Tommy Paine

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Tommy Paine

@radicallymid

Opinions formed after thinking. Unpopular method.

Bellevue, WA Sumali Nisan 2026
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adri ♡@socialistadri·
Hasan's hater just admitted to only hating on him because he realizes he's powerless in every other respect.
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@theserfstv You of all people should be the last one giving advice to anyone…I don’t think I’ve ever heard you string together a combination of words that forms a coherent argument Lance
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes)
Gavin Newsom has said now his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk and Clavicular. Should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son
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@DigitalGroundG Hey…it’s not all bad. It’s a good outlet for me. I find the ability to yell at stupid people helps calm me down. Especially when those stupid people can vote
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Digital Ground Game
Digital Ground Game@DigitalGroundG·
Being liberal on X feels like being a physicist at a flat-earth convention, except at some point, you stop laughing and start worrying about the people around you.
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goldie@flowerafterfire·
@sleepy_devo This psychosexual obsession yall have with this man is embarrassing. Please find something better to do. At least to alleviate everyone’s secondhand embarrassment
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usurp tha chef
usurp tha chef@usurpthachef·
Seems like online lefties are starting to use MAGA’s standards of evidence for all their claims now. AKA just blatantly making shit up because they know their audience doesn’t care about the actual facts of the matter (since they’re both populist brainrot)
Substance@SimplySubstance

‼️🚨WHCD SHOOTER’S SOCIAL MEDIA IS DGG CODED??? @kuihman notices an odd trend w/ Cole Allen’s (the WHCD shooter) reposting habits on his social media Based on the cast of characters Allen reposted and the nature of those posts, Kuihman speculates it all points to him being DGG

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Dev@sleepy_devo·
ben shapiro > hasan i don't like either of them but if you make me choose it won't be hasan if it were jack posobiec vs hasan, that's a much harder choice now, fuck off you lumpenprole
Merrick 🦂@punishedmother

@sleepy_devo Ben Shapiro inspired a mass shooter and you’re just objectively wrong about this current shooters politics. Why are these tweets still up?

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adri ♡@socialistadri·
"He loved YOU, and he hated ME!" - @hasanthehun having to continue to defend himself against liberals who are trying to frame the suspect as a FAN OF HIS when the suspect, in fact, was an establishment Democrat supporter and liberal in every way.
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Unfathomable Studios@NfthmblStudios·
@CptAncapistan at that point you've gone from survival to "getting away with it" which i suspect reintroduces moral culpability and turns a survival choice into willful murder
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Captain Ⓐncapistan@CptAncapistan·
Okay, thought of another wrinkle. If red wins by a large margin, then everyone who is alive pressed red. We all know we all pressed red. That actually builds some social cohesion. But if blue wins, people will spend the rest of their lives suspecting people of pressing red. Admitting to have pressed red will make you a social pariah. There may even be calls to find and punish anyone who pressed red. This would create a highly paranoid society going forward. A narrow red victory is still a disaster scenario, but a dominant red victory may actually be better than a blue victory.
Captain Ⓐncapistan@CptAncapistan

Alright, one last post about this after having given it a lot of thought and seeing people's reasonings. I'll give my final choice at the end. Firstly, I don't think you're necessarily stupid to pick blue or necessarily immoral to pick red. I think a lot of it just comes down to what your first instinct is, "we have to save everyone" or "why would anyone pick the option where you can die?" I think most people are sticking with their first instinct and finding ways to justify it. People are wired differently. It's good that society has a mix of these instincts as both compassion and self-preservation serve a purpose in our survival as a species. There are bad people and good people on both sides, and there are dumb people and smart people on both sides. I also think framing matters a lot, particularly when it's reframed as action vs inaction. The scenarios of taking a poison pill or jumping into a blender/woodchipper make it easy to choose red because blue is more clearly taking a suicidal action. The scenario of the red party killing everyone who voted for the blue party if they win makes it easy to choose blue because red is more clearly taking a homicidal action. The rules are still effectively the same in all three scenarios, but the framing matters. The button example is so controversial because the framing is as neutral as it can be, which lets both the blue side frame red side as homicidal and the red side frame the blue side as suicidal. The best argument I've seen for blue is that the only scenario where no one dies is if more than half of people press blue because we can safely assume that a non-zero number of people will press the blue button. On top of that, if a slim majority picks red, that's basically a Thanos snap situation, and it would be far worse than what the writers of Avengers: Endgame were able to fathom, with the added bonus of a selection bias that eliminates all the people with compassion instinct and leaves us only with the people with the self-preservation instinct. For those reasons, I would hope that the majority press blue. That being said, I still ultimately come down on pressing the red button. There are some 8 billion people in the world. The chances that my choice is the deciding button press is effectively zero. If I press blue, I'm just leaving my fate up to the results. My button press is meaningless. The only way I have agency in this situation is to press the red button. Also, I know my wife is pressing blue, but I don't know what my kids will do. If one or both of my kids press blue while the majority picks red, I can't save them by pressing blue. But, if one or both of my kids press red while the majority picks red, I can guarantee that they aren't orphaned if I press red. But hey, maybe I'm just finding a way to justify my initial instinct, just like everyone else. x.com/waitbutwhy/sta…

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Tommy Paine@radicallymid·
@Jacke_Bee @CreepTools @WhickTv It absolutely can. For example, many consumers say they want more sustainably produced goods, yet most don't actually follow through on buying them. Another example is how much people say they will donate vs how much they usually do when asked to open their wallets.
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WhickTV - Bane of Christian Nationalists
I'm a blue button pusher. Reasons in no necessary order: 1) Many people I love and care for will press blue. Me pressing blue has a chance of saving them, me pressing red does not 2) I would feel bad if I contributed, in however small a way, to the direct death of a non-zero number of people 3) I believe most people will, when it comes down to it, push blue. Pushing blue has the greatest chance of *everyone* surviving.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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@Jacke_Bee @CreepTools @WhickTv I'll chime in here to say that certain outcomes are a lot more obvious and immediate and impact how people make decisions...we know that eating too much bad food leads to weight gain, but we often don't appreciate the effects because they're not immediate.
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jacke@Jacke_Bee·
@CreepTools @radicallymid @WhickTv Riiiiight. Hey why is polling generally reflective of people's voting patterns for elections if it costs nothing to the participant
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Tommy Paine@radicallymid·
@PositivFuturist Let's change the scenario A genie comes up to you and offers you a choice. You can keep all the money in your bank account...or you can put all of it into a pot. If more than 50% of people choose to put their money into a pot, you get your money back. Which do you choose?
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Dalek Ford
Dalek Ford@miracleman29·
@DavidB10094 @mehdirhasan Brianna Wu tried tying the shooter to the pro-Palestine movement, yet he was reposting HER Anti pro-palestine propaganda. He was pro-Israel. Hope that clears things up for you.
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Tommy Paine@radicallymid·
@MargBarAmerica @Noahpinion Idk, he was out there trying to stop the people enabling Isreal right now....more than you dipshits have ever done
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Tommy Paine@radicallymid·
@PushDemsLeft Wait...so the dems shouldn't give him props when he does well? I'm confused...
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