under it.

@GottaLaff @inthehands

That's the go-to narrative of corporate media coverage. And I'm glad she did the J6 work, but this guy was putting kids in cages and worse from the get go. The signs were glaringly obvious and she refused to see them until it was her ass in the crosshairs.

Same with Jeff Flake, Mitt Romney, etc. They're not heroes or good people. They're just opportunists who stepped on their own rake, and if they do the right thing, great, but they're still opportunists.

@benroyce @paninid

Seriously I've gotten a dozen different definitions of the word "neoliberal." They tend to coalesce around the idea of "Fiscal conservative, social liberal" which is at least consistent, but then suddenly anybody the person doesn't like is a "neoliberal."

The GOP demanded we live in a world where there was a possibility of random gun violence that we were just supposed to accept because FREEDOM and now they're mad they have to live in that world too.

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Wooooof

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Like I'd want a larger sample size but this unfortunately aligns with what we already know.

Gotta wonder what this means for areas with high infection rates.

@inthehands @pseudonym @dch @saper

This speaks to two problems. One, "What does it do and what problem does it solve?" is really basic marketing stuff, questions you have to answer before you go to market.

Second, techbros think all writing is the same so often the marketing guy is handed technical writing. Or even worse, the marketing guy's copy is turned into the manual without any changes.

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Renewables number is off though. If you're looking at utility scale projects you're not factoring in residential solar in particular. Of course nobody wants to talk about the shitshow when solar costs drop enough and energy efficiency rises enough that solar panels are everywhere, but that's coming. Probably 2030 at the latest tbh.

@inthehands @MisuseCase

I wish Netanyahu were a sociopath. Unfortunately he's a desperate criminal looking for a distraction, any distraction, from his corruption charges and security fuckups. Biden clearly thought Netanyahu would rise to the occasion or at least not try to start World War fucking III to cover his own ass, at least at first.

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I can agree with the points but the piece does not make a strong case about the latter and isn't interested in the possible causes of the former. He's just assuming the GOP will benefit.

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"Voters are angry at the economy so clearly they will vote for a guy who's entire public persona is 'cartoonish rich oaf'." That just doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Like are voters happy with Biden? No. And if he's not up against Chump that will be a real problem. But they REALLY hate Chump.

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Even then a theoretical clean slate GOP contender will still be stuck defending GOP orthodoxy which is tax cuts and wage reductions. And that assumes they'll be able to make that economic message stick when voters are still pissed over abortion rights.

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This passage is so historically inaccurate it makes me want to scream.

Weimar Germany is so fundamentally different from the current United States in just about every possible way that comparisons are basically useless.

There's a lot wrong with this piece but this is the most glaring.

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Every time I have heard about cancel culture, without fail, one or both of these things is true:

1) The incident is vastly exaggerated in both scale and vitriol.

2) The person claiming to be "cancelled" has omitted important facts about the incident, most commonly what the protestors' grievance actually was.

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Also let's not forget the entire root of this was right wing students complaining that their peers and professors didn't take their opinions seriously. And it's like...well, kid, your opinions came in a can. You haven't thought about them at all. What'd you expect?