CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 23htruly, who could've ever seen any degree of that coming!? 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"look he was simply trying to displace and ethnically cleanse them instead of intentionally trying to kill them all, a totally non-genocidal act" 120
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026SOMEONE didn't want to read all of The Great Gatsby 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"(whatever's left of) McConnell is vaguely aware of but unable to snag a SCOTUS seat" is the sort of ironic Hell I'd like to give him, so... 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm still waiting to see more polling from Bernie Porn of the Epic MRA firm 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm sure we'll at least get a couple of days of pearl-clutching over "how could the godless communist liberals celebrate a man's death!?" before it flops even worse than with Charlie Kirk, but yeah 001
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026desperately trying to get the Jr. removed from his legal name in hopes of one chance 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026it'd be nice if there was some story about letting a snake in somebody really liked to tell 051
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"that was simply lovable chaotic scamp Bugs Bunny and not wise mascot Bugs Bunny" 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026yeah, I feel like even if Ben Shapiro had better politics but was otherwise still Like That he still couldn't make successful movies for larger audiences, feel like there's a limit on how much of this you could take even if you agreed with it 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026fucked up that she got away with killing Weird Al even after that great documentary 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What hazing they have doesn't result in physically killing each other as much so it's "fine" 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Schmitt, not the Nazi one, well at least not THAT Nazi one" 001
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026IMO, Klein often extends too much "good faith", which you can use; Yglesias is endlessly contrarian and would find a reason to not like a candidate even if they did exactly what he claims to want, which is bad anyway. 130
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The tax cuts finally fucking with school funding was what got Blansas... gov, glad it seems to be worth something in Texas too 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the correct stance is obviously being a proud partisan hack: ballot initiatives are good when they let you pass liberal policies/protections in Republican-controlled states that couldn't any other way, and otherwise usually bad 040
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026going all the way back to the patriarchal "lesbians are hot but gay men are yucky", "feminist"ly 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026better than I would've dared to hope given the attempted 7-1 gerrymander! 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026amazing how many people bought the thing Charlie Kirk spent his life wishcasting to bilk money from donors when, well, 120
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026what gets me is that "the youth are becoming conservative now, thanks to my efforts" was just Charlie Kirk (and co.)'s entire pitch to donors and, well, sure doesn't seem to have stuck! 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026for some reason there was also a version trying to teach some very basic physics I saw in school and after you beat it you could open up the console and give yourself weapons and shoot things 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've seen even some of the monarchists pinning their hopes in Barron eventually instead because he hasn't yet proved to be as juiceless, Junior'll definitely try but I don't think he'll have anywhere close to the pull of his father 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026generalizing thousands of Charlie Browns whose status of having hoes or not varies, there were certainly a number who'd always been against him but also some he won over for a time, while centrist politicians did their best to undermine his better policies 030
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026in theory "talk tough on immigration but quietly do a few things nicer" seems to be favored by polling, but, well, seems like it just makes everyone unhappy in practice! 140
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I figure Talarico's probably good for 1% of the vote solely from "ends in -o" 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026why can't people be normal and get out most of their unreasonable grievances about other states on college sports 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026look, they kept voting for Collins, who are we to rule out a majority Mainers *want* to suffer ... clearly not enough to support Golden, though 030
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Superman was a great example of how you don't have to go through the whole origin story in detail when everyone already knows, Fantastic 4... not so much but at least they tried? 060
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026look, we may have elected a Black president twice despite Nichols's best efforts, but Jewish is simply too far! ...for the American people, I mean. 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026but not, unfortunately, manlier enough than fossil fuels to replace THEM, besides a few rich guys still trying to throw money at it. 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026manlier than renewables? I think partly because it's a little closer to how fossil fuels work, more potential danger (exciting!) even if plants have that well under control, and weirdly polarization against solar/wind... that's gotten more intense as it's gotten too more expensive to build more. 130
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026if you can apply sufficient force to move a sufficiently immovable-by-trolly massive man, simply apply it to the trolly instead, EZ ... guess it could be a drop situation but at that point you're probably just personally killing a man from falling instead of making the trolly kill him 040
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'd like to see him try until he finds a school that does boo him, least harmful thing he could be doing right now. Football audiences are probably more conservative than their student bodies, but that wasn't enough to spare Ted Cruz, so... 001
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Republican don't stop trying to hit Democrats on wedge issues just because of a little polling against themselves, why should we? 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026why can't we, just once, have bisexual representation in politics that ISN'T crazy 021
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026most importantly it's a wedge issue! Trump 2024 benefitted from higher Latino support, and if the actual "enforcement" is cutting into that any... Republicans would never turn down trying to attack Democrats over wedge issues because of old polling. 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026and IIRC somehow, to his great confusion, apparently still *slightly* less weird about Black people than Rod is 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we are very lucky (?) racism makes them so bad at strategy 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026you ever think about how, whether he actually played it or probably not, Pope Francis definitely heard Megalovania once (from a circus) 020
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 16/09/2026little-known singer on a Toby Fox track I think 010
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 15/09/2026didn't Iran technically support some gender-affirming surgery for admittedly less-than-woke reasons? I don't think "an unelected council of fundamentalist religious elders makes healthcare decisions" is great in either country! but it doesn't justify bombing schools. 050
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have to assume *eventually* Florida won't be able to import enough cranks and retirees to make up for the rate they die at, but it's kept going longer than I expected and they've driven out so many better people I'm not expecting change any time soon 040
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 14/09/2026when someone claims the disney castles are real castles: 000
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Biden got a long way out of the few "will you shut up, man" level zingers, there's absolutely a path for someone who can do that even better 0190
CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026country music has gone through a feedback loop of being so targeted to its audience that not everyone likes it, feelings intensified some by its being everywhere, it's not that deep! there's a very serious 1980 documentary about it already starting to become more insular:static.klipy.comBlues Brothers: Country & Western MusicAlt: Blues Brothers: Country & Western Music 170
