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    sign (-) is the negative songs plus (+) is the songs that do not have negative vibe
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    i listened to the mcconaughey interview with kara swisher and it's insanely cringe. good odds he ends up just backing beto. he doesn't know what party he is or what his positions are. the poll shows that abbott is weak. there's a big difference between a state race and a national race. beto didn't fare horribly in the 2020 primaries, he was a serious candidate for a minute. iowa and new hampshire whittle it down to a top few and the rest fall away. glad to hear you plan to vote there. i think beto has an activist organization. you may be interested to help and knock doors or something. political activism is fun. it's kind of funny that not only are we allowed to walk around knocking on people's doors and talking to them about politics, but it's actually an important part of the country. i won't pretend to see the future. yeah if a republican governor wins then it won't be a shock. what i see in texas is that 1) the republicans are nervous 2) there is a mountain of persuasive arguments at the ready for Democratic activists 3) people are malnourished with good information 4) there is a very sizable Democratic movement that has the potential to make tx purple my understanding is that beto is something of a phenomenon in texas. i hear that people get excited about him in a way that is surprising.
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    that's a string that the right will pull. beto knows how to talk about it. the 2nd amendment includes the words "well regulated." what is the pro assault rifle argument? they're cool? it's fun to unload a clip into a bunch of pines and pretend you're rambo? or overthrow the government in some kind of steven seagal movie plot? the 2nd amendment is not meant to shield militias from regulation so they can overthrow the government. there's a popular misconception that this is somehow a check and balance, but i don't think that the guns-for-freedom argument is the established interpretation of the 2nd amendment. i think that's some folklore that gets kicked around. the best argument gun nuts have is that they're fun. anyway, let's compare priorities. (a) assault rifles are fun (b) democracy is under assault (by the right) (c) houston may be submerged in a thousand years because we're breaking the planet in reality, the gun issue is not at the top of the list of significant issues. and, come on. how hard is it to understand that homicide devices call for regulation? 90% of americans are onboard with background checks. beto will speak to his platform better than i can, but i'm sure he is interested in more important and and substantial issues than extended clips and automatic rifles.
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    beto came close to beating cruz. abbott has been hurting after putting bounties on women getting abortions. beto has a shot and this is a great thing for democrats of texas to organize under.
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    AI Art

