ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 6halso going to get that free stuff" argument. I DON'T FUCKING CARE AS LONG AS MY NEEDS ARE MET! I will be closer in prosperity to the rich person who doesn't need it, and I will still be ahead of the "lazy" person who doesn't work. 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 6hThis is an argument that people trot out any time there's a debate about any sort of non-means tested welfare program, like UBI, universal healthcare, free college, universal childcare, etc. It's kind of a sibling to the "well, that lazy person who doesn't work and sits around all day is... 110 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 12hI don't know if this is what I'd want a flying car to be, though. It's not like the flying cars in the Jetsons. A maglev highway setup is probably more like how I imagined flying cars to be as a kid. I'd rather have something "on rails" so we don't stress our ATC workers more than we already do. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It's how things would be if Trump had allowed "adults in the room" like he did during his first term. They stopped most of the stupidest ideas from being executed. 0320 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The renditions of Malfoid in this picture aren't AI, though. They're drawn by an artist called Yunayu, who recently left Bluesky after she got a negative reception here for posting her Malfoid art. It's sad because RW Twitter is using her as a cause celebre now, like in your screenshot. 0160 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026it's actually the strategy that people on the right used to bring about the Trump era. This is simply how it has to work in a first-past-the-post voting system like ours, and until we get ranked choice voting, a vote for anyone other than the Democrat is a vote for the Republican. 040 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The current meta for leftist electoralism is to vote in the primary for the leftmost candidate, and then to vote the proverbial "blue no matter who" in the general election. It's not fun, it's not sexy, and it's not going to fix things overnight, but it's harm reduction; and... 330 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Checked Morgan Trau's Twitter. He was found guilty. 😞 Sentenced to pay court costs and $200 fine. x.com/MorganTrau/s...x.comMorgan Trau (@MorganTrau) on XJURY DECIDES: GUILTY. Political blogger D.J. Byrnes, "The Rooster" has been found guilty of telecommunications harassment, sending an image of naked Shrek to Ohio GOP Sen. Jerry Cirino. @WEWS @WCPO... 222 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They said the exact same thing about Trump. How's that turned out for the country? 040 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How does an economy function when people literally can't afford to buy things? Economic inequality has been out of hand for so long, I don't understand how everything hasn't collapsed yet. 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Going to permanent DST at least breaks through the psychological barrier of inaction and forces the issue. If perma-DST turns out to be a disaster (or just very annoying), the change can then be quickly made to perma-ST because there will be no status-quo psychological barrier resisting it. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think that going through with the Sunshine Protection Act might be the only chance at getting permanent Standard Time. If we don't do this, it's just going to continue being endless bickering over which permanent option is right, while we continue to suffer through the twice-yearly clock changes.. 100 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If we go through with permanent DST and hate it, we can simply change it to permanent Standard Time. I'd rather force a resolution one way or the other than just endlessly bickering over it while nothing gets done to stop the time changes. 040 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Personally, I don't care either way, I just want the time changing to stop, and I'm sure that I'll get used to whichever one we decide to permanently go with. If Trump actually makes this happen, I'll rank this with Operation Warp Speed as one of the few good things he's done for the country. 040 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People HATE having to change the clocks twice a year. This is actually something with bipartisan appeal that would have an immediate and positive impact on people's lives. Still, it's controversial because there are some people/organizations that would rather have permanent Standard Time instead... 3111 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm just going to listen to the episode that Chapo Trap House does about it. 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is what we should have the construction industry working on instead of data centers. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 28/09/20262 pm? When most people will be at school/work? 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You mean the Vivek Ramaswamy tweet that got him exiled out of DC (but with Trump's complete and total endorsement for Ohio governor as a consolation prize)? 1111 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026have shitty political instincts and are quite adept at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If these are the same strategists the Dems had in 2024 (the ones who made Tim Walz stop calling extreme RW people weird and told Kamala Harris to stop saying "we're not going back"), we should listen to everything they have to say... AND THEN DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE! It's clear that Dem consultants... 100 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This thread reminds me of something I'm curious about... What would be the best fish to use for cutting down a tree? Is it actually a herring, or is that hard mode? 