Ciggy Smoke Bringer

Wife is stoked for The Torrent's opening game and you know were gonna go to a few games, hell yeah

And yet your boy in Seattle does not claim her, would never claim her, hopes she rots in Hell and is still steadfastly committed to doing everything but voting to affect anything (but still does levies for shit that lasts, not a purist), and will hound all of you to the ends of the earth about the f

Portland is the funky podunk port town Seattle imagines it is but ceased being.

Vancouver BC is the cosmopolitan metropolis that Seattle imagines it is but refuses to ever be

It is testament to this era that we have people going psychotic from AI flattery, and a president who loves to be flattered and isnt psychotic, just that shitty.

Im not drunk yet?

lmao, so furious that many of them voted to condemn socialism?

If someone is like 'I can't do that because I never learned how to do it' then there's a prominent fault in what they spent their time doing.

It feels cliche, but teaching people how to teach themselves is the fundamental of education. And this is more about method than subject because the methods should uncork the ability to feed any curiosity without it going haywire into esoterica.

"Ciggy, a theory is more than just empiricism" to which I retort "You're the academic, I'll leave it in your good hands then"

Sending Carl a revolutionary theory of epistemology that relies on flattery as authoritative token and when he takes an earnest peek at the details it's just a link that opens his own inbox back on itself.

"So did you like...paint her walls..."
"Buddy, I painted her walls, her ceiling, the trim on the door frames and windows, did some accent colors for those..."
"Damn Fred, you're a freak magnet"

I don't wanna post a wojack but this is definitely the 'hogwash/fawning' wojack.

ngl, very funny both these people constantly make fun of Dems for trying to win over moderates and they basically just make the exact same analysis but even worse lol

I venture that for anyone who is like him but isn't getting paid like him, it's some mix of being desperate and thick.

See, this is exactly why I found you even if I didn't know of this post. Modes of engagement and corresponding language, you're marvelous dude!

HUH. HUH!

There is something kind of cute about how if they have to decide to do anything, it then turns the ignition over on having to fulfill some kind of objective and now they're dealing with Leftist Problems in Organizing despite not being Leftists and mostly having a completely Liberal Playbook to go on

*whispers* My favorite DSA member, Oliver, would punch him in the gut and do the time happily.

It's better to be Charismatic than Smart, and Smart to delegate to the Charismatic instead of asserting why people should like things the way only a dweeb would.

Its fucking stultifying, like, to ignore how people with Charisma punch above any rational or objective weight, basically delegitimatizing dogged wonk work that tries and fails to draw everything down to data-associative-rainmakers that mostly don't make it rain.

Maybe, just maybe, the problem of representatives is like the problem of cars - sure it allows a lot but it also brings out the worst instincts in people so even if you get where you need to go, you're an angry mess of a person who can not see beyond your limited self and how corrosive it all is.

starting point of selling the person but using a different tack where they will wear it as a badge of honor and sound State Administration and knowing the ins and outs of bureaucratic structure to get better outcomes from directives, so they don't have to make up shit about a pedigree there.

And how the cohort claim is one of understanding suffering associatively. I will say, as much as I hate the entire concept of former CIA being anywhere near The State because they have terrible minds, they aren't bullshitting about that being their story and justification for being there. It's same

Lets just start with the whole frame up of having a representative who must have some compelling narrative to justify their entry and how structurally, they pretty much have to make much of it up, and the more goofy it looks the more you claim to be of a cohort you're clearly not of.

Slightly more advanced: 40s something White Guy, presents as 'roughneck', has some uncouth counter culture edge, has the right establishment enemies, and they pass the gate with rapt applause and the mark of The Proletariat or some shit and I wanna barf.

When I was with DSA, I thought it was just bozo electoral politics to want to bend over backwards to draw people in while alienating everyone who came without lure or treat or trouser dropping, but its somehow deeper yet more vapid than that where the mere appearance of 'roughneck' is enough

I'm not gonna read a whole thing at work, but I will venture that a predominant problem with any kind of 'working class' play is that it's volkist horseshit that rides around on a completely aesthetic stallion because the 'salt of the earth' literally can not and won't access electoral politics play

This is the Renaissance Painting Event, it speaks both to its own situation acutely but the human condition largely.

This is a fun wrinkle because there's positions like 'I won't defeat them, I'll simply abuse them to the point of larger dysfunction' where it looks like you're playing a legitimate game because it's within the legitimated game of who has directive over The State.