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Hemry, Local Bartender
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Next round's on me.
Dec 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Main takeaway from THE TWITTER FILES is that they're an extremely pathetic expression of the reactionary delusion that their views would be wildly popular if only people could see them, despite those views already being constantly disseminated by very loud & prominent idiots A fundamental aspect of these dinguses is just being sad & pitiable: they keep expressing noxious stupidity and repelling people, but they've conned themselves into believing that there's no way their idiocy could possibly be unpersuasive absent some conspiracy against them
Sep 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
DeSantis's argument is nonsensical and incriminating, but equally important is that it's a obvious, easily-debunked lie: Biden condemned the human traffickers responsible and they were arrested the following day. DeSantis: I didn't hear any outrage about 50 migrants dying in a tractor trailer

Joe Biden: [immediately after it happened] I am outraged that 50 migrants died in a tractor trailer and we will go after those responsible
Sep 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We need to fire every US immigration agent and replace them with people who've been working in the service industry their entire lives Amidst an enormous labor shortage and as a matter of general principle, instead of a wall of petty tyrants acting out their sick power fantasies we should have a horde of people who've been trained since job one to treat anyone they encounter as a potential New God
Aug 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If I was a candidate with kind of a weird name I wouldn't make up a nickname for my opponent that makes her sound even cooler "Big Gretch" sounds like a rap star
Aug 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For me what it comes down to is you can prosecute Trump and have his supporters wrongly think the rule of law is a sham or you can intentionally refuse to prosecute Trump and have the entire country correctly think the rule of law is a sham Image Like yes, there is a broad legitimacy crisis in this country, but it's caused by right wingers acting in bad faith. You don't restore legitimacy by giving into their crackpot demands.

E.g. lots of Rs think elections are a sham. Is the solution to stop having elections?
Aug 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Invoking my emergency powers to declare the work from home debate Annoying I will now settle this debate: if you want to work from home, you should be allowed to work from home. If you don't want to work from home, you shouldn't do it. Choose either option secure in the knowledge that it carries no deep significance about the meaning of your life.
Jul 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
When I worked at the fancy hotel bar last year it was mind-blowing both how often I would hear this (and it wasn't "there will be" but "we NEED a civil war!") and also how it was never accompanied by any thought whatsoever about how this would, for lack of a better word, work Like I'm sorry but if you're going to be like "it's time for a civil war" you've got to at least hit the 5 Ws. This is just pure id and vibes, a general sense that "things are messed up" and the concept of mass violence purely in the abstract is going to solve it. Image
Jun 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Putting "training reforms" in quotes here is appropriate, because from the article it's clear that the reforms were "asking the police to stop the 'killology' training" and the academy and police union responding "lol no" Imagine any other branch of public service doing this. Sanitation workers just being like "we have a new way of picking up garbage now, you can't tell us it's wrong to just throw it all in the river" or something Image
Jun 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
It's absolutely insane to me that the media across the board has universally decided that more people having jobs is Bad, Actually The idea that we must make the jobs numbers worse at any cost is total mirror-world nonsense from billionaires and Paul Volcker's ghost, and yet it's presented by all business reporters as the commonest of sense, every damn day
Jun 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
One thing I wish Democratic leaders understood is that Republicans are so intent on attacking LGBTQ rights because they realize that in the court of public opinion they are losing Insofar as LBGTQ rights are a part of the "culture war" as opposed to simply an issue of basic human rights, it's a battle that's being lost by the right at the grassroots level. Dems just shouldn't be cowering to losers
Mar 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
An important common feature of the anti-trans, anti-abortion, and "don't say gay" bills/efforts is the extent to which they deputize rightwing civilians and imbue them with the power of law enforcement to terrorize their neighbors This a central goal of the American right, to legitimate the use of terror and violence by its adherents with the blessing and cooperation of the state.
Mar 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Luke hits the nail on the head. A silo of office workers next to a silo of their cars copy-pasted all over your most valuable real estate is a recipe for a downtown that sucks. Let those people work from home and turn your city center into something people go to to be happy! If nothing else all this pandemic work from home stuff is a golden opportunity to force commercial real estate to acknowledge the legitimate desires and needs of people who actually live in these cities while granting a boon to commuters everywhere else
Mar 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gender pay discrimination should not exist and this bot is a clever idea. However, people should know a lot of the time it's just matching UK data with "close enough" US org names, which leads it to post inaccuracies. E.g. here, where the original tweet is from the Cleveland Ohio police but the data is from the Cleveland UK police
Feb 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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
apnews.com/article/joe-bi… 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"
Feb 17, 2022 • 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
Feb 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I don't fucking caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Feb 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Feb 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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!
Jan 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jan 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 29, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A guest at the bar tonight asked, "so how long have you been in this lockdown" and confused I was like "what lockdown?" to which she responded "you know, the masks [gesturing that I was wearing a mask]" and something really clicked for me in that moment I've been confused by the rightwing rhetoric about "NO MORE LOCKDOWNS" and misinterpreting it as cynical demagoguery, since we never had a real "lockdown" and the most stringent pandemic measures ended over a year ago. But they're just coding every health measure as "lockdown"