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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2h

I immediately looked into their immigration policies. Only need about another 100,000 euros and I can pull it off

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

This is, in fact, not a problem. This is the ideal society

Cyprus has a cat problem: One feline for every resident

Cyprus has a cat problem. Officials estimate the small island nation in the Mediterranean has about one cat for every one of its approximately 1 million human population.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 3h

This is 100% who these people are

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 13h

Oligarchs always end up with class solidarity trumping everything else

NEVER trust them even not to kill you on purpose for some more $

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

this is true, and I also would like activists to finally figure out that Facebook hates you and works for Donald Trump

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 21h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 20h

Subscribing to Der Sturmer for the comics pages.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

There is no way this isn't conscious and intentional

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

100%

My entire aware life, starting with the Reagan revolution

Nothing but continually ceding narratives and ground to the GOP

And now we at fascism

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

it will always baffle me how democrats will cede all narratives to the far right on topics like immigration, whenever the right gets in office public opinion slides against them on this issue and you’ll see your average american protesting against ICE. dems need to stop ceding ground

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

100%

My entire aware life, starting with the Reagan revolution

Nothing but continually ceding narratives and ground to the GOP

And now we at fascism

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

it will always baffle me how democrats will cede all narratives to the far right on topics like immigration, whenever the right gets in office public opinion slides against them on this issue and you’ll see your average american protesting against ICE. dems need to stop ceding ground

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein has been dead for a while

I'll bet Mosad and the CIA have created a new one by now

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 1d

Biden should be sent to the Hague just for this statement

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 1d

lol

lmao

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

antifa descending en masse upon (Communist) Party City

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow a right winger posing as a centrist applauding another right winger laundering fascism as a centrist, let’s all be shocked hahaha

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is absolutely part of the fascist project the GOP has been working towards for more than a decade. The IDW for fucks sake

They have gotten a ton of neoliberal media people to endorse that project because of how idiotic and craven media people like Sally are

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

He may have a vengeance campaign but Thiel, Vance, Miller, Leo, Musk and other oligarchs have a fascist campaign which has been kicking the Dems butts as they desperately cling onto neoliberalism

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

So infuriating that they turned away from Walz, the "they're weird" and populist tinged campaign of the early days to Marc Cuban/David Plouffe "let's be nice to the GOP and 1%" garbage

Tim Walz would have won

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

How does one not die of embarrassment from that?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Even Matty Y is dunking on her.

Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

Arguably one of the top 5 most powerful people in the world right now

They don't just long for the end times, they want to actively create them

We live in evil times

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

Just kind of struck me how similar the NYT and Susan Collin's concern trolling are

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 6d

The New York Times, seeing increasing numbers of youth-led national revolutions happening: Not very orderly stuff going on here, quite distasteful if you ask me

The New York Damn Times, 2 hours ago: how Nepal's Gen z revolution spiraled out of control

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 2d

They are fascists. They love the violence. They would love more violence

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."