Premium 373: Shooting Crackers In A Barrel
Added 2025-08-25 21:15:10 +0000 UTCMisophonia warning for first ~5 minutes or so
Cracker Barrel, the Tallow restaurant, urban legends about soldiers and whiskey, Tennessee healthcare executives, deep south Walter White
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"I'm sorry sir, you can't have this hoagie. If we let you have it, Timothy Mcveigh will just take it and sell it on the black market we're pretty sure exists. I hope this answers most of your questions."
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-09-01 15:12:01 +0000 UTC...I checked CNN earlier today, and one of their lead-in thing about the current shooting was "JD Vance, and the important nuance of the ‘thoughts and prayers’ debate". The current episode of this podcast was good in the sense of catching feelings of how things actually are experienced. Like, there's "being in the US right now is to be cooked", but it's not like the rest of the world is particularly freed up to do "whatever is needed". ..but yeah. Let's get into the nitty gritty of thoughts and prayers. It's 2008 again, and that's what people want to mull on. ..the thing is that the US doesn't have to actually resolve "their notorious and extraordinary gun-violence problem". Like, don't even worry about it. You've punted on this for so long that it has bleed into and gotten obfuscated to a degree that it has dovetailed into the current anxiety of "the ocean is realistically going to swallow most of our shit". These things are now one and the same, as contemporary US issues go. ...There is this "thing" about "being a doomer", but there is also this thing that's called "accurately clocking dynamics". People generally want good news - understandably - but I think one of the few leeways you get "as a leftist" is the freedom of clocking shit as they are. If you were adjacent to actual power, there is this pull to either put a good spin on bad news, or soften the blow of things. When you're effectively politically irrelevant, you also have the freedom to not put a bunch of disclaimers before giving your opinion about whatever.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-08-29 23:33:37 +0000 UTC"Here's what the party in direct opposition to my interests should do to succeed"-articles are pretty funny as a phenomeon. Like, I get that they are baseline about trolling, gloating and dunking after you've won (and to do some passive influence-peddling for the most credulous rubes imaginable "wow even republicans are saying we should do this!"), but if you just take them for what they are, at face value, they're pretty funny. "hey sweetie-pie, here's my tips for how you can win, I am giving you this advice in the most earnest of faith uwu panda-bear-kisses-emoji" //No shade on not clocking who wrote the article before you read it. Happens to the most of us.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-08-29 20:19:08 +0000 UTC
