Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 14/08/2026There are many people who replied to me in the affirmative. 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 14/08/2026Literally Obama. It wasn’t a trick question. It wasn’t “Obama as a type”. Literally Obama. 000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 14/08/2026I think you think you asked a question that was coherent but if you’ll read what you wrote, it was just some rhetorical shit dude. You suck.  100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 14/08/2026I haven’t voted for a Republican once in my entire life. But I have witnessed incredible amounts of idiocy and completely incoherent arguments from progressives, and especially on this website. 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 14/08/2026You do recognize you’re in a thread in which literally every self identified member of the progressive left is talking about how Obama caused Trump and we should never elect another Obama, right?  100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Like, you have my account history. I buy a lot. I don’t return a lot. I get if you have to do some gating on new accounts, but why do that to long-time customers? 110
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026I’m blown away that I have now to chat or have a phone call with a human to return an item for a refund of money 110
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Because the 2016 election was decided on entirely different terms than 2012 (as I said in another thread). But I get that if you’re not particularly intelligent, more complex understandings of the world escape you. 000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Sorry, I don’t waste my time with people acting in bad faith 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026I responded to him in at least three other threads that he hasn’t replied to so … 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026It’s almost like when you have a presidential election every four years, there might be different factors influencing each election.  000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026What about trump’s campaigns or right wing media or interviews with Trump voters provides support for that hypothesis?  100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026That’s absolutely false. Extrapolating from this survey, for example, (centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...), indicates ~5.7Mcenterforpolitics.org 000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Clinton lost the union / non-college-educated white vote to Trump. Go read interviews with them to see why they switched. It wasn’t “Obama wasn’t progressive enough” 200
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026He won the election? I dunno man, you don’t seem to understand things. 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026And, because of that, the progressive left would prefer a Trump to an Obama. Which, I’ll note, multiple people on the progressive left *have agreed with* after my post. 200
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026When did I say race was the only factor in presidential elections? I said it is the factor that brought in a ton of new voters. This isn’t rocket science! You can see it in the numbers! You can literally read interviews either voters who hadn’t voted before! 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026OK now assume that there is a very large number of people in this country who did not vote before Trump was on the ballot who are only animated by his racist rhetoric and these people all voted for Trump. Do you understand how it worked now? Or would it be helpful if I broke it into smaller steps? 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026If you think that Obama‘s political decisions led to Trump, you are wish casting so hard  100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026I said nothing about an election. I just pointed out the logical conclusion of everything above my statement in this thread.  100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Share of vote is profoundly unhelpful in understanding this. Trump got shitloads of people to vote who never did before (and hopefully never will again) because he tapped into their latent racism. 100
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026It took the tea party and gamer gate some time to aggregate the demand and anger, and Mitt Romney sure as shit wasn’t harnessing that effectively. Trump did. 210
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Showing someone the logical progression of their statement is not an ad hominem attack, dude  000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026My favorite part about arguing with progressives is that they literally cannot engage coherent arguments. Everything goes straight to ad hominem.  300
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026In case that was actually a question, just electing Trump doesn’t suddenly make all the racist people not racist.  000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026How is this even a coherent question? Do you actually think that this is a good question?  200
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Trump has three coherent and consistent positions: 1. Tariffs good 2. Me getting rich and staying out of jail good 3. Racism If you think he was elected for anything other than 3… I would recommend working on your critical thinking skills. 200
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026Because of racism. So you’re basically unwilling to vote for anyone not a white male? 700
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 13/08/2026The progressive left would rather have a Trump than an Obama. 900
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 07/08/2026“There’s no climate change; it’s cold in November” is perhaps the median voter in Tennessee’s view tho 000
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 07/08/2026I cannot believe someone with that history has been elected multiple times to congressstatic.klipy.comTom Delonge Blink182 Wtf MemeALT: Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme 130
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 06/08/2026My wife, pregnant with our third child, read some insane shit about food dyes and asked her OB (a man substituting for her regular female OB) whether twizzlers were ok to eat, and he responded, “you’re growing a baby; you should lay off the candy” 1110
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026One of the most fascinating/saddest/stupidest experiences of my life was seeing how an FTC consent order was drafted (by someone who didn’t know what they were doing), and then how even that person didn’t understand what it said. Not surprisingly, it was not effective! 020
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026This is like all those dipshits with sock puppet accounts who occasionally post in their main whatever bullshit cosplay they do 030
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026Said another way: if you read him and you think he has nothing useful to say, I think that says a lot more about your inability to question your own expertise and methods than anything about him. 110
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026The central problem with his work (IMO) is that he’s a solo dev writing either (a) dev tools or (b) a game, neither of which have nearly as much applicability to the median/mode software dev situation in the world. But he is usefully thought-provoking. 110
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026Fascinating to me that basically all of the criticism starts with, “he’s spending $87K/mo”, when anyone with a brain who actually read the piece would realize he has said he’s spending $2400/mo and the $87K number is the Anthropic “token cost” number reported from status. 120
Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026I think he’s actually spending $2400/mo and Anthropic reports (e.g., Claude code /status) that it’s “worth” $87K? He says he has 12 $200 Max accounts. 120
