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Moving forward, the democrats don't need a single celebrity-level personality.

They need one message: "Donald Trump is the moral center of the Republican Party."

At this point, that doesn't need further evidence or explanation. It's not an attack ad. It's a simple fact.

A lot of US voters do not like that fact.

It's bizarre to me that the rhetoric that seems to be winning over a large sector of the US electorate is prospective government officials declaring that government is the enemy.

How does the hollow hypocrisy of this never connect?

How does installing gov't officials who are opposed to governing make any sense?

There is a massive rise in chaos with the conservative approach to law-making. They're fostering instability everywhere. Who does volatlity serve?

Only TFG.

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I just saw a question about the Acolyte on Threads.

I had 100% forgotten that was a thing that exists that I started watching.

Is it just me, or is that whole show really that forgettable?

One important, often overlooked, measure of an organisation is what it does in the absence of extrensic motivation.

This can be nearly impossible to determine from the outside, but to me, it is a crucial piece to examine from the inside.

What do we do with our time and resources when there is a lull? What motivates us internally? What would we do regardless of whether there are clients or contracts?

Conversely, what feels like too much work? What is stultified with internal resistance?

Have our leaders lied to us? Is it lying if they believed what they said? Did they believe it? How do we know?

How do we metabolise generations of assumptions that are being revealed to be untrue? Some of it seems benevolent and generous. Some of it is clearly evil and self-serving. A lot of it seems like a weird mixture of both.

Who can help us wrestle with any of this at the scale needed?

#CredibilityCrisis

Oops.

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If the GOP really cared about the USA, they would not have chosen such a controversial character as their frontrunner.

There is no benefit for the republican party, or for the country, in them elevating a person who is so polarising that he is distateful to elements of their own party who are not part of the cult.

This should have been more of a talking point back in 2016.

It has only become more obvious and extreme since, as his (moral and legal) degeneracy has become increasingly public.

I view the credibility crisis as one of the largest pieces of the polycrisis. Credibility and accountability share a strong bond.

In even the smallest ways, people are culturally predisposed to make policies to protect themselves from human accountability.

When (any) words on (any) paper are used as a shield to protect themselves from (any) consequences, we're already in danger.

And this isn't new; it's an advanced, sophisticated phenomenon.

Once you see it, you can't stop seeing it.

"Everything's made up and the points don't matter" is actually a solid motto for life.

Just finished Space Cadet on Prime. It's way more fun than its premise would indicate.

I'll be looking out for writer/director Liz W. Garcia's next project.

Fellow cosonauts: my office is hiring someone to be on my team who will be joining us remotely. I strongly believe in the candidate, but this is a new experiment for me/us.

What advice do you have for me as team lead for on-ramping a remote teammate?

TFG has no capacity to trust and so is incapable of trustworthiness.

He demands loyalty, but is himself disloyal.

His schtick only works on the people eager to see him as a self-fulfilling prophecy...which has never actually paid off for them.

There is a lot that is politically actionable there. TFG is thriving on some kind of mystique. He is the martyr-bully, which makes him difficult to target.

Difficult, but far from impossible.

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Language (as a stand-in for all communication) operates in the tension between order and chaos.

It helps us make sense of things, which means that nothing is entirely nebulous, yet every time we think we have something defined perfectly, we discover more of its limitations.

A defining characteristic of a developed country is that it has predictable and trustworthy systems.

In North America, conservatives are actively destabilising legal and political systems. Destabilisation isn't their actual goal. Rather, they want the systems reshaped to their will.

Yet the volatility they are forcing will have repercussions that they ultimately do not want, and ultimately cannot control.

In this way, they are dangerously close to manifesting everything they are afraid of.

I have a lot of patience for people who aren't familiar with technology, but they really need to slow down and read all the prompts and dialogue boxes.

People who are less comfortable with tech who just dash through steps without reading anything...I don't want to watch a video of my face watching a colleague do that just now.

I have officially reached I-have-to-regularly-trim-my-eyebrows-now years old.

There are a lot of people speaking with the authoritativeness of mental health professionals who are speaking from their trauma and not their informed, broad-based education.

Your mental health is not something to trust to influencers.

Does anyone know why we say "back-to-back meetings?"

I mean, that's a weird alignment -- our meetings are all facing away from each other?

I figure at least one of you knows this phrase's origin story...or can come up with something pretty convincing!