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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 12h

The worst thing TLJ ever did was have the entire resistance fit inside the Millennium Falcon

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 18h

Read that as "Doug Walker" and I was like man, I'm way out of the loop with what's going on there

New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 1d

Trump literally started a trade war with China during his first term tho

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 1d

I've been kinda dooming for a while, so it actually feels healing to be out in a crowd like this.
I'm not alone. There's a lot of Americans who feel the same way I do.

New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 1d

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 2d

It was a communist government.
I see "communist" and a hammer & sickle emoji in your bio.

I'd ask you to list an example of your preferred brand of communism but let me guess: "true communism has never been tried"

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 3d

That guy is in your camp, what are you talking about lol

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 3d

"true communism has never been tried!"
Alright well let us know how your non-hierarchical commune works out. I'm sure it will be filled with people who like making prescription glasses for fun, and not filled with cultish sex pests

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 3d

It's kind of ironic that leftists who hate the United States and want to overthrow it base their model of what a revolution looks like on the American Revolution lol
Our revolution was kinda the ideal of how revolutions are supposed to go. They usually don't end that nicely.

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New in town @chowdster.bsky.social · 3d

For some reason I enjoy Sopranos clips but I couldn't stand watching the show. Same with Always Sunny.
Idk, my brain is happy to watch these bumbling idiots get into random shenanigans, but I just don't have the patience to watch them have a whole plot from beginning to end.