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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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cherold, to vinylrecords
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Fun psychedelia that also includes a hippie's handwritten annotations on the songs, which includes things like, "use with care."

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Close-up of the back cover of The American Metaphysical Circus with handwritten notes. For example, The Sing-Along Song is notated with "use with care - Dixieland."

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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Let's talk about my role as "perspective-bringer."

I think I am wasting my time responding to each new outrage by offering explanations and perspective.

Let's do some math.

(I know you all, and almost all of you are better at math than I am 😂 )

Editing back because I found it: only 15% of people like seeing social media posts about politics.

Just over 66.6 % of the voters voted in 2020.

People who are highly engaged vote in high numners. . .

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cherold,
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@Teri_Kanefield I think of that as "liberal porn." While some people go for clicks with rage, some just spin a feel-good fantasy. I usually find those less persuasive than rage posts, but that's probably just because I'm a pessimist.

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Second derailment in NYC mass-transit system in less than a week. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/nyregion/nyc-subway-derailment-brooklyn.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

cherold,
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@w7voa Weird how if you keep cutting the maintenance budget year after year for decades eventually all the trains start crashing. Who'da thunk it?

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Okay, I did it:
https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/

I offer the radical idea that the Colorado Trump-ballot case and the application of section 3 of the 14th Amendment isn’t easy or straightforward.

Do your thing Mastodon (I always post here first).

cherold,
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@Teri_Kanefield Judging by the comments, Mastodon's thing is commenting before reading the post!

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all I guess I should start getting my questions from Quora!

cherold,
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@RickiTarr I love how someone was so proud they'd come up with this great gotcha question that would flummox all the atheists. Skydiving suicidal babies will bring them all to Jesus!

georgetakei, to random

Now THAT is a prank!

cherold,
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@georgetakei very funny but clearly fake - no one starts jigsaw puzzles from the middle!

geekysteven, to random
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A new Alien film where Ellen Ripley gets a fucken break for goddamn once

cherold,
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@geekysteven
Ripley: are you insane? You can't weaponize those things! Everyone on this ship will die!
Captain: Really? Holy fuck let's just not go to that planet! Thanks for the heads up.

kierkegaank, to random
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During I read “superhero fatigue” ad nauseam as a cause for films performing increasingly bad with audiences

So I rewatched them, Iron Man to Thor Love and Thunder

My personal takeaway was that most of the early ones are still highly enjoyable

My problem with every film after Eternals is that they are impersonal statements with badly composed stories where I saw nothing to get invested in. That’s not fatigue, but executive decisions

T:L&T is also badly directed and weirdly edited

cherold,
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@kierkegaank for me, I feel it's been hit and miss. Thor and Thor L&T were both pretty meh (Ragnarok was good). I thought the first Avengers movie was overrated but I liked the others. Most Spider-Man movies are meh. All the GoG movies were good, even if the last one fell off a bit.

So I don't see anything like a steady decline. Which makes me more inclined toward the fatigue theory.

RustyBertrand, to random
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I need a list of funny people on Mastodon. I like smart, now I need funny.

cherold,
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@RustyBertrand

@Tierno158
@Alice
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@batkaren
@JoParkerBear
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ArtBear, (edited ) to politics

Of course democracy is disappointing. That's the design. Gently disappointing everyone trying chart a middle course. Leaving everyone not entirely satisfied, because resources are finite & everyone wants different things.

Good is mildly unsatisfying for everyone. That is the point. The least shitty system we aspire to

Throwing mildly disappointing democracy away, for not being perfect, is insanity.

Democratic void is terrible for nearly everyone, that's it's main feature.

cherold,
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@ArtBear Some of the replies show a misunderstanding of the nature of compromise. One person instead uses the word "balance," implying the goal is the center, when that's not the goal but simply where things wind up.

Then there's the argument, "we can't compromise with terrible people," which ignores terrible people having as much power as good people. If there are 6 people on a rowboat and 3 want to go east and 3 west, you can't just plan to outrow them. You'll go in circles. You need to talk

johnfugelsang, to random

I want the reality show about Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss living in Rudy's Manhattan mansion NOW.

cherold,
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@msbellows @wndlb @johnfugelsang that would make great TV but imagine how horrible it would be for Ruby and Shay. Rudy would be the roommate from hell.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I'll address the comments about Liz Cheney by telling you what Harvard Professors Ziblatt and Levitsky say about how democracies die and how they are saved.

