Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 2hThe longer he lives, the longer they have to kiss the ring for the primary and pretend they didn't for the general 000
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One hopes he would have stayed in the grohl side of things and not gone down the novoselic path 050
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I wonder if PR would actually fracture the parties in a system where the executive is independently elected. Presidentialism seems to generate relatively stable pro and anti regime parties. 150
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah, but Rufo's grandparents came from a Guelph town, so they don't know how chaotic those damn Ghibellines can be. 010
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026SCOTUS circa 2030static.klipy.comComplex Lens Array MechanismAlt: The galactic Senate from Star wars 080
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also, definitely not anti-Eco. He's almost too good at times for me to handle. 110
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I get it, but the point of great writing for me is it can get me to shift the rhythm of my brain into the narrator's. Doing that with that guy was a little too much for me. 000
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I might be biased because my most recent was the Prauge Cemetery, which was rough for me to get through. Also, Foucault's Pendulum cuts a little too close these days. 100
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well "fun" in the way Eco books are "fun." Which is deeply unpleasant but fascinating nonetheless. 100
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It was a pretty fun book in the Culture series I guess 100
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Flanagan is also seen as less moderate, so it might be a similar dynamic to Michigan 000
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think re good faith debate by those right wing figures, he needs to take Mr. Stanfield's advice. 020
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Because "liberaltarianism that refuses to engage with the actual world instead of dumb abstract debates" is the house style for like half the legacy print publications 0100
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes! Being on here too much makes me feel like I have emotional scurvy. 010
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good for them for keeping that despite that Brownback libertarian fever dream 000
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Huh, hadn't thought of that before. Just really low-density and falling rurals+ Dems owning suburbs now+ Hispanics? 150
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The best way to avoid the court packing rachet: impeach the shit outta Thomas and Alito with 67 Dem senators. 1151
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well sure, but that's only because to match Trump ² off baseline for most of this country's history would require levels of racism only ever achieved in laboratory settings or modeled by woke theoreticians. 000
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Jesus, I assumed this was Rio Grande valley with the snap back of Hispanics, but this is Ft worth and sprawl... 030
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Unfortunately, it was associated with the out-of-touch tech elites in the 21st century and fell out of cultural favor following the Bell riots 060
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"oops, looks like you ended up at objectivism [again]" 020
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wait they still have farms in Silicon Valley? 040
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm just worried a lot of people are only in the tent because the GOP made it so ridiculously explicit that they hate them, and the second the fig leaf is reinstalled they'll jump back. 200
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tbf that's like an initiation ritual for most world powers 030
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'd guess he's losing his base some on this because some of them figured out that black people would get the money too 1190
Reposted by Root Beer BaronMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026the US's reckless decision to attack Iran without a coherent strategic plan has been a disaster for our regional allies, but of course there have also been downsides 948586
Reposted by Root Beer BaronMom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The lesson of the 21st century is that we have to get dumb assholes to stop following politics. 1020323
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Need somebody to sponsor some sort of low social trust mass event every election day. Alex Jones reveals the secrets of the wuhan lab or something. 280
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wait, did the non-profits get boats? I've been reliably informed that imperialism requires boats 030
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Lol holy shit. Basically a national park vs the most productive farmland in the world. 080
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Tbf, you go through a lot of crayons in 3 pages 1230
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I honestly think commencement speeches should be given by very articulate people who have had pretty good careers but will never be famous or in any kind of leadership role. The current system is like having lottery winners lecture statistics students. 0130
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Odd to have so many pine trees in the most productive farmland in the world, but I'm no agronomist 0300
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This was supposedly Lake Okoboji, Iowa in the first season of the X-Files 151758
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It's not communism unless the society is in a frictionless vacuum 170
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It makes perfect sense that one of the most AI-vulnerable jobs is liar for hire 132911
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 16/08/2026As someone who haaaates the word "decadent," I'm struggling for another description 0150
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026See, if that were true, they'd never be able to admit security camera footage into evidence. They just bring in an expert who says "yep, it takes pictures when cars go too fast," and you can cross that person. 1200
Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Everything comes back to a terminal case of the comfortable middle not having many real problems and throwing a fit about it. 0513
