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txttletale · 6 months

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I don't understand why you're advocating against voting for Biden. Obviously, Biden and DeSantis/Trump are both very bad, but there's also obviously still a difference between them. If Biden's policy is 1,000,000 people die and DeSantis's policy is 1,010,000 people die, then surely those 10,000 lives are still well worth fighting for? I could understand if somehow not voting did something to undermine the whole system, to help prevent the 1,000,000 deaths, but it doesn't, as far as I can see.

not to get all game theory about it but if 'the left' (as in, the loose electoral demographic) just blindly vote for whoever promises the least deaths without having any red lines then there will never be any reason for the democrats (slash labour slash insert tepid imperialist european social democratic party here) to ever pursue a policy of less than 1,009,999 people dying. imo if someone is serious about voting as a harm reduction strategy then they (as part of a broader group, what an individual does as i always say is basically irrelevant) need to be willing to play hardball (i.e. have circumstances under which they will not vote and be vocal about this) or they will not actually get any harm reduced in the long run

#ask #deaths-accountant #and needless to say if full-throated genocide support is not a circumstance that merits hardball i cant imagine what would be

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entomolog-t · 4 months

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7 & 10 for the G/T asks please!

Hey Anon! I answered those ones here <3

I'll do two other ones for you :)

19.) Would you rather change size by emotion or be in control of the ability?

Ugh this one genuinely makes me so frustrated because yes I should want to be able to control an ability that is potential dangerous to myself and others but like - theres just such a deep rooted desire for it. I think part of it is this subconscious desire not to have to suppress or neglect feelings. And its some force outside of your own control so its not you scaring everyone from growing- or at least, its not your fault. Someone upset you and they deserve to feel bad.

Of course we dont for the most part consciously express those ideas but for a lot of us, there is that nasty impulsive desire that just seethes in the background (usually form unmet needs of repressing ones emotions).

Or even shrinking- being upset and having someone physically see how small they made you feel.

Theres some catharsis in that.

I don't think I would consciously choose to me an emotional shifter as much as I like it, but it is the one I desire more. I just don't think I could choose it for the right reasons.

25) Would you rather use a stuffed animal as a bed or open grasslands?

This might be one of the few examples where I'll go of the script of being giant aligned because while I love being outdoors and sleeping on a grass field sounds amazing- squishmallows exist and I would love to just toss myself onto one

#These ones were also hardballs tbh #g/t #giant/tiny #g/t prompts #AskEnto

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iovesia · 9 months

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hey josie (i hope you don’t mind me calling you that) !

so…imagine coming home to conor drunk as hell and taking care of him, with the blood on his hands from getting shards of glass in them after punching the bar’s windows up.

sitting on his lap while wrapping bandaids around his hands in bed <3<3

then when it’s late you eventually get tired so you tell him you need to go home, but he insists on you staying and tells you to just borrow his clothes.

“oh conor,” you clipped the last bandaid around his hand. “i have to go home. i’m sleepy.” you kiss his forehead.

“no, baby, stay here tonight…” his words are slurred. “stay - here.” he sighs as he pulls you down on his chest, as if you were going to sleep on him. you giggle with a flustered face.

“my clothes aren’t comfy to sleep in. let me just go ho-“ “no, wear - wear my clothes - just stay baby.” you gulp.

in the morning, you wake up finding yourself asleep in his ginormous shirt and your panties, on his chest. he’s still sleeping, so you don’t dare move.

- 🌸 anon ! :)

my honest reaction (#SEEPICTURESBELOW:) eek!! my first conor ask god bless you nonnie (sidenote, totally fine, ofc you can call me josie ♡). i'm literally kicking my feet. i love my disheveled little man.

୨ ˙ ∘ cw. drunkenness. a jumbled hc / drabble thing going on.

it's another night when you come home to find your boyfriend grumbling and stumbling around the apartment like he has two left feet. you sigh as you help him rest on the bed. and even in his drunken state he can feel your disappointment and concern radiating from you.

".. 'm sorry," he mumbles, pressing a kiss to your shoulder as you quietly wipe his cuts. you briefly look up from what you're doing, taking out a shard of glass a little too roughly and making him wince. ".. fine.. i deserved that."

of course you're a little mad— you never like him hanging out at the that bar— let alone picking a fight and coming home trashed. when you're finally done and pack away the first aid kit, you come back into the room and see conor already lying face first down the bed.