(The book is fabulous and was quite timely when it came out in 2018)

Basically, they said this (page 299):

When one of the candidates (in this case, Trump) goes off the deep end and embraces autocratic methods, what will save the nation is Republicans to switch and vote Democratic . . .

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cherold,
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@theandil @Catawu @Teri_Kanefield

The lines politicians won't cross, when there are such lines, are odd. A lot of anti-Trumpers are fine with repressing votes and putting their thumb on the scale but when they see someone ready to sit their whole ass on the scale say, "that's not how it's done!"

cherold,
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@theandil @Catawu @Teri_Kanefield I think some politicians discern between "ethical" and "unethical" vote stealing.

GottaLaff, to Russia
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😳 A binder containing highly classified information related to #Russia election interference went missing at the end of #Trump's presidency — raising alarms among intel officials that closely guarded national security secrets could be exposed. 1/… https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/?cid=ios_app

cherold,
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@tdwllms1 @GottaLaff At this point you would need a search warrant for the Kremlin.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Warning: Rant coming.

The doomsaying and cynicism in my comments over the past few days are annoying me.

I am addressing the people saying any form of: "Why won't the Supreme Court rule in Trump's favor?"

You are unhinged from the facts. Get a grip.

Here are the facts: Since Trump lost in 2020, the Supreme Court, and every other court, has consistently ruled against him in his immunity claims.

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cherold,
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@queenofnewyork @Teri_Kanefield
Someone tooted a while ago that if the SC ruled presidents are immune for all crimes then Biden should just shoot all the conservative SC justices, since he couldn't be arrested for it by their own ruling. Not that he would, but it would give Biden free range to do pretty much anything he wanted.

cherold,
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@staidwinnow @queenofnewyork @Teri_Kanefield I'm not convinced Biden wouldn't consider it if he could get it. The fact is, Manchin and Sinema won't go for it, so if Biden demands it and can't get it he looks bad. No point in pushing a bet he knows he's going to lose. Give him 5 more Dem senators and see if his position softens.

cherold, to random
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Meanwhile, in Brooklyn ...

cherold, to vinylrecords
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I hated the movie, but my God what an album.
@vinylrecords

cherold,
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@icastico @vinylrecords Yeah, I couldn't get into If... either, although I know both are considered cinema classics. I don't think I ever saw the third one. I haven't generally liked too many Lindsey Anderson movies - the only one I can think of is Whales of August.

rbreich, to random
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If you don’t support gun control, you’re not pro-life. It’s that simple.

cherold,
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@Radical_EgoCom @rbreich We've got an armed population. I don't see any progress towards an egalitarian society. And your arguments are exactly the same as the Libertarian right except they all would probably be for gun control if they believed as you do that it would create a truly egalitarian society.

cherold,
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@Radical_EgoCom All evidence suggests that the cause of gun violence is easy access to guns. The right can blame video games or mental illness, you can blame socioeconomic issues, but all countries have mental illness and some level of economic inequality - some even more so than the US - and yet our level of gun violence vastly eclipses theirs.

cherold,
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@Radical_EgoCom it's disgusting that you refuse to acknowledge you're playing exactly the same bs games as the right and then refusing to even cop to it.

cherold,
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@Radical_EgoCom If my 3 previous replies aren't clear to you then further replies are not going to help.

cherold,
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@Radical_EgoCom I responded to your aggression. But if you mean the line, "Socioeconomics issues and mental health are clearly the cause of most, if not all, of gun violence" then what evidence do you have for that which contradicts the overwhelming evidence, seen in country after country, that the most effective way to stop gun violence is to limit access to guns? You seem no more inclined to answer this question than the right.

cherold,
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@scudery All progress is very difficult. Ending slavery was very difficult, and I'm sure at one point people thought it was impossible, and when we did it we got a big war and even then slavery continued in other ways (i.e. chain gangs) in the U.S. for decades.

Major societal/political changes don't happen easily or quickly, but they do happen.

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