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026approach to the federal government via DOGE that he took with Twitter. 080 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If it wasn't made clear from everything he did starting from when he called that cave rescuer a pedophile for no reason, it's quite well-documented in the book "Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter". It was surreal to read that book and then see him take the exact same haphazard... 2142 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There was also a pro-data center ad earlier. It made me groan. 011 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They're a product of chemical and electrical processes inside a physical organ, and if that organ is damaged, it might function differently. Now, a stroke doesn't always change someone that much (I mean, Matt Christman seems to have the same ultra-left politics since his stroke), but it can happen. 1210 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yes, he literally had a stroke while campaigning, and anytime you get some sort of brain trauma, there's a possibility that your personality might change. It feels like a lot of the time that your thoughts are this corporeal thing separate from your physical body, but they're not... 1360 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If Bernie Sanders can get popular based on policy, so can you. You don't need to make videos exactly the way Zohran does. Just avoid saying anything about Thanksgiving that's too off-putting to the normies. Yes, there's colonial baggage, but no one wants to give up the feast and the day off. 001 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This sweater is ugly in such a beautiful way. 110 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good luck! I wonder what the men in those women's lives would have to say if you told them that the vast majority of family annihilators are actually men. By their logic, shouldn't that disqualify men from having political power and being able to vote? 020 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I don't know. The charitable interpretation of this is that it's the uniform that the evil version of the main characters wear in the mirror universe. And that's what it feels like to live in America under the Trump regime. That I'm in the Spock-with-a-beard version of the USA. I wish I could... 110 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Can anyone make out what that shoulder patch is? I'm wondering if it's some sort of right-wing militia symbol. 240 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026artificial and unnecessary inflation single-handedly caused by Trump. (Maybe "single-handedly" is the wrong term to use though, since it required the Republican-controlled Congress to go along with the tariffs. The rest of the GOP also needs to forever shoulder the blame for this shitshow, too.) 041 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026People seem to forget that around this time, all the incumbent ruling parties of every developed country were losing elections, apparently because of the economic strain from inflation. Of course, the inflation under Biden seems rather quaint and even nostalgic compared to the current shitshow of.. 141 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You got voiced by Mugi from K-ON, though. That's definitely a silver lining. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I thought that conservatives were about abstinence and purity rings for teenage girls. Is that over now? 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I think you just broke the first two rules of Tabby Fight Club by posting this. 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026At a time when people like Bill Kristol and Jim Clyburn are outright saying we need to expand the Court! 040 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I've only heard of everyone in the Top 6, and Hasan is the only one of them that I watch with any regularity. (I do respect Ms. Rachel's advocacy for Palestinian children though, and Druski's Erika Kirk parody was hilarious.) 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is not just racism, but also sadism. How fucked up do you have to be in order to gleefully broadcast the fact that you want to deny food and education to an entire group of people? 030 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026One of my favorite game soundtracks. youtu.be/o4e3heS9-qoyoutu.beSimCity (SNES) full soundtrack live @Churchill Grounds jazz club 2014-12-30YouTube video by Eric Fontaine 010 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026For once, could someone run something other than an "I'm not one of *those* Democrats" campaign for statewide office? If Amy loses to Conman (who would still be a terrible candidate even if conditions were more favorable for Republicans), we should put that bullshit to rest once and for all. 000 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026while focusing on left-leaning policies that appeal to the lowest common denominator, like affordability and data center moratoriums. 130 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026any back. Beyond that, just campaigning on affordability will both appeal to the base and beyond. It's the lowest common denominator, as it speaks to basic survival needs. Basically, what I want Amy or any Ohio Dem candidate to do is to not actively shit on the base (which she's clearly doing)... 130 0
ohiogozaimasu @ohiogozaimasu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'm not saying that Amy needs to quote Eugene Debs and wave a pink, blue, and white-striped flag at every campaign appearance, but the least she could do is not immediately cede to the right-wing framing on every issue. So, basically, if you feel you can't take a step forward, at least don't take... 180 0