"wait.. don't go," conor mumbles tiredly, gently holding on to your wrist. you've come to kiss him goodbye when suddenly he's awoken.

"conor, honey, i have to go— i'll see you tomorrow okay?" you try and plead softly with your boyfriend, but he only frowns, lifting himself up. he rests his forehead against yours, gently pecking your lips. "conor," you grin.

"c'mon.. just stay, you're..you're here, anyways," he hiccups a little.

"conor, you're drunk and tired— i'm tired," you reason softly, resting a hand on his chest. "plus, i don't even have my pajamas—"

"me neither," he interrupts, with a smirk. "see? you're fine, just stay. i'll give you my stuff to wear, c'mon."

(needy ass man, but i digress! 🤨) of course you stay with him after he continues bugging you about it. you actually managed to find a clean shirt and throw it over yourself, leaving you in only your underwear as you crawl into your boyfriends bed.

conor's soooo clingy in the morning or when he's really tired. when you try to get up out of bed the next morning, he damn near rolls on top of you.

"conor, c'mon," you giggle softly when he shifts closer to you, pulling you closer to his warm chest. "some of us have jobs, y'know?"

"hey.. i have one," conor mumbles sleepily, his arm wraps tighter around your waist. before you could protest again, you hear soft snores falling from his lips and you sigh.

i guess you could stay a little longer . . . 🤭

#love letters.#this was so cute nonnie ily for this #conor o'neill x reader #conor o'neill imagine #hardball 2005 #keanu reeves x reader #keanu reeves imagine #*⠀conor o'neill.#🌸 anon.

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raurquiz · 8 months

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#happybirthday #keanureeves #actor #neo #thematrix #reloaded #revolutions #resurrections #dracula #billandted #bogusjourney #facethemusic #constantine #johnwick #parebellum #sweetnovember #hardball #47ronin #thelakehouse #thedevilsadvocate #pointbreak #speed #replicas #toystory4

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mostlysignssomeportents · 11 months

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How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown

’m coming to the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in HAY-ON-WYE with my novel Red Team Blues:

Sun (May 28), 1130AM: The AI Enigma

Mon (May 29), 12PM: Danger and Desire at the Frontier

I’m at OXFORD’s Blackwell’s on May 29 at 7:30PM with Tim Harford.

Then it’s Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Berlin!

Is it legal for Congress to default on the US national debt? It depends on who you ask. There are a ton of good legal arguments for and against, so perhaps it comes down to what the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, partisan) Supreme Court says?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/biden-administration-debt-republican.html

Put in those terms, it seems like the game was over before it began. Biden should just surrender, hand the most extreme wing of the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, authoritarian) Republican Party whatever it wants, even if doing so will push Biden’s approval rating even lower, dangerously close to the next federal election.

In this telling, the Republicans have already won. The decision to let the GOP steal three Supreme Court seats, combined with the decision not to end the debt ceiling charade when Dems had the majorities to do so, means that from now on, we live in the GOP’s shithole country, where the only “freedoms” that matter are the freedom to control others’ bodily autonomy and gender expression; the freedom to exploit labor; the freedom to censor ideas that challenge white nationalist, imperialist messages; and the freedom to menace with open-carry assault weapons:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html

In other words, we’re screwed. Might as well dig a hole, climb inside, and pull the dirt in on top of us.

Fuck that.

There are clear majorities in support of the Build Back Better agenda, and even for the watered down Machin Synematic Universe version we got through the Infrastructure Bill. If the Dems could mobilize voters — by convincing them that they were committed to doing things rather than capitulating — they could win strong majorities in 2024. Even in the gerrymandered, antimajoritarian America, electoral wins are possible — they just require overwhelming turnout, rather than the 50.00001% “victories” favored by “data-driven” Democratic consultants (victories that leave the party incapable of governing, and let monsters like Joe Manchin hold the entire nation hostage).

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe doing things won’t mobilize voters. But if we’re already going to stipulate that without significant majorities, the real President of the United States is the three-headed monster (Gorsuch, Thomas, and Roberts), and the billionaires who yank their chains, then what do we have to lose?

