Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org

Next will be updating my credentials. I'm thinking of describing myself as a Digital Creator with a PhD in Common Sense from the School of Hard Knocks, University of Life.

I've decided to go underground to infiltrate #MAGA. My first move will be to replace all pictures of myself currently online with #selfies taken wearing #sunglasses, in a #truck, holding up a #fish.

@BoysenberryCider @kaffando thanks!

I'm sick of reading about it. I'm sick of talking about it. I'm sick of feeling like I can't look away from it for a moment, even though it's going to keep happening with or without my attention. I'm sick of all of it.

And I bet you know exactly what "it" is.

@VulcanTourist Heh. It's always been a shambolic mess, true enough. But it's a *working* mess when we don't have people inside the party tearing it apart.

@BoysenberryCider @kaffando As American as I am in most ways, I learned the value of restraint from my English father. I'm not as good at is as he is, of course. But I do my best.

@kaffando @BoysenberryCider Thanks, I appreciate it. And I apologize for being snappish. A bit on edge these days, and you can probably guess why, but that's not an excuse for being a short-tempered jerk.

@BoysenberryCider @kaffando @QasimRashid Fair enough. I don't know anything about the nuances of Australian political terminology either ...

But OP is American, and *definitely* knows that "Democrat Party" is a right-wing insult. Or at least damn well should!

@kaffando @QasimRashid If it quacks like a duck ...

"Democrat Party" is right-wing rhetoric. Always has been, always will be. I'm not really interested in any self-proclaimed leftist's reasons for using it, any more than I am in parsing the difference between Nazi and Nazi-adjacent members of Trump's "very fine people."

A FOAF asks, "What's wrong with trimming the #federal #workforce anyway? How much has it grown since 2000?"

Well, here's the answer: it's been essentially flat for decades. Sorry if that doesn't fit the narrative you'd already decided on, buddy. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

Alleged #leftists who use the phrase "#Democrat #Party" are about half a step from going full #MAGA ... and that may be a bit too generous on my part.

If you're one of them—that, way off over there, is the off to which you can fuck. No, farther than that. Keep going.

@kaffando @QasimRashid "Democrat party." Anyone who uses MAGAt terminology is either a MAGAt themselves, or a useful idiot.

Not reposting because I don't want to give it a boost. All I will say is ... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK WE GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Watching my fellow #veterans turn on their own to defend the bloated coward in the White House is really pathetic. It's not the worst aspect of this insane time, nor the most dangerous—although it may be pretty high on the list. But it's one of the most personally disgusting.

From a long-ago conversation: "... #fantasy stories that read like a retelling of someone's #DnD campaign inspired by Sword Of #Shannara fanfic."

It was funny at the time. Now we're living in the #dystopian sci-fi equivalent.

@fatsam Goddamn netsplits.

The original post reads, "Apparently there's a deepfake going around of Trump speaking several cogent sentences in a row. Not to be taken seriously, obviously."

@fatsam I'm filing it under "if it's not real, it should be."

From a friend: "How many commercial #jets crashed into US #Army #helicopters while #Biden was #president? Zero."

I'm totally hearing this sung to the tune of This Corrosion.