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Re: dramatically changing 19th century dress silhouettes, thinkin about the time a whaler finally came home from a 4 year voyage and was just like ‘WHAT IS GOING ON’ when reencountering hoop skirts.

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points and laughs at my mutuals getting famous posts while i remain safe in my relative obscurity

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whatever. go my elf drawing

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and if i drew a cute elf girl? with purple hair? then what my friends

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This was in another goodwill bin and I'm gonna put the back cover under a cut just so you can experience the same sensation of flipping it over to see this:

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TIP: You can artificially create VALUES, HABITS, and MOTIVATION through the use of PSEUDO-RELIGIOUS RITUALS and ITEMS.

You can make LITTLE CLAY IDOLS and you will feel JUDGED much the same way you would by a real GOD.

This strategy is VERY HEALTHY probably.

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It's a shame that the best way to make money off of Occultism is:

A)Taking advantage of vulnerable people looking for hope.

And

B) Mostly uses very basic, boring, occult concepts. It's easier to scam people with some aura bullshit than with the Emanations of God.

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the order of rodentia sounds like a circle of knights from ages past but you may be surprised to learn these noble warriors are still fighting their holy battles to this day

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so jason isaacs hangs dong in White Lotus huh…

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Hitler particle-wave duality

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He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

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something interesting i saw recently is people on twitter discussing how in order to get funding for your startup in silicon valley you have to perform sexual favours for VCs. the most interesting part was that this was being discussed nonchalantly and not negatively by people in those circles. one comment was like "so what, i had to do a little gay stuff and now i get to build rocketships".

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in amber skies, is alberta still rat-free?

rats have been extinct for roughly 10,000 years, and Calgary is buried under a thirty foot glacial ice shelf.

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This essay cites some actual poli sci research to back up what I've been saying (much more poorly) about the limits and failures of popularism as a campaign strategy--"what is popular" does not exist out in the world for campaign consultants and pollsters to discovery organically, but is part of a process of feedback that involves (indeed, requires) parties and politicians to stake out positions first, rather than being simply reactive to what polls well.

In the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, one of the big issues was Social Security privatization. Bush wanted to (partially) privatize, Gore didn’t. Political scientist Gabriel Lenz looked at survey data gathered from voters both early in the election cycle and then again right before the election. He found that initially, there was little correlation between voters’ positions on Social Security privatization and their choice of candidate. By the time the election rolled around, however, the voters had seemingly sorted themselves: people who supported privatization tended to support Bush, and people who opposed it supported Gore. You might think this makes sense: people saw what the candidates stood for, and then aligned with the candidate who matched their position. But that’s not what happened. The surveys showed that the voters’ choice of candidates generally hadn’t changed. Instead, they had changed their position on Social Security privatization to match their chosen candidate. Not only that, but almost no voters changed their preferred candidate based on the issue. The voters weren’t switching candidates based on their policy positions, they were switching policy positions based on their candidate.

There are countless studies reaching similar conclusions. “Party cues,” as political scientists call them, are powerful things. It’s been found that party cues have lasting effects, and in some cases can even overcome voters’ own self-interest. Lenz wrote a book on the subject where he compiled and analyzed much of the existing research. He concluded that “instead of politicians following voters on policy, voters appear to follow politicians.” This idea has its limitations: research shows that the ability of political leaders to influence voters is minimal in some circumstances. When issues are already salient and opinions have hardened, the ability of party leaders to drive opinion wanes. A candidate is not likely to change an affordable housing expert’s position on affordable housing. But for an issue like trans rights, which has only come to the center of the public’s attention recently, voters are highly moveable.

Reactive moves to try to capture voters by tacking toward the perceived center on an issue (like almost every party moving right on immigration here in Germany, or Democrats tacking right on trans rights in the US, and so forth) are never going to be as successful as they "should" be if you assume voter policy preference exists before and independent of larger political discourse.