There are a lot of things that Biden could try to get through the debt ceiling crisis without giving up on the promises he made to the American people and the programs the American Congress passed. Here’s a couple interesting ones, courtesy of Brad DeLong:

“The Federal Reserve might simply record a negative balance in the Treasury account,” then create an “overdraft” account and pay the US’s obligations out of it;

The Fed could tell retail banks trying to clear government checks that the checks didn’t clear, and the banks could tell their depositors, “ your Treasury check has bounced, but do not worry, we have credited your account, anyway, and will handle this, and please be very grateful to us.”

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/debt-ceiling-what-are-e-fallback

Of course, there are lots of other possibilities: Biden could issue an Executive Order to the effect that the Debt Ceiling violates the 14th Amendment. Or that it violates the Contracts Clause. Or he could order the Treasury to start issuing coupon-free bonds. Or he could just mint the coin:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734654/government-debt-default-trillion-dollar-platinum-coin

Yes, each of these would end up in front of the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, partisan) Supreme Court, who would very likely strike them down.

But writing for The American Prospect, Ryan Cooper argues that this could still be sound tactics:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-25-democrats-fear-supreme-court/

If Biden does something about the debt default, and the Supremes block it, then the default is their fault. What’s more, it’s a mess they absolutely do not want to get into, like deciding which of the US’s creditors will and won’t get paid when they sue over the default. And if the court won’t do it, will they give the president the power to “just pick and choose what gets paid? That would give him a de facto line-item veto over the entire budget, and the Court has already ruled that a law explicitly giving him that power is unconstitutional”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York

Basically, if the Supreme Court kills Biden’s attempt to resolve the budget crisis, then it becomes the Supreme Court’s problem, as everyone owed a federal payment “say, Social Security beneficiaries or military contractors,” brings a case — “There would be tens of millions of such potential litigants.”

So what should Biden do?

Call their bluff.

First, mint the coin. If the court strikes that down, issue coupon-free bonds. If the court strikes that down, declare debt ceilings to violate the 14th Amendment. If the court strikes that down, declare it to violate the Contracts Clause. Keep doing it. Throw in every solution including the kitchen sink — but never give into the GOP’s demand for Biden to violate his promise to the American people and unilaterally tear up laws establishing programs that make our lives better.

This is what Lincoln did when the Supreme Court blocked his attempts to end slavery. It’s what FDR did when they blocked the New Deal. The court doesn’t have an army, it can’t force its decisions on the American people. It doesn’t have a bureaucratic workforce and it can’t take over the administrative branch — hell, they don’t even have the keys to the office buildings.

The Supreme Court’s power comes from its legitimacy, not force of arms, and while they may not act like it, the Supremes know in their bones that without legitimacy, they are nothing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/consequentialism/#dotards-in-robes

The justices in stolen seats have made it clear that they consider themselves to be “a de facto super-legislature that rules in favor of its own partisan policy objectives based on tendentious up-is-down reasoning or no reasoning at all.” This is an illegitimate proposition.

The Supreme Court can’t get any less legitimate. If Biden were to ignore the Supremes and make good law in the teeth of their pronouncements, it couldn’t make the situation any worse than it is today. The Supremes have set themselves against labor law, against climate resiliency, against bodily autonomy, against political accountability, against the rule of law itself. We should not — we must not — cede the power to overrule democratically elected lawmakers and the will of the people.

As Cooper says, Biden should tell the Supremes to go pound sand and then “raise holy hell in speeches and the press to make clear the grotesque irresponsibility of what is happening”:

Here’s an institution trying to cause a completely pointless national default, destroying untold jobs, businesses, and the credit rating of the country, whose elite members are all unelected, where five members of the majority were appointed by a president who took office after losing the popular vote, and one of whom occupies a blatantly stolen seat. Here’s an institution that has struck down anti-corruption laws by the bushel and is openly rolling in oligarch graft like Scrooge McDuck, while declaring itself to be immune from oversight. All that would add to the political pressure on the justices.

If Biden can’t do well for the American people they they will not turn out in the massive majorities that Democrats need to get minimal majorities. If Biden can’t do well for the American people, then Biden — who would lose an election to either Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump if it were called today — will turn America’s predators loose on its people for at least four more years:

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/2024-presidential-election-2016-donald-trump-joe-biden/

And let’s face it, it’ll be Trump. DeSantis is dead in the water. The GOP is the party of out-of-control, swivel-eyed loons who’ve been whipped into a terrorized frenzy by an evil, crapulent senescent Australian billionaire and his freak henchmen, like the taint-tanning frozen food failson. They aren’t going to elect “smart Trump.” They like “stupid Trump” (AKA “Trump”) too much.

