doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Only if they can get the information environment under control. I think section 230 has to be seriously cabined, not sure what else can do it without running afoul of the 1st amendment. 210
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This was always his plan, it just got delayed by Iran. He’s not so much moving on as returning to form. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Covid vaccine uptake was significantly lower in heavily black areas, at least at the beginning; did that change? 124
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If the relevant government official went to him quietly and told him to stop the Canada trade war or that would be the result, I think he’d do it. 001
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The president thinks it is so why shouldn’t they join the delusion 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comWhat Porn Taught a Generation of WomenIt colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yeah I was feeling good about Osborn until I learned this. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 08/08/2026slaughter was the shift for me, and it’s been getting more…everything on a daily basis since 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 03/08/2026MAGA and the manosphere offered them a way to connect to each other, a community. The left needs to figure out how to offer that in a positive way. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026American oil reserves too, US oil industry are major influences in this admin. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And does the money they bring in outweigh the money that they lose because people do not want to donate because they do not want to get spammed like this? 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Maybe, but the site appears to be largely AI generated and has no sources and the author worked for palantir, so be careful. 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 19/07/2026for some reason Trump lent himself to projection more than anyone else. Even well informed voters projected onto him. Possibly because what he was saying was so insane he couldn’t mean it, so he must mean [my policy preferences]. Plus the fucked information environment. 071
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Not the department, the individuals leading it. Otherwise it’s just taxpayers stuck with the bill. 100
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yeah but do they actually comprehend that? Realistic chance of success doesn’t seem to be a requirement. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 15/07/2026That’s what he wants. He wants them gone. It will kill the military but (a) not immediately and (b) he will never accept it even if evidence is overwhelming, cause truth and readiness are less important than white male supremacy. 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Trying hard isn’t cool in high school, and these guys never really moved past that. 0534
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Except when he can’t. Iran has learned that they have Hormuz. If they want that money badly enough, they’ll stop the strait again if they don’t get it. 100
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 15/06/2026No it means you have unearthed a problem you didn’t know you had: that people think laws are optional. 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I mean I’m thinking 2010s: broadly agree with the point here but things have gone really downhill really recently. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 03/06/2026They already are doing republicans only federal funding and emergency relief, republicans only safety net. 030
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Trump can’t accept a shit deal because his ego can’t take the idea he isn’t a master negotiator. Economic pressures don’t matter: he can do vengeance and corruption until 29 unless impeached, primaries and demographics show that isn’t a risk even with midterm loss, and he knows that’s likely anyway 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Yeah but even if you joined that room you’d be stuck behind a partition and they’d barely know you’re there cause a nazi owns the algorithm. 081
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 01/05/2026More precisely, less bad in impact, not less bad as a person. Platner somehow manages to probably be a worse person than Collins, which is pretty impressive. But his impact will be significantly less bad. 100
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 29/04/2026It also severely accelerated economic and political disparity and oligarchy, through destruction of rights and enshittification among other things, and AI is poised to supercharge that without apparently-unlikely policy intervention. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 28/04/2026They also provide psychological cover to doubt or excuse the horrible things we see the right do - maybe SPLC was behind Charlottesville so it’s OK to support them because they’re not really that bad, it was the left. Plus generally creating questions as to what reality is benefits the right 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 14/04/2026He didn’t convert for political convenience, he converted because Thiel convinced him that Catholicism is entirely about maintaining a hierarchy in which white men, even sniveling ones like Vance, are at the top, and his entire life has been about trying to disprove his inferiority complex. 020
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The share my values one seems right though, I certainly don’t want to live near this guy. 1610
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 05/04/2026It’s not. A democrat will face the same expectations as every democratic president: fix the entire mess the Republican predecessor created, likely sans congressional supermajorities, or the media and thus electorate will punish them when they can’t. If it’s a republican, enough said. 000
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This is what absolutely terrifies me because if the US doesn’t suffer he will never end it, the death and misery are hard to conceive of. 030
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026(Plus a gangster mentality and a yen for the most brutal iterations of colonization) 030
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026To say it was the US aim erroneously implies they had one. It’s definitely Bibi’s aim though, always has been. But there was always someone in power competent enough to realize what that means, and human enough to care, and now there is neither, just fascist fetishized violence. 1201
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This actually gives me some hope for the future, because I do think that’s a sensibility that has changed widely, not just in bskyers, and while all this is clearly backlash to it, I’m not sure they’ll really be able to reverse it. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I don’t know if it led or followed the culture but anti-hero movement in popular media is a damning reflection of trends in public life and politics 020
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Yeah later seasons are actually a lot more watchable 110
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Only non-cringey story in there is the porn actors. 0200
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Later seasons are a lot less cringey. Still sexual harassment issues but not wrong for the era and the anti-war vibes are still super strong. 220
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 04/02/2026No they’re making a ton of decisions based on that assumption. What they’re discovering is that it doesn’t hold true. 010
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 06/12/2025ancient *republican-appointed* circuit judge 1160
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Bari Weiss made an entire career out of it and got a massively overvalued payout and an insanely powerful job she is not even remotely qualified for 0110
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The only way Vance wins an election is if it is literally or practically rigged, at which point little things like term limits won’t matter. 180
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I understand why the executive branch is complying despite illegality. I don’t understand why anyone else is. DC doesn’t need to sue, they just need to ignore this. Make clear it’s basically yelling into the void. Let DOJ sue to enforce if they want. 160
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Only if the police listen to her. She is acting illegally. DC should give no more attention to this “order“ then to a random Xitter shitposter. Tell police officers who comply they are breaking the law. Let her enforce it. 0282
doombook.bsky.social @doombook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Why does DC need to sue? She doesn’t have the authority to do this. DC should say, this is bull, police officers who obey this hack are insubordinate/breaking the law. They’re getting away with illegal shit because people are complying. Stop. Let them go to court to enforce if they want it. 2101
