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Dodge @girl-in-the-well.bsky.social · 16h

Bluesky leftists are largely comfortable, white, and middle-class. They don't think they're in any danger from fascism, which is why they're so cavalier about playing games with everyone else's lives.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 12h

That’s a good point. Our taxpayer dollars are going towards blowing up innocent Venezuelans and not one of the geNoCidE people are protesting Trump.

Instead they’re spending hundreds of dollars buying a Kamala Harris Book Tour ticket to get inside and yell at her:

R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 18h

The "I don't want my tax money murdering children and families in Palestine" folks.

Well, your tax money is being used to bomb fishing vessels under the false narrative of them being drug traffickers.

Those are fathers, brothers, sons, and uncles.

You mad about that too? Or nah?

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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 13h

I really wish people would familiarize themselves with popular anti-authoritarian movements.

You succeed, in part, by being funny.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Dudes will be like “oh you believe in dressing up as frogs and holding dance parties? That pales in comparison to my strategy, bitching on social media”

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 1d

They never stopped. The news just stopped reporting it. Walz was doing it on the trail right up to the election.

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ghostyTrickstress (june egbert - official) @june-egbert.bsky.social · 1d

the dems proved it worked when they suddenly stopped doing the "weird" thing.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarians believe the only way to make anyone do something is by force, they completely overlook persuasion: it's one of their biggest weaknesses and it pains me to see people on "my side" making the same mistake

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

People are confusing their own tedious self-importance with effectiveness.

The animal costumes are a genius move. It should be adopted by every protest.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 11h

Paying $500 to tell a person you specifically kept out of a job that they're not doing enough work for your liking (especially when you could go talk to the person in charge-or your family and friends who put him there- for free) is.....a choice.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Bunny Shelton @bunnyshelton.bsky.social · 14h

That's clearly unlawful on various fronts. That's why they're looking for voter information from the states. They want to fire people registered as Democrats in the last election. That's something that no politician should want, even Republicans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 17h

They play chess and we're playing checkers. So we scream KING ME over an elected President. They quietly reply "checkmate" because they've rendered said President useless because of Congress, the courts and offices at ALL THE OTHER LEVELS. They've been boiling us to death for 50 years

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Jerrel XL @jerrelxl.bsky.social · 18h

A widespread issue I find on the left is that ppl by and large only consider Dem leadership to be those in Congress and not actually locally elected officials like Governors, Mayors, state legislatures, and city councils. Republicans get that which is why they fight so hard for even school boards

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Vorath @v0rath.bsky.social · 18h

They're trying to squeeze every little bit of district seats because they're afraid of the probably outcome of the midterms. Worse case scenario: the administration tries to stop having midterms. We see shades of that with them preventing the congresslady from AZ to get sworn in.

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ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 17h

"I may not be the same, but that's not important. No freedom till we're equal. DAMN RIGHT I support it!"- To my LGBTQIIA+ friends, sibs (and even my foes), today and everyday, you have a friend in me. Whether you choose out loud and proud, or your truth on your terms. Happy #NationalComingOutDay

ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 1d

I bow to the audacity. Normally I only see that level among 🧔🏻🧔🏼 and fans of the Blond Pennsylvanian who claims Nashville

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ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 1d

And you played in the face of that loyalty and effective instruction trying to put a $20 price tag on it

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🪬🇺🇦🌻 mon petit choufleur 💙🇺🇸🪬 @asassytart.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just racism.

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The Wraith (BonaFIDE) #FuckTrump #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @thisisbonafidebsky.bsky.social · 2d

Really? You idiots pulled the game because you were afraid of upsetting racists?

JFC

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

Now Abbott will get away with this but Pritzker zing his ass in response and the media will hit the fainting couches with the quickness.

Two sets of rules guys.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social · 2d

Mass "Black" Civil unrest. You can't have a race war when Black bodies stay home

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 2d

Man they were banking on mass civil unrest because now they’re getting desperate and looking more ridiculous by the day.

Texas National Guard troops to Illinois? We gotta send troops to Portland?

This is ridiculous. It’s almost like they’re saying “please riot”

Pathetic.

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