Regular Human Bartender

"Or something" is a big tell on how much you actually researched this article.

The national politics media having zero understanding that if you lived in 80s/90s PNW you saw prototrumpism and worked for decades to reject it from the body politic. In essence Portland is ahead of the curve where everyone else will get eventually.

Also just whistling past all of the concepts re: the militia movement that skewed the PNW GOP prior to MAGA and why peeps may be registered Dem/Independent.

You know a site has the juice when the main posting thread by a large contingent of users is legit making up a guy to be mad at.

"Pointing out my strawman is just splitting hairs here guys." Just a nonserious person working for a nonserious org.

Framing west coast politics in beltway insider terms is indicative of the fact that that you didnt attempt to understand the story.

I think you have no idea what you are writing about, and it shows in how you defend your article by backing into a conclusion as opposed to working from a thesis. It's bad faith, lazy writing that smacks of someone who isnt interested in information but instead clicks.

"Okay, but look at it another way: ive got to sane wash my oligarchical paymasters and both sides my way to a byline so that I can keep being an NYT journo and feeling cool at brunch. Gawd."

Whenever someone running a news org talks about representing "all... perspectives" or throws around phrases like "diversity of opinion," ask if they regularly hire and include the viewpoints of abolitionists and socialists.

Also, log the weather and time. Helps structure but also trends.

My biggest piece of least followed Journaling advice is require one sentence everyday. The days where you have more to say, you will. The days where you have less it gives a structure to get through.

Highly recommend not going to sleep if you have a head injury.

"My particular version of anarcho communism involves getting a subscriber base on a website linked to right wing fascists, they will never see it coming."

General reminder that all of this is a reaction to the Floyd protests, the closest we've come since reconstruction to uniting against the white oligarchy.

Colbert averaged 2.42MM viewers a night. So not only are these numbers stupid, they indicate that it wasn't the audience reach they are truly after.

How many viewers was Colbert getting?

Do you have to work at being this stupid, or does it come naturally?

The American media and political establishment rely on the American citizenry to be ill informed and extremely uncurious.

You're not a contrarian when all your views support the bog standard viewpoints of Oligarchs. Be better NPR.

Lawyers are idiots and incredibly cynical, which means that most of them are incredibly good marks

This argument indicates you've either no idea what you are talking about, or do and are just saying nonsense to flood the zone. This is the strawmaniest of strawmen.

More people need to understand that much like in most professions, there are a lot of dumb lawyers out there in positions of authority who absolutely should not be. A positive of this timeline is it is exposing their stupidity, as bouie rightly surmises.

My main character syndrome this year is that i haven't watched a game, even so far as forgetting I had tickets for when they visited, and they keep winning. So sadly I won't be watching. Yw.

I need these people to understand that from a pure human experience perspective she probably now has more in common with her fiancé then the people that want her to write truffaut soundtracks for their own particular version of needing to touch grass.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

i wonder how things would be different if we never started using humanizing language for AI… train, hallucinate, etc.

It's the modern day equivalent of conflating godliness with royalty.

The dumbest thing this country has ever done was conflate wealth with intelligence. Everything else flows from there.

This is dumb, you are dumb.