Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7hYeah, and a lot of those folks are absolutely convinced left wing populism is the cure to the far right. 030
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7hWell really it was a few years after the bubble burst in the 90s but I still think its fair to say after, just not immediately. 010
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7hIt makes more sense when you understand that the LDP (big tent right wing party) has basically run Japan since 1955, except for 2 after their economic bubble burst in the 80s, and 3 right after the global financial crisis. It may be naturally right leaning. 270
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 7hYeah you get excited thinking that there are Electric Daisy Carnival themed knives, and then realize it's just everyday carry. 010
Reposted by Jo_clever_keKerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 8hI am now calling a moratorium on takes declaring: 1.) "quick prosecutions" solve fascism (Flavio's dad was prosecuted and barred from office for Brazil's J6 incident) 2.) left-wing populism solves fascism (Lula is the Bernie of Brazil) 911315
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 8hIt is sort of crazy how all these other countries are doing all these other things with all these other systems, and this still keeps happening. At the time I really did think Brazil did it right, as opposed to the US, by putting their traitor in prison, and yet here we are. Multi-party too. 001
Reposted by Jo_clever_keSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9hI think the data suggests we are in for quite the period of thermostatic opinion causing significant political instability in most democracies. And probably some non democracies too. 318827
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 10hFairs fair though, if I had been Bernie's chief campaign strategist in 2016, I'd blame Democrats for losing as well, I mean I certainly wouldn't blame myself now would I? 060
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 10hI don't have many predictions either, but I do think the usual suspects, will find a way to blame American liberals for this. 020
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 10hTheir definition of 'undesirable' was pretty big. Needless to say, this was significantly worse than any sort of strawman I could have created about them. I'd say that turned out much different than how you describe the process. I lost respect for them, rather than learning to respect differences. 0132
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 10hI know you got a lot of people mad at you, so I'm going to be constructive here. The last time I talked to someone I liked and respected on the other side of the aisle about their views, they tole me we needed to round up undesirables, put them on a "monkey island," and let them kill each other. 1132
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 11hIt's very confusing to me why people keep saying this, because we've all done this before, and the situation almost invariably makes us even more biased against these people. 110
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 11hMy experience is the opposite. That doing this if anything made be even more biased against them. But also, there aren’t two sides to ideological bias, as this implies there are only two ideologies. This is clearly about Dems and Rs b it they’re too much the coward to say it. 120
Reposted by Jo_clever_keAdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There are some people who are probably personally better than their media persona. Megyn isn't one of them. The mask was when she was trying to be a "mainstream" personality. 1297
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's a weird dichotomy with Trump, maybe even a paradox, he both loves and hates losers. He hates being forced to associate with losers in order to elevate them but loves elevating losers so as to be surrounded by sycophants entirely reliant on him. 0140
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Everyone knows about the Mad as Hell part, even those who never watched the film, but most people don't know about the part where Beale's politics such that they were (he was unhinged and crazy) completely flipped after listening to a short rant. 020
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't believe it, Xi wouldn't have said "wow," he'd have said "Bazinga!" 000
Reposted by Jo_clever_keellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 03/10/2026I'm so tired of people whose politics are based on folk legends about the economy 226221
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Im no expert on women, but I have to assume that when they hear another women talk about how their ex partner, the one who cheated on them, isn’t so bad, that they’ll nod along and agree, certainly wouldn’t argue against the point with barely concealed disgust. So good to raise the salience. 070
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Imaging a coworker, on hearing you are hungry, offering to go to their desk and come back with a few bucks so you can get something from a vending machine, you’d be thankful. Now imagine them offering to get you $200, you either get confused, paranoid, or upset, assume that they’re mocking you 011
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I do not think it would matter, it’s too much money. Especially when compared to actual stimulus payments in the recent past. It’s so much people instinctually feel it’s bullshit meant to mock them. 110
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026LOL, went up that chain to see the context, and LOL at this OP post. Ah yes houses a normal thing everyone could afford 20 years ago and not something almost everyone needed a loan to buy. Oh and insurance, famoustly very affordable before Obamacare. Childcare, LOL, just LOL. 020
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do we consider any of the guys constantly predicting the next great financial collapse on Youtube economists? 100
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I mean it is popular, but also we tried this in 1974 and people hated it, so it wouldnt be crazy that they hate permanent daylight savings time this time too. 361
Reposted by Jo_clever_keUser with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An account with this avatar was just blocked. 051265
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is what I think of as a "Deal with the Devil" bias. People in a weak position want to believe they can make a deal with the devil on their own terms to get something they want, but in real life a devil will just take what it wants from the weaker party. 030
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Over a daylight savings bill of all things. I don't know if Trump thinks it'll be a feather in his cap for the election, or if this is stemming from Trump's desperate fixation to leave a stamp on the world. 2171
Reposted by Jo_clever_keMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier 442176277
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ironically no, although he may very well be lying, I’m really just looking at it and thinking that he doesn’t actually understand how any of this would actual work in practice. 010
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026…and assuming despite what Trump says a bunch goes out as direct deposit, well then how many seniors even notice that let alone go on to personally attribute it to Trump before the election? 011
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m not actually sure this will work but not for the reasons you might think. Putting aside the legality, I’m not actually sure you can mail out this many checks in this short of time…. 210
Reposted by Jo_clever_keAndrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The issue with "monsters are marginalized people in fantasy clothes" is that it ends up with things like people making orcs more explicitly like people from IRL sub-Saharan Africa. "There's kind of a racist subtext with orcs, so we've fixed it by making them H. Rider Haggard Zulus." Which, um. 1124539
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah, in theory what we want is for him to be in a bad way, but not bad enough that the GOP would feel comfortable 25thing him. 110
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comDean Winchester's Exasperated SighALT: Dean Winchester's Exasperated Sigh 010
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Once heard a guy explain how he watched television as a way to unwind.... but he phrased it in the context of it being a mechanism to perform a cognitive fine tuning. Weird shit. She talks like that guy. 120
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everything I've read about the relationship sounds clinical. For instance, she described Elon as having "made [her] cup overflow with life knowledge" it's all very flowery but in a very clinical way 130
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can't believe these two love birds couldn't make it work. 000
Reposted by Jo_clever_keFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Conservative whites have been losing a rearguard action against immigrant academic achievement for a century. Having ensured that any appearance of "racial preferences" is prohibited, they find themselves uncompetitive and now want to bring back "character" tests, once used to bar Jews. 34812
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Based on that clip I don't see him being able to do 31 more days of this. 1350
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You didn’t say ‘the modern Arab world isn’t a beacon of democracy’ you said they’re are no good option for the whole Middle East and they’re probably never have been or could be 150
Reposted by Jo_clever_keIn My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really not great that every major faction and state from Cairo to Mogadishu is aligned to one of two regional power blocs that appear to inching towards a regional conflict with each other that will set East Africa aflame.inmydefense.substack.comThe Other Cold War In The Middle EastThe Saudi-UAE conflict and its impacts 04011
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I might quibble that attacks also stretch it since a lot of the attacks have just been quoting things he has said.... however, I am near absolutely certain there are many attacks outside the MSM from right wing media that are utterly unhinged. 000
Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I find this framing wrong footed, because Piker isn't really random, he actively engaged in outreach to multiple primary candidates and was electioneering on their behalf. Random would be them getting mad at some guy that does video games reviews and never touches poltics. 110
