Otto DeFay

@speedmariachi.bsky.social

Abolish ICE, punish the criminals, restore democracy. a wop bop baloobop balop bam boom.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

"The Odyssey" was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end the Odysseus turned to the camera & said "The FOMC shoudn't have raised rates in 2015" & then specified that they should have waited until Q2 2017.

I didn't include the link because the video WASN'T EMBEDDED in the story and the headline IS A LIE but I did go to the scientific paper and download the relevant video not sure if anyone needs a TW but the sunfish truly gets blowed up

1–In January 2025, I first started to report on Jimmie “Chris” Duncan. His story was shocking on its face: In 1998 he was sentenced to death for killing Haley Oliveaux, his former girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter. But there was more to the story … 🧵 @propublica.org @veritenews.org

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

yes. IMO the public, consistent performance of any kind of conviction, esp. in a mode that mixes righteous indignation and empathy, over and against self-imposed rhetorical means-testing - is sorely lacking among liberals; no coincidence that only a billionaire (!) seems to think he can afford it

dan solomon@dansolomon.com · 2mo ago

i have no evidence of this but remain convinced that answering this question with conviction is more appealing to more voters, including those who tell pollsters they disagree, than trying to thread any number of needles to find the maximally acceptable answer