Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Even if you don't want to (correctly) label Collins a white nationalist himself, "people who have expressed white nationalist views" are just white nationalists. Not to mention, look how much space was saved by calling the spade by its proper name! 000
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've similarly deduced that I enjoy watching difficult things done well. Foregrounding that has made the results somewhat immaterial. 010
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Many around the world believe that what's happening in the U.S. right now is due to the unique malevolence & hubris of the U.S. and of Americans more generally. 100
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And then even if you had all that infrastructure, you'd need an American workforce willing to accept a renorming of their wages & work conditions to a globally competitive level. 000
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Because to rid themselves of their Nazimobile, they'd need to be willing to accept the real pain of a financial loss on the vehicle, plus the cost of acquiring another. Too many PMC Dems are unwilling to put their money where their values supposedly lie. 130
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shift USBP to DOI as a standalone agency. It'll be appropriately (minimally) prioritized there. Also, shift Customs back to TREAS, not to DOC. 150
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah, but for me building the tool was fun, process automation more or less let me set it and forget it, and it gave me an excuse to watch even more baseball… I agree, though, that fantasy football seems dreadful given all this. 100
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Absolutely! There was no money involved, but my SO got me pulled into a fantasy baseball league this year, so I built a nondeterministic finite-state machine with some AI assistance to speed through development & data, so as to model next-week matchups daily. Consequently, I crushed the league. 130
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What must be done is that Republicans lose wherever they're in the ballot and that they be investigated—and prosecuted when the evidence supports as much! 030
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But what if those experts' disagree with your deeply held pseudoscientific beliefs about peptides and raw milk? (/s) 000
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not just "unemployed," but largely "unemployable" for broad swaths of that population. Not unrelatedly, hence also the need for the dystopian surveillance state. 020
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Instructions from the service secretaries will be issued on how service members should fill out their votes…" (/s, but also not really…) 110
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People like these make it difficult to maintain a belief in the inherent dignity and worth of all people… 040
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our children and grandchildren will curse us. 120
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Now that the bullet has been removed from Mr Perez, let's now all work together to remove ICE from the federal government! It too will take far too long, but what happened to Mr Perez is even more proof that Trump's ICE Brownshirts need to be eliminated! #AbolishICE 0120
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 02/10/2026350-85...static.klipy.comLoki Thor RagnarokAlt: Loki and the Grandmaster leaning forward in their seats in "Thor: Ragnarok" 010
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Especially when the straightforward solution—adding 6 new SCOTUS justices as part of a much-needed immediate expansion of the federal judiciary—can be accomplished by regular legislation. 0410
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They're just a new & especially stupid flavor of authoritarianism. The latest incarnation of the Old Enemy of free peoples. 020
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Western water law is desperately in need of a rational fix, but I shudder to think of the literal bloodshed that would occur would such a fix approach likelihood. 2802
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 22/09/2026All of these are possible to do with a *Sen* Talarico, though, and are much harder with a Sen Paxton, notwithstanding all the other damage a Sen Talarico can prevent versus a Sen Paxton. 031
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Or primary him in 6 years if he remains recalcitrant in his incorrect views. Or work to elect enough other Democrats with correct, enlightened views such that his vote is inconsequential. 140
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And remember that politics doesn't end when the votes are counted! Educate *Sen* Talarico over the next 6 years and get him to recant his incorrect views and push for change. Or create a sea-change amongst the electorate to where he needs to change his views to remain viable. 260
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That's his supporters, his "redcaps." 030
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I feel you, after years of doing about the same. 030
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It ends slowly, and then all at once, with the bottom falling out of the dollar. 160
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I feel like this is a card that CGB would be happy to durdle with and that smacks to me of something too useful for a gimmick card. 000
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Huntsville, Alabama. Space Camp already has the facilities ready to go. 000
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But you're correct that "definitively" there was likely too strong; perhaps in a half-dozen decades the tides will have shifted again. 110
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And that consequently many of the cross-border value chains that have grown up since 1965 will likely reduce in scope or end due to the increase in barriers to trade. 110
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Those are stubborn things. My argument was more that I don't think it'll be possible in the future to revive the notion of a continent-spanning free-trade area in North America, especially as Canada draws nearer economically to the EU… 110
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And also, "let us lock in our economic gains while you, the public, pay for all the many negative externalities of this technology." 010
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Whatever it ends up meaning, it almost certainly means that "North America" as an economic concept is definitively over. 200
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The continuing death of American science. 010
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No, we wouldn't. Because the only way for the current Iran quagmire not to exist would've been for Trump to not have undone the JCPOA back during his first term. And that would've meant allowing Obama to keep his win. 140
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A sad commentary of the contemporary world is that the box is clearly designed to hold six donuts, but shrinkflation has reduced the count to four… 020
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What's the worst that could happen under those circumstances…? (/s) 051
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hence the likelihood of having a large number of economically displaced, formerly middle-class people unable to find maximally productive and personally fulfilling work for a decade or three… All while the labor-eliminating Robot accrues economic gains to an ever-shrinking pool of new oligarchs… 191
Gaius Cassius Longinus @cassius1213.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And the signs are pointing to this tightening not being temporary or cyclical, but a real long-term stepdown in most Americans' living standards. 3662
