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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Every time I see some piece or TV interview purporting to explain the Russia-Ukraine situation it ends up with the expert being asked why Putin wants to invade Ukraine and their answer boils down to, "well what you must understand is that he just really, really wants to"
That's not entirely fair but I mean "Putin wants to restore the glory of the USSR" or "Putin wants to diminish the threat of the West" are basically just "he really just wants to do it" right? Like you have to explain how invading Ukraine will accomplish those things
I guess what I'm saying is everything I've seen about Russia-Ukraine is dumber than average so if anyone has any actual good analysis please link me to it
Case in point, I was at the laundromat and some British guy was on TV calling Russia-Ukraine intel a "wilderness of mirrors" and instead of laughing at him for that nonsense the anchor complimented him? What the hell?

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Feb 17
There's an actual story here about how rural white republicans are literally terrorizing their neighbors, but it's completely obscured by the weird framing about a "toxic brand" and "ignoring their concerns" that makes it sound like it's Dems' fault
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You know something has gone very wrong in your reporting when your local color is anecdotes of democrats being terrorized and yet the tone of your piece is "why did democrats make republicans do this" ImageImage
"Rural white republicans are bombarding school boards and local election officials with death threats, and their D neighbors can't put up a political sign without it being vandalized. The problem is clear: Dems are alienating them" wtf Image
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Feb 16
I don't fucking caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare
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Metamates is the first thing I've ever muted and it feels fucking great.

Also fuck you if you work for fucking *facebook* and getting renamed/retitled/whatever as a "metamate" was more objectionable than all the horrible shit facebook has done and will do before it implodes
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Feb 15
This guy is always on some dumb shit. Yeah, you're soooo brave and contrarian for saying "lock em up," like wow you're right no one ever says this, we're all prisoners of the woke mob ImageImage
Yeah that's how it works. Just like if you say "we need to house the homeless" you're actually demonizing homeless people, and if you say "we need to help people with addiction" you're working against addicts Image
"We need to shut up about mental health and lock more people up, or else we'll actually get over-policing" man what Image
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Feb 8
I mean if it's gonna happen (and basically the entire American right from Trump on down is loudly and publicly begging for it) it's gonna be in the next three weeks, not three years
We already have mini-convoys or what have you fairly regularly where these guys meet up in a Wal-Mart parking lot and then tool around cities being annoying and/or violent until the cops show up....to protect them. It happens all the time!
"And then the question becomes, who is actually the mayor" it's the cops. The cops do whatever they want with no meaningful civilian oversight or control. We know this already. The actual question if anything is if we can do anything about it.
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Jan 25
Are these people angry that....*other* people aren't dining out? Like they go out to a restaurant and get mad that it's not crowded?
So basically this whole debate has boiled down to "we need to get back to normal" followed by people pointing out that things are basically normal, to which the original folks say "yeah but not enough people in blue cities are doing what I want them to, it feels weirrrrd."

Cool.
Like if I as a bartender in a deep-blue city can put up with making 60-70% less *actual money* for a few months surely these clowns can shut up about seeing some empty tables. Jackasses.
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Jan 24
It's bizarre that the "I'm pro-vax, but anti-mandate" position has any cultural/intellectual purchase whatsoever. It makes no sense through any lens of analysis and it's screamingly obviously in bad faith.
Like even if you take these people at their word you can plainly see that they're just using it to reframe the debate from a concrete one about people getting sick and dying to an abstract one about "my freedoms" to score political points, at the cost of real lives. Monstrous.
From a practical standpoint, the "pro-vax, anti-mandate" stance makes no sense because you're directly endorsing the idea that hospitals should crash during a pandemic even when we have the means to avoid that.
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