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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 6h

Probably true. Kind of like the value of learning math isn’t to get the right answer but to learn the skill of solving problems.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. Because if there’s one place among others that has no cool factor for smart engineering talent, it’s Seattle.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 6h

30 years of Boeing. McDonnell Douglas-ass bean counting company.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 7h

I know Obama had to do this thing when accused by that one lady of “not believing in the flag” back in 2008. But the flag lapel thing is so cringe that it needs to die

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah. Palmer Luckey is a throwback to William Boeing and Howard Hughes… right-wing robber barons who made their money in the Cold War Military-Industrial Complex. He’s be happy to sell killbots to President AOC

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 8h

Troy Jackson Plain and Tall

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 10h

I do not fear telling my kids to work hard and follow the rules because I’m not a racist freak that’s scared of Asians.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 11h

Alot of it is also that we either a) don’t want to abuse the privilege of people who already watch our kids for other reasons and b) don’t find the value of a night out to be that high compared to being with our kids no matter how much they drive us crazy

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 12h

Agrarian populism shall rise again

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 12h

I will eat my hat if we win both Kansas and* Nebraska

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 13h

It’ll just confirm what they’ve always believed… that becoming a majority/minority state means lazy and dumb brown people will vote themselves to a permanent majority. Literally Elon was losing his shit on Rogan saying exactly this before the 2024 election

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 14h

I think people who hate California and support it getting destroyed should not be representing it.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 15h

That only works if you identify a pain point first, shive your finger in it, and twist. No pain = no desire for change. And no sale.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 18h

sure, but you can't sell what people truly don't want. If you really wanted the sedan, then there would be no pain point for a greasy salesman to exploit to get you into the SUV.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 18h

American culture in a nutshell. There are thousands of videos of foreigners coming here either to visit or live here. Big steaks, big Truuuucks (Sam Elliott voice), ranch dressing. Americans love cheap, big, abundant things. Yes, it's grotesque. It's not a big conspiracy.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 18h

That's the thing NIMBoids refuse to understand. YIMBYs aren't against single family zoning. Simply letting the market decide where, what kind, and how many housing units to be built would be fine. Suburbs are fine, and people like them! We just shouldn't make them mandatory for everyone.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 18h

Neglecting to mention that your cousin works in the DOD is itself a fireable offense when working for the Military-Industrial Complex. But it's ok if you're Palmer Luckey and his Super Friends.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 18h

Viva el cambio. A ver, quien encabeza las encuestas de la proximas elecciones en Francia...

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But he uses words like “the cathedral” *jazz hands

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We bought ‘Ol Bob a Costco sheet cake for his retirement after 30 years of dutiful service as an account manager for our small aftermarket auto parts company in Muncie, IN. No idea he retired at 49.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dracula is just sort of… cheap fun with no deeper meaning? It’s a collection of pulp essays from the turn of the century that fed on the English anxieties about modernity?

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Rasheed Wallace of MLB. What a waste of talent

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Orange man is bad” is, once again, a perfect correct descriptor of our current situation

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” - Abraham Lincoln

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

According to Wayne, Rick Flair is an anti-American foreigner to deserves to be deported and has outed himself as *not* a heritage american.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My favorite story refuting this stupid ass frame of mind is Rick Flair talking about learning how to throw a perfect wrestling "punch" by jabbing a shoestring hanging from a door frame *for two straight years* until he finally learned to "punch" it as hard as he could without making it move.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unless you're a technofascist freak like Wanye. Then you can blame everyone else for your problems.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"you want to be right. I want to win." A man of culture I see

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yup. That's the essence of our current anti-Indian racism moment and the essence of previous bouts of antisemitism. Doing everything right is grounds for being hated.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So true. It's a version of David Goggins saying that it has never been easier to be great since we are measured by the mediocrity around us. It's not really hard to work harder than everyone else.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

... like something out of an old-school English boarding school philosophy where everyone who is upper class is naturally better than you. I can also see it being white hillbilly culture where people have zero expectations of bettering themselves unless they're already naturally good. No thanks.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, I'm having alot of trouble understanding how this is "American" culture. American culture, the kind that has been forged by generations of immigrants and their descendants, is that you're only limited by the extent of your effort even if you're not as talented. Being simply "good" sounds ...

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, I actually don’t think it matters. And as correct as your point is, it’s not good politics since it doesn’t provide the same permission structure that invoking MLK (even wrongly) does.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In a university town, of all places. Where did all these foreigners come from? Must be the Jews sending them here.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They love it especially when I deport their grandmas and send their uncles to Chad. The best poll numbers.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I protest people responsible for bad things. Anti-Democrat Lefties always effectively take the side of Republicans regardless of the bad thing. This is not controversial to understand.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think the MLK move is shrewd. It can invoke the “judged not by the color of their skin” guy in the heads of Fox News viewers while still communicating progressive bonafides.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If anything, that’s an argument to be even more vicious when people are not looking since attention is more expensive at that time.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is especially funny considering how conservative Gen X has turned out compared to other generations.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We can blame Social Media for alot of things. But self-destructive leftoidism has always existed. I remember RATM causing a mini-riot outside the Dem Convention outside Staples Center in Los Angeles in 2000. Funny how they didn’t protest outside the Republican one.

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amazing how accidents of history turn on events like a son dying of cancer or the advent of social media creating a permission structure for a guy like Trump to get away with something like the Access Hollywood tape

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Latino support is collapsing primarily because they're the new white ethnic working class of the Rust Belt and Missouri from previous eras. And they hate getting screwed economically. The specific Latinos who are being targeted by ICE goons were aways in the D column.

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