2026-10-26 11:49 UTC
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2026-10-26 12:14
@stux@mstdn.social There's always someone willing to buy an aircastle or a bridge which doesn't exist...
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@isotope239@mastodon.online 2026-10-26 12:16
@stux@mstdn.social Disappointing ain't it?
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@Orb2069@mastodon.online 2026-10-26 12:42
@stux@mstdn.social the 'ha ha, only kidding' is still a big part of the recruitment funnel - every 30-something that says "gas the ..." In a COD chatroom 'ironically' normalizes that shit to the 14 year olds watching.
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@appassionato@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 12:55
@stux@mstdn.social #US
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@sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-10-26 12:58
@stux@mstdn.social they are also trolling.
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@closeted_unionist@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 13:04
@stux@mstdn.social As a kid, I thought they were exaggerating. Like who would be insane enough to follow through, but God I was wrong
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-10-26 13:19
@stux@mstdn.social The far right is a cultivated form of stupidity. Billionaires spend enormous sums growing the stupidity. Koch Network leverages racism to attack public education & health. It spent millions to sabotage women's unions like public services, teachers & nurses. Trump wants to deprofessionalize nursing & teaching to remove access to student loans. The low wages in both jobs create severe labor shortages in schools & hospitals. Algorithmic wage discrimination worsens the labor shortages.
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@BradCr@mstdn.social 2026-10-26 13:43
@stux@mstdn.social and those people are voting, so the rest of us (the sane ones) also need to vote.
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@MusiqueNow@masto.ai 2026-10-26 13:43
@stux@mstdn.social Yup!
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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 13:45
@stux@mstdn.social Turns out Carlo Cipolla and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were right about stupid people being a bigger danger than evil people
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@amateur_ninja@mastodon.online 2026-10-26 14:08
@stux@mstdn.social I grew up in a not-quite-THAT-bad-politically area and the distance provided by time has given me so much to think about. Like, yes, I used to be on the wrong side of a lot of stuff I shouldn't have been because that was the environment and I didn't know better, but now I see some people who used to be tolerable at worst, even by today's standards, deviating towards cartoon levels of evil, and it's sad in so many ways.
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@rgulick@social.coop 2026-10-26 14:12
@stux@mstdn.social Just prior to my own awakening in 2004 about underestimating the depth of right wing stupidity, I remember saying to someone, "There's no way people are going to be stupid enough to vote for Bush a second time!"
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@zenkat@sfba.social 2026-10-26 14:40
@stux@mstdn.social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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@mikej@mastodon.online 2026-10-26 15:16
@stux@mstdn.social Many of them thought it was a joke and they were just trolling. Turns out you become what you pretend to be,.