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@kaesmis.bsky.social
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he/him white/cis/pan ordinary weirdo, dad & partner, makes good pop culture references (old), hates fascists Free Palestine Now

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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Whatever weirdness you've seen in recent years is symptomatic of much larger issues that seem to be hard for you to focus on. The world is more chaotic. But it's not people being "antisocial" that's the driver here. That's the *effect* of a larger instability.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
These all do seem like catastrophic, world-ending problems, it's true.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/11/2024
Good summary except for the missing paragraph on how the Republicans, Manchin and Sinema killed the BBBA, spurred on by a chorus of pundits and think tanks who insisted that it would worsen inflation.
BBB was supposed to make ARP's provisions permanent
The main purpose of the Biden-Harris administration's Build Back Better (BBB) plan was to make the American Rescue Plan's (ARP) temporary welfare superstructure permanent.
National economic recovery wasn't enough; the administration publicly insisted that economic recovery happen on a human level, too. Here's the White House in April 2021, introducing the American Families Plan (which later became the bulk of the House-passed BBB bill): "It is not enough to restore where we were prior to the pandemic. We need to build a stronger economy that does not leave anyone behind - we need to build back better."
But in March 2022, the Biden-Harris administration decided that it would "help"" people deal with inflation by reducing the deficit, not by enacting social programs.
Cruelly, the White House started using the nation's strong economic recovery as an excuse to not make the American Rescue Plan's provisions permanent, the
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 09/11/2024
If you're the party of protecting the marginalized people will rightly lose trust in you if you decline to do that
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Sure. And some of the things you proposed as solutions I think are fine. But you continually insist on advancing the narrative about cities that conservatives use instead of an accurate one.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
And the last name Aho is pronounced one way where I'm from (the funniest possible way) but closer to the Twin Cities I've heard people insist on a soft "ah" sound
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
They accent the BY??? Wait'll I tell the Ahos about this. (From Embarrass btw. Which is it's own whole conversation.)
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
New from me: A very hearty "shut up and sit down" to anyone who thinks that the right move for Democrats — morally or politically — is to abandon defending of trans rights in the face of Republican attacks
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Opinion | Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the bus
In the hunt for a scapegoat, some are arguing that there's been too much focus from Democrats on transgender rights. There's no evidence backing that up.
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I hope you all will repost
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
And we've talked to you about pissy Paris and the bs around shoplifting. You might also want to think about Tokyo from the perspective of any woman who actually lives there. Not so safe!
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
You can always interpret what you see in a way that leads you to false conclusions. Especially if you read propaganda that reinforces your biases. You are proof of that. But don't expect me to validate your misconceptions.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
You're just telling us you had some personal experiences and chose to believe inaccurate and bigoted narratives that validated your biased personal feelings about those experiences. And other people have reacted in similar ways, which you apparently think renders your inaccurate thoughts accurate.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
It's not a statistically sound observation. It's anecdotal. It's vibes.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibes
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Yeah definitely everything in stages. I'm still not finished going through stages I don't think and I'm over 50.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
My parents were both old school Roosevelt-era labor libs (long story), and my dad at some point started getting all these left-leaning mags. I remember reading Chomsky and bell hooks in Z magazine in like 1989.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
There were probably two main stages to me "getting political": absorbing my parents' (pretty good overall) influence, and realizing that Clinton sucked.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Lol I corrected that typo! Why did that useless link remain???
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I was hip to Reagan being terrible when he was elected, buuuut I also got really addicted to horse-race electoral politics at a really young age, which has its drawbacks
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/11/2024
Hey everyone: for the next few years, I’m gonna need you to not say the obvious (“Trump won’t allow it”) when I say “we should try to do something.” We should try to do something.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Your entire argument boils down to: You: [makes assertion] Us: That's a false assertion You: Ah, but people believe it! Checkmate!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/11/2024
I would quibble that people hated *what they were told* about it, which is a distinction that matters.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
*much safer in terms of "crime" I should say. I do feel less safe because our racist PD is likely to be emboldened to do more harm to members of my community. And this nonsense that you're peddling isn't helping.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I could look at the issues in my specific community and listen to the fearmongering and decide I was terribly unsafe. Or I could look at actual reality and understand that I'm much safer where I am than I would have been 20 or 30 years ago. I choose to believe and promote actual reality.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The frustrations of the article are red herrings based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality. I don't agree that we need to surrender to that false reality. I think we need to fight the misinformation.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
And seriously if you think Josh Barro is right about everything in that trash article, you're pretty much right wing already. You just haven't realized it yet.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Every single argument you make is vibes. You haven't backed anything up with anything substantial. Purely fact-free. And you insist we adhere to your false narrative. We're gonna say no, dude.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Or how about we reorient those bloated police budgets toward meeting people's basic needs, which actually addresses the root problem? Your obsession with things like "cleanliness" and "antisocial behavior" shows that you're engaging with superficial effects, not actual causes.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What do you propose?
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
He's definitely wrong about all of it. I'm not going to send my day dismantling bad arguments. Unless you want to give me money.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Like, normally it's fine to outline a real problem even if you're not sure what the solution is. But you're not outlining a real problem. You're perpetuating a pervasive myth, and insisting that we believe in it too. So. Give us your concrete proposals. Be as specific as you can.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
"I'm not arguing about reality or what's actually true, or the fact that people increasingly believe misinformation. What's important here is vibes." And dude? (Sorry if I neglected the honorific before) What do you actually, specifically suggest?
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
He's wrong about all of it. You're listening to people who buy the lies Republicans tell.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Make sure people have their basic needs met. Read that again, slowly. That's basically it. Everything follows from that.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The national election in four years??
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Like the reason we all love Star Trek and Terry Pratchet and all these pop culture things is because most of them are various shades of “caring about people is better than being an ironic asshole all the time” and somewhere inside of most people we recognize that as how we go forward
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
We keep telling you clearly what will actually work and you want to talk about... reformatting the entirety of American culture or something?
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
And that's an impressively random deflection
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Someone with a staff and a resonant bellow better get out there quick
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
You keep saying it won't matter. Is there anything that would? What do you actually suggest, if not giving up?
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Some things might have to happen underground, some things could be done somewhat openly. The point that's being made is that we don't sit on our hands and wait for a savior while our neighbors suffer.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
You think I'm underestimating the level of evil, but people didn't resist Hitler in Germany through some toothless opposition party. They did it by keeping one another safe, in whatever ways they could.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
It mattered in Nazi Germany you doofus!
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Our first course of action would be... to make a national politically viable party from scratch? Wow! But not seek to protect our communities in any immediate sense. Wow again.
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I honestly think it's weird AF to argue against community organizing. What are people supposed to do? Comply and hide until the Dems fix this for us?
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beacon sighted through fog @kaesmis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Oh so that's what this is about. So if the Democratic Party didn't exist right now, what would we do? Think for a second. We can't rely on a party to act for us. They are not the front lines. We are.
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