    may be rude replied to Squee's topic in General Banter

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    AI Art

    may be rude replied to Squee's topic in General Banter

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    haha. i figured that you were not (you know i meant john and bob). your stuff is great, i am a big fan.
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    this is good
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    yes, 100% you know my position on nonviolence. i don't know a lot about the black panthers. i will have to learn more about this. haha. democracy, the worst form of government, except for all the others. i actually like a lot of these people. it's the theory i like. definitely just part of a big complex system though. we would live in a different world if congressional majorities were different over the last 20 years. dis & misinfo have been around but the internet from 1995 - 2010 just changed information flows completely. the new capabilities are exploited by bad actors and then defenses are developed in response, eventually. i think it's actually a big adjustment that people will understand better, looking back. right now we're in the midst of a collective schizophrenia. hehe. i am not going to agree on the messaging "this whole thing is rigged"... and i don't think it is. but, yeah, strengthen the good.
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    it would be cool to have a government that runs well. i think we got to this place by disengagement, and the way out is engagement. that's why i don't miss a chance to refute defeatist attitudes.
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    yeah, it's nuts. the mixed up fascist contingent seem like a bunch of manipulated fools. so, in a sense, this means they are weaker than they seem. they do not have the courage of their convictions. maybe hitler's supporters were, too, but they had the wounds of ww1 to fuel them. but this also speaks to the real nature of the situation, which is just informational mayhem, and the effectiveness of political manipulation in the modern info space. the situation forces a move: we either evolve to a higher level that can withstand modernity, or we don't. in terms of where we are now, i'm worried about elections continuing to leave the left stymied by the right. the right need to take the back seat for a while. that's the shot. but yeah smart money may not take even odds on american democracy surviving 10 years. we came way way too close.
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    i just think i should stand up for what i believe in here because such generalizations are used for political manipulation. i could run and take (campaign) money and not gaf when it comes to my voting on bills. i think plenty do. some certainly navigate grey area, but i don't find it logically compelling to conclude that all do. i see plenty of righteous folks devoting their lives to public service and the ideals of representative democracy. honestly
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    i certainly would not say "they all" do. with sinema, yes, i think she is motivated by making deals for personal wealth. though i'd still take her over jeff flake.
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    i am just trying to keep an eye on the neighborhood, and report my findings. i'm not seeing that. manchin represents a coal state and his son took a coal job and they got manchin to invest in the company and he made a half mil on it last year. because of the filibuster, dems had to pass everything budget related through reconciliation, which means the whole dem/biden agenda is in this reconciliation bill. so that bill has climate stuff along with everything else. his plan was to front that his objection was over the price tag, and to act like he needed to haggle it down. jayapal & the progs smelled that he was trying to get the reconciliation aka build back better bill to fall by the wayside, so they used their leverage to ensure it passed (the BBB bill was agreed to be attached to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and he tried to decouple them, after originally agreeing). he had to play out his pretext for the voters, haggling down the dem agenda. it looks like the climate stuff remaining in the bill is still good and sizable, at least. sinema seems like a greedy jerk. honestly. pretty sure all her friends are lobbyists, and she loves getting their takes on things. she is raising a lot of money all of a sudden, at this time when she is shielding corporate influencers, with the repubs. i think she thinks she can get away with the cash grab. pols care about getting reelected and they all want the dem agenda to pass.
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    no, ig. schumer did not tell senema and man chin to be chumps. they are just chumps. and no, the dems don't have enough votes to pass whatever, they have the slimmest possible majority, which is seriously hampered by the filibuster. sorry, but people will believe stuff if you say it to them. the dems are not a nefarious cabal. it's possible to watch the slow-mo play-by-play and it's just a circus of fallible humans.
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    yes or in a podcast lmao... an animal that wasn't happy anymore to live on the surface of the earth, so they decided to dig toward the center of the earth. cool to confirm that it's not sam or froto. my specualtion disorder gets me wondering, sometimes. played it in the bath with a weekend wake and bake and a book and it delivered. still learning the tracks but i can say that i like the album. a few definitely stood out and the overall flow was great. now that i know the story, that's just more awesome. don't dig toward the center of the earth, exm. finally learn his workflow. had been wondering. such an interesting musician.
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    this is a grower and my favorite album to put on these days. rtr made a comment on sc about a possible lp on af this fall. sc uploads has slowed which makes me think rtr is polishing up another one. hoping 11111111111111111111111 and lemno are on it. and xor. and fxhead. and vast. ?
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    meanwhile, today is election day, though an off year. the 2 state-wide seats that were up were governorships in VA and NJ. the VA race was competitve and is viewed as a bellweather for how things may go in the midterms, next year. results are coming in and it looks like fox turned voters out with critical race theory (which is not actually taught in schools). the republican looks likely to win, youngkin, who is a trumpist. the GOP is now the orange party. the information situation is bad. the dems need a lot of help, next year, to not lose the house.
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    we went from a pre-internet world of not really being able to figure out what was really going on, to this new world where it's possible to dig in but it's a complicated, long, and skilled job to cross-reference numerous sources, resolve discrepancies, operate with probabilities and unknowns, and determine which information sources are relatively veracious, and to know how to evaluate a given piece of information. people don't know implicit and explicit. forget about logically strong arguments and good faith debate. people don't know what an argument is. i get to be the one to teach people what a conclusion is, and what it means for a conclusion to be supported. we have centuries to go before it's not like a herd of cattle in the US. but hey these people want to understand things, and we can engage them on that and encourage that impulse. we are all coming from the same place. we're just descended from chimps and we're fucking dumb, but we inherited clothing and planes so we think we're geniuses. and what most people gleaned from growing up is bravado and asserting confidence totally regardless of logical support. in fact, people have a learned practice of attacking anyone who requests the logical support of a conclusion. it's funny because it's hard to explain how one knows something. and these are important conversations that would be benefical to take place. but even a lot of the better actors, when challenged on logical grounds, are unwilling to reveal their own difficulty at articulating how we know this or how we know that. we need to get better at those conversations. as hard as it is. it's such a huge mess. it would be great if we could make some progress on the malicious actors who are actively targetting this vulnerability of people's minds.... it's a big thing and we would notice a big improvement in the situation if somehow we could drive these disinfo wizards back. boggles my fucking mind to see host vessels utterly hijacked by fossil fuel narratives, telling me that green energy is the crooked deceiver operation. like wow, it's not obvious how oil money is THE juggernaut of political influence, and is desperate to confuse people on the subject? the greenhouse gas equation is 5th grader shit. look at the exhaust everywhere, learn what a greenhouse gas is, and understand. there are like 3 charts that could get a caveman up to speed, but people are utterly susceptible to manipulation.
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    Dune

    may be rude replied to Jafs's topic in General Banter

    the score is good imo. psychedelic. denis is kind of the only person who could pull off dune. i watched it 2 or 3 times and it's hard to imagine a better execution.
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    23 usd shipped isn't that bad for a cd
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