notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Worth noting here that she is from Missouri. Who do you suppose she was imagining would be in charge of this well funded Missouri outreach? 090
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hiring managers are always like: “You know who I really liked? The guy who didn’t do anything unexpected.” 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026But kids actually are “less online“ now than they were during the height of the pandemic? (when they did literally nothing in person). The correlations for both arguments run in the same direction here. 030
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Going to be the Age of the Cargo Cult. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We already track the times/distances everyone gets on and off any highway with tolls. We’ve had documented proof of mass-speeding violations on a silver platter for decades now. Don’t really need any new tech. Nobody here wants to enforce it. 080
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The idea that you can “discipline“ politicians by not voting is pure wish-casting. It’s not a real thing that ever actually happens. It’s just a thing people enjoy imagining they have the power to do. 71474
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I was skeptical at first. But if you look into it you will find that most underground bunkers have ballrooms on top. There aren’t many other ways to do it. 190
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Literally caricatures of ham-fisted 80s action movie villains. The most obvious “bad guys“ you can dream of. Evil in their motives, deeply off putting in their affects. Against everything normal people hold dear. You could just be dunking on them endlessly to wild applause. 119614
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You’ve got these viscerally unpleasant billionaires who are more or less open about being Nazis who want to create an authoritarian surveillance state enforced by a robot army to create a permanent underclass complete with Eugenics and pedophilia. And nobody in power dares say: “they are bad.” 232743
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don’t blame anyone for enjoying a little comeuppance. But that “might” feels pretty optimistic. Is it still better if we don’t? 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And it should be the only thing they can get published. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Believe it or not, Before cyclists created urbanism, cops never shot up fleeing cars. 020
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Sure? But generally when one bad person kills another bad person for bad reasons, people don’t treat them like a folk hero who is part of a noble movement. Violent drug dealers kill other violent criminals everyday. They aren’t heroes for it. In all likelihood, Luigi loves “the Epstein class.” 240
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Also as near as I can tell, Luigi was a hot rich frat boy who was pissed off that his back pain was spoiling the sex life he felt entitled to. He was closer to Elliot Rodgers than Karl Marx. His family owned a county club. He’s not part of the proletariat. 2110
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I was agreeing with you! People in “high cost“ areas like to pretend it’s just “how things are.” But it’s not! Not everyone gets to live in high cost areas. Many people want to. Rich people need to learn to enjoy their luxury housing instead of acting like it’s a burden they have to endure. 1140
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Every “high cost of living area“ employs people who make <30k a year. They would mostly prefer to live nearby. But they do not get to. Because that‘s what actually being poor is like. You do not get to live in the place you prefer. 1150
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That was the right wing guys ”bet.” A state champion team of his choosing. Its literally going to have 18 year olds who will be in the NBA in 1 year. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The #1 NBA draft pick is 19 years old. Like most top NBA draft picks, he was on a championship HS team exactly 1 year ago. 110
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Does help you to understand why a certain percentage of left leaning young people become conservative when they earn more money. 1130
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Teachers are a mostly Unionized, highly educated workforce. They have financial options. If they didn’t want to work because they feared for their lives, there isn’t actually any easy policy lever to force them all to work anyway. It’s pure wishcasting. They can just go on strike. 010
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Accounting for fat free muscle mass, the standard deviation for resting metabolic rates is not that high. Rates do drop slightly with age. But the difference is pretty low until around retirement age. People mostly just get less active and eat more in middle age. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It’s literally never “I think Covid restrictions hurt a generation of children academically and therefore we need to do a surge of education spending to get them back on track.” No actually interest in helping the kids at all. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026If people are genuinely concerned about the negative social and academic consequences of Covid restriction… why are they completely uninterested in fixing those problems? 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“But buddy let me be very clear, i will lower the cost of groceries“ 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The stakes here seem pretty low. If the stores aren’t good, they can close them. This happens to stores all the time. 060
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Nah, it was over for him the minute HR told him that even though he helped found the company he still had to be respectful of his trans coworker. He never recovered. 020
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Worth saying that he doesn’t just have followers On social media. He has 150 thousand direct employees. He employs armed security contractors around the world. He also has an AI program that he has clearly trained to listen to his tweets. 010
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The homeownership rate is around 66%. 40% of home owners don’t even have a mortgage. 110
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Part of how Trump works is that he forces people to debase themselves as a condition of employment. Making them into (more of) a loser is important for loyalty. It’s hard to go back once you’ve publicly humiliated yourself. 0200
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I don’t actually think it would be as hard as people think. Camden successfully disbanded their entire police force and replaced it. Crime went down and the politics of it were fine. The mayor was reelected. 140
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It’s 25 gas stations selling things for a .50 discount. If Biden did that it would get cast as a dumb gimmick that wouldn’t impact 99.9% of the country. 010
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026For the most part, more than happy to align the greater good with his benefit so he goes along. My concern is just that as something of an outsider he doesn’t seem to have much to gain from an ideologically similar successor. But if that’s actually what he really wants I’d be giving it to him. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Like platner isn’t a super committed movement ideologue. Does he actually care that much about advancing a cause? Maybe I guess. Idk. But the guy was a backwater merc. Doesn’t really seem the type to sac his personal ambitions for the greater good. 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Its not totally clear to me that he actually wants to help choose his replacement. If he stalls out ”talks” until Monday he can’t be replaced. And then he can “begrudgingly“ run and blame the party for not cooperating. 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Ngl, Kind of weird how when you were running for office it was all “I don’t think I should be asked about Israel” but when someone is anti Israel you really want to talk about it. 080
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Those quotes sound like big talk on issues where he won’t have much actual power To enact policy. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It is a mistake to believe that people will blame negative consequences on the party responsible if the consequences are bad enough. If you think minorities cause all your problems, and your life gets worse you just get more mad at minorities. 020
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026It’s totally commonplace for there to be lower income minority communities that are predominantly owned by the residents. This is normal American stuff. But the internet would have you believe only Rockefellers own real estate. 020
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I think some of it is NYC brain. Where regular people rarely own anything. Black homeownership rates are lower. But they are still around 44%. Many low income communities out there where the primary economic beneficiaries of rising home prices are the residents. 120
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026They aren’t talking about 3rd way and blue rose research. 090
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It‘s just dog whistle bigotry. which “groups” don’t we like? (You know the ones). 1130
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026”Force my children to love and respect me” is the #1 policy concern of around half of conservatives. 011613
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Why would they stop doing effective anti-immigrant stunts just because immigration levels are lower. 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. 000
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Franz Kafka - A Little Fable "Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, 100
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I think this contemptible description is still too charitable. She is not a sincere person. She is not upset or surprised. She knows performing aggrievement is part of the job. 110
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A pretty important part of blood libel is that it was, you know, libel. 0210
notgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Teachers do not want kids to be on phones instead of paying attention. They can tell the kids to stop even if there isn’t a law. And if the kids don’t listen to that teacher, a state law probably won’t change that. I wouldn’t be sure that “banning“ phones even reduces their use much. 110