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Hay-on-Wye, Oxford, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/mint-the-coin-etc-etc/#blitz-em

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#pluralistic #elections have consequences #president trump again #x-day #debt ceiling #consequentialism #scotus #supreme court #hardball #elections #contracts clause #coupon-free bonds #paul krugman #14th amendment #executive orders

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moregraceful · 7 months

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my friend and i getting into a legit argument about who is at fault for the giants shitshow this season, gabe or the players...she's like, i think the players are failing to take it seriously and that's not on gabe! they're not playing for the game! that's not his fault! which is. what. i'm like, gabe treats his players chess pieces and he treats games like a math problem. and his math SUCKS. you don't play sports based on analytics, you can't build a roster on sabermetrics bc that doesn't account for the very real human aspect of the game played by human players! the players fail to take it seriously bc gabe has done nothing to gain their respect and their trust bc he views them as a collections of statistics that can be manipulated by math! how are you supposed to take anything seriously if someone thinks your play is determined by numbers? like that's not sports. yeah alex wood COBB SORRY KING is an amazing pitcher, but did he have his mid-game banana. like did your players get enough sleep? is the bullpen beefing with each other? are the infielders communicating in and out of games? how stressed are your rookies coming out of a phenomenally awful development system? like: do the players trust each other and do they trust their manager to help them navigate the stress they have around their careers and their lives? if your boss makes decisions about your career strictly based on how what your analytics are, yeah you're not gonna trust him or care about anything he has to say bc he doesn't care about you as a human. jfc i'm so irritated about this argument lmao. like yeah the giants are a clownshow ass team and they need a serious reality check, but if they don't have a leader they know will hold them accountable as humans, not just as players but as PEOPLE WHO EXIST IN THE WORLD, how they are going to change?? why would they even care???

#being mad on the internet so i don't blow up the groupchat lol #she was like well they only last 1-2 years anyway i'm like SO MAYBE FARHAN SHOULD MAKE A INVESTMENT IN OUR PLAYERS #HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO LAST MORE THAN A YEAR IF FARHAN DOESN'T TRUST THEM TO SIGN THEM LONGER THAN 1-2 YEARS #if i was signed to a 2 year contract and i had to play with kapler and farhan was playing hardball i'd walk too! ok ok i'm done #created a calendar for church this morning that covers about 11 timezones so i'm a little frazzled #i need a sandwich. goat cheese time #fresno oilers.txt

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keanuquotes · 4 months

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2001 Hardball

#keanu reeves #connor o’neill #hardball movie #king of the close up #conor o'neill

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imajinxnation · 4 days

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Now writing for Conor O'Neil!!

I hate sports, but for Keanu, I'll love it, just this once..

#keanu reeves #x reader #keanu my beloved #keanu reeves characters #keanuverse #keanu reeves x reader #keanu reeves imagine #conor o'niel #hardball

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gijoe-forever · 4 months

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#gijoe #cross country #havoc #hardball #repeater

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clonerightsagenda · 7 months

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I really enjoy the noticeable shifts in Eiffel and Minkowski's behavior after the restraining bolts. They're short tempered, reckless, aggressive. They've gone through a horrible, dehumanizing experience, and they don't have a one scene heart-to-heart and get over it. They're traumatized and behaving accordingly. That's what Goddard does to people. It's what it did to Lovelace. Suddenly Eiffel of all people deliberately tries to hurt people. Minkowski is pointing guns and playing hardball. If the versions of them from the end of season 4 got dumped into a new unfamiliar situation, I could absolutely see Minkowski in particular being the season 2 Lovelace in that scenario.

#something something that miserable wretch you people turned Isabel Lovelace into #ofc then Minkowski STOPS playing hardball and just.... lets Kepler and Rachel walk off the Sol at the start of the finale #a decision I am always gnashing my teeth over #yes it worked out fine bc they ended up killing each other off #but that could've significantly changed their odds if they HADN'T #either shoot them or knock them over the heads tie them up and shove them in a closet #you had them RIGHT there and Hera had full control over the Sol's systems #(lbr if they had done that Kepler and Rachel still would've somehow killed each other while tied up #but the point stands)#wolf 359

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cavehags · 9 months

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