Jim Lawrence

Jim Lawrence

@jim85.bsky.social

586 Followers 315 Following 1,794 Posts Joined Jun 2023
9 hours ago

Oh no, did they happen to not treat a minority with maximum disdain?

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15 hours ago

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

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18 hours ago

I’ve got that guy blocked lol

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19 hours ago

god, welker is so bad at this. when you ask a question where the "good" answer is "no" and the "bad" answer is "yes," and the respondent doesn't answer the question, the answer is "yes"! not "no!"

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20 hours ago
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Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

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1 day ago

“Politico says democrats want blank”

Opens article.

Quote from third way hack Matt Bennett saying the thing.

Every fucking goddamn time.

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1 day ago

Dems trying the 2004 strategy a quarter century later:

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1 day ago
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.  

The law is clear.  Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. 

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. 

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong.  It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media.  And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

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2 days ago

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

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1 day ago

Student: “Chat, how did I get an F on this test?!”

ChatGPT: “Because I gave you the wrong answers, dummy!”

Also ChatGPT:

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1 day ago

I feel like the “concentrated stream” might be redundant, but that sounds pretty dangerous, yeah.

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1 day ago

I think Palpatine was manipulating them to go after Naboo to get the chancellor replaced…because the circumstances around it were a bit different, plus the weakness people perceived in the government over the Federation doing this for a long time…I don’t know all the details though lol

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1 day ago

Oh, the movie is still kind of badly written in many ways…but I started giving it more credit for the politics when I realized how stupid real life descent into fascism is.

As for no one being mad, I think people were. The Trade Federation had been doing this to a lot of planets before Naboo.

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1 day ago

Eh, why should we research Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease? It's not like these issues could ever possibly affect me, personally, because I, like every Republican, have no conception of time, probability, or cause and effect, I exist in a void filled solely by malicious urges.

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2 days ago

okay so like with this action is the admin trying to get oil prices juiced like what's the plan here lol. who in the cabinet has a kalshi bet on $200/bbl

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2 days ago

Wasn’t that kind of the point though? The Trade Federation wanted to cut off and invade Naboo because they didn’t think they were getting a big enough cut of their trade because Naboo was mostly fine with telling them to fuck off?

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2 days ago

Damn, this is catching eyeballs. Here, check this neat Steam event where lots of Irish games are being showcased. Show up for gamedevs as much as you like talking shit about AI.

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2 days ago

in hindsight a little funny of them to go "you cant ask us about the pedophilia right now, the market is too good" and then just go and tank the market

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2 days ago

Yeah, oil’s hitting $130 a barrel next week…at least…

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2 days ago

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

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2 days ago

Oh fuck…

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2 days ago

oh?????? Could it?????????????

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2 days ago

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

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2 days ago
george lucas saying “still think trade route disputes are a stupid plot point bitch?”
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2 days ago

“Most popular consumer products in history” about some vastly unpopular products as well.

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2 days ago

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

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2 days ago
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

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2 days ago
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For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

Better article re: the #TargetBoycott

"The company confirmed to USA Today that it’s making no new commitments or reversals on its DEI policy."

and

"Black women across the country are reminding people that they started the boycott — and they’ll decide when it ends."

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2 days ago

Minnesotans deserve restitution from ICE's terror campaign.

The ICE surge cost Minneapolis $200 million in just one month. That’s before overtime, charter flights, and detention contracts.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize their own trauma.

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2 days ago

We need a complete shutdown on “No Tax On…” proposals until we can figure out what the hell is going on

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